#Unlawful and Punishable

[agentfascinateur]

8,425+ Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since October 7, including 540 children and 66 journalists.

How many are Hamas?

(Hamas is not in the West Bank)

#palestine #palestinians #gaza #west bank #israeli apartheid #israeli occupation #idf terrorists #iof terrorism #war crimes #genocide #ethnic cleansing #unlawful detention #right wing extremism #settler colonialism #state theft #collective punishment #free palestine #free gaza #justice #icc #icj #democracy #prisoners #us complicity #us weapons #zionism #israeli terrorism #land grab #annexation #illegal settlements

[dnangelic]

what if i said part of the reason why daisuke doesnt ever hurt anybody is bc even in the shape of a monster (a la dark's form) if he genuinely hurt anyone and they started looking at him differently he'd never ever forgive himself. he doesn't want to hurt or be hurt but if he ever has a choice he'd rather be the one punished and outcast and left scared than ever try to make someone feel that way himself

#*･ﾟ⊰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒. ⊱ ✦ › OUT. #esp given the way that a part of himself is always guilty and isolated and self-punishing #he accepts responsibility for everything including his/dark's crimes #he IS a baby he IS the sweetest goodest kid ever but its literally undeniable fact #that he's a criminal doing unlawful illegal shit on a massive scale OUHGFBFJKKJ #and he doesn't resist that! he won't defend himself bc there's nothing to defend against!! it's true!! #he accepts responsibility for that!!! #just like dark is unrepentant abt it!!! #you can yell at him to bare dark's sharp ass demon teeth to make something out of dark's serpentine inhuman eyes #to break bones w those beating wings or to start clawing but daisuke won't #he'll never ever #smth smth daisuke is magical girl coded in morality but his circumstances are still as someone definitely. absolutely cursed #and punished for his ancestor's sins. sins that keep cycling and repeating #a sin and forbidden fruit of desire he hasn't been able to completely resist!!! #that's what dark's entire existence. and the form for the niwas is!!! #proof they were just as much sinners for being the devil as the hikari for playing god!!

[plthroughlegallense]

[EMERGENCY REGULATIONS: A TOOL FOR OPPRESSION]

Despite being a law that has been revoked and rendered null and void, Israel pushes forward to reactivate this law upon declaring the establishment of their State. 

Israel justifies that this law is still applicable as it was not gazetted. However, the provisions of this law : Defense (Emergency) Regulations 1945 explicitly states that it does not need to be gazetted.

Section 4(1) : This regulation is a emergency document

Section 4 (2) : No need to publish emergency document in the Gazette

This is sufficient proof that the regulation is invalid as well as all arrests, orders, convictions and sentences were rendered void and illegal ab initio. We urge for the release of all Palestinians held in Israeli prison on grounds of illegality. 

#palestine #legal #law #colonialism #israel #collective punishment #free palestine #opppression #israeli occupation #illegal occupation #end the occupation #stop occupation #occupied palestine #administrative detention #arrest #british law #democracy #emergency #home demolition #revoked #illegal #detainees #unlawful

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Reds Rain Snowballs On Police Battalion,” Toronto Star. January 20, 1931. Page 3. ---- Communist Meeting Broken Up in Montreal - Ten Arrests ---- Montreal, Jan. 20 - Communists who held a demonstration for which a permit had been refused by police, had their meeting roughly broken up by constables at the Labor Temple yesterday. Five men were arrested for making inflammatory speeches against the police department and five for obstructing the law. 

The request to hold the meeting was received some time ago, but like numerous others was refused by Chief of Police Langevin. He learned that the demonstration was to be held in any case, and plainclothesmen who visited he hall yesterday reported the speeches were made, urging a march on the city hall to demand work and better police treatment.

The 100 officers who had been held in readiness broke up the meeting and arrested the five speakers. As the officers were leaving the hall a crowd outside peppered them with snowballs. They charged the crowd, used their clubs freely, and made the five additional arrests.

