08-17-2013, 07:25 PM
He received word of his summons to court while seated at his office, perusing reports from the various police stations around Moscow. Perhaps his favorite part of his job was that there was no one dictating to him how to do it. Less time spent dealing with office politics, or politics in general, and more time working. It was glorious.
So being summoned to a politically charged lawsuit between a declared terrorist organization and the CCD's Custody Court was met with a not-so-sarcastic bit of foul language muttered into his tea cup. He'd have to get one of his nicer suits dry cleaned.
He arrived at the court early, as to be expected, and passed through security without much hassle. Even someone such as himself had to turn in his sidearm and the spare clips he insisted on carrying around, even when off-duty. Not that he ever really considered himself not on the job.
Unlike many, he didn't seem to be quite as weighed down by the seriousness of the situation at hand. Before court was called to order, he made small talk in the hallway outside the court till moments before the doors were sealed, his loud, booming laugh easily heard within. He wasn't being arrogant or cocky, he was simply unmoved by the whole situation. Did he believe all Minutemen were vile terrorists? No, of course not. But he did understand that they were a breeding ground for them, and there had been more then one terrorist organization that had started out as the 'good guys.'
The declaration might have been seen as somewhat preemptive (or entirely unfounded) to some, but it gave CCD law enforcement the tools it needed to combat the exchange of funds and training that made like-minded organizations in the CCD dangerous.
He found his seat, and waited patiently for the time when he was called to the stand. He stood smoothly and adjusted his tie before walking to the podium in question.
"The decision to compile a case file on the Minutemen began as a result of ongoing surveillance and investigation of other known terrorist groups. During CDPS operations around the CCD, and those of our cousin organization's work outside CCD borders in Africa and South America, we have repeatedly observed known members of the Minutemen, either current or former, dealing with organizations such as the Moldovan Republican Army of the People or the People's Freedom Party of Botswana."
He was simply recapping information provided to the Judges, the prosecution and the defense. Really, he wasn't even sure why he was there, other then to be a wall the lawyers could bounce their questions off of. Anything they had to ask was covered within the exhaustively extensive report. He had read the damn thing twice, and had downed more then a few pots of coffee in the process.
"Initially, the Minutemen were not an organization of interest to our investigations. However, thanks to the level of inter-departmental communication the CCD observes between foreign and domestic investigative branches, a pattern was quickly noticed. We haven't the same level of rivalry as is seen between the American equivalents, the CIA, FBI, and Homeland Security, as well as the dozens of State and city level departments."
He offered an apologetic smile to Little Bird; he had nothing against the United State's law enforcement system, he was simply aware that there were inefficiencies in the system. They did their best, but politics and awkward legislation's made it difficult to coordinate their efforts, without one group trying to jockey lordship over the other.
"There are four cases highlighted in the report as 'high profile', however information of 25 other members are contained within."
It had been his decision to contain all 29 cases of interest in the report. Naturally, classified information was kept out (regarding matters of surveillance, names of investigating officers, etc).
"Jason Kenzig is a known and particularly outspoken member of the Minutemen. He has traveled to Botswana three times in the past five years, and the report contains photos of Mr Kenzig meeting with known members of the Botswana People's Freedom Party, a recognized terrorist organization which has claimed responsibility for, among other things, the deaths of two CCD business executives who had come to Botswana to arrange the purchase of the financially beleaguered state-owned power plants."
While Botswana was not within CCD jurisdiction, the BPFP's manifesto was a promise to the people of Botswana to resist all CCD interests on their soil, whether the people wanted them to or not.
"Anne Waltz was a former member of the Minutemen. She was arrested five years ago after travelling to Ireland from the US. CDPS officers caught her along with three other known members of the Real Irish Republican Army in a loft apartment in Dublin, along with a stash of illegal firearms and explosives components. Circumstantial evidence indicates that she arrived in Dublin carrying in excess of $200,000 USD, which was believed to have originated from Minutemen coffers. However, as I said, it was deemed circumstantial and little more then 'smoking gun' evidence, unneeded to secure her sentencing. She left behind a husband, also a member of the Minutemen, and son in the United States, who had put out a missing persons report exactly 24 hours after her departure from the continental United States."
