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LNS, Lassic, Ilek-Vaad

Republican Council Takes Further Action Against the DDR and Invisible Hand

The Republican Council today voted to put the temporary boycott against Knootian businesses into law, effectively giving the Council the authority to liquidate assets seized in the boycott and to pursue legal action against Knootian businesses and business affilitaes. Within minutes of this Council vote assets of Knootian corporations that had been previously frozen and seized were liquidated by the Velite Guard. The Velite Guard also moved to arrest more than thirty people , both citizens and foreigners, that are suspected of working for Knootian corporations or attempting to circumvent the boycott.

This new law effectively bars business relations between the Free Republic and the Democratic Dutch Republic. The Minister of Foreign Affairs commented briefly.

"We have sent a message to the Knootians that their government will not profit in the Free Republic from their spoils of war from their invasion of Tanah Burung and their economic control of Columbia. The DDR will find that their recent move to regain Colonial and Imperial power will not be supported by the Free Republic."

The Council also voted to declare the Knootian based group of the Order of the Invisible Hand an International Terrorist Organization. Other nations have taken similiar actions against the Order and there has been an ongoing investigation into the Order's Vaadian membership. The Velite Guard serverd arrest warrants and search warrants on members of the Order of the Invisible Hand today.

"Almost one hundred individuals have been detained in conjunction with the investigation into the Invisible Hand. Several of them are foreign nationals. The Velite Investigators have found several of these cells of agents were involved in attempting to circumvent importation laws, government oversight laws and attempting to deceive government inspectors."

Stated Velite General Yash Ihsan. The names of those detained have not been released due to the Free Republic's protection of innocence laws. The only people that names can legally be released to are the accused lawyers and families, and foreign embassies in the case of foreign nationals.

These measures are the strongest measures taken by the Republican Council against any other state in nearly twenty years. Analyists believe that this will effectively end the relationship between the Free Republic and the Democratic Dutch Republic.

Begin Message

Encryption: None
TO: Minister of Foreign Affairs
FR: Elisa Day
RE: Boycott
TX:

Would it be possible for the Free Republic of Ilek-Vaad be so kind as to provide the Oligarchy with a list of DDR businesses that it previously traded with, as well as a list of common products that were traded, especially exports? We would appretiate it.

- Elisa Day, Speaker for the Oligarchy
The Semi-Autonomous Technocratic Oligarchy of the Most Glorious Hack

End Message

To: Elisa Day
From: Assistant to the Secretary of the Minister Foreign Affairs
RE: Boycott

I am unable at this time to fulfill your request. The list, is indeed very short, but it is not information that can be released. The Velite Guard are tracking possible links to businesses in the DDR, their affiliation with the Invisible Hand and possible violations of trade laws in the Free Republic, as well as international human rights violations.

All information regarding these entities have been sealed by order of the Minister of Judicial Affairs and the Velite General.

Thank you.

The Imperial government of the Germanic Confederation of Kurzmany wishes it known that we indeed support the action of Ilek-vaad in their boycott of Knootian business and their seizure of Knootian property within their own state.
The news of the decision to wage economic warfare against Knootoss is most welcome within the Confederation; we see Knootoss as a liberal cancer upon the Earth and we see any expansionary measures by them as a malignant force that will displace rightful authority and true progress.
We concur with you that the invasion of Tanah Burung and the economic subjugation of Columbia is entirely unacceptable, though our reasons for thinking so may differ from yours.
This is why we too will join you in this endeavor by closing any Knootian businesses in the Confederation including the distribution of Pink Bunny Cola and declaring an embargo of any trade with the Dutch Democratic Republic. We also intend to hold what few Knootian citizens that dwell within the Confederation under 'protective custody' in an undisclosed location until we deem it fit to release them.
While we do very little trade with the Dutch Democratic Republic, we believe that this effort is more symbolic than practical and it is merely a sign of our solidarity.

_____________________________
Kaiser Kurz II
Forwarded through the Imperial Foriegn Exchange Office
The Germanic Confederation of Kurzmany
'The Second Kaiserreich'

OOC:

Look IV, you have been extremely rude OOCly in your telegrams, and this post is for the public record that this boycott is entirely for OOC reasons (Tanah Burung is on vacation) and not based on the actual situation. YOU are bored with a RP because it progresses slowly. In essence, you are pulling out of a RP because you are bored and THEN (quite the contradiction) starting a new ego-thread about it. Simply because YOU moved forward in time unilaterally because you do not have the patience for the RP does not mean you can dictate the results. I find it rather pathetic that, when YOU choose to pull out, you dictate what happened in these negotiations which may well have been concluded positively. That is, ICly the Knootians were starting to negotiate (encouraged by YOUR foreign minister only a few hours ago, in the timeline of that RP) and you are just not giving the RP enough time.

I expect this thread to be changed to fit the facts accordingly. Either you sit this one out and wait what actually happens when Tanah Burung comes back, or you telegram me with some proposal about pulling out in an OOCly cooperative way. Now you are just spinning things your way.

In the mean time, I ask everyone not to post in this thread in any IC fashion. Thank you.

