Cabickstan Initiates War on Slavery.

[Chaos Crescent]

I would like to know why you would declare war on slavery. Is it because slavers have some of your people? If so have you tried to use diplomacy to get them back.Our view is we don't care one way or another about slavery.

From Brant now on his ship black crescent that not only had a maintenance check which was actually an upgrade. Currently fighting in orbit above capra while also proving orbital bombardment, after finding out that there was nothing they could do at the planet the left sometime ago.

[Mount Shavano]

TO: President Jenkins of Cabickstan
FROM: President David Jefferson

Mr. President,

From your recent declaration, I must warn you quite frankly - If any slaving ship is attacked that is flying under the Confederate Banner we will have no choice but to retaliate with the full force of the military of the Confederacy. Due to your declaration, the Slave trading route of Charleston, South Carolina to Cape Town, South Africa is now being patrolled by 4 Confederate Battleships. Any ship flying your nation's flag that comes within 900 metres of a Confederate Ship will be shot at.

Letter to President David Jefferson of the Confederacy of United Southerners

Mr. President,

For most of your people, your nation is a true beacon of freedom and prosperity. However, for those souls who live as the slaves that support your economy liberty is only a decent dream. Technological advance has long since rendered the slave system a useless economic relic; let it go, free the rest of your people from bondage, and allow the Confederacy to take its rightful place among the free nations of the earth.

Should your great nation choose to do the right thing, the Front Range Republic will stand by to give you any assistance you need to switch your agriculture & industrial labor to other means.

In the spirit of Matthew, the 25th chapter and the 40th verse, I implore you to end this institution.

With regards,
William Cloud, President, Front Range Republic

[Grays Harbor]

If Cabicstan interferes with Kaputers slave convoys our escorts will fire on the raider ships and any survivors of the wreckages will be arrested and tried.

As a WA member nation, having slavery and slaves puts you directly in violation of Resolution #23, Ban on Slavery and Trafficking. As such, your nation is an outlaw state and your slave ships are a legitimate candidate for interdiction of your slaveships via boarding and confiscation, as well as liable for a boycott of all goods produced in your nation.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION # 23

Ban on Slavery and Trafficking
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Quintessence of Dust

Description: The World Assembly,

Considering slavery, forced labour and human trafficking to be violations of basic human rights,

Declares:

1. Holding under the law any person to be the possession, property, or chattel of any other person or any legal entity, or binding any person to an employer by a contract to which they have not consented, shall be considered 'slavery' and immediately prohibited in all nations;

2. Requiring any person to work, enter a work contract, or conform to terms of employment, which they have not freely agreed themselves or through a person they have freely appointed to represent them, through such means as abduction, coercion, deception, destitution, or fraud, or threats of such, to themselves or their families, including such acts as violence or criminal damage, or unlawful detention or eviction, shall be considered 'forced labour' and immediately prohibited in all nations;

3. The definition of 'forced labour' excludes:
- conscription or alternative required national service;
- prison labour or community service given as sentence in the course of a fair trial;
- required service of wartime prisoners of war and internees, in accordance with international law;
- required national emergency service;
- normal civic duties;

4. Forcing or inducing the transfer of any person against their freely given will, or assisting or financing such actions, through similar forms of coercion, for the purposes of exploitation, such as slavery or forced labour, or situations approximating to such, sexual exploitation, or unauthorised medical procedures, shall be considered 'human trafficking' and immediately prohibited in all nations;

5. Such conditions shall be collectively referred to as 'servitude';

6. All persons under condition of servitude shall be immediately freed and all contracts or conditions enforcing servitude voided;

7. Persons fleeing servitude shall be accorded refugee status, and refoulement to nations where they would be returned to such conditions or punished for escaping them prohibited;

8. Reasonable action must be taken to prevent reprisals against such persons, including the passage and enforcement of laws to criminalise such;

9. Discrimination in civil, social, economic, legal and political rights, protection under law, access to public services, travel permission and any other rights afforded by national and international law based solely on prior condition of servitude shall be prohibited, excepting any positive actions taken at the national or more local level to assist with rehabilitation, such as priority access to sheltered accommodation;

10. Goods produced, in whole or in part, through servitude shall be permanently embargoed, and all investment and material support to nations, legal entities and persons practicing servitude immediately ended, except as transition assistance or compensated manumission to free people from such conditions;

11. Nations shall take part in a concerted diplomatic effort to end servitude, and to prevent areas having abandoned such from returning to such practices;

12. Nations shall apply due scrutiny to such institutions as industries employing significant proportions of migrant workers, legal or commercial sex industries, industries employing minors, and their national organ donation systems, to identify catalysts to human trafficking, and to work, where necessary in concert with others, to eliminate such.

[Kaputer]

If Cabicstan interferes with Kaputers slave convoys our escorts will fire on the raider ships and any survivors of the wreckages will be arrested and tried.

