Talk:Amon/@comment-5142514-20120530064451/@comment-5151501-20120530223808

Hello, fellow Equalists! A recent broadcast has enticed the interest of our leader himself, who will be speaking in response to this individual broadcast. Benders beware, the man with the mask who makes equality a reality, Amon!

Greetings, citizens of Republic City. I'll be addressing a little announcement from our little friend, Raiden of Raiden Radio. In his broadcast, he asks you bending elite why you have yet to come up in arms against the Equalists. You all know it yourselves, yet you refuse to accept it. Without your bending, you are nothing.

For centuries upon centuries, benders have oppressed those without the natural abilities of influence over the elements. You've used that has your ultimate trap card, preventing us from rising up against you. War after war, benders begin and throw non-bending foot soldiers as cannon-fodder. Just look at the death toll from the Hundred Year War. Innocent men and women sent to the front lines with a spear in hand. My ability of taking one's bending away has shown you how powerful we are. You are afraid of losing your bending, because that is all you are. Nothing more. We've given you a reason to fear non-benders, and it has proven successful. I wouldn't be the one calling us cowardly, Raiden, when your own people can't even stand up for themselves.

Your slippery slope fallacy of an argument shows you don't know what you speak of. What have all wars been started over? A bender's greed for power; to cite two specific examples, Fire Lord Sozin wanted to "expand his prosperity". So what did he do? He annihilated the Air Nomads and waged war against the rest of the Earth; he left his best friend since childhood to die on a volcano. Chin the Conqueror took and expanded his land, sweeping over the innocent villages of the Earth Kingdom, and in the end, his own pride led to his downfall. Even in modern times, sports, politics, and even gang members and criminal organizations are organized through bending means, oppressing the non-bending civilians, like the Triple Threat Triad. If bending was taken out of the picture, there would be nothing putting one man above another. No large group would oppress another, no young child will have to watch a man kill his parents and scar his own face, like what happened to me and many other individuals. This is why we fight; so we can make Republic City a place of equality, not of oppression and of a bending elite. We will take down our oppressors, and finally achieve Equality!