#montreal #communists #communist party of canada #labour temple #police violence #police brutality #unlawful assembly #obstructing the police #service de police de la ville de montréal #throwing snowballs #anti-communism #communism #great depression in canada #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada

[navree]

the january 6 prosecutions have really highlighted how approximately 99.9% of america has absolutely never heard of the concept of “sentencing guidelines” in their lives

#personal #'why isn't so and so getting such and such time in prison rather than this amount of time in prison?!?!?!?!' ok so like #when you are charged and convicted of/plead guilty to a crime #there is a set number of punishments you can get depending on the crime #legally you can't just be arbitrary about what someone is sentenced to based on the crime they've done #one of the j6 defendants is charged with smth called 'unlawful parading' because that's what they pled down to #and no you cannot sentence 'unlawful parading' to the same things as 'murder' for what i hope are obvious reasons #like what you're legally able to sentence someone to depends on the crime they are being sentenced for #otherwise we have this thing called the eighth amendment and it talks about this thing called cruel and unusual punishment #like we kinda have to abide by that

[shanastoryteller]

HAPPY VALENTINES!!!!! Draco and wizarding politics please?

a continuation of 1

He makes consistent use of his office at the ministry because cultivating and maintaining relationships from the manor is difficult. Not impossible, as his father did it for decades, but he had his mother to plan and charm and grease the way through her own relationships and get-togethers. Draco has only himself and if he throws too many luncheons and parties on his own behalf, he looks like a man of leisure, which if he his parents were still running the manor might be something he'd be able to work to his advantage - Blaise is doing it beautifully - but current circumstances require him to show his hand a little more transparently.

Unfortunately, the downside of deliberately making himself available and approachable is that people feel comfortable approaching him.

His office door is always slightly cracked unless he's meeting with someone, which provides ample eavesdropping opportunities and leads to people strolling in whenever they have something to discuss.

"Draco!"

He looks up and his smile drops as his eyes narrow. She's never that happy to see him.

Susan Bones drops into the chair across from his desk, a grin on her face that has him double checking the corners of the room. "I heard Harry is courting you."

He closes the door with a wave of his hand, using too much force because his door slams shut with a bang that makes him wince. He never slams his door. He's blaming it on Susan in the next casual conversation he has in the breakroom. "Don't spread rumors."

"What rumors? I heard it from Hermione," she says.

The problem is if he kills Granger, no one will believe it wasn't ideologically motivated, which will really cause a backslide in all the progress he's made with his reputation. "Granger is regressing to her favorite childhood pastime. Making my life difficult."

"Think you're getting that a little backwards there," Susan says, leaning back and resting her feet on the edge of his desk. "I think it's a good thing. Merlin knows Harry's a fucking wreck when it comes to politics, he needs someone to help him out."

He deeply wishes they didn't have so much policy in common. "Agreed, but that person isn't going to be me. Perhaps he'd like to have a gamble with probably thousands of people desperate for the opportunity?"

"They'll lie to him," Susan says. "You've never bothered."

Well, he doesn't think that's something he should be punished for. "I don't see how that makes any difference when he doesn't listen to anyone anyway."

Susan snorts and then levels a finger in his direction. "That's exactly what I'm talking about."

For fuck's sake. "Did you have something important to discuss or are you just here to irritate me?"

"I'm multitasking," she says. "Did you read Rosewood's proposal?"

"Unfortunately," he sighs.

It's too bad that Potter has a moral center. He'd be willing to give some advice for an unlawful arrest or two, but he's just not that lucky.

#prompt answers #prompts are closed #asks #anon #harry potter

[i-merani]

I was listening to an interview about Ukraine and the interviewer was talking how there's no empathy for russian soldiers "not asking for sympathy for the Russians as an invading force, but empathy for humans" is the direct quote and while yes empathy for humans should exist, highlighting this in this context is bizzare. He then follows saying that these are young soldiers and the west is celebrating when "they are sent to their mothers" (meaning celebrating their deaths).

And what struck me the most is him saying this: "Soldiers who've been sent to war not by their choice, they follow military, they follow orders". Quick question: how do you think defeated nazi soldiers were trying to avoid punishment for their war crimes? What "argument" was real popular, don't you remember? This exact "argument" is the reason why International Law actually explicitly states that if a higher ups in the war are forcing a soldier to execute unlawful acts, the soldier has the right and responsibility to refuse this order. In International Law "I was following orders" is not an admissible argument. If the Russian soldiers don't want to commit war crimes, they are, by law, obliged to refuse the orders. Yet the Russian army still stands, still committing war crimes in Ukraine. But yeah, poor russian young boys sent to their mothers…

Yes I do have empathy for brainwashed and indoctrinated youth of an authoritarian state, no I don't have empathy for war criminals.

