NationStates Jolt Archive

Because of the lax drug laws in Thelas, Thelas has been a major stopping and shipping point for Thelasian Class Four Controlled Substances (OOC: Thelasian Legalise for illegal drugs). Although these substances are illegal to produce in Thelas (or territories), it was not illegal to posses them, that was, untill this morning when Command Netari signed a new law, banning the possetion of Class Four Substances, and setting the juristication of this law into Millitary Court.

At two this morning, in simaltanius raids all over Thelas, over two thousand tonns of substances were seized. Almost five hundred indivuguals wera arested to be tried by millitary court, all were found guilty, and sentaced to three hundred years of hard labor each.

It was not just raid thought. The massive sonar sea nets were brought only last night, detecting over fifty drug smuggling vessels, three ships were the size of super tankers. Apparently, some of these massive drug ships would sit off shore while medium sized boats ran in and picked up the drugs with small inflatable boats, then the small boats would return to the main ship. After the vessel was full, or day break came, they would leave to their stopping point.

It has been noted that many of these drugs were coming from the nation of Knootoss, and that much of the money seized was going to bank accounts in that nation.

"Looks like the Thelas elves use drugs", said the attendant looking at the news in the holoscreen.

"Tch, tch. They're not disciplined, but with a leader who love to play with wooden swords and making duels wherever he goes, What can I say?", said the ShadowPrince, smiling.

"Do you think the Menelmacari can apply some discipline?", the other man asked, looking amused.

"Maybe, but old bad customs never die", answered the Prince, returning the grin.

Thelas' latest crackdown on illegal drugs is commendable.

Maybe these drugs should be legalized and taxed heavily. You may want to look into that. :wink:


General Zircon, Desra

*has no illegal drugs and so, no drug crime!*

OOC: In responce to the ShadowPrince I would like to make this post to make some things clear.

IC:

Today, another five hundred persons have been captured. As a recent report shows, out of the one thousand people captured, over nine hundred are humans, the remaining hundred are cat people. Out of all captured 900 are foreign, from countries out side of the Thelasian Star Empire.

Commander Netari has ordered the Fifth Fleet to spread out over Thelas' national waters, and to search for smugling vessels. In a recent adress Commander Netari said this, "Even though in Thelas, drug use is at a all time low, and drug related deaths are below .01% of all totat deaths, we have a responceibility to the international comunity to stop this problem before Thelas becomes a major transport route for drug barrons.

"I'm wondering if the narc catpeople are from Kecha or from Slagkattunger, it would be interesting to know that. And what nacionality presented the humans captured in Thelas?", asked the ShadowPrince to his attendant, who was very busy trying to read all Thelas reports to find out...

As the courtier looked through, he found a national break down of the Humans,

80% Knootian
10% Steel Butterfly
5% Formerly from Ieusus Christi
5% Other

Cat-People break down,

60% Kechian
30% Slag
10% Un-Known

Transcript, evening news
JNN Jiggady National News
Settling with drugs

"Good evening, Mary Beth Canal reporting, Rich Egger has the evening off. Our top story comes from the far away nation of Thelas, where authorities have made massive arrests in the break up of multiple drug organizations. Authorities are pleased to note their abilities in stopping ships from brining in illegal drugs, which has been a major buisness in Thelas.

Roughly one thousand individuals were arrested in the raids, a sizeable amount of them and drugs being from the nation of Knootoss. This breakup has vast implications for the economy of Knootoss, which reportedly was having much of the money filtered through their banking system.

Several of the humans arrested were from Jiggady drug smuggling organizations, while their numbers were small they were not overlooked in the raids. Official statements from the Jiggady chief of state put the fate of those caught solely in the hands of the Thelas judicial system.

On a side note the Jiggady economy is feeling slight uphevals from this drug ring breakup. These individuals had been a part of state sponosred drug operatives selling all maner of drugs legal in Jiggady but illegal in many other nations. In a final statement by the chief of state he said that while these individuals were sanctioned by our government, they had acted out of the bounds of their contracts, violating said contracts and making them act illegally."

*has no illegal drugs and so, no drug crime!*

And China has no homosexuals... :roll:

Yet another grandiose waste of money in a 'war on drugs'. How pointless. These 'wars' on drugs never succeed, you know.

~ Ambassador Ingrati

Yet another grandiose waste of money in a 'war on drugs'. How pointless. These 'wars' on drugs never succeed, you know.

