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Richmond, High Directorate, VEC (AP)- Today, KSC Publishing Chairman Bob Gincarelli, along with KSC Enterprises CEO Michele Gincarelli, and Virginian PResident Jake Featherston IV, staged a rally today in Richmond to announce KSC's contract to mass-market the memoirs of Generalissimo J.L. of Roach-Busters, "Roach-Busters BETRAYED."

Bob Gincarelli, speaking to the crowd and to news reporters, said: "Ladies and gentlemen of the Press, we are proud to announce we are selling this remarkable book to the public at large. It is a testament of one man's betrayal at the hands of his friends, and it is a heartbreaking story indeed. We feel that this book should be read by the public, and we feel that it has artistic and literary merit, thus, we are pleased to announce that we will be distributing it in paperback and hardback Special Editions."

Bob added: "All proceeds of this book shall be donated to the Free J.L. Fund."

The rally was not just to promote the launch of the book today, however, as Jake Featherston IV got up to speak.

"Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press and of the World, I feel that J.L. has been done a great injustice, for his ex-ally, Sarzonia, as of now, is currently raping and pillaging the land of Roach-Busters for their own gain. J.L. rots in a prison cell, and is tortured by unenlightened hypocrites who preach love and tolerance but can show none for J.L."

"I call upon all those nations who love freedom and decency to buy this book, and to let your citizens read it, for it is a testament to the horror this man is facing! It is a testament to the horror his nation feels! I also call upon all nations who love decency and freedom to call upon Mike Sarzo to ask for his release. If your nation was in a similar circumstance, perhaps you would feel similarily, yet you do not act to save this man, whose enlightened pro-freedom policies of uniting all men in the struggle against the lie of Socialism."

He then concluded by saying, "And finally, I call upon all nations to act accordingly if Sarzo does not see the error of his ways and looks at the hypocrisy he commits upon J.L. That is all, thank you, God Bless Virginia, God Bless Roach-Busters, God Bless Liberty and Enlightenment!"

The crowd was reported to have cheered, and later ran out to buy copies of the book.

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(Awesome, thanks! :D)

Bumpers....

OOC: Not a problem.

"Let's hope it works."

-Generalissimo J.L.

OOC-Our Prime Minister loves the book.

(OOC: Thanks, New Zambuda)

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Press Release from the People's Communist Party of Brazil

"A wonderful, riveting tale. It grips you with suspense, and pulls at your hearstrings. You will be moved by this classic piece of fiction.

The international community must realize that this piece of propaganda is simply meant to overshadow the crimes of the J.L. regime. This dictatorship suppressed the leftist movements within its nation and continues to degrade us to appear "sub-human." They say that the Busterian people hold no malice, but the archaic McCarthy-esque policies J.L. has instituted suppressed one's right to express one self. We for one applaud the capture of J.L., just as we did such dictators we endured as Pinochet, Batista, and others. Do not let worthless rhetoric cloud the truth."

Signed
O Diretor do Interior Esteban Rodrigues Cabrilho
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Press Release from the People's Communist Party of Brazil

"A wonderful, riveting tale. It grips you with suspense, and pulls at your hearstrings. You will be moved by this classic piece of fiction.

The international community must realize that this piece of propaganda is simply meant to overshadow the crimes of the J.L. regime. This dictatorship suppressed the leftist movements within its nation and continues to degrade us to appear "sub-human." They say that the Busterian people hold no malice, but the archaic McCarthy-esque policies J.L. has instituted suppressed one's right to express one self. We for one applaud the capture of J.L., just as we did such dictators we endured as Pinochet, Batista, and others. Do not let worthless rhetoric cloud the truth."

Signed
O Diretor do Interior Esteban Rodrigues Cabrilho
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"So you say. Lying bastards."

-Generalissimo J.L.

(That was 100% IC, btw)

Inkana will purchase One Hun-*Looks at Sarzonian Flag in his Office* Five Million Copies of this book.

-Emperor Ferdinand Josepf I

"So you say. Lying bastards."

-Generalissimo J.L.

(That was 100% IC, btw)

Official Reply:

How are you getting messages out of jail?
Department of Foreign Affairs

Inkana will purchase One Hun-*Looks at Sarzonian Flag in his Office* Five Million Copies of this book.

-Emperor Ferdinand Josepf I

"Thank you. May your future may blessed, and your life happy and prosperous."

-Generalissimo J.L. the Grateful

Press Release from the People's Communist Party of Brazil

"A wonderful, riveting tale. It grips you with suspense, and pulls at your hearstrings. You will be moved by this classic piece of fiction.