#next thing is empathy for israeli soldiers?? lol come onn #russia #ukraine #politics #2023

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ian Millhiser at Vox:

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a mass protest in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Under that lower court decision, a protest organizer faces potentially ruinous financial consequences if a single attendee at a mass protest commits an illegal act.

It is possible that this outcome will be temporary. The Court did not embrace the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision attacking the First Amendment right to protest, but it did not reverse it either. That means that, at least for now, the Fifth Circuit’s decision is the law in much of the American South. For the past several years, the Fifth Circuit has engaged in a crusade against DeRay Mckesson, a prominent figure within the Black Lives Matter movement who organized a protest near a Baton Rouge police station in 2016. The facts of the Mckesson case are, unfortunately, quite tragic. Mckesson helped organize the Baton Rouge protest following the fatal police shooting of Alton Sterling. During that protest, an unknown individual threw a rock or similar object at a police officer, the plaintiff in the Mckesson case who is identified only as “Officer John Doe.” Sadly, the officer was struck in the face and, according to one court, suffered “injuries to his teeth, jaw, brain, and head.”

Everyone agrees that this rock was not thrown by Mckesson, however. And the Supreme Court held in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware (1982) that protest leaders cannot be held liable for the violent actions of a protest participant, absent unusual circumstances that are not present in the Mckesson case — such as if Mckesson had “authorized, directed, or ratified” the decision to throw the rock. Indeed, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor points out in a brief opinion accompanying the Court’s decision not to hear Mckesson, the Court recently reaffirmed the strong First Amendment protections enjoyed by people like Mckesson in Counterman v. Colorado (2023). That decision held that the First Amendment “precludes punishment” for inciting violent action “unless the speaker’s words were ‘intended’ (not just likely) to produce imminent disorder.”

The reason Claiborne protects protest organizers should be obvious. No one who organizes a mass event attended by thousands of people can possibly control the actions of all those attendees, regardless of whether the event is a political protest, a music concert, or the Super Bowl. So, if protest organizers can be sanctioned for the illegal action of any protest attendee, no one in their right mind would ever organize a political protest again. Indeed, as Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett, who dissented from his court’s Mckesson decision, warned in one of his dissents, his court’s decision would make protest organizers liable for “the unlawful acts of counter-protesters and agitators.” So, under the Fifth Circuit’s rule, a Ku Klux Klansman could sabotage the Black Lives Matter movement simply by showing up at its protests and throwing stones.

The Fifth Circuit’s Mckesson decision is obviously wrong

Like Mckesson, Claiborne involved a racial justice protest that included some violent participants. In the mid-1960s, the NAACP launched a boycott of white merchants in Claiborne County, Mississippi. At least according to the state supreme court, some participants in this boycott “engaged in acts of physical force and violence against the persons and property of certain customers and prospective customers” of these white businesses. Indeed, one of the organizers of this boycott did far more to encourage violence than Mckesson is accused of in his case. Charles Evers, a local NAACP leader, allegedly said in a speech to boycott supporters that “if we catch any of you going in any of them racist stores, we’re gonna break your damn neck.”

With SCOTUS refusing to take up McKesson v. Doe, the 5th Circuit's insane anti-1st Amendment ruling that effectively bans mass protests remains in force for the 3 states covered in the 5th: Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

#SCOTUS #Deray McKesson #Protests #Black Lives Matter #5th Circuit Court #Texas #Louisiana #Mississippi #1st Amendment #Counterman v. Colorado #NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware #McKesson v. Doe

[fagcrisis]

please support the hungarian student protests

Hello! you know i'm not the kind of person to be making these posts, but the situation here is kind of dire right now

as you may know, for the past year hungarian students and teachers have been protesting against the horrific state of our education system. we have been demanding better wages and work conditions for our teachers, and more funding diverted towards education

the government currently does not have a dedicated education ministry

our far right government's response has been a law known as the status law, or the revenge law. this law includes the following

taking away the professional freedom of the board of education, handing descisions over to the school district (a government subsidiary)

further widens the salary range, making the wages of teachers completely tied to the will of their employer. many teachers in the country are currently making barely above minimum wage

reduction of vacation days

increasing the number of daily working hours from 8 to 12

forbidding teachers from being critical of the education system. this includes participating in protests, but also simply voicing criticism of the system online

