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To Chancellor Pryce
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| Elon_Tarkin | Date: Wednesday, 20 November 13, 7:49 AM | Message # 1 |
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| Dear Chancellor Pryce,
The Sovereign Planet of Eriadu has ever been and remains a firm supporter of the Galactic Republic. We wholeheartedly endorse your administration, the Galactic Constitution and the laws of the Galactic Republic.
However, Chancellor, it is the position of the Eriadu Government, and the feeling of our Sovereign people that the Jedi Order should not have the right to force parents to give up their children into a monastic lifestyle which they may not choose (and in any case are not of an age where they can be said to be able to make a reasoned choice on the matter). An Elder and respected leader of Eriadu's largest religion has taken this line and has declared, on behalf of his people, that the followers of his faith do not wish to continue to have their children taken from them.
I broadly support the Jedi Order, Chancellor, and I see that they do much good work, but this forcible indenture of minors I find deplorable, depriving them of a family and forcing them to grow up in a system of monastic asceticism which unnaturally deprives them of the most natural of rights, such as to have emotions, to feel connections to others, or indeed to reproduce. Arch Lector Sejanus issued a statement to the Jedi that he wished this practice to end for those of his faith, to which the Jedi Order responded curtly and rudely, threatening a hitherto peaceful and moderate religion and it's leader with menacing use of "legal authority" which has in many cases in the past meant force.
Eriadu thus requests officially that you compel the Jedi Order to reconsider it's position regarding this religion's right to spare it's members the trauma of being deprived of their children. It should be known that Eriadu will take legal steps to protect this right, should the Jedi be allowed to proceed with this line.
At the request of the Eriadu Authorities I am to sit in Convention with representatives of the people of my world in twenty four hours, to consider a petition to Nullify the sections of the Ruusan Reformation permitting this seizure and indenture of children by the Jedi, on the basis (the petitioners assert) of the incompatibility of those acts of the reforms with the Rights of Sentience enshrined within the Galactic Constitution, which is the founding document and supreme basis of all law in the Galactic Republic.
My assent to issue an Ordinance of Nullification would be dependent upon if I felt the Republic Chancellory was taking steps to peacefully ameliorate the confrontation between the Jedi and the Arch Lector of the Church of the Good Deity, Sejanus, who represents the views of his faith's followers, or its absence.
I have no wish to challenge you, your office, or the Galactic Republic and I hope you will see the reason in my request and respond within twenty four hours so that I might have your position clearly in my mind when I consider whether to give assent to this proposal.
Sincerely,
Elon Tarkin
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Governor of the Seswenna Sector and Eriadu
Majority Shareholder, Quintad Orbital Manufacturing
Prominent former member of "The Faithful of the Good Deity"
Former Pius Dea Cultist
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| Senator_Pryce | Date: Wednesday, 20 November 13, 11:56 PM | Message # 2 |
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| Governor Tarkin,
You have in this Chancellor a man who shares your concern. The practice of appropriating children from their families and indoctrinating them into the ways of the Jedi Order is the great, unspoken shame of the post-Ruusan era. It is, in my opinion, nothing more than institutionalized childnapping. However, I cannot strongly enough advise against this "Ordinance of Nullification." Consider, Elon, that the Ruusan Reformations, a portion of which you are considering "nullifying" in its application to Eriadu, are the same reforms that took an immense army out of the hands of the Jedi and subordinated the Jedi Order to the Judicial Department, putting an end to thousands of years of Jedi- and Sith-related wars. The precedent of nullifying the Ruusan Reformations (or any portion thereof) must not be established, for if Eriadu no longer considers itself bound by the Reformations, the Jedi may not consider themselves so bound—if this is "institutionalized childnapping," as I maintain it is, imagine what the Jedi would be capable of without the Ruusan-era institutions we have put in place to restrain them. I fear the Jedi Order marshaling a new "Eriadu Army of Light" to kidnap the children of your venerable world on a military-industrial scale. Your Convention needs to understand this.
You can also convey to your Convention my assurance that I will press the Jedi on this issue as firmly as it is within my considerable power to do, and also my optimism that these concerns we both share can be put to rest within the present framework of the law. Indeed, I would consider it my legacy as Supreme Chancellor to the children of Eriadu and the galaxy to do away with this abominable practice once and for all.
Yours sincerely,
Jaso Pryce
Senator of Metellos and Supreme Chancellor Emeritus
Chairman of the Internal Activities Committee
Esteemed Member of the Trade Commission
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| Elon_Tarkin | Date: Friday, 29 November 13, 7:32 AM | Message # 3 |
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| Chancellor Pryce,
The Convention has agreed to delay the hearing of the Nullification Petition for seven days, which acts to nullify as I say) only the Reformations "institutionalised kidnapping" provisions. And we are convinced that any Jedi aggression, unsupported by Republic Judicial Forces could be repelled by our defence forces, and if the Jedi did continue to threaten action we would immediately increase their numbers to counter any threat of Jedi hostility. Without Judicial Force support, may I remind you the Jedi have no navy and no capital sufficient to raise one.
