Confusion and Delay

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not open about our plans, but there are times when we prefer to keep our hand hidden until we know exactly what we are dealing with.  At times this dichotomy can be troubling, as we may not want our enemies to know what we are up to for fear that they will find ways to thwart our efforts, but most of the time it presents no difficulty.  We try our best to keep concerned world citizens in the loop, but there are times when they must be kept out of the loop until our operatives are completely safe.  


One such time occurred this last week, when concerned world citizens began to speculate in ways that had the potential to put our top operatives in harm's way.  The suggestion that perhaps "Gertrude" is a Greban unfortunately caused the New Company to lock down their organization.  We immediately gave our operatives the message to temporarily stop digging into "Gertrude," but even with the warning two of our operatives were compromised.  In this instance nobody suffered any bodily harm, but it was shaping up to be quite a sticky situation.  We are pleased that our world citizens are sharp enough to come up with theories that put the New Company on the defensive, and we urge all of our supporters to keep putting the theories forth, regardless of the potential implications.


For the record, there is no evidence (yet) that "Gertrude" is a Greban, or that the Greban experiment succeeded in any measure.  We are, however, still convinced that she isn't what she appears to be.  Perhaps our operatives that weren't compromised in this operation will find out soon.  If not, our scientists are digging into the Greban experiment and will likely determine soon whether "Gertrude" could, in fact, be a Greban.  Our robotics experts are also trying to determine whether she could be a robot by testing whether she obeys Asimov's three laws of robotics.  We believe, however, that she has done harm to humans and therefore cannot be a robot, but we are still investigating the possibility.