punishing students if their teachers are on strike

the termination notice period was changed from 2 months to six months, meaning that a teacher has to work in the school they quit for 6 months after quitting

extending the school year to 180 days

the status law makes it harder for unions to do their jobs. the teachers, at first, tried to protest through peaceful methods and strikes, but their requests were not listened to. Moreover, the oppressive hungarian strike laws make it impossible to do this effectively. around the carmelite monastery, from which the high and mighty overlords control the country, a cordon was raised to keep the press out, which was found to be unlawful by the metropolitan court of budapest in april. despite this, they have not removed the cordon.

on may 7, the students who were protesting for a better education system tried to lawfully dismantle the cordon, which resulted in the police using tear gas against children and beating them with batons. Use of tear gas was not justified, the police ignored regulations and acted against the law.

several people have been arrested at these protests with such charges as wearing a mask (illegal under hungarian protest law) and attacking police officers. several people at the last protest have been detained and kept from speaking to their parents. the majority of the protestors are minors, and those are not are teachers overwhelmingly over the age of 40.

we are going to protest again on may 19th (this friday), and we would really appreciate if you spread awareness about our efforts. people will likely be hurt, and arrested on made up charges to scare us away from fighting for our teachers, but we won't give up

on twitter you can show your support for the protests under the hashtags #freehungary and #fuckorban

#no clue what to tag this w and im to shy to just b like pls rb but its fucking dire over here yall #im honestly just posting this since friends of mine are likely to need bail or to pay fines. not bc were doing anything illegal but bc #theyll arrest you just for protesting

[zvaigzdelasas]

The Israeli military’s repeated, apparently unlawful attacks on medical facilities, personnel, and transport are further destroying the Gaza Strip’s healthcare system and should be investigated as war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. Despite the Israeli military’s claims on November 5, 2023, of “Hamas’s cynical use of hospitals,” no evidence put forward would justify depriving hospitals and ambulances of their protected status under international humanitarian law.[...]

These ongoing attacks are not isolated. Israeli forces have also carried out scores of strikes damaging several other hospitals across Gaza. WHO reported that as of November 10, 18 out of 36 hospitals and 46 out of 72 primary care clinics were forced to shut down. The forced closure of these facilities stems from damage caused by attacks as well as the lack of electricity and fuel.[...]

Hospitals and other medical facilities are civilian objects that have special protections under international humanitarian law, or the laws of war. Hospitals only lose their protection from attack if they are being used to commit “acts harmful to the enemy,” and after a required warning. Even if military forces unlawfully use a hospital to store weapons or encamp able-bodied combatants, the attacking force must issue a warning to cease this misuse, set a reasonable time limit for it to end, and lawfully attack only after such a warning has gone unheeded. Ordering patients, medical staff, and others to evacuate a hospital should only be used as a last resort. Medical personnel need to be protected and permitted to do their work.[...]

The Israeli government should immediately end unlawful attacks on hospitals, ambulances, and other civilian objects, as well as its total blockade of the Gaza Strip, which amounts to the war crime of collective punishment, Human Rights Watch said. Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups need to take all feasible precautions to protect civilians under their control from the effects of attacks and not use civilians as “human shields.”[sic][...]

The International Criminal Court prosecutor has jurisdiction over the current hostilities between Israel and Palestinian armed groups that covers unlawful conduct by all parties. The ICC’s Rome Statute prohibits as a war crime “[i]ntentionally directing attacks against … medical units and transport.” Israeli and Palestinian officials should cooperate with the commission and the ICC in their work, Human Rights Watch said. The United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and other countries should suspend military assistance and arms sales to Israel as long as its forces continue to commit widespread, serious abuses amounting to war crimes against Palestinian civilians with impunity. All governments should demand that Israel restore the flow of electricity and water to Gaza and allow in fuel and humanitarian aid, ensuring that water, food, and medication reach Gaza’s civilian population.

“Israel’s broad-based attack on Gaza’s healthcare system is an attack on the sick and the injured, on babies in incubators, on pregnant people, on cancer patients,” Ahmed said. “These actions need to be investigated as war crimes.”

