NSG Senate Lobby: Four Scones and Seven Pastries Ago

[New Zepuha]

Oh your flags look really similar.

Mea culpa.

But yes, I will be issuing a reprisal statement this afternoon, the string of disproportionate Gendarmerie activity is becoming unacceptable.

[Kouralia]

Mea culpa.

But yes, I will be issuing a reprisal statement this afternoon, the string of disproportionate Gendarmerie activity is becoming unacceptable.

What string of disproportionate Gendarme activity?

One arrest for terrorism-related charges: following which the arrestee proceeds to escape from custody, and is lucky he's not being re-arrested for that? And one where someone strong enough to throw off three adult males while restrained in handcuffs gets pepper sprayed?

Come on, really: other law enforcement agencies have done far worse things and been ignored.

[Lamaredia]

Oh your flags look really similar.

Mea culpa.

How's it your fault?

[Mishmahig]

Mea culpa.

How's it your fault?

Didn't clarify the situation initially when the confusion occurred.

But yes, I will be issuing a reprisal statement this afternoon, the string of disproportionate Gendarmerie activity is becoming unacceptable.

What string of disproportionate Gendarme activity?

One arrest for terrorism-related charges: following which the arrestee proceeds to escape from custody, and is lucky he's not being re-arrested for that? And one where someone strong enough to throw off three adult males while restrained in handcuffs gets pepper sprayed?

Come on, really: other law enforcement agencies have done far worse things and been ignored.

For me, it's the national television part.

Any chance I can get a clip of the pepper-spraying to show at parties?

[Kouralia]

What string of disproportionate Gendarme activity?

One arrest for terrorism-related charges: following which the arrestee proceeds to escape from custody, and is lucky he's not being re-arrested for that? And one where someone strong enough to throw off three adult males while restrained in handcuffs gets pepper sprayed?

Come on, really: other law enforcement agencies have done far worse things and been ignored.

For me, it's the national television part.

Any chance I can get a clip of the pepper-spraying to show at parties?

The Gendarme by the door shrugged.

[New Zepuha]

But yes, I will be issuing a reprisal statement this afternoon, the string of disproportionate Gendarmerie activity is becoming unacceptable.

What string of disproportionate Gendarme activity?

One arrest for terrorism-related charges: following which the arrestee proceeds to escape from custody, and is lucky he's not being re-arrested for that? And one where someone strong enough to throw off three adult males while restrained in handcuffs gets pepper sprayed?

Come on, really: other law enforcement agencies have done far worse things and been ignored.

hardly enough to embarass me and my entire staff infront of the entire nation. The Gendarmerie has a history of heavy handedness like this. Such as harassing NIB agents, taking two APCs to bring an old man in for questioning, and this bollocking in the chamber. Not to mention the gross manner in which they conduct themselves. Citizens should be able to trust the police not fear them.

[Mediciano]

But yes, I will be issuing a reprisal statement this afternoon, the string of disproportionate Gendarmerie activity is becoming unacceptable.

What string of disproportionate Gendarme activity?

One arrest for terrorism-related charges: following which the arrestee proceeds to escape from custody, and is lucky he's not being re-arrested for that? And one where someone strong enough to throw off three adult males while restrained in handcuffs gets pepper sprayed?

Come on, really: other law enforcement agencies have done far worse things and been ignored.

[Swanderfeld]

OOC: I have been out of loop for while, do we have threads for civil courts?

[New Zepuha]

OOC: I have been out of loop for while, do we have threads for civil courts?

Just request a case before the courts and I will set one up for you.

[The Nihilistic view]

It's only a bit of mace. The senator is lucky it was not a taser or a bullet trying to get away from three gendarmes like that.

[Swanderfeld]

OOC: I have been out of loop for while, do we have threads for civil courts?

Just request a case before the courts and I will set one up for you.

Aright, thanks.

[New Zepuha]

Just request a case before the courts and I will set one up for you.

Aright, thanks.

So I presume you are going to sue the Gendarmerie or just the three Gendarmes?

[Kouralia]

What string of disproportionate Gendarme activity?

One arrest for terrorism-related charges: following which the arrestee proceeds to escape from custody, and is lucky he's not being re-arrested for that? And one where someone strong enough to throw off three adult males while restrained in handcuffs gets pepper sprayed?

