Dartz Wrote:Pardon's for handwavium crimes are great...And Noah was extremely careful to stay completely within the law - that's why he was allowed to make the April Fool's Purchase where many other fen with checkered pasts were turned away.
Now there's just violations of planning regulations, aerospace regulations, environmental regulations, health and safety regulations.... A well motivated government can find any number of ways to make life difficult, and none of them are related to handwavium. And that's not even getting to the T-word, which now seems to be shorthand for 'did something in a way we just don't like'.
Bob Schroeck Wrote:Second thing -- The crew of the Grover's Corners are, at least as of 2012-13, wanted criminals in the United States mainly because of the scale on which they worked and its proximity to Washington DC. I've never stated if this is ever dropped; it might be fun if there are regular attempts to try to extradite them back to the US which are politely (or not so politely) ignored by the Convention."Hello, Mr. Schroeck? This is Patience McInnis at the Convention Authority. We have a request here from the United States government for you to return to West Virginia. Are you willing to accept the document?"
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012