To the People of Rome,
My friends, my comrades, dark is the day when your will is cut down by one of your own. Dark is the day when the Tribunate, a office you fought to establish and protect, is turned against you by the foul aristocrat. Know this: I am always watching. I see all, even from Asia. As fight the foul Asian hordes that have slaughtered Roman Citizens, so too do I fight the enemies domestic.
Perhaps the time will come when Rome is free from the aristocrat. Perhaps the time will come when Roman and Roman can approach one another as men. When the ditch digger and the Senator can talk to one another as men. Perhaps one day this time will come.
But it is not this day. This day your will is crushed by one of your own, this day the Consul speaks of slaves being more useful then Roman Citizens! This day filth sit in the Senate House and dirty the holy place with their filth and their sweat and their useless speech.
However, I will not stand for it. Challenged as I am to fight two battles, foreign and domestic, I will embrace the challenge with open arms. For never will I stop fighting for you! And never will my allies, men of honor and valour who seek only to further the will of the people, stop fighting.
Make no mistake, good people of Rome, this is a war. However, the front lines are not trenches or battlefields or city walls or the high seas. The front line is here in Rome. You must be vigilant and tough. Respond in the most effective way when your will is trumped by the aristocrat. Do not hesitate, show no mercy. Do what must be done and have no regrets or ill thoughts about doing it. And when I return I will return to a city that is free or I will force the aristocrats to allow freedom, by any means necessary.
Your honorable Comrade and Representitive,
TIBERIVS IVLIVS CAESAR