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Leafanistani Independent Media Organization LIMO

In a somewhat controversial decision, the Glorious Confederate Parliament passed Bill #11355T specifically created to target PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and their sister organizations.

It modifies the Truthful Media Laws, Safe Science Acts, and the Sedition Acts of 2003. PETA and its sister organizations have been officially banned because they explicitly lies about dangers of animal consumption, specificaly through a sister organization Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), which alleges many animal products cause various health problems. However they used suspiciously small sample groups and shady science. PETA has clandestinely funded the terrorist group Sword of God, and ARN (Animal Rights Now). Again investigations met with resistance and a massive 10 year legal campaign to get 2 tax records to confirm money laundering.

Attempts to force them to change better met with irrational resistance and finally the government was forced to act after yet another bomb went off at a Biomedical Lab, PETA championed the attack.

Finally MP Joseph Corsair of the Concordia Capital District proposed the bill and it passed rapidly. PETA says it will fight the act using the Bill of Rights, however the Ministry of Justice says that PETA does not fall under "peaceful assembly" enumerated under the Bill of Rights.

OOC: Fluid Time, 2 days have passed....

Concord Daily Press

Our MP Joseph Corsair has been killed in a drive-by shooting late last night.

As he arrived home, his wife shouted to get back into the car and pick up a quart of milk and various other groceries. He complied but yelled from his car window to confirm whether milk was on the list. It was then a van filled with disguised individuals pulled up, one screamed "Fuck your milk!" and opened fire with M-16/M-4 rifles.

MP cars are bullet resistant to prevent assassination and Corsair quickly ducked into his car, and tried to pull out. It was at this time, another van pulled up with a heavy machine gun opened fire, tearing through the bullet proof glass, striking Corsair in the head killing him instantly.

His son, Jason, opened fire with his father's revolver, wounding one of the attackers but they were able to escape before the military police arrived.

Blood recovered from the scene of the crime is being sent to a government crime lab for testing.

The Capital City is current under lockdown following a military police investigation.

Speculation rages over the recently banned PETA and ARN organization's involvement. Corsair was the leader of the movement to ban these organizations and an alleged video showing disguised individuals with altered voices claiming responsibility for the attack under the name of SETA (Soldiers for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). The Military Police had no comment on this at this time.

Whittier expresses sympathies with your nation's loss of its MP. It reminds us of the loss of our last Secretary General who was brutally gunned down a year ago leading to the collapse of our own nation.

We also share you dislike of PETA and its sister organizations. You have free reign to arrest any members of PETA you find on Whittier territory.

LNN Leafanistani News Network

LATE BREAKING NEWS

3 Military Policeman have been gunned down in front of the recently bombed Biomedical Lab while guarding a crime scene. A Military Police CJ-14 SUV responded with machine gun fire and the station wagon transporting the gunmen exploded killing a nearby man (yet unidentified) walking his dog. The explosion was believed to have been trigged from inside the vehicle and was not directly caused by the return fire.

Unconfirmed reports of Bonstockian made M-16s found inside the vehicle are as of yet, unconfirmed.

More on this story as it happens.

The Kingdom of Free Farmers
We are saddened that the animal rights movement in your nation has turned so violent. The Kingdom long ago, before the passing of many laws, had an animal rights group similar to your PETA, besides the violence. We have always been strongly in favor of animal rights and animal cruelty in most cases is a high crime in our nation. We have passed many laws protecting animals and even plants in our nation and it has made animal rights groups unneeded. Perhaps the solution to your problem is not to ban the activists but instead to protect the animals. Treat the disease, not the symptom is always a good approach to problems. And clearly the disease of your nation seems to be the lack of animal rights. We recommend you immediately pass legislation protecting animals from harm and human interference. That will stop the bloodshed faster and easier than any military or police force.

-King Mortillaro VI of the Kingdom of Free Farmers

The Confederacy of Sniper Country stands by Leafanistan at this time. In show of our support, we have one unit from the 22nd SOF-D Regiment on standby, and will deploy to Leafanistan if requested or approved. Although not yet outlawed, PETA/Vegan Organizations have begun to grow more militant throughout Sniper Country. A counter group, also named PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals) has emerged (rumored to have secret funding by the government) throughout the nation, and vows to end any and all militant acts from these various animal-rights groups.