14 Nov 23

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

their crimes and problems with their redemption arcs under the cut!

catra:

crimes:

War crimes

Abuse of power

Corruption

Reckless endangerment

Psychological abuse

Assault

Terrorism

Attempted regicide

Attempted mass murder

Attempted world domination

Attempted cataclysm

Conspiracy

Mass destruction

Abduction & kidnapping

Unlawful imprisonment

Brainwashing

Theft

Torture

Treason

Usurpation

Coercion

Stalking

Mutilation

Aiding and abetting

Illegal use of weapons

Espionage

Crimes against peace

Crimes against Etheria

Altering reality

how was her redemption arc carried out?

she was only redeemed in the final season and her arc wasn't as drawn out as it should have been.

she never faces any consequences of her actions and is forgiven by her victims almost immediately, either after a vague apology or no apology at all.

she continues torturing and abusing people around her, especially her love interest, adora. her redemption arc doesn't mean anything since she never actually changes.

the diamonds:

crimes:

Multiple planetary conquests

Mass invasion

Mass terraformation

Attempted omnicide

Crimes against the universe

Cruel and unusual punishments

Unlawful executions

Slavery

Oppression

Propaganda

Abuse of power

Mass murder

Terrorism

Ecocide

Genocide

War crimes

Hate crimes

Corruption

Psychological abuse

Brainwashing

Unethical experimentation

Mass forced confinement

Mass destruction

Mass forced transmutations

how was their redemption arc carried out?

same as catra, their redemption was done during the final few episodes of steven universe, and it was way too sudden to be realistic.

they never face any consequences of their actions and still gets to retain their positions as cosmic rulers.

they do, however, seem to put in some effort to change, although it's not clear if this is helpful. steven also does not seem to forgive them.

lilith clawthorne:

crimes:

Malediction

Attempted murder

Child endangerment

Hostage-taking

Kidnapping

Coercion

Malefic

Treason

Cheating

Torture

Abuse

Assault

Aiding and abetting

how was her redemption arc carried out?

she only had to make one sacrifice and that was the extent of her redemption arc.

she is also forgiven too quickly by the people she had hurt.

she does change for the better, and proves to be an ally to the heroes (albeit being an underutilized character).

sasha waybright:

crimes:

Abuse of power

Psychological abuse

Attempted murder

Treason

Terrorism

Harassment

Vandalism

Theft

Usurpation

Animal cruelty

Conspiracy

Kidnapping

Incrimination

Sabotage

Child endangerment

how was her redemption arc carried out?

we only see the beginning of her redemption, the rest of it happens almost entirely off-screen. this was a lazy choice, as we never see an actual “arc”, only the beginning and the end of it.

she is almost immediately forgiven by her friends. there is some lingering suspicion in some episodes, but not enough for everything she had done prior to that season.

however, she also seems to have turned into a better person and doesn't repeat any of her past toxic behaviour.

#i dislike all of these arcs but catra definitely comes first #since she doesn't even change in the end lol #spop critical #spop salt #spop criticism #spop discourse #spop #she ra #anti spop #su criticism #su critical #su salt #su discourse #toh salt #toh criticism #toh critical #toh discourse #amphibia discourse #anti amphibia #amphibia salt #amphibia critical #anti toh #anti su #steven universe #amphibia #the owl house #toh #cartoons #poll

[opencommunion]

"Al Mezan’s latest investigation reveals that since the onset of the genocidal military campaign against Gaza, Israeli forces have detained at least 3,000 Palestinian residents of Gaza, including women, children, elderly people, as well as professionals such as doctors, nurses, teachers and journalists. This aggressive detention campaign is unparalleled, with detainees subjected to multiple forms of cruelty, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment from the moment they are arrested and continue throughout their detention at interrogation centers. This occurs without any judicial oversight or legal protection, in blatant defiance of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

Based on its firsthand documentation and available information, Al Mezan has estimated that around 1,650 Palestinian residents of Gaza are interned in Israeli prisons under the Unlawful Combatants Law. This figure represents a substantial increase compared to previous reports. These detainees are held in total isolation from the outside world at Nafha and Negev (Ketziot) prisons. A ruling from the Israeli judiciary prohibits the release of information about them, and they are denied the right to appoint lawyers or receive legal representation.

