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Today Launches the first day of eCanada Uncensored, a paper focused toward bringing you important news about the eCanadian political, economical, and social scene. You can look forward to a more neutral unbiased view on the events that affect our beloved country. Belonging to no party, and intending to keep it that way - I hope to be able to clearly see both sides of an issue to give eCanadians a fresh perspective. But enough of the boring stuff, onto today's article.

So a large number of things happened today. We'll start off with the smaller chunks. I apologize for its length, this article is now at 3 interviews in length, and expecting another two.

The Progressive Party of Canada had at one point knocked the Parti National du eQuebec out of its top 5 party spot, and is now in a tied position at time of writing. To be honest I had joined the party for the sole interest of seeing it reach the top 5, and then left as soon as it did. I guess some other people shared the same views.

The Canadian People's Reform, a new party led by Derekor, was under attack by an unknown party president candidate. Derekor logged in today to find that he was not at the top of the voting list on his own party, as guy3000 had a few more votes. After contacting guy3000, he turned out to be nothing but a foreigner hoping to achieve the party president medal and then leaving. Luckily, Derekors opponent backed out.

Quite possibly the biggest issue thats revolved around today was the alleged political take over of the Democratic Action League by the Canadian Empire Party. Volsung investigated the truth behind a rumour that the CEP was planning a take over. Having been with the party since its very early foundings, his biggest problem was not infiltrating the party, but having to betray his trusted friends he had known for so long. After capturing some PM's (Which I can't disclose here) he reported to the CSIS lead, Thordan, and both Current DAL Party leader and Attorney General Scorpius. Scorpius then proceeded with charges against Bruck, asking for leniency against Marcchelala and Emilio Sanchez - Marcchelala being one of the runners in the CEP party elections, and Emilio the ex-CEP member who ran for party presidency in the DAL.

There were a number of problems that sprung out of this. First of which being that Scorpius can't possibly act as both Attorney General and the President of the DAL party. There is a strict conflict of interest, in which case a temporary Attorney General should be appointed.

Secondly there was a brief bit as to whether Volsung's quotes should be counted as inadmissable evidence, since their is an eRepublik law against displaying private conversations. It appears as though the general consensus is that on the eCanadian forums, which operate outside of eRepublik, all private conversations can be shared amongst masked eCanadians.

Thirdly, the supreme court is having trouble lately getting itself up and running, and there was no way it could proceed with hearings and judgement before the end of the election day. With no Judicial system in place to resolve the issue quickly - it was up to the parties involved to settle the dispute outside of court.

Upon hearing of the charges, Emilio Sanchez publically apologized for what had happened, and resigned from the presidential race out of respect for DAL and everything it stands for. It would appear as though Emilio had not been included in the plan for the "take over" and was running for presidency of his own accord. Earlier in the thread both Bruck and Marcchelala showed that it was Emilio's own decision to join DAL and run for President.

After hearing the apologies of both Emilio and Marcchelala, Scorpius withdrew the charges. It would appear as though this issue was at a closure point when in the IRC (public eCanada chat channel), Scorpius proclaimed to Bruck that he would "Not let this go" and that he would stir up media against him.

I had a chance to sit down with Bruck and talk to him about what happened today.

Monkee: Hello Bruck, I'm a new citizen and I'm going to be writing an article on todays alleged DAL takeover. Do you have any comments in light of todays events?

Bruck: Emilio Sanchez is a long time respected member of eCanada and he told me that he would be running for Party President of the DAL. Being Party President and being Country President are the two things he has never done has said he wanted to. So he joined the DAL and proposed himself as a candidate. Being a friend of his, I asked a few of my friends if they would consider lending him a hand in the election.

B: They all know Emilio as a friend so it was not an issue to me or they. Apparently Volsung misunderstood and considered it a PTO [...] He reported it to Scorpius the DAL Party President and Thordan Director of CSIS and we have the situation we are in now.

M: So would you say that you think Volsung, Thordan, and Scorpius jumped on this act, as friendly and generous as its intentions were, and distorted it into something criminal?

B: Volsung was mistaken I do not blame him. But I spent the night talking to Scoprius, it's very clear he holds a personal grudge against me. He appears to be using his position as Attorney General to exact revenge on me and the CEP.

M: Do you think the Supreme court will ever reach a state of functionality? If so do you think there will be more legal action taken against you?

B: I hope that one day they can reach a state of functionality, we need the Supreme Court of the three layers of government will cease to function and one will overpower the other. I do feel that while this government remains in power we will continue to see more legal action against me, be it fictional crimes or simply grasping at straws. After three terms as President one brushes people the wrong way and now that I am not President they feel they are able to hurt me

B: I am as guilt free as the day I was President so I am not worried

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I also had a talk with current head of CSIS, Thordan.