-John Philips
John Philips
Speaker, Sniper Country Senate

Official Statement from the Shahanshah of Parthia

Long ago, we had the people who supported these insane ideas PETA believes liquidated. The entirety of PETA and similar organizations, such as the Animal Liberation front were rounded up, imprisoned, and worked to death. Their leaders were disemboweled and beheaded, ending forever this scourge of hippie-controlled terrorism. We fully support these actions.

-Shah Khosru III

The Lone Alliance is prepared to offer our top agents and special op forces to aid in stopping the PETA terrorist threat, you have our full support, by our laws if an organization supports a terrorist act, then they are guilty of that act, as our local PETA chapter believe and approved of such horrible actions, they are in the process of being arrested and put on trial.

Offical Statement from the People's Republic

The PETA seem to be a group of foolish individuals who, like most foreigners, choose the path of idiocy. Animals were placed upon this world to die, to feed and fuel humanity. Vegetables won't sustained the human race, and any fool who thinks that need to be shipped to a dark and cold place in the world--lets see him grow his tomatos and his squash there, then bring him back and put a nice juicy steak in front of him.

In fact...that sounds like a policy to adopt.

Signed,
President Trenton

Official Response from Yurka

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The Eternal Empire of Yurka, after recently coming out of isolationism, is appalled by this group of lunatics. There are very few animals which show any signs of actual self-recognition, and even then, it is for the betterment of humanity that your experiments are done. It is not as if anyone is torturing animals without reason, and seeing as this is not the case, I suggest anyone associated with this group be searched by your government and anyone with incriminating evidence imprisoned.

We in Yurka also have a secondary solution. To help with your testing, you could also use convicted criminals, as they by far show more human traits than a mere lab rat. Also, you can get more accurate responses and test data. However, unless your prison population is literally overflowing, this should only be done for quality testing.

At this time I am afraid that I myself can not in good intention send any of my soldiers to assist you against such a dangerous lunatic fringe group at this time. Perhaps in the future however, my people will be able to help you. We have numerous ways of keeping our government safe from these unsavory types.

Sincerely,
Emperor Drake Yurka III

OOC: Is this the rp you've told us all about sometime about that the Glorious Confederacy is going to fall apart and break into civil war, Leafanistan?

West Corinthia condemns PETA and sister oganziations for these terrorist attacks. We have taken all known PETA members in our country into custody and we are interrogating them for anything that could help prevent future attacks. This comes at a time when we are having serious problems with terrorism in our own country, and if PETA does any of the things they have done to you in our country, there will be blood to pay.
Signed,
Borislav Nikephorov, Chief Diplomat, Allied States of West Corinthia

The Fatherland would like to congratulate you for banning the PETA organization and other hippie organization. The Fatherland has targetted the organization when the President stepped into power.

Congrates from The United Comunist Republic of Morvonia....too long have these organizations filled with hippies and people who make fools of themselfs gone uncheck...we are working on a simlar proposal.

Since our high amount of orginisation freedoms.. We've let PETA run free, but under several conditions.

1. They're not allowed to target the impressionable age group (Young Children).
2. They're under heavier taxes than the norm.
3. Their headquaters/orginisation offices must never expand beyond the capital of Prussiatopia. Each staff must have a wage kept below 60% of the norm (about $28,000 annually, 28,000 / 10 * 6 = $16,800). Any political dissent of any type expressed involves a ban from public outings, lectures, advocating of animal rights, freedoms, liberties, or acts of hippyism, plus a ban from having the people know existence of their group (a privelage in this country, not a right), and will be effect in the immediate moment our moles find anything.

Finally, their rights are going to be outmoded in the next 50 NS Years, so soon PETA and Sister/Affiliate orginisations will be banned.

We're sorry for the death of your MP. Most of our politicians live in halls of residence around the party building. So we've little danger of any wackos talking about sexual intercourse with inanimate objects then shooting us.