In any case if you will commit to reign in the Jedi and guarantee the safety of Eriadus parents to choose where their children are raised, in a public manner, within the week, I will simply dissolve the convention and reject the petition. public censure of Master Tsching would also be appreciated to alay concern in my Citizenry...Added (29 November 13, 7:32 AM)
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It's been a week Chancellor Pryce. The people of Eriadu have begun holding proceedings in public convention regarding measures to Nullify the Articles of the Ruusan Reformation that purportedly make legal the institutionalized kidnap of our children. The convention will sit for three days in the Seswenna Hall, Eriadu City, I shall listen to all shades of opinion, prominent speakers will be allowed to speak and debate the motion. Individual members of the public will be able to send in their opinions which will be indexed and summarized digitally for my consideration. I will naturally Chair the hearing.
The convention will vote on the third day. I am not bound to honour their vote but I will likely be minded to do so, there are to be elections soon after all and to defy the will of the convention would be political suicide not for myself, but for the People First Party, who I am closely associated with in many peoples minds; and who I believe are the best party to run many of the elected Seswenna Sector's Planetary, Continental and Municipal authorities across the Sector.
You're welcome to send a representative to speak on behalf of the Republic, or any branch thereof. Any such representative has my personal guarantee (and my word is my bond) that the Convention will give them adequate floor time, to be able to participate in any debate on the Ordinance, and as much time as they wish to actively discuss the matter with me.
Yours Sincerely,
Elon Tarkin
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Governor of the Seswenna Sector and Eriadu
Majority Shareholder, Quintad Orbital Manufacturing
Prominent former member of "The Faithful of the Good Deity"
Former Pius Dea Cultist
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| Senator_Pryce | Date: Friday, 29 November 13, 11:16 AM | Message # 4 |
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| Governor,
You know this stunt of yours really is a lot of bantha crap, Tarkin. If you think I'm going to let you destroy law and order in the Republic so you can be re-elected on Eriadu, you're wrong. And don't try to tell me that's not what this is about. I told you that I agree with you on this issue. I told you that Eriadu is not without recourse as long as I am Chancellor. But you know damn well I'm not going to get a solution to a thousand-year-old problem through the Galactic Senate in a week. It takes Sun Tching twice that long just to answer my damn letters. But you're demanding something you know I can't deliver so that you can score political points on Eriadu with this ridiculous concept of "nullification," which no Republic court is going to uphold.
If you go through with this (and don't tell me you're not behind this whole thing, Tarkin), you'll embarrass your planet in the eyes of the galaxy and deserve to lose your election. For Force sake man, you're going to create sympathy for childnappers! You're making a damn fool mistake, turning a debate about childnapping (a debate we can win) into a debate about whether a Republic world can declare itself above the law (a debate you will lose). It's not too late for you to do what's best for the children of Eriadu and call off this political charade of yours, while I finalize my arrangements with the Jedi and the Senate to end the Jedi appropriation of children on Eriadu once and for all.
Sincerely,
Jaso Pryce
Senator of Metellos and Supreme Chancellor Emeritus
Chairman of the Internal Activities Committee
Esteemed Member of the Trade Commission
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| Elon_Tarkin | Date: Friday, 29 November 13, 12:02 PM | Message # 5 |
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| Dear Chancellor Pryce,
I don't take a view on the nullification issue. It is purely a matter for the people of Eriadu to decide. However, I do think the argument that regarding the Galactic Constitution, the compact theory, holds that the Republic was formed through a compact agreed upon by all the members, and that the Republic central government is thus a creation of the Member Worlds. Consequently, states should be the final arbiters over whether the Republic has overstepped the limits of its authority as set forth in the compact may have some legal merit.
I'm not behind any of this Chancellor. I am simply a servant of the people, nothing more. They have proposed a petition and the right to petition is a recognized concept both in the Galactic Republic and the Eriadu legal tradition. If I did not hear this petition, or dismissed it out of hand, I would be acting unconstitutionally.
Naturally, the Republic is welcome to come and argue it's case both legal and moral for the convention's attention, and I am convinced that those sitting will give weight to their opinion. This is a question of great import. But it's something that matters to the people of Eriadu, the parents of Eriadu, and we need to have a public debate on the matter, promptly.
If you'd care to send your own representative, I'd be perfectly open to meeting him in private talks in order to resolve this before the convention ends. But the clock is ticking.
Sincerely,
Elon Tarkin
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Governor of the Seswenna Sector and Eriadu
Majority Shareholder, Quintad Orbital Manufacturing
Prominent former member of "The Faithful of the Good Deity"
Former Pius Dea Cultist
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