T: I would like speak on behalf of CSIS since I was the one leading the investigation, not Volsung or Scorpius
Monkee: I would love to hear your side of the story.
T: With the multiple TO threats and accusations being thrown around I had Volsung start watching the political parties for influxes of members and candidates. This was Saturday afternoon/night and Emilio wasn't running. The next day he reported to me saying he saw Emilio was now running for DAL even though Volsung had known him to be a strong CEP supporter. Volsung then checked the CEP forums finding Marcchelala's admission to supporting Emilio and sending voters that way. Again he brought this to me and I decided to open an investigation on CEP as a whole (not knowing who was actually behind the attempt)

T: I had Volsung contact Bruck and to ask where he should be voting

M: And thats when he got the Private Messages saying to go vote for Emilio.

T: That's where the 4 messages (2 from each contact) come in. Each one was immediatly shown to me as part of the investigation and it was after the last one that I decided to take the evidence to the Attorney General. It was only then did Scorpius learn of CEP/Bruck's intentions. I had previously warned him that i had a case building but i did not give any details on what kind, on who, or about what

M: So you think Scorpius jumped the gun?

T: Not at all, except for dropping the case.

T: I still believe this should go to trial just for the closure.

T: And I want to make sure this is clear, Scorpius did not have anything to do with the case until the charges were about to be filed. This isn't a Bruck vs Scorpius issue until they (the public) made it one. I also mentioned that Scorpius could use his deputy (but his comp is broken) and if needed i could take the case.

M: What is your personal opinion on Scorpius being the Attorney General, at least for this case?

T: honestly he's not running so it shouldn't be a conflict of intrest but it does seem to be conflicting with him.

M: So you would be a potential candidate in the event he steps down for the case?

T: I don't want to be but for the sake of a fair trial I would take charge if needed.

T: Bruck and Marcchelala are both good men and it's gut wrenching to have to go after them like this.

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Monkee: I'd love to hear your take on everything.
Marcchelala: First, I didn't intend this to become a "PTO". Emilio Sanchez has decided to run in DAL on his own will, because he said that he doesn't have a chance in CEP. Bruck decided to give him some sort of "push". So he wanted some voters to go help Emilio. At first, I didn't realize the consequences of that, so I didn't object, and I "admitted" as Thordan said.

MC: But then, I realized what was happening, this had become a CEP TO against DAL. Scorpius raised a case against the CEP. We argued a bit. Then, I felt I had to present my apologies to DAL. So I PMed DAL President at that time Scorpius, and presented my apologies. I also PMed Emilio Sanchez and I asked him to resign from the DAL completely, since elections had started and he couldn't retire. That's what he did.

M😨 Do you think it was just a big misunderstanding? Or do you think that Scorpius had over-reacted?

MC: No, Scorpius didn't over react. Sincerely, I thought he did at first. But then I understood he was trying to save his party from a potential threat. He acted just like Cabinet members act when they know about a Hungarian PTO threat on Canada. A misunderstanding? Yes, I think it is some sort of misunderstanding.

M😨 Do you think there will still be a case on this even though Scorpius dropped the charges?

MC: A case? I don't know. They still have evidence, and they can still present a case if they want to. But I would prefer to solve things with DAL in another way, let's avoid a Party War in eCanada.

M😨 So you would agree with Scorpius dropping the charges, given that the whole issue was to defend a DAL "takeover", and thats been accomplished. Even though his position as GA should mean that he follows through with any suspected illegal activity?

MC: Well, I now realized that there was a new case opened. Dominik has presented charges against the CEP 😛

M😨 I saw that. What do you think about all that? Should he be allowed to? Isn't he a foreign ambassador, not even a Canadian Citizen?

MC: He is a foreign ambassador, and I am surprised that he got a regular citizen mask, and not an ambassador mask. But as he said, he can still ask other citizens to present the case, though I don't know if he can 'force' someone to present the case. No offense whatsoever meant in there. And then, it's the Supreme Court which decides whether it accepts the case, or declines it. And he is raising charges against a whole party.

M😨 Thats true. I don't think the Supreme court will take the case given the actions you and Emilio took once you got wind of this. Do you have any comments on Scorpius' actions as AG? Do you think he handled the situation properly given his delicate position and his opinion of Bruck?

MC: No Comment.

M😨 Alright. I think thats it, do you have any final words to add or final comments?

MC: Now that I am CEP Party President, I would like to present on the behalf of all the CEP official apologies to Scorpius and to the DAL.

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There are still many issues that remain unresolved with this case.
Should Scorpius be allowed to continue as Attorney General with such obvious disposition towards Bruck?
Were Bruck's actions, though probably not intended for complete political take over, still illegal?
If they weren't illegal under eCanadian Law, will they be revised so that such an event doesn't happen on a more malicious scale?

We can only hope that some action comes from the upper echelons of power to help prevent this kind of event from happening again.


-- STILL AWAITING A WORD WITH Scorpius, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. Also going to try contacting Emilio Sanchez to see if he has anything insightful to add. EXPECT AN UPDATED AND COMPLETE REPORT SOMETIME June 17th--

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If you've got a story, information, or questions, please contact Monkeedude either in-game, on eCanadian forums, or (occaisonally) in the IRC!

Tune in later this week for a view on eCanada's political stance in the world, and what threats may or may not be heading this way.

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~M