Envy's Note: This is Transcribed from a Discord RP session between Raymond and Max. This was not broadcast ingame via /all, however, icly, this was broadcast on WXXI. Despite it not being an interview broadcasted on /all, I have reformatted it in the same fashion as all other WXXI News Broadcasts.
WXXI: "Your News, Your Station. WXXI, Rochester."
*WXXI News Jingle Plays*
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "Good Afternoon. This is WXXI News. I'm Ray McCormick here with a special report.
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "Today we are broadcasting from an undisclosed location. I have with me disgraced CPF Ranger, and wanted terrorist, Maxine Rutherford. Miss Rutherford, welcome to the program."
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "Happy to be here, McCormick."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "I am also glad to be given this opportunity to sit down with you. Miss Rutherford, I'm sure you are aware of recent events this past week in Pittsford. Tell me, do you endorse the atrocities in the Nazareth District committed by the ICLF?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "I think it was entirely justified. The Coalition came into New Karanda and started slaughterin' civilians left and right, no hesitation. Ain't sure what the exact death toll was, but it was
high. Even lost a member of my unit after OSI got called in. What Grant and his people did in Nazareth is nothin' compared to what the Coalition did. It's
inexcusable."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "So, I'm going to have to ask you to clarify. Do you feel that an anti-terror operation against terrorists who have been given every chance to surrender is "inexcuseable", but firing squad executions of innocent civilians is justified?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "Firing squad executions of innocent civilians' is
exactly what the Coalition did on New Karanda, I don't know exactly what Grant did in Nazareth. If he went firin' on civilians all willy-nilly, then that's news to me. Ain't easy to get information all the way out here with everything going on in the city. I still believe he's fightin' fer a good cause, though. Sure, civilians have died in a lot of the attacks orchestrated by the ICLF. I more or less lost my fiancée during the initial bombings in '29. But, at this point, the Coalition is committin'
literal war crimes. I've been a Ranger fer over a decade, and I can't in good faith continue supportin' them knowin' what they've done."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "I think there are several problems with that statement Miss Rutherford, but I'm going to start with the first one. There were no civilians in New Karnada, there were members of the ICLF planning attacks like the one being planned in the Nazereth district. And if there were, would you, as a former CPF Ranger, really think the vast majority of your former colleagues would commit actions on the same level that the ICLF committed in the Nazereth district?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "With all due respect, McCormick, you weren't
on New Karanda. You didn't see the conditions. All those innocent people,
families crammed in there 'cause they couldn't go back to their homes due to all the fighting. The ICLF was doin' their best to keep 'em safe when the Coalition wouldn't. Korshunov's made it
abundantly clear he couldn't care less about any of those people. I ain't surprised he's labelin' anyone who ain't completely suckin' up to him terrorists and members of the ICLF."
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "
Addin' to that, I don't think a lotta the Rangers participatin' in all this understand what they're doin'. Korshunov's gettin' into their heads, makin' 'em believe they're doin' somethin'
good. He's gotten to you, too, if you're honestly sittin' here tellin' me that New Karanda
wasn't filled with innocents."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "I speak to a lot of rangers, Miss Rutherford, its part of my job to ask the hard questions that nobody wants to ask, and when I talk to the men and women who proudly wear the coalition uniform, I have trouble believing that they'd gun down innocent civilians for kicks. I highly doubt that you'd intentionally kill civilians Miss Rutherford, and I don't believe everything I hear, but, there are a lot of holes in your story."
Max Ruthferford: WXXI: "You aren't
listenin' to me, McCormick. I don't think they're gunnin' 'em down fer kicks, either. They don't see them as
civilians to begin with. In their minds, they're killin' a bunch of terrorists, 'cause that's what Korshunov
wants 'em to believe. I doubt the guy would have as many people rallyin' behind him if they knew what they were
really doin'."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "Miss Rutherford, lets move on. I read the causality lists of those missing in action since the bombings in Nazareth, was one Erick Gonzalez. According to reports, Gonzalez was assigned under your command for a time. Do you think he would agree with your decision to go rogue?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "Haven't seen Gonzalez in a long time now. Prob'ly over a year. Think he's doin' somethin' with OSI. But, regardless, I don't know how he'd feel. We were never that close or nothin'. Guy had a good heart, though. I think he'd prob'ly understand."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: ""Do you think there is an equal chance that you're seeing terrorists as innocent civilians Miss Rutherford? If your argument is that your average ranger can't tell the difference between a terrorist and a civilian, could you be doing the same, if the lines really are as blurry as your say?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "S'pose there's a possibility. I'm biased, that's fer sure.
But, the choice to join up with the ICLF was my own. No one was tellin' me what to do. Woulda been a whole lot easier to stick with the group I've been with fer over a decade and go along with everything Korshunov said, dontcha think? I feel pretty confident the ICLF
ain't what Korshunov's makin' 'em out to be."