~ Ambassador Ingrati

Agreed. As long as people want to buy and use drugs there will always be people that will sell them. Drug dealers won't be dettered by 'wars' on drugs. The money on offer is far worth the risk.

A satement issued from the Thelasian Secretary of State,

"We thank the government of Jiggady for their help in this war. After their term of sentaces are up, they will be sent back to their country of origin. To EOTED we say this, would you prefer it if you find that your people are being killed by drugs exported from Thelas? This is not a waste, at any rate, it povides our millitary something to do.

If you make the drugs cheap in your country, yes you have that power, those drug dealers wouldn't be able to have such an elaborate set up. It'd be so much easier to control the drugs. You gotta give the addicts a taste and the helpless the whiskey. Keep away from children.

The problem is that, well, the Elven body is very different from a human body, because of that, the main drug users in Thelas are humans. Thelas is used as a transport point, not as a selling point.

OOC: Reasoning that the elven body is different from the human body and therefore elves don't get addicted to drugs but humans do annoys me, in that it reminds me of the tired old Star Trek cliché of Mr Spock being immune to <<THIS WEEK'S SPACE VIRUS>> which incapacitates the human crew. Yes, elves are probably not affected in the same way by the sorts of drugs humans use, but probably have drugs of their own which affect humans totally differently too.

Say for example, cocaine may have no impact whatsoever on an elf, whereas it obviously does on a human. But there could be some other substance, "happy elf juice", to whose effects humans are immune, but which has a most pronounced impact on elven physiology.

Couldn't resist commenting. If elves aren't affected by certain things which affect humans, it stands to reason that the reverse is also true.

OOC: Actualy, that is what I was thinking too, Panocratoria, I remember getting really pissed at the Star Trek people for that type of stuff. I have been thinking of two different drugs, one that is deadly poinsinous to Humans, but does not seem to harm elves (some what like how dogs respond to chocolate) and another where elves are addicted, but humans are imune. (Actualy, I got the idea of the first from a LOTR fanfic about what would have happened if Galadriel had taken the One Ring from Frodo...)

OOC: Reasoning that the elven body is different from the human body and therefore elves don't get addicted to drugs but humans do annoys me, in that it reminds me of the tired old Star Trek cliché of Mr Spock being immune to <<THIS WEEK'S SPACE VIRUS>> which incapacitates the human crew. Yes, elves are probably not affected in the same way by the sorts of drugs humans use, but probably have drugs of their own which affect humans totally differently too.

Say for example, cocaine may have no impact whatsoever on an elf, whereas it obviously does on a human. But there could be some other substance, "happy elf juice", to whose effects humans are immune, but which has a most pronounced impact on elven physiology.

Couldn't resist commenting. If elves aren't affected by certain things which affect humans, it stands to reason that the reverse is also true.

OOC: Outstanding logic applied in a Thelas thread at last...

IC:

"I suppose that, as usual, military people in Thelas were bored. I'm guessing why they don't just throw themselves in an assault to Angband and find something funny and useful to do, at the same time I'm wondering when the Thelas goverment will find that some problems can be resolved more easily with its tongue than with the tip of its sword"

ShadowPrince Kithail Hyral

I can only hope that any nations that are currently waging a "War On Drugs" will not attempt to go international with this war as Perfect China has had very liberal drug laws with the rise of the Glorious Divine Empress. Perfect china does admit to trading in marijuana and the club drug MDMA (A.K.A, esctasy) but only to nations where such drugs are legal for recreational use.


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Divine Empress Mao Seia Tu-me I
The Eastern-Asian Imperium of Perfect China

KNN special report:

“Journalists have determined that 726 Knootians have been arrested in Thelas so far. Several of them are underage. According to information by the ministry of Foreign Affairs, the number of people arrested accounts for most Knootians currently in Thelas. This number of arrests is unusually large for similar drug raids."

*pictures of the arrests are shown, the camera then switches to a blonde-haired woman sitting in an office of some sort.*

Human Rights organisations have voiced several concerns. A spokeswoman for Human Rights Watch Knootoss spoke of “pure racial discrimination: if you look at the amount of Knootians that was in Thelas this covers almost all of them. I don’t know exact figures but the accusation that about 90% percent of all Knootians who were there in the first place are now accused of being involved in drug trafficking is ludicrous. We hope that many of these innocents will be released shortly and we also call upon the Thelassian government to treat the prisoners fairly.”