Also included in the report was that in exchange for her cooperation in persecuting other members of the RIPA, the CDPS had agreed to pay for her son, but not her husband, to travel to Ireland every two years for a visit. Her knowledge of the terrorist organization had led to the arrests of at least three suspected cells in Ireland.
"Derrick Schwartz, a regional treasurer for the Minutemen in Florida, immigrated to the US from Kuwait eleven years ago. He legally changed his name from Ahmad al-Hamoud. He is a 'person of interest' in ongoing CDPS investigations into the bombing of an oil pipe in northern Kuwait that lead to serious environmental damages and the loss of nearly two million liters of oil and millions of dollars in lost profit, as well as clean up costs."
"And finally, Hengry Corman, coordinator of public displays and protests for the Minutemen in Michigan, has traveled to Moldova twice in the past ten years. Photos and surveillance from ongoing CDPS investigations into the Moldovan Republican Army of the People's activities. MRAP was deemed a terrorist organization in recent years after an ever increasing degree of violent activity. Illegal protests of the CCD's ongoing modernization of hydro-power dams in the Ukraine lead to the forced evacuation of the Moldovan towns of Lencauti and Verejeni, which have been partially flooded since 2040 while the dam is rebuilt. They are also linked to destruction of public property, bombings, and assassination-style attacks on CCD police officers and minor officials. He is believed to have provided technical expertise and promises of financial and political support for the MRAP. It is hoped that the seizure of Minutemen assets within CCD borders will prevent the delivery of that promised financial aid."
It was also pointed out within the report that during or shortly after each of Mr Corman's visits MRAP demonstrations were noted to be particularly aggressive, leading to the firebombing of a district police office and arson of emergency services vehicles.
There were plenty of groups throughout recent history that had started out with good intentions. At it's founding, the Muslim Brotherhood had been originally founded to peacefully demonstrate against British rule in Egypt, doing so predominately through education and charitable works. But hardly a decade later it had become openly aligned with the Nazi party, aiding their war in Africa, and in the post war era carried out assassination and arson attacks throughout Egypt. Their love for violence rose and dropped over the past century, each time ending with the organization being outlawed and the senior members being arrested or chased out of the country, allowing more moderate heads to take the lead.
So being summoned to a politically charged lawsuit between a declared terrorist organization and the CCD's Custody Court was met with a not-so-sarcastic bit of foul language muttered into his tea cup. He'd have to get one of his nicer suits dry cleaned.
He arrived at the court early, as to be expected, and passed through security without much hassle. Even someone such as himself had to turn in his sidearm and the spare clips he insisted on carrying around, even when off-duty. Not that he ever really considered himself not on the job.
Unlike many, he didn't seem to be quite as weighed down by the seriousness of the situation at hand. Before court was called to order, he made small talk in the hallway outside the court till moments before the doors were sealed, his loud, booming laugh easily heard within. He wasn't being arrogant or cocky, he was simply unmoved by the whole situation. Did he believe all Minutemen were vile terrorists? No, of course not. But he did understand that they were a breeding ground for them, and there had been more then one terrorist organization that had started out as the 'good guys.'
The declaration might have been seen as somewhat preemptive (or entirely unfounded) to some, but it gave CCD law enforcement the tools it needed to combat the exchange of funds and training that made like-minded organizations in the CCD dangerous.
He found his seat, and waited patiently for the time when he was called to the stand. He stood smoothly and adjusted his tie before walking to the podium in question.
"The decision to compile a case file on the Minutemen began as a result of ongoing surveillance and investigation of other known terrorist groups. During CDPS operations around the CCD, and those of our cousin organization's work outside CCD borders in Africa and South America, we have repeatedly observed known members of the Minutemen, either current or former, dealing with organizations such as the Moldovan Republican Army of the People or the People's Freedom Party of Botswana."
He was simply recapping information provided to the Judges, the prosecution and the defense. Really, he wasn't even sure why he was there, other then to be a wall the lawyers could bounce their questions off of. Anything they had to ask was covered within the exhaustively extensive report. He had read the damn thing twice, and had downed more then a few pots of coffee in the process.
