The Free League (PWH)

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The following leaflet was nailed (anonymously) to a post in the middle of Sigil's Great Bazaar:
: An Open Notice to the Editor
: of The Factol's Manifesto 
Where's a cowardly berk like you get off putting the Free League in your fancy book? Mind you, I can't argue with shining a light on the factions, showing that none of 'em know enough truth to fill a shoe, but the Free League ain't one of those addle-coved groups. You bean-counters always list us among the fifteen, always think you can slap us with labels and put us in rows. What screed! 
Your lot says we're called "Indeps" because we're too neutral, too weak-minded, to take a stand. You say we just can't commit, can't pick a philosophy and stick to it. But you've got it backward. To be an Indep means to've tumbled to the dark of the factions: None of 'em know the road to truth. And all those joiners who sign their minds away are just shutting their eyes to anything but what their facto! says. They're stuck on one road when they could travel many.
I'm not saying the League's a catch-all for cutters who don't join factions. Being an Indep means a lot more than just having ideas that don't fit somewhere else. An lndep has the strongest belief of all: the faith in a hasher's freedom to do, say, and think whatever he sodding well pleases. A berk who starts locking his brain-box into anything more concrete can go elsewhere. 
The Free League's proud to be nothing more than a loose-knit bunch of like-minded folks who hold freedom mor~ dear than life. Sure, we cooperate, we've got a few networks, we toss chant back and forth, but that don't make us a faction. Just because we hang around the Bazaar don't mean we call it kip. We've got no headquarters, no facto!, and no representation in the Council of Speakers—which means that we've got about as many rights in this city as cranium rats do. 
It's no secret that the sodding Hardheads think we are rats, trying to drive every last one of us out of the Cage. Other factions mostly leave us alone, but the Hardheads just can't stomach the fact that we're open-minded, yet still defiant. They think we're saying "We don't know what to believe, but we know we don't agree with you." 
Hah! We know exactly what we believe. Folks think it's easy to be a Free Leaguer because all it takes is a profession of independence. We don't make a sod jump through hoops like the factions do. 'Course, it can be hard to find us, but the Bazaar's full of well-lanned bashers who can point a free-thinker to one of our hangouts. But here's a warning to leatherheads who plan to seek us out just for laughs: If you have strong convictions about anything except freedom, do yourself a favor and stay home. We won't censor your ideas or beliefs, but if you're sure you know the path to truth, you belong with the factions, not the Free League.
But here's a warning to leatherheads who plan to seek us out just for laughs: If you have strong convictions about anything except freedom, do yourself a favor and stay home. We won't censor your ideas or beliefs, but if you're sure you know the path to truth, you belong with the factions, not the Free League.
Category:Sects