Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-3125844-20151118000212/@comment-26235944-20151210051717

The Wesen Uprising is a predatory group...this is obvious if you look at what we've been shown so far. They prey on the trust of others to embezzle money. They prey on the sympathy of others by deception and displaying a false emotional state. They prey on the vulnerability of orphan children who are trapped and desperate to belong to a 'family'. These uprising Wesen are predators. Everything we've seen them do is predatory. In the case of Trubel...we see medical professionals use their positions of trust at that hospital to prey on an injured patient! As Katerine points out upthread, the types of Wesen that we are seeing in this group...are the most predatory types of Wesen in the Wesen World. I think this is the show's way of telling us: "These are predators." I see no "oppression" going on, either. They may claim that they are 'oppressed' but that is just another deception they use to play the victim card and prey on people's sympathies...they are predators and that's what predators do. If anything, it is these predator types of Wesen who have the ability to oppress humans... Their Wesen abilities enable them to kill others in ways that they cannot be prosecuted for...so they escape punishment and remain free to continue to maim and kill at will. I think that their motto "Occultatum Libera" is a deception as well. The leaders of this group probably came up with this rallying cry to recruit members by preying on their desire to live openly as Wesen. But I think the group's leaders' real motives are 'Wesen Superiority'. As we learned in Once We Were Gods...Wesen were once worshipped as gods, and I think this could be what the leaders of this Uprising group have in mind.