As a WA member nation, having slavery and slaves puts you directly in violation of Resolution #23, Ban on Slavery and Trafficking. As such, your nation is an outlaw state and your slave ships are a legitimate candidate for interdiction of your slaveships via boarding and confiscation, as well as liable for a boycott of all goods produced in your nation.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION # 23

Ban on Slavery and Trafficking
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Quintessence of Dust

Description: The World Assembly,

Considering slavery, forced labour and human trafficking to be violations of basic human rights,

Declares:

1. Holding under the law any person to be the possession, property, or chattel of any other person or any legal entity, or binding any person to an employer by a contract to which they have not consented, shall be considered 'slavery' and immediately prohibited in all nations;

2. Requiring any person to work, enter a work contract, or conform to terms of employment, which they have not freely agreed themselves or through a person they have freely appointed to represent them, through such means as abduction, coercion, deception, destitution, or fraud, or threats of such, to themselves or their families, including such acts as violence or criminal damage, or unlawful detention or eviction, shall be considered 'forced labour' and immediately prohibited in all nations;

3. The definition of 'forced labour' excludes:
- conscription or alternative required national service;
- prison labour or community service given as sentence in the course of a fair trial;
- required service of wartime prisoners of war and internees, in accordance with international law;
- required national emergency service;
- normal civic duties;

4. Forcing or inducing the transfer of any person against their freely given will, or assisting or financing such actions, through similar forms of coercion, for the purposes of exploitation, such as slavery or forced labour, or situations approximating to such, sexual exploitation, or unauthorised medical procedures, shall be considered 'human trafficking' and immediately prohibited in all nations;

5. Such conditions shall be collectively referred to as 'servitude';

6. All persons under condition of servitude shall be immediately freed and all contracts or conditions enforcing servitude voided;

7. Persons fleeing servitude shall be accorded refugee status, and refoulement to nations where they would be returned to such conditions or punished for escaping them prohibited;

8. Reasonable action must be taken to prevent reprisals against such persons, including the passage and enforcement of laws to criminalise such;

9. Discrimination in civil, social, economic, legal and political rights, protection under law, access to public services, travel permission and any other rights afforded by national and international law based solely on prior condition of servitude shall be prohibited, excepting any positive actions taken at the national or more local level to assist with rehabilitation, such as priority access to sheltered accommodation;

10. Goods produced, in whole or in part, through servitude shall be permanently embargoed, and all investment and material support to nations, legal entities and persons practicing servitude immediately ended, except as transition assistance or compensated manumission to free people from such conditions;

11. Nations shall take part in a concerted diplomatic effort to end servitude, and to prevent areas having abandoned such from returning to such practices;

12. Nations shall apply due scrutiny to such institutions as industries employing significant proportions of migrant workers, legal or commercial sex industries, industries employing minors, and their national organ donation systems, to identify catalysts to human trafficking, and to work, where necessary in concert with others, to eliminate such.

Well slaves have stopped being collected in our country and we used prison labor

[Reavani]

His Majesty's Holy Commissariat

Dear Mr.President, it has come to her attention that you intend to launch yourselves in a Jihad of sorts against slavery. We beg of you to reconsider, your pitiful attempts will merely bring you ridicule and war. Slavery is very profitable, and she knows only of what they could consider as a fair fight. Stop now before you end your own pitiful existence and leave policing laws to the countries that make them.

- with the utmost indifference,
Lord-Commissar-Chaplain Irindick

[The Scandinvans]

Your nation certainly has the right, as a sovereign nation, to regulate what occurs within the territorial waters of your nation we, the Scandinvan Empire, must affirm our commitment to true civilization and justice. Therefore, we shall remind all the nations of the world that any seizure or illegal search of a Scandinvan trading vessel, regardless if it is carrying slaves or other trade goods, by any vessel shall be treated as piracy. If a nation is giving license to said any vessels to do so we shall treat it is an act of war against the Glorious Empire of the Scandinvans and a total surrender of any expectation of civility.

As well, we wish to extend a challenge to Cabickstan to illegally seize a Scandinvan vessel with the warning that we would no longer be responsible for any deaths incurred by your people or any conflicts which extend from that incident.

Signed,
Imperial Steward,
Lord Erida

[Grays Harbor]

Your nation certainly has the right, as a sovereign nation, to regulate what occurs within the territorial waters of your nation we, the Scandinvan Empire, must affirm our commitment to true civilization and justice. Therefore, we shall remind all the nations of the world that any seizure or illegal search of a Scandinvan trading vessel, regardless if it is carrying slaves or other trade goods, by any vessel shall be treated as piracy. If a nation is giving license to said any vessels to do so we shall treat it is an act of war against the Glorious Empire of the Scandinvans and a total surrender of any expectation of civility.

As well, we wish to extend a challenge to Cabickstan to illegally seize a Scandinvan vessel with the warning that we would no longer be responsible for any deaths incurred by your people or any conflicts which extend from that incident.

