Grand Commander Athena A. Griffith
As several factors have changed, Our Federation is now in a position to which the enactment of the Amistad Declaration is feasible. With recent developments in advancing our own nation's security and stability, and with the disestablishment of the Ralkovian Empire, it is my pleasure to make official Our Federation's stance on the Amistad Declaration.
Our Federation's history is short, and thanks to the determination of our Founders, slavery was an even smaller symptom of an already dark period of our history. One of the first tasks assigned by Griffith the First to his peacekeepers, and later the Knights of Arditi, was to eliminate slavers wherever they may be found. In the aftermath of neoliberalism's nuclear suicide, slavers and human traffickers crawled out of the ruins to trade human lives and dignity. Our first war was not the infamous conflict which we refer to as "The Federation Civil War" today, nor was it when the Founders overthrew the United Nations: our first war was against gangs of slavers who had seized the survivors of a nuclear holocaust.
When Griffith the First enacted the first laws and created Our Federation, among these laws was a simple message: Slaves will never set foot on Federation soil, for any slave that reaches our shores will automatically be free, by the force of arms if need be. During the previous administration, Our Federation remained a silent observer to the practice of Ralkovian slavery- we chose the convenience of continued alliance with Ralkovia, in the face of what had been a communistic and neoliberal onslaught threatening our country, over adding their Empire to the list of aggressors facing Our Federation. We still maintained our promise to any slave that arrived, even the Ralkovian ones, which created significant but hidden tensions between our two countries.
In the end, Our Federation also remained silent when the Empire fell. Contrary to the predictions of some publications and intelligence agencies, there was no "ODESSA for Ralkovian slavers" set up in Our Federation. As a former special operations soldier of my nation, I know this intimately.
It is precisely for the reason of our previous silence, however, that I will attempt to fix some of the wrongs of my predecessor by strengthening our position on international slavery by adding the Amistad Declaration, per decree of the Grand Commander, to the Laws of Our Federation. Effective immediately, Our Federation, as well as the Knights of Arditi, will have a proactive stance against the international slave trade, a departure from our previous focus solely on slavers within our borders.
By my hand,
Athena Agatha Griffith, Grand Commander of the Fascist Federation of the Grand World Order