NationStates Jolt Archive


New Issue, is this man guilty?

Sixguns
23-03-2004, 17:17
Prince Buster has been sentenced to 400 years imprisonment for a particularly violent crime in Sutton Street, after 1 year of prison time he escapes but is quickly recaptured by the Police, however before he can be returned to prison, his innocence is discovered when the real perpetrators of the crime are unmasked and arrested. Has the Prince broken the law?

Valid for [all types]

[option] "GUILTY" dead-tones Judge Hundredyears, "Take 400 more years, the laws of @@NAME@@ put you in prison, you broke those laws you pay the price... HUSH UP! stop your crying"

[effect] The Law is always right, even when its wrong... (4)
[stats] loss of civil liberties

[option] "Madness!" shouts the Peoples Representative, @@RANDOMNAME@@ "The State has already taken a year out of this man's life, we cannot return that year to him, the very least we can do is exempt this man from all taxes until we have repaid our debt in @@CURRENCY@@ to him".

[effect] The wrongly convicted are released and pay no tax, this has surprisingly lowered the overall tax-burden on the citizens of @@NAME@@. (1)
[stats] increase in civil liberties. 1% lowering of tax.

[option] "Yet another example of the national shame we call a Justice system" reports the Daily @@NAME@@, "If the people responsible for securing these travesties were obliged to finish the sentences of wrongly convicted prisoners, perhaps Judge Dread would think twice before liberally adding 400 years to a defendants sentence and actually allow the defence to speak instead of silencing them with repeated 'Hush up, HUSH UP!' and contempt of court".

[effect] A recent change to the justice system has drastic reduced guilty verdicts and resulted in a crime wave.
[stats] loss of civil liberties (2)


Notes:
(1) Locking people in prison costs money and increases the tax burden for the rest of society, releasing innocent people reduces these costs and seeing as they were not paying taxes while locked up, not paying taxes when released does not effect the overall tax burden, therefore net taxes are reduced.

(2) Loss of civil liberties for the citizens that are in Law enforcement and Justice.

(3) Yes I am a big SKA fan :)

(4) not at all happy with this wording...

comments & suggestions welcome.

sixguns
Eta Carinae
25-03-2004, 02:43
(4) errors of law are never acknowledged
Tuesday Heights
25-03-2004, 06:08
I like it a bit.