Scenario Mill Stuff was RE: Let me see if I understand this....

Something for designing those colonial SF scenarios...
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From: "Wilson, Glenn M." <WilsonG@nima.mil>
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Subject: Let me see if I understand this....
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 08:54:21 -0500
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1886000/18862
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Thursday, 21 March, 2002, 19:00 GMT Aborigine demands right to spear officer

Mr Bloomfield says the Aboriginal ceremony was defiled

By Phil Mercer BBC reporter in Sydney

An Aboriginal activist is seeking permission from Australia's High Court to
spear a senior police officer to death because he desecrated a sacred fire.

It follows an incident last year, when the police filed a writ to the court,
ordering a group of Aborigines engaged in a religious ceremony in the capital,
Canberra, to extinguish their fire.

Indigenous campaigner Darren Bloomfield has claimed the senior officer in
charge "has incurred the death penalty under Aboriginal law".

A police investigation into the incident at the
              Aborigines' so-called "tent embassy" on the lawns of
the Old Parliament House is under way.

Confrontation

The confrontation between Australian Federal police and Aboriginal activists
took place during a religious ceremony at the makeshift camp last July.

The tent embassy was established 30 years ago to highlight indigenous land
claims and to further the campaign for a treaty to end discrimination with
white Australia.

In a writ before the High Court, Darren Bloomfield, who describes himself as
an Aboriginal "warrior", alleges Detective Superintendent Brian Hepworth
"desecrated a fire ceremony for peace and justice" by demanding the flames be
extinguished.

Mr Bloomfield said the Detective Superintendent should be charged and tried
under what he called white law and then handed over to his people where he
would face swift indigenous justice and be speared to death.

Determination

However extreme these demands are, Mr Bloomfield has insisted he is serious
and intends to see justice done.

A police spokeswoman said the allegations against the officer were being
investigated.

She said Mr Hepworth was a highly respected member of the Australian Federal
Police force and had been for more than 30 years.
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The dramatic possibilities of this boggle the mind.

Of course, the officer under sentence is probably praying that the whole

thing gets quashed in court.

> Glenn M Wilson wrote:

> Something for designing those colonial SF scenarios...

> drag it back on topic it does bring up some interesting scenario

Contact Murphy's Lawyers offices in Alarish and we'll be happy to make
arrangements for you. ;-)

For those of you who have Journal of the Traveler's Aid Society, there was an
adventure in which the party was supposed to retrieve the wealthy patron's
prodigal son from a prison on a backwater planet. If you got to the guy, you
discovered that he wouldn't leave without his girlfriend, which of course
involved breaking into and out of a separate cell block. And IIRC there was a
high degree of tension between the colony where you were and the neighboring
colony, so your ROE was pretty restrictive.

Of course, when we did it, we hovered a fusion powered ship over the prison a
bit too long and melted everything to slag, including our

> From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net>

> > drag it back on topic it does bring up some interesting scenario

All played to the background music "Lawyers, Guns, and Money" by Warren
Zevon, I assume? ;-)

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