User blog comment:Varzan Deodinm Beldinm/The White Fang: An In-Depth Look at the Infamous Organization/@comment-24.158.202.97-20131106134110

At this point we have no real data regarding how this conflict looks from the faunus side of the equation. Look up 'blood diamonds'. Those are 'questionable business practices'. Another possible example would be the coalminingl towns around the 1920's & 30's in Kentucky & Virginia. Miners lived on company property, in company housing (and if you're curious, watch 'The Hunger Games.' District Twelve was filmed at just such a company enclave), you -had- to buy at the company store (at whatever price the company set), were dependant on the company appointed doctor who came around hopefully regularly (no there was no onsite physician). The best were cesspools of poverty; the worst were slave labor camps in all but name. And yes there were rebellions....and the losing miners usually were shot dead or sent to a part of the mine where death was a certainty. And that  was just man's inhumanity to man in the name of profit.... And in this dynamic were the rich owners, whose children hated when 'those people' stole what wasn't there's and killed the people they grew up around (and don't forget, Weiss could very easily have just admitted that she was abused as a child. If the parents and grandparents were bringing that anger home....well, unless they were paragons of virtue, they let it out some there.....and may not have been all that discriminating in their choice of targets). Of course those rich kids had no clue that such theft was for survival of the -workers- kids, or that the death of 'Uncle' was because Uncle was a sadist, and one of his victims finally did unto him as he had been doing to others.

Also, keep in mind that Blake didn't leave because of theft; Adam was going to 'set the charges'. In other words, the train that Weiss treats as 'stolen' was intended to =explode=. Think about that; a trainload of refined Dust. Anyone wanna bet the blast was intended to happen in the destination city? Or at least somewhere with a dense human population? Look at the effect the negligible amount Ruby set off with her sneeze, and multiply the effects and muliply that by a couple hundred million percentage points. And from some of Blake's expressions in the black trailer, I suspect she wasn't clued in on Adam's intentions fully.

There is a lot more information to be had before anyone can point fingers...