Almonaster Nuevo wrote:Wait a minute. When did Blackbird destroy a forum?
The first Invaders forum destruction, The DEN HQ forum destruction, and The Black Hawks forum destruction. The second Invaders Forum destruction is the one that's a bit iffy, since he authorized it with the understanding that it had been made possible because of a defection within Invader Army's ranks. In reality, his agents had cracked the MSN account for one of Invader's Admins and used that to destroy the forums. All the same, however, he still put his stamp of approval on it at first.
Was he personally doing the destroying? No. Was he the one that authorized, encouraged, promoted the use of, and rewarded forum destruction? Yes.
If I train one of my Wolves to do effective Sleeper Raids, order them to infiltrate a target, give them support and intelligence, provide them updaters to push them over the hill, and backup when they capture the region, was I the one who physically raided the region? No. Did I do the key work that made that raid possible? Yes.
Without Blackbird and Eurosoviets, the RLA would have never destroyed forums because it would have lacked the motivation to do so and the intelligence network to even give their agents a chance to do so. Did Blackbird pull the metaphorical trigger? No. But he did build the gun, train the spy, pick out the target, scout the area, and helped put that spy in position to take the shot? Yes.
So without Blackbird, no one would have been shooting, or Forum Destroying, in this case. He's just as guilty as the person actually performing the task, arguably even more so.