The international community must realize that this piece of propaganda is simply meant to overshadow the crimes of the J.L. regime. This dictatorship suppressed the leftist movements within its nation and continues to degrade us to appear "sub-human." They say that the Busterian people hold no malice, but the archaic McCarthy-esque policies J.L. has instituted suppressed one's right to express one self. We for one applaud the capture of J.L., just as we did such dictators we endured as Pinochet, Batista, and others. Do not let worthless rhetoric cloud the truth."

Signed
O Diretor do Interior Esteban Rodrigues Cabrilho

And let me say, Cabrilho, that the plight of J.L. is real. I say that the plight of RB is real. They are getting a very disproportionate and quite heinous amount of malice at the hands of Sarzonia and their allies, sir, and we intend to tell the world about it.

Jake Featherston IV
President
High Directorate
Virginian Enlightened Combine

Press Release from the People's Communist Party of Brazil


And let me say, Cabrilho, that the plight of J.L. is real. I say that the plight of RB is real. They are getting a very disproportionate and quite heinous amount of malice at the hands of Sarzonia and their allies, sir, and we intend to tell the world about it.

Jake Featherston IV
President
High Directorate
Virginian Enlightened Combine
"Words. That is all I hear. What I need, my friend, is truth. Until you can support these claims, why should I respect the word of a man who has every motive to give his testimony, so thus he would be liberated from what may be just punishment?"

Signed
O Diretor do Interior Esteban Rodrigues Cabrilho
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Official Reply:

How are you getting messages out of jail?
Department of Foreign Affairs

Official Reply:

I don't know.
Generalissimo J.L., the Baffled

"Please buy copies. I want to escape, so I can kill Sar- er, so I can live a quiet, modest, peaceful life."

-Generalissimo J.L. the Desperate

Public Statement:
In response to massive support for RB following the release of RB Betrayed, Farmina will supply humanitarian aid to the occupied lands of Roach-busters and continue to campaign for Generalissimo J.L's freedom.

Actual Policy:
Humanitarian aid will be used as a front for smuggling weapons into Roach-busters. Extreme force has been authorised if no other means can be found to liberate J.L.

BNN News
Highfather

Breaking news, ladies and gentlemen. In its first week of sale, "Roach-Busters BETRAYED" has sold over five million copies, becoming mandatory reading for ninth grade Advanced Literature classes in some Peninsula Region high schools. 12% tax, of course, is going to the Burnsian government...

... and in other news, the book "Roach-Busters BETRAYED" earned a five out of five star rating on TBD-bookworm.gov, the government's official reading site...

...several protesters of the book "Roach-Busters BETRAYED" gunned down in Black Square today...

Public Statement:
In response to massive support for RB following the release of RB Betrayed, Farmina will supply humanitarian aid to the occupied lands of Roach-busters and continue to campaign for Generalissimo J.L's freedom.

Actual Policy:
Humanitarian aid will be used as a front for smuggling weapons into Roach-busters. Extreme force has been authorised if no other means can be found to liberate J.L.

OOC: Mind if we "borrow" this policy? I'm thinking of doing the same......might be easier, what with my terrorist organization roots and all. :D

OOC: Mind if we "borrow" this policy? I'm thinking of doing the same......might be easier, what with my terrorist organization roots and all. :D
OOC: Can we share it? Farmina has long supported terrorist activities and smuggled weapons. We've also caused two civil wars.

OOC: Can we share it? Farmina has long supported terrorist activities and smuggled weapons. We've also caused two civil wars.

OOC: Sure.

IC: The Virginian Red Cross will do the same. We will provide humanitarian aid to the people of RB, mainly food, water, and medical aid.

SECRET IC:


Karl von Esling of the Tokko called the head of the Farminan Government, and sent a mysterious telegram.

To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

I have heard of your planned operation, nothing escapes us.....might Jake and I be able to join in?

Karl von Esling

OOC: TAG! Great Thread!

IC: We choose to do nothing as we are allies with both countries.

SIC: J.L. we are dismayed by the turn of events and believe me we wish you triumph.

To: Karl von Elsing
From: Office of the High Priest

Your aid will be most appreciated, especially by the people of Roach-Busters.

OOC: How should we organise this?

Richmond, High Directorate, VEC (AP)- Today, sales of the book "Roach-Busters BETRAYED" have skyrocketed in Virginia today, as the book has displaced many others to become #1 in the nation.

The popularity of the book has increased Virginian sympathy for RB, and it is reported that even now, many citizens are staging pro-RB rallies in the streets.

Several people have protested the book's publishing and have criticized it, but it was reported that they suffered at the hands of mobs, though no serious injuries are reported.

Indeed, the book has won a soft spot with many critics and local book clubs, and it has electirfied the nation.

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To: Karl von Elsing
From: Office of the High Priest

Your aid will be most appreciated, especially by the people of Roach-Busters.

OOC: How should we organise this?