"Initially, the Minutemen were not an organization of interest to our investigations. However, thanks to the level of inter-departmental communication the CCD observes between foreign and domestic investigative branches, a pattern was quickly noticed. We haven't the same level of rivalry as is seen between the American equivalents, the CIA, FBI, and Homeland Security, as well as the dozens of State and city level departments."
He offered an apologetic smile to Little Bird; he had nothing against the United State's law enforcement system, he was simply aware that there were inefficiencies in the system. They did their best, but politics and awkward legislation's made it difficult to coordinate their efforts, without one group trying to jockey lordship over the other.
"There are four cases highlighted in the report as 'high profile', however information of 25 other members are contained within."
It had been his decision to contain all 29 cases of interest in the report. Naturally, classified information was kept out (regarding matters of surveillance, names of investigating officers, etc).
"Jason Kenzig is a known and particularly outspoken member of the Minutemen. He has traveled to Botswana three times in the past five years, and the report contains photos of Mr Kenzig meeting with known members of the Botswana People's Freedom Party, a recognized terrorist organization which has claimed responsibility for, among other things, the deaths of two CCD business executives who had come to Botswana to arrange the purchase of the financially beleaguered state-owned power plants."
While Botswana was not within CCD jurisdiction, the BPFP's manifesto was a promise to the people of Botswana to resist all CCD interests on their soil, whether the people wanted them to or not.
"Anne Waltz was a former member of the Minutemen. She was arrested five years ago after travelling to Ireland from the US. CDPS officers caught her along with three other known members of the Real Irish Republican Army in a loft apartment in Dublin, along with a stash of illegal firearms and explosives components. Circumstantial evidence indicates that she arrived in Dublin carrying in excess of $200,000 USD, which was believed to have originated from Minutemen coffers. However, as I said, it was deemed circumstantial and little more then 'smoking gun' evidence, unneeded to secure her sentencing. She left behind a husband, also a member of the Minutemen, and son in the United States, who had put out a missing persons report exactly 24 hours after her departure from the continental United States."
Also included in the report was that in exchange for her cooperation in persecuting other members of the RIPA, the CDPS had agreed to pay for her son, but not her husband, to travel to Ireland every two years for a visit. Her knowledge of the terrorist organization had led to the arrests of at least three suspected cells in Ireland.
"Derrick Schwartz, a regional treasurer for the Minutemen in Florida, immigrated to the US from Kuwait eleven years ago. He legally changed his name from Ahmad al-Hamoud. He is a 'person of interest' in ongoing CDPS investigations into the bombing of an oil pipe in northern Kuwait that lead to serious environmental damages and the loss of nearly two million liters of oil and millions of dollars in lost profit, as well as clean up costs."
"And finally, Hengry Corman, coordinator of public displays and protests for the Minutemen in Michigan, has traveled to Moldova twice in the past ten years. Photos and surveillance from ongoing CDPS investigations into the Moldovan Republican Army of the People's activities. MRAP was deemed a terrorist organization in recent years after an ever increasing degree of violent activity. Illegal protests of the CCD's ongoing modernization of hydro-power dams in the Ukraine lead to the forced evacuation of the Moldovan towns of Lencauti and Verejeni, which have been partially flooded since 2040 while the dam is rebuilt. They are also linked to destruction of public property, bombings, and assassination-style attacks on CCD police officers and minor officials. He is believed to have provided technical expertise and promises of financial and political support for the MRAP. It is hoped that the seizure of Minutemen assets within CCD borders will prevent the delivery of that promised financial aid."
It was also pointed out within the report that during or shortly after each of Mr Corman's visits MRAP demonstrations were noted to be particularly aggressive, leading to the firebombing of a district police office and arson of emergency services vehicles.
There were plenty of groups throughout recent history that had started out with good intentions. At it's founding, the Muslim Brotherhood had been originally founded to peacefully demonstrate against British rule in Egypt, doing so predominately through education and charitable works. But hardly a decade later it had become openly aligned with the Nazi party, aiding their war in Africa, and in the post war era carried out assassination and arson attacks throughout Egypt. Their love for violence rose and dropped over the past century, each time ending with the organization being outlawed and the senior members being arrested or chased out of the country, allowing more moderate heads to take the lead.