Verbena
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May-30-15, 03:40 PM (EDT) |
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29. "RE: (OOTR15) M5 Taken by Storm"
In response to message #26
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>Oh, also, it's worth keeping this in mind: In modern times, the White
>Lotus Society (for all that it occasionally still acts like it) is not
>an extraterritorial body. It has rules and whatnot like any
>organization, but it doesn't have its own internationally recognized
>code of law, and its installations aren't like embassies. What's
>more, Fort Tonraq isn't even the Society's property any more, it
>belongs to Korra - one of the two or three places in the world that
>are her own property as a private citizen.
>
>What that means is that Cheong and his colleagues, if they face
>criminal justice proceedings for their part in this - which they are
>certainly liable to, having been accessories to, at the very least,
>kidnapping and felony murder (that is, murder committed in the course
>of another serious crime) - will do so under Southern Water
>Tribe law. Ohhh holy -crap-. Southern Water Tribe law? Now -that- is a factor I'm sure the White Lotus hadn't had a reason to consider for decades. Not sure it'll have crossed the minds of any White Lotus alive yet, including the good guys. But when the traitors hear that... Oh, to see the looks on their faces. ------
Thy life is a riddle, to bear rapture and sorrow
To listen, to suffer, to entrust unto tomorrow
In one fleeting moment, from the Land doth life flow
Yet in one fleeting moment, for anew it doth grow
In the same fleeting moment thou must live, die and know |
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