The PETA members in our country are peaceful and have not been involved in any terrorist act. They have condemned the terrorist actions but also say that they were caused by the limitation of free speech, since they had no other way of expressing their opinions without bring arrested. You should make up a better argument for your opinions, not supress the other views. Also, the killing was probably planned by extremists. Most PETA members disagree with their tactics.

Official Statement from the Sovereign Arbiter

The Sucellan Governance shall hold a moment of silence for those that this terrorist organization has killed in Leafanistan. In light of their senseless murder, the Parliament is taking steps to follow suit and ban PETA within all Tannenmillian regions. If the Leafanistani people need anything, supplies or otherwise, do not hesitate to contact us and whatever is needed will be arranged immediately.

Godspeed,
Peffe Qarojxy Tannen
Sovereign Arbiter of the Sucellan Governance

Official government Response

We also share you dislike of PETA and its sister organizations. You have free reign to arrest any members of PETA you find on Whittier territory.

We thank you but our laws only extend to our nation and we are not legally allowed to enforce our laws internationally.

erhaps the solution to your problem is not to ban the activists but instead to protect the animals.

There are a few animal rights laws that punish those who assualt animals, those who hunt out of season, and those who consume endangered species, however, PETA is far too extreme for us to adopt their policies. Banning Milk? (http://milkgonewild.com/) Banning all meat? Insanity. We cannot adopt such policies, their brand of organic veganism can only feed 4% of our population adequetly and we aren't about to abandon billions to 'be nice to nature'. Nature had us be omnivores, and we will stay that way, within some reasonable limits of course.

In show of our support, we have one unit from the 22nd SOF-D Regiment on standby, and will deploy to Leafanistan if requested or approved.

The Lone Alliance is prepared to offer our top agents and special op forces to aid in stopping the PETA terrorist threat, you have our full support, by our laws if an organization supports a terrorist act, then they are guilty of that act, as our local PETA chapter believe and approved of such horrible actions, they are in the process of being arrested and put on trial.

West Corinthia condemns PETA and sister oganziations for these terrorist attacks. We have taken all known PETA members in our country into custody and we are interrogating them for anything that could help prevent future attacks.

We are able to conduct such activities ourselves and a raid is currently in progress to arrest these people. We thank all those attempting this outside our border and we will gladly prosecute those who supportted these operations in some way if they are convicted of such outside our borders. We thank you for your enthusiam.

Long ago, we had the people who supported these insane ideas PETA believes liquidated.
In fact...that sounds like a policy to adopt.

We in Yurka also have a secondary solution. To help with your testing, you could also use convicted criminals, as they by far show more human traits than a mere lab rat. Also, you can get more accurate responses and test data. However, unless your prison population is literally overflowing, this should only be done for quality testing.

We hold human life much too dear to attempt this, however we do mandate animated suspension, re-education, and work camps for these kind of criminal scum. Working them is much better for the people than using them, it is very expensive to create the doses of such experimental drugs to use on humans and genetically modified lab rats are so close to us it begs the question of what is human. Criminials like these will be worked in factories for the remainder of their natural lives. Sadly more creative means are currently banned by a right preventing such 'cruel and unusual punishment'.

The Fatherland would like to congratulate you for banning the PETA organization and other hippie organization. The Fatherland has targetted the organization when the President stepped into power.
Congrates from The United Comunist Republic of Morvonia....too long have these organizations filled with hippies and people who make fools of themselfs gone uncheck...we are working on a simlar proposal.

The Sucellan Governance shall hold a moment of silence for those that this terrorist organization has killed in Leafanistan. In light of their senseless murder, the Parliament is taking steps to follow suit and ban PETA within all Tannenmillian regions. If the Leafanistani people need anything, supplies or otherwise, do not hesitate to contact us and whatever is needed will be arranged immediately.

We thank you for your support.

hey have condemned the terrorist actions but also say that they were caused by the limitation of free speech, since they had no other way of expressing their opinions without bring arrested.

