J.A. Lake
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J.A. Lake was an American philosopher, writer, and socialist revolutionary. His work oftentimes questioned and criticized the eUS Government, placing much of the blame for the downturn in American activity on it and its bureaucratic role-play.
History
Early History
J.A. Lake joined the game in March of 2014. Among the flurry of new arrival messages, he found an invitation to join the eUS Military. Within a few days he joined, entering into the eUS Training Corps. He climbed the ranks swiftly, jumping from Private to Staff Sergeant and finally to Second Lieutenant within two months, holding positions in the recruiting group and as a squad leader of the 112th "Browncoats."
Despite this rapid advancement, the inactivity of the eUS Military coupled with the heavy bureaucracy and he grew apart from the organization, drifting instead into the political realm in the last few weeks of his time in the eUS Military.
He joined the USWP, hoping to find activity and companionship there.
No such thing existed in the USWP. IRC was silent, as was the USWP segment of the forums. A few conversations within the USWP IRC helped to form his anti-metagame viewpoint. One frequently mentioned was with an unspecified member of the USWP who declared that the USWP takes leadership positions, the Federalists maintain the bureaucracy, and the other three parties rotate through. The alienation was complete from both the political and military modules with this, as it seemed politics was a rigged game and the only military unit he'd known was cripplingly inactive.
Socialist Freedom Party
As a last ditch effort to stay in the game, he quit the USWP in May and joined the venerable old Socialist Freedom Party. Things turned around rapidly from there: Jude Conners, then the Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee, offered him a position on the SFP RevCom, which he took. He also took an assignment to the newly-formed Recruiting Committee as its Chairman, directing the recruiting efforts for the SFP using his background as a recruiter.
After getting more integrated into the Party, he took the lead on updating and restarting the 10 Points of Solidarity[1] and repairing the SFP's wiki page.