*Camera switches back to the KNN studio*

"The Knootian government is taking an active stance in this incident, and has asked for the accused Knootians to be held tried here in the DDR. It also expressed concerns over funds that have been seized “illegitimately and without coordinating with the KCB” (Knootian Central Bank) Apparently the government does not wish to escalate the matter more then is absolutely necessary, but according to sources the Prime Minister has urgently requested the Thelassian government to cooperate in the relinquishing of prisoners and funds if they wish to retain relations."

*Camera switches to several well-known politicians in The Hague spouting their opinions before camera’s. The comments are, however, still read by voiceover*

"Politically however, this is the governments worst nightmare. Several politicians have expressed outrage and senior party leaders used term such as “Shadow War Criminals” anonymously. Green leader Femke Halsema called for immediate withdrawal from the Leiden accords calling the move “Betrayal”, remembering how her party opposed the treaty in the first place. The SLP only released a vague statement urging the Thelassian government to cooperate. The RCPK and KEP have not yet stated their positions. A quick poll held exclusively for KNN found that a full 86% of Knootians now favours immediate breaking of ties with Thelas and support for hardline measures was high. Interesting to note was that 29% of Knootians even supported military action to liberate the prisoners; the highest measured domestic support for a military action in years."

*camera switches back to the KNN studio, a picture of the huge ministry of Economic Affairs in the background, fading in with the picture of a Knootian and a Thelassian flag on opposing sides*

"The Ministry of economic affairs commented bitterly on the new law claiming it was “denying legitimate trading opportunity, and that it was not in the spirit of the Leiden accords which called for freer trade and a reduction of tariffs” According to sources, the ministry is researching the possibilities for trade retaliation by banning imports on all agricultural products from Thelas indefinitely. However a spokesman denied this was a related matter, claiming that this only had to do with the finding of certain obscure bacteria in a Thelassian crop that was banned because of GM regulations."

((OOC: The number of arrested Knootians is rather high… I really expect many to be released anyway because obviously a lot must be innocent. Over 700 people would never be involved in trafficking at a single moment in time so you must just have arrested some Knootians at random :) And I really would like you to cooperate on abovementioned points or we’ll have a major diplomatic incident. And that’s gonna be ugly. Words are still the answer here when speaking amongst allies))

IC:

The Eternal Dominion of Wretchengard commends the government of Thelas for fighting the good fight to get these illegal drugs off the streets. We wish you the best of luck with this campaign.

Arman Grimwald
Lord of Foreign Relations

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secret-IC:

Shortly after giving his statement, Lord Arman Grimwald sought out his master, the Overlord of Wretchengard. He had delivered the official statement as ordered, but was puzzled as to why he had been ordered to support Thelas.

"My leige, I must admit I am somewhat confused," Lord Grimwald confessed. "Why are we supporting an initiative made by Thelas? It is most uncharacteristic of us..."

"Because, dear Arman," the Overlord replied with a wicked grin. "You know as well as I do that these 'wars on drugs' are a complete waste of resources, both time and money. That is money that won't be funneled into their war machine. And, as you know, Thelas is not our friend...when the final battle is upon us, every bit of weakness they have may count. If we can convince elven infidels to waste their resources, we shall."

"Ahh," Lord Grimwald said, understanding his master's logic. "Very clever, my leige."

"Of course," the Overlord said. "It could not be any other way."

In a press statement, the Thelasian Minister of State said, "We will release all the Knootians captured in the raid to the Knootian Judicial Department, and all funds will be returned to the owners of the accounts. We do not wish for a brake in relations with Knootoss, you we had to combat this issue before it became a plague,"

KNN special report:

“… interpreted as a major victory for the government and the minister of Foreign Affars over the opposition in parliament. All the requests by the Knootian government regarding the arrests have been met.”

*pictures of a gloating minister of Foreign Affairs are shown*

Minister van Mierlo: “I’d like to thank the Thelassian government for their great cooperation and show of trust and friendship by allowing the extradition and unfreezing the accounts. Knootians just have different norms and standards in this policy-area and we really need to work together on cultural differences here. I’d love to come together with the Thelassians and the Knootian industries to hammer out a covenant of some sort regarding regulated trade of medicine and narcotic substances. RecDrug Incorporated has said that it would embrace such talks.”

*shot of the KNN studio*

“In related news, the Ministry of Defence has expressed interest in shared intelligence on the sonar net that Thelas so effectively uses for coastal defence. The ministry may want to acquire it’s blueprints for future use…”