Raymomd McCormick: WXXI: "Is that why you joined the ICLF Miss Rutherford? Your dislike of the chain of command?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "Among other things."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "Do you think you were promoted to quickly up the chain of command Miss Rutherford? We haven't gone into your personnel history, but your promotion to Senior Ranger was rather expedient, don't you think?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "I got promoted to a Senior to try and keep me quiet about how Hood executed a suspected Brighton agent in my outpost. promoted Gonzales to a Ranger before his two years as a Junior were up, too. Doubt they woulda
ever promoted me otherwise. Though, when they're promotin' people like
Eddie Zielinski to Senior after he was a Junior not even two years earlier, I really question their judgement as a whole."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "So, for the record, do you think it was a mistake to promote you?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "Think it was fair considerin' all my years of service and the fact that I was already the de-facto leader of 2-15 after the sex scandal fiasco with Senior Ranger Henry Kingsbury. What I
don't think is fair is promotin' a clearly incompetent child from Junior to Senior within the span of a few months 'cause yer so strapped her SR's, or whatever their reasonin' was."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "So, you feel that the rank of Senior Ranger is a reward for time served in the CPF, rather than say, merit?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "Merit's the major reason someone should be promoted to Senior, but Eddie's got
neither goin' for him. Just my two cents. "
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "Anyway, I didn't come here to talk about that idiot."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "Agreed, lets keep things on topic. On to my next question Miss Rutherford. You mentioned your Fiancée died in the days after the bombings, however, if my memory serves me correctly, she died on New Years Eve by a self inflicted gunshot wound. Did Miss Jackson know of your plans to defect to the ICLF, do you think she would have agreed?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "I said she
more or less died. Corey lost her legs after gettin' trapped beneath the rubble when the ICLF blew up the RFO. She was never the same after that. Always had a complex about her strength, so bein' disabled left her feelin' completely useless. Wouldn't even use a wheelchair. Got to the point where I was takin' care of her full-time on top of my riot duty, 'til she eventually offed herself on New Years Eve."
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "We didn't really talk about it. That was before I'd made up my mind. I bet she would've agreed, though. Yeah."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "I should say that I am truly sorry for your loss Miss Rutherford, but as a journalist, I need to ask the hard questions to get answers. I've spoken to a couple of my sources, prior to this interview, that say you're in a relationship with the former leader of an ICLF linked street gang, the Dollfaces, Rhea Varnado, better known by the street name 'Barbie Doll.' Is there any truth to this?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "Yeah. I've got no reason to hide it -- Rae and I are together. Ain't gonna go into any more detail than that, though. The whole world doesn't need to know about my relationship; that's personal."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "Do you think being in a relationship with a terrorist might influence your decision making?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "Being in a relationship
period would influence anyone's decision making."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "Is Miss Varnado the reason you defected to the ICLF?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "I made that decision on my own, told you that before."
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "Can we talk about somethin'
other than my relationship?"
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "Very well."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI "We're coming up to the end of the half hour, but we have time for a few more questions. Miss Rutherford, what would you say to the families of the Rangers killed by the ICLF?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "I'd say I'm sorry fer their loss. War's hard, but losin' family's even harder. I'm hopin' we're nearin' the end."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "Even as you support the people who ruthlessly kill them?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "They were just doin' what they had to do. Are you tellin' me that, if someone were tryin' to kill you, you'd just stand there and do nothin'?" "
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "I will say, there
are some people in the ICLF doin' that," she adds a few moments later. "The Patriots, namely. But I think I speak fer a lot of people in the ICLF when I say I don't condone what
they're doin'."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "Then why hasn't the ICLF done anything about 'The Patriots'? Isn't silence a tacit endorsement?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "Dunno. I can't speak fer the leadership."
"Do you think the ICLF Leadership approves of these tactics?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "I
know they don't, just don't know why nothin's been done."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "For clarification, when you don't agree with the CPF Leadership, so you decided to work with a terror group to bring down the coalition. However, when you don't agree with ICLF leadership, you continue to work with them?"
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "Next question."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "I see... I think we've come up to the end of our allotted time Miss Rutherford."
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "Well, I've got
one last thing to say 'fore we end this off."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "Very well Miss Rutherford, you have the floor."
Max Rutherford: WXXI: "Sorry in advance about the fine yer gonna get. Korshunov you fuckin'
bastard, I know yer listenin' to this. I wish I'd blown yer brains out when I had the chance. Would saved everyone a whole fuckin'
world of trouble.
Fuck you."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: ...
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: ...
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "Thank You for coming on the program Miss Rutherford."
Raymond McCormick: WXXI: "That was Maxine Rutherford, Former CPF Senior Ranger and Accused Terrorist. I'm Ray McCormick. From those of us here at WXXI have a good night."