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olivermellors
Perhaps this can help:
1. The crime will not be pardoned.
2. The sentence will be amended to grant immediate forum access.
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Give it some thought. It upholds the sanctity of the core value of honesty while achieving a practical result. I believe that those considering this, will want to know what to expect of Rolo if they go ahead. He must speak for himself about that. He must understand that he receives no relief from those who will continue to point out, correctly, that he is guilty of a grievous crime.
This proposal has some benefits not immediately apparent:
a) in the event of re-offending, the original conviction will exist as an aggravating factor.
b) in the event there is NO re offending, a future president or political rival cannot try to "try him again", since he will have already been convicted ( the beauty of "double jeopardy" )
c) When amending sentence the Court will be asked, specifically, to consider all crimes committed in the past so that they are subsumed by the "kineapple principle" into the new amended sentence.
Comments on this article may assist readers to gauge the response from the public, from Rolo and from those who have been "close" to him.
However some progress may already have been made in the comments section of Rolo's most recent article as follows:
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Rolo Tahmasee Day 1,555, 16:45
1h 2m ago
You haven't overlooked anything olivermellors. Although I wouldn't want some other CP, etc, coming along in the future and at their prerogative re-issuing a ban at their personal whim....pointing to my past history via court cases
But to your point, access is the only thing effected by the Pardon, thus the only thing I am looking for
Ball is in the Head Monkey's court on that subject... Since he's the head of the Forum Admin Team
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olivermellors Day 1,555, 16:56
51m ago
Perhaps progress being made. Ball not in head monkey's court at all. The veto should stand but it would make eminent sense to consider simple forum access. Perhaps progress being made. Shall I, the outside american righteous undeserving worthless unproductive player try to advocate the merits of this on your behalf and on behalf of some of the ecanadian community? Even idiots sometimes stumble onto useful ideas.
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kind regards
Comments
yes please
If it works for both sides
Works for me
"Gone Fission?"
That just might work.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its cree😛 "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that the forum is a waste of time."
I likey, I likey.
I endorse this idea.
This seems an amenable solution - We of course, will have to wait to see what the wise monkey has to say
I wait with baited breath
It's a good idea.
Unfortunately, I'm almost alone active in the Court and I can make it this decision alone.
Freak hasn't post anything in the forum since Alexander and Rylde resignation. Acacia never has been active since he was appointed. I PM'ed him a week ago. I never got an answer, althought he is active ingame.
The Court needs Justices. I asked Kronos to try to find some, but he has others priorities. I will do an article in a couple oufdays to try to fix this.
So it will be up to Congress unfortunately to deal with it.
I suppose we'll need a functioning Supreme Court to implement this amendment to Rolo's sentence.
Minor or major stumbling block? And what is the likelihood a new panel can be up and running before these beginnings of an agreement dissipate?
It's like behind every door there is another door that people forgot existed. Forum infrastructure is big for today's eCanada and requires much manpower to manage. Perhaps we've carried its bulk a bit too far on this journey and we need to lighten our loads a little. Can't we do that 1 Chief Justice panel for te amendment?
There is this in the directions for the practice of the Court:
5. Interim orders
In appropriate cases, where there is some urgency or other good reason shown, a single judge may make a temporary order. Any such order is automatically referred to the full panel for review and confirmation, amendment or dissolution.
But, there is too much controversy right now like I said to make this temporary order alone. And I'm not confident enough to be sure that the next Justice will agree on the amendment. So it would be rather inapropriate to made such decision by myself.
the court thing is easy but this suggestion is getting little traction amongst the public and on the forums. Maybe a few more days ....
intereim order not required (nor appropriate as indicated by the Chief) if the Court is presented with a joint petition by congress and the president - a small panel
I think everyone is focused almost exclusively on the Congress re-vote. If that were to fail, this idea might get back up on the radar - assuming everyone remains clam in the aftermath of the vote. (rather large assumption there)