Come on, really: other law enforcement agencies have done far worse things and been ignored.

hardly enough to embarass me and my entire staff infront of the entire nation. The Gendarmerie has a history of heavy handedness like this. Such as harassing NIB agents, taking two APCs to bring an old man in for questioning,

Sorry, you are aware that the NIB agents in question:
A) invented a crime
B) pointed loaded weapons at unarmed journalists
C) Kidnapped, assaulted and illegally held a journalist.
This is after a Gendarmerie initiative managed to quieten and calm the crowd down from near-rioting levels, and you then proceeded to launch tear gas and begin truncheoning them, further exacerbating it.

[Swanderfeld]

Aright, thanks.

So I presume you are going to sue the Gendarmerie or just the three Gendarmes?

OOC: Just the three Gendarmes, going to bankrupt them by spending far more money on lawyers then I would get from them. Actually I might go against whole thing under principle of vicarious liability unless Gendarmes fire everyone involved.

[New Zepuha]

hardly enough to embarass me and my entire staff infront of the entire nation. The Gendarmerie has a history of heavy handedness like this. Such as harassing NIB agents, taking two APCs to bring an old man in for questioning,

Sorry, you are aware that the NIB agents in question:
A) invented a crime
B) pointed loaded weapons at unarmed journalists
C) Kidnapped, assaulted and illegally held a journalist.
This is after a Gendarmerie initiative managed to quieten and calm the crowd down from near-rioting levels, and you then proceeded to launch tear gas and begin truncheoning them, further exacerbating it.

Hardly. The Gendarmerie were acting like baffoons.

[Mediciano]

This is after a Gendarmerie initiative managed to quieten and calm the crowd down from near-rioting levels, and you then proceeded to launch tear gas and begin truncheoning them, further exacerbating it.

...and how well did that Gendarme initiative work? Part of the blame lies with your organization.

[Kouralia]

This is after a Gendarmerie initiative managed to quieten and calm the crowd down from near-rioting levels, and you then proceeded to launch tear gas and begin truncheoning them, further exacerbating it.

...and how well did that Gendarme initiative work? Part of the blame lies with your organization.

It worked perfectly. They went from near-rioting levels, to calmly lining up for pizza from the Gendarmerie VM90 that was playing 'the sound of the police'. In about thirty seconds.

How do you imagine they might have gone about it any better?

Sorry, you are aware that the NIB agents in question:
A) invented a crime
B) pointed loaded weapons at unarmed journalists
C) Kidnapped, assaulted and illegally held a journalist.
This is after a Gendarmerie initiative managed to quieten and calm the crowd down from near-rioting levels, and you then proceeded to launch tear gas and begin truncheoning them, further exacerbating it.

Hardly. The Gendarmerie were acting like baffoons.

Oh, but they got results until you intervened. What did you get? Hundreds arrested or hospitalised for injuries sustained while being arrested.

[New Zepuha]

...and how well did that Gendarme initiative work? Part of the blame lies with your organization.

It worked perfectly. They went from near-rioting levels, to calmly lining up for pizza from the Gendarmerie VM90 that was playing 'the sound of the police'. In about thirty seconds.

How do you imagine they might have gone about it any better?

Hardly. The Gendarmerie were acting like baffoons.

Oh, but they got results until you intervened. What did you get? Hundreds arrested or hospitalised for injuries sustained while being arrested.

The objective was to remove them from the streets. I'd say it went well.

[Kouralia]

It worked perfectly. They went from near-rioting levels, to calmly lining up for pizza from the Gendarmerie VM90 that was playing 'the sound of the police'. In about thirty seconds.

How do you imagine they might have gone about it any better?


Oh, but they got results until you intervened. What did you get? Hundreds arrested or hospitalised for injuries sustained while being arrested.

The objective was to remove them from the streets. I'd say it went well.

Have you tried them yet?

Or are they all still in gaol?

[New Zepuha]

The objective was to remove them from the streets. I'd say it went well.

Have you tried them yet?

Or are they all still in gaol?

They were all released after 24 hours. No need to waste the CPS time with a bunch of miscreants.

[Lamaredia]

Have you tried them yet?

Or are they all still in gaol?

They were all released after 24 hours. No need to waste the CPS time with a bunch of miscreants.

"Child Protective Services"

[Mister Dunney]

A man wearing a suit walked into the lobby and waited for one more second.

[Ainin]

They were all released after 24 hours. No need to waste the CPS time with a bunch of miscreants.

"Child Protective Services"

Commonwealth Prosecution Service

[Lamaredia]

"Child Protective Services"

Commonwealth Prosecution Service

I know, it's just that the acronym confuses me due to the connotation that it usually has.

[National Defence Force]

A Brigadier passed through the lobby.