I will try to ignore the above post, however offensive it might be, considering that I have been waiting for ages for this trial to start and your client has done nothing but postpone it and waste my and others time. If you cannot accept a slight delay caused by Real Life, I think you should look carefully at your client's ways and behaviour before talking. This is why I have pushed for an IRC trial months (!!!) ago, actually have also stayed in the Court channel by myself for hours, while being at work, with no defendant or council even showing up or posting an apology afterwards. Oh yes, it was an officially set date for the trial.
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Your Honors,
allow me to again present my apologies for causing this delay to the Court's proceedings. Since time is of the essence, I will proceed with the accusation act against Govindia and I will present some of the evidence relevant to this case. There is, however, some evidence of a more sensitive nature, that could cause problems at an international scale for our beloved region, if revealed. I will present those issues in secret to the Court and it should be the Court's decision as to make them public, ignore them or take them into consideration.
Your Honors,
in our opinion the defendant can be accused of breaking the following paragraphs of The Taijitan Code of Laws, Article I: Criminal Code:
2. The dissemination of private materials of any Citizen of Taijitu as defined in Section 3 of this article shall be forbidden, excepting where authorized by that Citizen or Citizens, or by a warrant of the Supreme Court of Taijitu issued on probable cause.
4. Excessive and unnecessary posting with the intent to disrupt or provoke shall be forbidden.
6. The harassment of any person shall be forbidden.
7. The dissemination of classified materials vital to the security of the region shall be forbidden, and the Executive Government of Taijitu shall be given the authority to declare materials classified on a reasoned basis.
While providing clear proof of such crimes is not always easy in a virtual community and while anyone has at disposal the tool of private-messaging or e-mail, we are sure that the continuous actions of the player Govindia and his persona in Taijitu, which we will expose in what shall follow, combined with the relevant proof that could be found, will convince the Court that the administrative decision reached by Limitless Events, that of banning the defendant's access to the regional forums was the right one, and shall make it final. The decision of the root administrator of our region was based solely on his intention to protect Taijitu from disruptive players like Govindia and his decision has been based on what facts he could gather and on the information that was passed to him by trustworthy and well-known players from NS, some of them being leaders of game-feeders. He also acted based on the fact that the player Govindia has an international reputation of causing trouble and in this game such players are remembered and any region avoids allowing them to be active in their area. Moreover, the root administrator's decision was examined and supported by the ruling delegate of that time, Flemingovia, one of the players in Taijitu who have spoken the most against a summary banning of the player Govindia, fearing that it might be a spot on our democratic record as a region. Nonetheless, sometimes such dangers must be dealt with and especially when providing crushing evidence is impossible, someone needs to make a decision.
To return to the sequence of events that your Honors need to examine in this case.
Since the day of his coming to the region, Govindia has struck the most of us as a very odd character. The aggressiveness of his interpolations has made me always suspect him of not being just another addition to the region. The avidity with which he insisted of knowing an impressive number of details about the various members of the region and the frustrated way in which he responded as it was indicated to him that he was actually breaching a sphere of privacy, went outside the regular mistakes of any noob, as all of us have been one upon joining. Govindia was harassing all and anybody from the first day he set foot in Taijitu's forums and IRC channel. Some disliked that more, others less and tried hard to tolerate the ways of this players. Some started talking about having this player removed from our ranks after the first few days from his arrival. Of course that did not happen, as we have learned a lot from our past experiences, to know that suspecting, having trouble with or not being able to tolerate someone is not reason enough for a ban. Although, being private communities, a lot of NS regions act like that. We did not, although Govindia has been testing the limits of our patience more than once. The fact that he has not lost the opportunity to throw mud at our region after the move against The Rejected Realms had been forgotten.
The next step in Govindia's Taijituan odyssey were his continuous attempts to obtain an administrative position. As he was not trusted, several refusals came from different directions. After harassing the MoEA he finally was given a place of ambassadorial representation, where, despite his humongous efforts to obtain the position, he has performed miserably and needed to constantly be reminded by his superior as to what his duties and responsibilities were.
In time Govindia has come under scrutiny of our Intel Department and several disturbing news started coming: a history of harassment in a NS feeder, being banned from another, links indicating him as a possible agent of a NS region with intense military activity and so on. I myself realized that in his crazy race for attention and for a high-profile, this player would be willing to do no matter what and sell no matter who for the right price.
During the IRC troubled times when a new order had been instituted and peace had been finally brought to a tortured communication channel, Govindia assumed the role of a messenger for those contesting the way that the new order had been instituted. In this capacity he has copied and pasted more than once logs from the region's official channel. He has resided in a parallel channel and advertised it in the official one, subverting the officially approved order. For these actions he has been banned several times from the IRC channel of Taijitu. The last ban was also made final by the moderators' team. It is also the case of most NS-related IRC channels I know, he has pushed everybody up to the point where his presence is hated.
That is why, Your Honors, as far as I am concerned, the issue of Govindia is not a simple one. He has managed to cause more trouble and grief in this region that I have ever seen happen in my presence in NS of more than 3 years. The only sensible decision that our region can make is to separate ourselves from this insidious and destructive character and sustain the ban instituted by the administration.
At the time when Limitless Events has reached the decision to ban Govindia from the regional forums, a lot of Taijituans were already complaining about his un-bothered presence in our region. Basing his decision on relevant intel information, on the observation of our MoRS from that time and on direct testimonies from trustworthy NS players, the root admin. has perhaps saved the region from potential significant problems. In what shall follow we will try to present to you the facts as described by those directly implied.
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I am again sorry but I am working 16 hours a day atm (end of season) and am currently underway, not having the necessary information and logs on my work laptop. By tomorrow I will be able to post the deposition of Limitless Events taken by me shortly after the banning in the presence of two witnesses, about the banning of Govindia, along with other testimonies relevant to the effects this character has had on Taijitu around the date of the events above. Before the ending of the trial period, I will also post the relevant direct testimonies of outside relevant witnesses in case they will not be able to appear in persona in The Court. I also apologize for the possible low-quality of my orthography as I had to write these lines in a short amount of time, I shall go over them tonight.
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Your Honors,
either please award me another 24 hours for the full case to be displayed, or give the word to the defense and I shall preset you with the rest of the material in the remaining days of free talks. The sensitive classified information I was referring to will be presented in the Court's private room. Thank You.