PETA can say what they want unless they are lying or actively promoting violence. Then it falls under libel and slander. Crimes that are punishable in other countries just the same.

Minister of Foreign Affairs
Shun Fang Chang

OOC: Is this the rp you've told us all about sometime about that the Glorious Confederacy is going to fall apart and break into civil war, Leafanistan?

It follows up to the collapse, I want something long and drawn out, like the Soviet Union's collapse or the events leading up to the Tiananmen Square (really Beijing) Masscre.

OOC: I dont suppose when you hit civil war you give up your share of Frozopia?

BTW you havent replied to when I accepted your offer to stand for a position in power in frozopia.

Official Governmental Statement

The Federation Government condemns PETA and sister organizations for the deeds that have been carried out, and offers congratulations to Leafanistan for their moves against such terrorist groups.

Little Georgia
Warehouse District
St. Elms Street

3:00 A.M. the SETA and PETA members were mostly asleep, a few were up watching late night television, a few played Halo 2 far too long into the night, and a few were playing cards, smoking organic cigars. Their Bonstockian made M-16s sat in a corner or strapped to their backs. Purchased early on by Leafanistan, it was phased out decades ago by the AK-104, and given to Civil Defense, then sold by auction or dumped. These were picked up from the Nixon Island dump 14 miles northeast. They totalled 120 in the warehouse, 22 of them awake and only 13 armed. There were enough guns to arm a battalion, but that wasn't their only safehouse, there were more. Many more, there needed to be for the days ahead.

Outside a small drizzle made conditions miserable. A few dark vans pulled into the warehouse on the next block. Those warehouses were mafia warehouses, but today the thugs had cleared out. A bribe from Military police bought that luxury and their assurance they wouldn't interfere. 2 snipers with scoped KF11 parasniper rifles sat on the roof in urban camoflague, freezing their asses off waiting for a signal. Inside a raiding party was set up, 65 men and women, heavily armed and armoured against an unknown amount of PETA militia. They prepared by studing a 3D hologram of the building's interior, thermographs of the current location of PETA members and checked their weapons. It didn't help the warehouse was highly segmented, it made clearing out the building difficult. No matter, they had enough people.

Mission commander Sandra O'Davis waited for the go ahead from the Ministry of Justice to commense the raid, they were watching by satellite feed and were checking with the Special Parliment Council on Internal Affiars to go ahead. Then a light clicked from red to green on all the vans. It was go time.

They rushed into the street, quietly as possible to cover as many enterences as possible. The vans moved up quietly, they opened their side doors, moved out some spotlights and Sandra walked up with a bullhorn and waited. She counted her breaths, 3, 2 and a half, 2, 1; she held up the bullhorn and screamed: 'NOW!'

Simulataneously the raiding party split into 2 groups to cover all the enterances tried to break down the doors. The spotlights turned on flooding the warehouse with lights, other officiers called for those inside to surrender by putting their hands on their heads and lying on the ground. Regular Military Police, pulled up with sirens blazing, unholstering their RRJ45 pistols, and MoJ agents also pulled up with MP5s.

Inside it was chaos, groggy those asleep were quickly arrested by the raiding party, however, those in the back had some trouble getting the door open, it was blocked by a few kegs and those inside acted quickly. They opened fire on the thin metal door, killing the officier outside instantly in a hail of lead, they backed off and threw in tear gas grenades. The gunmen found themselves struggling to keep their aim as the glass shattered as snipers opened up on them. They went for headshots via infrared scopes and took down the main guards quickly. The gamers flipped their table over and a few set up guard, tossing white phosphorous grenades at the approaching raiding party.

3 officiers were incinerated, screaming in pain, as the white phosphorous burned into them, melting skin from bone, and throwing up a huge cloud of smoke and tinting it orange. The men there tried to open up on the pinned down officiers but found themselves under fire from the other sniper through the skylights. Two went down while the other jumped over the table, guns blazing, wounding another officier before being cut down in a hail of caseless 7.62mm rounds.