Signed,
Imperial Steward,
Lord Erida

While we disapprove of slavery, finding it to be an abomination, your nation is not a WA member and therefore is not in violation of any International Accords. So you may continue your repugnant practice without interference from the Royal Navy. Unlike many, we do adhere to international law, and as you cannot be in violation, your slavers are safe, at least from us.

[Des-Bal]

Your nation certainly has the right, as a sovereign nation, to regulate what occurs within the territorial waters of your nation we, the Scandinvan Empire, must affirm our commitment to true civilization and justice. Therefore, we shall remind all the nations of the world that any seizure or illegal search of a Scandinvan trading vessel, regardless if it is carrying slaves or other trade goods, by any vessel shall be treated as piracy. If a nation is giving license to said any vessels to do so we shall treat it is an act of war against the Glorious Empire of the Scandinvans and a total surrender of any expectation of civility.

As well, we wish to extend a challenge to Cabickstan to illegally seize a Scandinvan vessel with the warning that we would no longer be responsible for any deaths incurred by your people or any conflicts which extend from that incident.

Signed,
Imperial Steward,
Lord Erida

While we disapprove of slavery, finding it to be an abomination, your nation is not a WA member and therefore is not in violation of any International Accords. So you may continue your repugnant practice without interference from the Royal Navy. Unlike many, we do adhere to international law, and as you cannot be in violation, your slavers are safe, at least from us.

First and foremost it should be understood that equating the World Assembly with any sort of justice is a horrible horrible lapse in judgment. Secondly it should be noted that wars on things have a miserable success rate. Terror, drugs, obesity, your nomenclature alone leads me to prophesy a waste of your time and recourses.

-Alber Dregas

[Lovable Weirdos]

Message From Queen Arabella
High Ruler Of Lovable Weirdos

Dear fellow nation Cabickstan,

Please do not send any of your anti-slavery ships into the waters of Lovable Weirdos.

While we do pratice the 'abomination', to use your words, of slavery, we are not evil. We are not like some of those nations who don't consider slaves to be people, and we certainly don't believe in the idea of nonhuman people being 'subhuman'. All our slaves chose this lifestyle, and they are all treated with the utmost respect. All slaves in Lovable Weirdos are simply people who have someone owning them.

Also, we don't keep slaves. We sell them to other countries. While it might still seem bad to you, it's very good for us. It's an excellent source of income and is a good way to protect ourselves from all those nations who we've managed to accidently get on our bad side.

Signed,

Queen Arabella, Princess Faye, and Lady Nandachyoice (I told you guys I had a title!)

[The Floor Kippers]

A Message From

To The President of Cabickstan
From Sir Nigel Griffin, Prime Minister
Dear Sir, The United Kindgom of the Floor Kippers Applaudes your move but warns that slavers are decptivly devious, And alerts you to the Existance Of the Despicable Organiseation IASEN (International Association of Slave Exporting Nations) and suggests that you remain clear of IASEN nations, unless you think you can take it, We Provide to you the links to the Honouralbe WASO (World Anti-Slavery Organiseation) and suggest that you Invest in this organiseation
P.S.any freed slaves, Human or Non-Human Is welcome to come and Live in the UK-FK
OOC-http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=40954

[Des-Bal]

Oh dropping names now? Tell me if you sell your slaves to other nations you are of course aware that they likely do not abide by your laws and will not treat them by such? Your paper shield of a moral code amounts to very little.

-Alber Dregas

[Lonara]

From the Desk of His Holy Kaiser Heinrich Willhelm Metzgermeister II

It seems as if slavery has become the hot topic in international relations as of late. You will find that I take my late father's stance in this superfluous and most pointless conflict. Slavery will always be legal somewhere and somehow, there will never be a time in which it becomes completely eradicated. The enslavement of sub-humans in fact, is currently legal in the Holy Empire of Lonara. With this being said, any Lonaran vessels targeted by your foolish attempts to cull slavery will be deemed the targets of a declaration of war. We will strike back with the vengeful hammer of God, and let he save your souls.

-Holy Sovereign Kaiser Heinrich Willhelm Metzgermeister II "The Wolf Hearted"

[Ralkovia]

To: [Open]
From: The Grand and Glorious Empire of Ralkovia

We will be blunt, should any Ralkovian slaver ship be stopped by any vessel belonging to Cabickstan or its allies it will have full authorization to engage. Should any Cabickstan vessel or its allies stop a Ralkovian slaver ship a bounty of $15 million dollars will be put on the living body of every Cabickstan or allies citizens for delivery to the local slave market. Should any Cabickstan vessel or ally attempt to stop a Ralkovian slaver ship a state of war will exist between the nation and Ralkovia.

You may ask if Ralkovia intends to rape your churches and burn your women, the short answer is yes. The long answer is also yes.

[New Amerik]

OOC: Cabackistan's "war", if any, has been over for a while. Let this thread gently die down into the murky interweb waters from whence it came.

[Ralkovia]

(Ooh my B. I didn't look at the post dates)