SECRET IC:

To: Office of the High Priest
From: Karl von Elsing

Thank you....

OOC: Perhaps we can do a publicly coordinated relief effort between the Virginian Red Cross and the Farminan Red Cross, and secretly, agents of both the Tokko and the Virginian and Farminan Intellegence Services will be embedded in these efforts, overseeing the shipment of munitions. Russian Mafiya friends of the RALM can handle the procurement.

Last post for tonight....

From: Imperial Book Stores INC

To: KSC Publishing

The people of Parthia love JL, we have deep respect for him and would love to spread his message. If you will permit us to purchase 5 million copies for sale around Parthia, I hope his message can be spread.

OOC: I think first we should make a list of humanitarian demands to Sarzonia, including aid access. Most of the requests will be rejected, but I doubt that one would.

President Mike Sarzo issued the following statement from the press room of the Gray House:

"I find it incredibly laughable that J.L. is feigning innocence in the face of his obvious disregard for human rights. His response to our attempts to resolve the situation between our countries with diplomatic measures has been violence.

"He threw thousands of Sarzonian citizens into the oceans rather than simply expelling them.

"He attempted to have me assassinated while supposedly under a flag of truce.

"He attempted to kill our soldiers after a 'surrender' by packing explosives on a people he has ruthlessly oppressed for hundreds of years and sending them to detonate those explosives by hugging our soldiers.

"J.L. is hardly the aggrieved, innocent victim of an oppressive regime. J.L. is a callous, ruthless, bloodthirsty, homicidal maniac who would stop at nothing to conquer the world. I ask you all to consider the facts before you fall for a despot's sob story.

"We insist that any attempts to publish this character assassination be ceased immediately. We will not look favourably upon any countries who publish this and pretend that it is a factual account of war. We remind the international community that there is more than one side to every story."

From: Imperial Book Stores INC

To: KSC Publishing

The people of Parthia love JL, we have deep respect for him and would love to spread his message. If you will permit us to purchase 5 million copies for sale around Parthia, I hope his message can be spread.

TO: Imperial Book Stores, Inc.
From: Bob Gincarelli, KSC Publishing

Not a problem, your order will come in about a week, seeing as how you are a true friend of J.L.'s.

President Mike Sarzo issued the following statement from the press room of the Gray House:

"I find it incredibly laughable that J.L. is feigning innocence in the face of his obvious disregard for human rights. His response to our attempts to resolve the situation between our countries with diplomatic measures has been violence.

"He threw thousands of Sarzonian citizens into the oceans rather than simply expelling them.

"He attempted to have me assassinated while supposedly under a flag of truce.

"He attempted to kill our soldiers after a 'surrender' by packing explosives on a people he has ruthlessly oppressed for hundreds of years and sending them to detonate those explosives by hugging our soldiers.

"J.L. is hardly the aggrieved, innocent victim of an oppressive regime. J.L. is a callous, ruthless, bloodthirsty, homicidal maniac who would stop at nothing to conquer the world. I ask you all to consider the facts before you fall for a despot's sob story.

"We insist that any attempts to publish this character assassination be ceased immediately. We will not look favourably upon any countries who publish this and pretend that it is a factual account of war. We remind the international community that there is more than one side to every story."

Mr. Sarzo, I have but four words for you: Over My Dead Body.

Bob Gincarelli
KSC Publishing House
A Division of KSC Enterprises, Inc.

OOC: That was totally IC, FYI.

Hmm. We would like to purchase several of these books for debating purposes. Thanks you.

Hong Kong, DX (AP)- Today, the book, "Roach Busters BETRAYED" has hit the number 1 spot on the South China Morning News and the Asahi Shimbun book charts, selling more than 500,000,000 copies. It has broken a record in Upper Xen, having sold 6,000,000 copies in one day.

Politicians in Upper Xen, mainly from the conservative-to-moderate Freedom Party, called upon Mike Sarzo to "allow J.L. to go free, and to end the colonial occupation of RB."

Gordon Lew said only: "That book is a damn good read.....seriously, check it out. Oh and for the record, I have no comment on whether J.L. should be freed or not, but I know my wife and daughter would desire his release."

Archbishop Grigori Batov of Harbin said in no uncertain terms, however, "In the name of God, I call upon Michael Sarzo to free J.L. from his squalid cell! God is looking at you, and He is not happy.........I urge all good Christians, in Upper Xen and the world, to buy this book and boycott Sarzonian goods. Support this fool not, for he calls the wrath of God and the international community for his sins."

We'll take 500 million copies, we have some colonies to educate and this book will add nicely together with our standard education in Dumpsterdam.

That and where swiming in cash...

Dumpsterdanian Board of Education.

We'll take 500 million copies, we have some colonies to educate and this book will add nicely together with our standard education in Dumpsterdam.