The remaining SETA members surprised the police by ramming through the thin sheet metal walls with their vans, trying to outrun them. MP Scout Cars opened up with their MGs and quickly popped the tires of one of the vans, flipping it over and crushing their occupants. The other one zoomed away from the scene, flying down the streets as regular police and MoJ agents gave chase.

Concordia District Autobahn toward Burlington Airport

The van roared down the slick road, a cloud created by water droplets obscured the vision of the pursuing officiers. One police cruiser rammed into another putting two cars out of the chase. The SETA people opened up the back and moved up a 14.5mm MG and opened fire with the AA gun, tearing through a MoJ vehicle, fatally wounding both agents and sending their car barelling into a tree. The remaining SETA people opened up with their M-16s and kept the cruisers at a distance, and put 2 scout cars out of action and wounding 3 more officiers.

Helicopters roared overhead and MoJ agents opened fire from the side mounted 7.62mm chaingun, killing everyone inside and turning the vehicle into the metal version of swiss cheese. The van, now occupied by mangled bodies rolled over and hit a lightpost before exploding in a ball of fire.

All and all dozens of PETA/SETA members were dead or wounded, about a dozen officiers were dead and several vehicles were destroyed. Sandra knew her promotion was gone with this disasterous raid. She should have brought the APCs.

The entire Commonwealth of Upper Whatchacallistan expresses its sorrow for the loss of the brave Leafanistani officers and commends the Condfederacy for its strong actions to curtail the actions of this terrorist organization.

OOC: I dont suppose when you hit civil war you give up your share of Frozopia?

BTW you havent replied to when I accepted your offer to stand for a position in power in frozopia.

It'll likely go to various other groups, those stationed permanetly overseas will most likely swing toward High Father's faction because the Confed Parliament sent them out there, and depending on which territory I'll sow the seeds of discontent and nationalism.

We are horrified by the devestation and hope SETA members get what they diserve.

Official Statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs

Greetings, old friends!

We are neutral in this incident, but nevertheless, we send our warmest condolences to the families of the victims of the attacks. The cabinet, supports animal rights, but PETA is a radical organization that does more harm than good....but so far in Southeast Asia, they haven't done anything violent as we do conform to a few of their much more moderate policies to keep them happy. I do have some concerns about your domestic affairs, as we get the feeling that this has been occuring for a long time, and only has been released to the international community recently....do you mind if we send observers into your nation to verify it's domestic stability?

Yours Truly,
His Excellency,
USNSEA Minister of Foreign Affairs
Joshua Lin

Press Release

The Armed Republic of Gugreau aplauds Leafanistan for it actions against the dangerous extermist group PETA. Please accept our deepest remorse for your citizens killed.

We call on all nation to ban PETA and other violent, dangerous animal rights groups.

Vice Admiral Gregory Lyncher
Secretary of State, Armed Republic of Gugreau

Official Statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs

Greetings, old friends!

We are neutral in this incident, but nevertheless, we send our warmest condolences to the families of the victims of the attacks. The cabinet, supports animal rights, but PETA is a radical organization that does more harm than good....but so far in Southeast Asia, they haven't done anything violent as we do conform to a few of their much more moderate policies to keep them happy. I do have some concerns about your domestic affairs, as we get the feeling that this has been occuring for a long time, and only has been released to the international community recently....do you mind if we send observers into your nation to verify it's domestic stability?

Yours Truly,
His Excellency,
USNSEA Minister of Foreign Affairs
Joshua Lin

While we thank you, Leafanistan is just in the midst of the government being replaced. With the radical National Liberation Party removed, we can focus on social reform that the NLPs have neglected. There are always social hiccups when the Parliament is so radically rearranged since our Reform party won.

"Good job I hate those fuckers."

President-for-Life Colonel Moibuto "Scotty Doc" Musonga



This is Scotty Doc (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Mobutu.jpg)

"Good job I hate those fuckers."

President-for-Life Colonel Moibuto "Scotty Doc" Musonga



This is Scotty Doc (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Mobutu.jpg)

We don't exactly like you very much. If we send a box of chocolates and a fruit basket will you stop being such a sour lemon?

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