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IC:
"We are truly saddened by recent statements from the nation of Kurzmany, which does, despite its young age, already suffer from abhorrent prejudices. Considering the sheer vastness of their market, as well as their obvious reputation on the world theatre, we are now going to ensure new means of securing our interests, bending over to the will of the great puppeteering community of the NS Multiverse."
~ State-secretary of Arrogance, coordinator in the War on Wanky Puppeteering

OOC: the IC reasons are stated above, the DDR has not responded to IC demands by the Free Republics Ministry of Foreign Affairs which include- submitting to IMC moderation, ceasing actions in Tanah Burung and providing IC information as to what evidence Knootoss has for invading Tanah Burung. I wasn't trying to be rude in my OOC TG's just simply alerting you to the fact that the government of IV is very upset with Knootoss and that they were in fact taking strong political actio now that they have decided to withdraw militarily from Tanah Burung.

If Knoot had READ my IC posts, or even bothered to respond to them the actions taken above should come as no suprise. My last two posts (in the Unlikely delivery thread and The Minister of Foreign Affairs reaches out threads) were NOT EVEN RESPONDED TO IC by the DDR.

Now, why IC would the Free Republic NOT take strong action against being lied to and ignored by another government?

Also for the record I have no clue who Kurzmany is and am inclined not to care, or even respond to any nation with only 1 post.

Now, the DDR can either respond IC and attempt to clear up the mess they've made or become an enemy of the Republic.

I have pointed out twice now that TB does NOT NEED TO BE PRESENT for Knoot to respond to IV's diplomats. Why does TB's vacation have anything to do with the interaction of IV and Knootoss IC?

Those are the facts, and Knoot, you have no right to tell other players not to respond IC to Ilek-Vaad's actions. So reply IC, or refuse to respond IC.

In short the IC reasons are that the DDR has refused to respond to the Free Republics IC questions, concerns and demands.

Considering the sheer vastness of their market, as well as their obvious reputation on the world theatre, we are now going to ensure new means of securing our interests, bending over to the will of the great puppeteering community of the NS Multiverse.To be fair, all they want is a little bit of fun, and certain products of the swedish erotic industry. Something about size, I think.

So, leave the children their fun. They will grow up, eventually...

~ Klaus Mombota, from The Omnipresent Entity of The NS Multiverse.

OOC:
That would be a compelling argument if it were true.

Knootians not negotiating is UTTER BULLSHIT. An IMC meeting was going on at the very moment ICly. I had military people making phonecalls to your military people. My foreign minister talked to your foreign minister IC hours ago. TB had to reply in afformentioned meeting but could not do that because he was on vacarion... oh, wait! There you go!

RELEVANT BASIC ROLEPLAYING RULE: Not posting for OOC reasons is not the same thing as refusing to answer IC and it should never be taken as such.

The fact that YOU believe that I COULD have responded faster OOCly does not mean that ICly I did not. In fact, from my IC POV I made lots of diplomatic efforts. YOU moved forward in time.

As for telling people not to reply: its quite simple. Any IC reply before this OOC dispute is resolved will be ignored by me. So replying IC is, indeed, quite pointless.

OOC: Great, I as a newcomer do all this background research before intervening and then enter a thread with an argument.
Please settle your dispute quickly.

"We are truly saddened by recent statements from the nation of Kurzmany, which does, despite its young age, already suffer from abhorrent prejudices. Considering the sheer vastness of their market, as well as their obvious reputation on the world theatre, we are now going to ensure new means of securing our interests, bending over to the will of the great puppeteering community of the NS Multiverse."
~ State-secretary of Arrogance, coordinator in the War on Wanky Puppeteering

OOC: Excuse me? Are you accusing me of being a puppet?
I can assure you I am not.
I can also assure you that the fact that this thread appears to be screwed up has seriously scratched my otherwise good mood......

OOC:
That would be a compelling argument if it were true.

Knootians not negotiating is UTTER BULLSHIT. An IMC meeting was going on at the very moment ICly. I had military people making phonecalls to your military people. My foreign minister talked to your foreign minister IC hours ago. TB had to reply in afformentioned meeting but could not do that because he was on vacarion... oh, wait! There you go!

RELEVANT BASIC ROLEPLAYING RULE: Not posting for OOC reasons is not the same thing as refusing to answer IC and it should never be taken as such.

The fact that YOU believe that I COULD have responded faster OOCly does not mean that ICly I did not. In fact, from my IC POV I made lots of diplomatic efforts. YOU moved forward in time.

As for telling people not to reply: its quite simple. Any IC reply before this OOC dispute is resolved will be ignored by me. So replying IC is, indeed, quite pointless.

OOC:well, now who's being rude.

Knootians negotiating? That's what they are trying to make it look like, they are in fact stalling. IC IV representatives have pointed out that they did not feel that the current IMC talks were constructive, or even legal for that matter.

Your military people, HUNG UP ON MY MILITARY PEOPLE. End of that, that happened IC, my people then talked to the Minister of Defense.

Your Foreign Minister talked to my Foreign Minister IC 24 hours ago, according to the timeline as I see it. Since then your Foreign Minister has not reponded to follow up calls by mine or to the call from the Ambassador to Knootoss.

Now, how would your nation respond IC to these events? If they decided that military intervention was no longer in their interests they would respond in a strong political manner, as IV did.

Once again, TB does not need to present for you to respond.

You also state that you cannot respond IC unless we clear these things up OOC, well responding to my TG's might help that?