Meetings

Two meetings, both actually saying the opposite thing.

A couple of days ago Chief Castus came to talk about merging our two forces and organising a united military force. There's some strong arguments for the idea, mainly my thoughts about people with guns and military training running around unchecked. Running the idea around in my head I thought I should speak to the civilians. Former Battleclaw Silvereye Paintedheart is the main spokesman there and I had a meeting with him today.

He's against any form of interim government and any form of merged military or militia, he spoke about approving of a 'Watch'. Though the difference between a Watch to defend the refugees and a militia to me seems more a matter of semantics. It seems he believes we should just let people do their own thing, he doesn't disapprove of Norran's actions.

And Sirias looks up to this guy and practically lapped up his every word and agreeing with him on just about everything? People left to their own devices pull in so many different directions it's just chaos. We have governments, laws, police forces and militaries for a reason. Especially in times like this, people need order, rules, regulations, the comfort of knowing they're being looked after and people have a plan for the future. Not in a rag-tag 'let's see how it goes' way. I agree it's important to establish the necessities, the basics first. But a small government, council, spokesmen, however they're called would be able to organise that all the better.

Anything more permanent could be ratified when we find a more permanent settlement. I think Silvereye's approach is all wrong, but I'll go along with it, at least until it falls apart. I just hope no lives are lost.