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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

[occlusion]

It's not only a waste of time and diversion of resources that makes the mutiny a useless tactic--it's the potential endangerment of innocent others in your quest to make a point. The last thing needed is divisive violence.

[alittlesweptup]

'Violence.' Either you don't know what that word means or you're being purposefully inflammatory

[occlusion]

And you'd deny that you were inflammatory, yourself?

[alittlesweptup]

I don't think I ever did, no. In fact I'd go so far as to say that was the point

[occlusion]

A point you could have made in other ways.

[alittlesweptup]

Let me guess. You're about to suggest 'talking to people' or maybe even 'running missions'

Seriously mate, we can debate this shit all day but ultimately this isn't doing anything to get any of us closer to a resolution you lot will be happy with. If you want to do something worthwhile or get vindication in how very wrong I am, maybe start putting codes of conduct into place with which to judge me by

[occlusion]

Vindication isn't the point--at least that is what I believe. I do agree, however, that the lawlessness here isn't doing any one of us any favors. Neither is taking advantage of the situation or ignoring more peaceful alternatives. It's one thing to protest the situation but another to potentially harm innocent lives before their times with recklessness.

[alittlesweptup]

Well thank god no one's done that one already! Oh wait. Apparently we have. So what are you going to do about it?

[occlusion]

There's not much I myself can do. And perhaps if you'd know when to bite your tongue, more would be willing to listen to what you have to say. There have been talks of election of a council among Transports. Perhaps you could take forum there.

[alittlesweptup]

And maybe if people like you weren't so convinced of their own impotence, we might be farther along with that election instead of just talking about it

[occlusion]

As I said, there's not much I can do on my own. However, collectively, we all can influence some sort of structure here. You, of course, included. That would be the civilized way to go about it.

[alittlesweptup]

Oh believe me, I'm doing my bit. Now what's see what you come up with. Personally? I'd recommend actually drafting some kind of code of conduct instead of just discussing the finer points of the important of having one

[occlusion]

Which is what is happening now, you realize. But please, carry on with rattling the cage.

[alittlesweptup]

Funny, I've yet to see anyone put pen to paper on the thing. But thanks for your endorsement regardless