That and where swiming in cash...

Dumpsterdanian Board of Education.

Not a problem. Expect the books to arrive in four weeks, we will express ship them.

Bob Gincarelli
KSC Publishing House
A Division of KSC Enterprises, Inc.

Hmm. We would like to purchase several of these books for debating purposes. Thanks you.

You're welcome, your books will arrive in two weeks.

Bob Gincarelli
KSC Publishing House
A Division of KSC Enterprises, Inc.

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Chairman Murdock sees the advertisement and orders 2 billion copies, 100 for himself, and the rest for the children in the schools to read and learn of these events, as a great example of non-fiction literature.
"Two Thumbs Way, Way Up!!!" -anonimous book critic

President Mike Sarzo issued the following statement from the press room of the Gray House:

"I find it incredibly laughable that J.L. is feigning innocence in the face of his obvious disregard for human rights. His response to our attempts to resolve the situation between our countries with diplomatic measures has been violence.

So you say.

"He threw thousands of Sarzonian citizens into the oceans rather than simply expelling them.

My men did. I never authorized it.

"He attempted to have me assassinated while supposedly under a flag of truce.

Wrong. An ally of mine did. I was not involved. Tacit approval does not equal attempting.

"He attempted to kill our soldiers after a 'surrender' by packing explosives on a people he has ruthlessly oppressed for hundreds of years and sending them to detonate those explosives by hugging our soldiers.

Shoobans are not people. They deserve to be oppressed. We've been oppressing them for less than a decade, not 'hundreds of years.' Moreover, they were defending their homeland against invaders.

"J.L. is hardly the aggrieved, innocent victim of an oppressive regime. J.L. is a callous, ruthless, bloodthirsty, homicidal maniac who would stop at nothing to conquer the world. I ask you all to consider the facts before you fall for a despot's sob story.

Despot's sob story? When did Sarzo publish memoirs? You just described yourself and your shitty nation in a nutshell.

"We insist that any attempts to publish this character assassination be ceased immediately. We will not look favourably upon any countries who publish this and pretend that it is a factual account of war. We remind the international community that there is more than one side to every story."

There you go, more threats, more warmongering.

-Generalissimo J.L. the Disgusted

(OOC: Thanks, everyone. :))

The sale of this book has been abnned, as it always was, in Yafor 2 and all of it's colonies.

~Signed~
Rudiv Sodo
Elected Duke of Yafor 2.

Very Secret IC to JL:

The reason I wrote this instead of the usual Guilermo (the chief minister) was because I want to tell you this book rocked. You could become a writer. Of course, since it disagreed with our policies/the Woodstock Pact's, we banned it. Bye.

OOC:Awsome, RB!

Wirraway will buy 8 million copies to distribute to our armed forces, they must know the treachery of the Sarz-eh, the enemy, to motivate them.

With the proceeds from the sales of this book, we'll be able to purchase enough arms to arm an entire empire!

-Sue Purr Paneful, sister of Barry Paneful, leader of the anti-Sarzonian underground resistance

All orders so far have been confirmed.....a general thanks to all. God Bless, keep them coming, please help.

They all should arrive in about 3 days, at the maximum, we have put this book on permanent Express Shipping due to the volume of orders.


Bob Gincarelli
KSC Publishing House
A Division of KSC Enterprises, Inc.

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We expect this book to pass a three million sales in Notquiteaplace and we would like to have the ability to sell it here. It has been classified as fiction, but several newspapers wish to interview "the great orator and talented fictioneer" of Roach Busters about how he came up with such ideas, and how he used the truth to inspire such a fantastic story.

Our government meanwhile will be starting a campaign to have Sarzonia install a democratic government in RB, provided that JL isn't allowed to get into power. In the mean time, we will also offer aid to the people of Roach Busters in rebuilding their nation and it's civil rights.

We expect this book to pass a three million sales in Notquiteaplace and we would like to have the ability to sell it here. It has been classified as fiction, but several newspapers wish to interview "the great orator and talented fictioneer" of Roach Busters about how he came up with such ideas, and how he used the truth to inspire such a fantastic story.

Our government meanwhile will be starting a campaign to have Sarzonia install a democratic government in RB, provided that JL isn't allowed to get into power. In the mean time, we will also offer aid to the people of Roach Busters in rebuilding their nation and it's civil rights.

IC:

Fiction, you say? You gullible bastards! I see that Sarzonia has tainted you as well, with their wicked lies!

-Generalissimo J.L. the Appalled

The Real ALM, do you think you could ask the mods to lock or delete this thread? Certain nations (who shall remain anonymous) consider this 'godmodding' on my part (being able to write and publish memoirs despite being under close surveillance), and I wish to respect their wishes. Sorry for any trouble I may (have) cause/d.

Locked at author's request.