NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: Continued from http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=451574

IC: Shino, Capital of Semirhage

Thousands were already lining up for The Vote, the emergency election that would help decide the future of the Republic, over the massive several block long line a giant skyscraper flat-screen announced the trial date for the so-called "King" Drusii II.

The Ballot for The Vote would cover the following topics...

Freedom of Speech- What Cases should the Republic Limit Free Speech?
-No Limits
-Only the Case of High Treason
-Severely Limit Free Speech
-No Free Speech

Freedom of Religion- What Cases should the Republic Limit Freedom of Religion?
-Total Freedom of Faith
-Allow for Near-Total Freedom but be allowed to investigate Dangerous Cults
-Keep Temple of the Republic the Only Legal Faith
-Each Religion should go through a screening process before being legalized

Constitution- Should the Republic create a more sound legal basis than just the Declaration of the Republic?
-Yes, We need an organized constitution
-No, the Declaration Works just fine



This was the ballot presented to voters this day... This day that would define the Republic for generations.


Prime Designate Sophia Moss
The Most Serene Republic of Semirhage
Favorite Quote- “Terror is only justice that is prompt, severe and inflexible.”- Maximilien Robespierre the Incorruptible

Semirhage News Network
The Vote is In!

Anchor: The three part ballot is in, the counting is over! The parts of the ballot that have won are the following!

Freedom of Speech:
-Limited only in Cases of High Treason

Freedom of Religion:
-Screening Process for Religions (Temple of the Republic exempt)

Constitution:
-Yes


The Senate is already convening on the writting of a new Constitution of Semirhage, what is on the ballot WILL be in the Constitution and the only other bit of legislation that is guaranteed to make it will be an Article to give full Immunity from Prosecution for all members of Semirhagian Government from any and all crimes during the time of The Great Purge (called the Great Terror by the filthy Imperialists and Counter-Revolutionaries).

Glory to the Republic!

Now for a commercial break.

Statement from the Amestrian First Circuit Court

Those members of the Semirhagian government who have been indicted are being tried by the court on charges of the violation of International Common Law. Therefore, the domestic laws of Semirhage are irrelevant to the court. Furthermore, under the Legislatorial and Judicial Sections of the Amestrian Constitution no law may be retroactive, pardons included, thus the Amestrian court system finds the Semirhage pardon to have no bearing upon the proceedings. The trial shall go forward.

-Presiding Judge Russell Thomas

The State of Amestria,
First Federal Circuit Court,
Amestria City

The room is quite crowded with the hustle and bustle of witnesses, advocates, clerks and interested onlookers; all anxious over thee expected verdict. Suddenly an officer enters.

“All rise for this Honorable Royal Court”, he shouts out.

All stand as the five justices enter solemnly.

“Please be seated”.

Everyone sits. The presiding judge addresses the court.

"This Court, in the case of the King of Amestria verses Sophia Moss, foreign national, after careful review of witness testimony and a thorough preponderance of the evidence, finds the individual Sophia Moss guilty on all charges. There exists overwhelming evidence of her abuses and crimes as the leader of Semirhage, all of them matters of public record. This video image, from the from the Semirhage News Network is the least of it..."

The Court plays the video.


[image: Three hundred men, women and some children are being lead to a giant guillotine, some are crying, others are praying, one is being dragged while screaming, "Death to the Traitors! Honor be to King Drusii II!" (this man is then beaten with a rock)]

[Over an hours worth of executions by a single guillotine are shown, each head after the execution is then taken and mounted on a steel spike and left to rot as a warning against other would-be Counter-Revolutionaries]


"Fifty-four of the 200 individuals whose murder Sophia Moss has been found guilty of where children. I believe no more needs to be said. Today, on the month Brumaire, the day of Alisier, year 185 of the Amestian Calendar, this Court sentences Sophia Moss to life imprisonment without any possibility of parole. So has ruled this court, Long Live the King." (bangs gabble)

Later in the week Brian Perry, Penny Hatt and Paul I are also found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment without any possibility for parole.