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[alittlesweptup]

ATTENTION TRANSPORT COMMUNITY:

Hullo there from your neighborhood detainee! I realize a number of you may have forgotten about us in the past week, but we remain cheerfully under lock up in the West Wing where we've sat for going on eleven days awaiting you lot to get your shit together so we can get this nonsense sorted. Now some of you may be unaware under what terms we agreed entered holding. In the interest of full disclosure, I shall outline those here:

1. We were to be granted protection from the general transport population until justice could be served.

2. We were to receive a fair trial and face whatever sentencing the transport population deemed fit despite the overwhelming lack of civil structures to support fair sentencing.

Despite CI Small and the Transport Police Force's valiant efforts, these terms have not been met over the past eleven days. Members of our group, supposedly under the protection of the police force, have been assaulted. There has been very little communication to us about any forthcoming trial; we have been assigned a lawyer and promised that we won't rot, but all evidence (network postings and otherwise) points to the contrary.

Very few of you know me personally, but I can tell you right now that I'm not the most patient sort you'll ever meet. As of this moment, we are being held here entirely under good faith. But allow me to make this infinitely clear:

You have no code of conduct or system of law.
You have nothing to charge us with.
You have no jurisdiction to hold us now, much less indefinitely.

And as of right now, I'm feeling a lot more vulnerable in a small room than I am protected. The personal benefits of me waiting here while you sort out a system of rules that we can be grandfathered in to breaking are beginning to look very bare indeed.

So as of now you have one week from today to figure out how you plan to deliver us a fair trial (as I think none of us would be content to see this brushed under the rug). If December 6th comes and goes, I'll be petitioning CI Small to release any of us who agree to absolve her and the transport police force of any responsibility for bodily harm rendered to our persons that might occur when released into the general population (given that many of you are apparently eager for our blood, though none but our own was spilled over the course of the base's lock down). If you'd like to do something about this, I'd recommend putting your heads together and getting it sorted sooner rather than later. Holding us here like animals when we've technically broken no laws and done nothing to set back the war effort - made infinitely clear by the AI's latest transmissions - while you run round going on about betrayal and what-if's is irresponsible at worst and unethical at best.

Warmest Regards,
C.C.

Comments

[voice]

[werewolfing]

Wooow, where do you come from that a couple hundred bickering people who were leaving saving the world decisions up to an organization that barely exists anymore can set up anything like laws in like a week and a half? Because we all need tickets there yesterday.

permatext;

[alittlesweptup]

What's been done beyond talking about how we need a code of conduct and some kind of council? Is anyone drafting up this code of conduct? Are nominations being made for this council?

permatext;

[werewolfing]

you and i have the exact same point. it's just that only one of us is surprised. this place has been around for how long and nobody bothered to do this before?

[alittlesweptup]

Sorry, did you think those were hypotheticals?

I'm asking you seriously: is anyone doing shit right now or is everyone just talking about it?

[werewolfing]

no fucking idea, man. i wouldn't touch this law business with your dick, much less mine. police, lawyers and politicians give me hives.

[says the kid who's been in to see tempest more than a couple times.]

[alittlesweptup]

You and me both, mate. And yet here we are

[werewolfing]

here we are.

[admittedly, 'here' is two very different places. peter doesn't disagree with the mutineers so much as he was pretty sure it was all going to end up about like this.]

hope this works out better for you than mouthing off at people who think they have authority usually does.

[alittlesweptup]

[It's okay; Charlie was actually pretty damn sure of the same.]

At this point it could hardly go worse

[werewolfing]

i can think of at least three ways right off the top of my head. Better not jinx it.

[alittlesweptup]

If one of them isn't 'and then the UE shot a missile at us while we were all standing about arguing about this', then I'm docking points

[werewolfing]

definitely was one. but being blown up solves the problem of anybody having to do anything.

[alittlesweptup]

Ten points for Gryffindor

[werewolfing]

i appreciate the value of my own ass too much for gryffindor. hufflepuff maybe, those guys seemed pretty chill.

hope they get their shit together before the UE thinks to turn some telescopes at the moon. won't their faces be red otherwise.

[alittlesweptup]

Badger's better than a lion in any case

Here's to hoping