The ‘Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law’—introduced in 2002 and lastly amended in December 2023—grants the Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli army the power to incarcerate individuals without charge based on suspicion of them being 'unlawful combatants.' This law deprives detainees of any meaningful judicial review and due process rights. ... Detainees held under this law are neither granted the status of prisoners of war under the Third Geneva Convention, nor afforded the protections of civilian detainees under the Fourth Geneva Convention.

An additional 300 Palestinian residents of Gaza, including 10 children, who are not currently detained under the Unlawful Combatants Law, are being held in Ashkelon and Ofer prisons pending investigation. The Palestinian Commission of Detainees Affairs reported the deaths of at least 13 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons since 7 October 2023, while the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported the death of 27 Gaza detainees during the same period.

Over the past six months, Al Mezan has been actively monitoring and documenting arrest operations by the Israeli military in Gaza. Recently, Al Mezan lawyer managed to visit approximately 40 detainees in Ashkelon and Ofer prisons. This visit occurred after the Israeli Public Prosecution had exhausted all legal deadlines preventing lawyers from visiting detainees. The testimonies provided by these detainees to Al Mezan unveiled harrowing accounts of torture and inhumane treatment from the moment of their arrest. They were forced to strip naked, wear blindfolds, and have their wrists tied. They were also brutally beaten, deprived of sleep for several days, denied food and deliberately starved as a form of torture and collective punishment.

A 19-year-old detainee told Al Mezan lawyer that he was tortured from the moment he was arrested. He described how three of his fingernails were removed with pliers during interrogation. He also stated that investigators unleashed a dog on him and subjected him to shabeh—a form of torture which involves detainees being handcuffed and bound in stress positions for long periods—three times over three days of interrogation. He was then placed in a cell for 70 days, where he experienced starvation and extreme fatigue.

The detainee described the conditions within the detention rooms, stating that there was nothing in them but mattresses, which were brought in at 10 pm and removed after four hours. He stated that detainees were forced to shower in cold water and that food provisions were meager, with a breakfast of ten slices of bread and one small labneh container for the 12 detainees in the room. The second meal of the day consisted of three tomatoes and a plate of rice and the third meal of either one egg or one can of tuna for the entire room.

Al Mezan lawyer reported that all detainees suffer from acute emaciation, fatigue and back curvature due to being forced to bend their backs and heads while walking. They also bear marks from handcuffs on their wrists. Additionally, detainees are experiencing starvation and difficult psychological conditions, with many unable to even recall the names of people present in the room. The lawyer remarked that in his more than 20 years of working with detainees, he had never encountered conditions as appalling as those observed at Ofer prison. He noted seeing one detainee who, six months after his arrest, had become skeletal, with bruises on his face.

... Issam Younis, Director General of Al Mezan, stated, 'The evidence and testimonies gathered by our lawyer reveal a level of reprisals and torture that lacks any semblance of humanity. What Israel is doing to Palestinian detainees forms part of its genocide against the Palestinian people. It is imperative to halt this genocide and ensure accountability for those responsible for heinous genocidal acts.'"

15 April 24

#palestinian testimonies #palestine #zionism

[rezeulaz]

“AS THE WORLD CAVES IN”

pairing: neuvilette x fem!reader

synopsis: in a world where you, a mere mortal, embark on a noble quest to uncover the secrets of the primordial sea, a heartwarming twist awaits. as the citizens of fontaine come together, armed with evidence of what they perceive as your 'illegal' actions, your beloved neuvilette is entrusted with the task of offering his tender and considerate judgment."

genre: angst. reader is a scientist. warnings: mentions of death

wc: 848 words

💌: i have nothing against furina </3 it’s only for the plot !! anw, ily neu, my new favourite hydro man :3

"i shall not allow this matter to remain unaddressed. countless innocent lives have been unjustly taken, vanishing without a trace. it is my duty to prevent the past from repeating itself, to stop what they have inflicted upon my sister." she rambles, skimming through her pile of new research papers collected by the fontaine research institute.

"mon ange, i understand that you are dealing with stress in regards to your sister’s disappearance being connected to the serial disappearances, but you must remember we should stand by the law." neuvilette gazes intently into her eyes, revealing a genuine and heartfelt concern.

"i believe you do not understand as much as you say you do, monsieur. i am a mortal; you have lived for centuries, and i'd assume it hasn’t occurred to you the feeling of losing a loved one." she gets up, leaving a perplexed neuvilette, she called him. monsieur? other than the fact that she talked to him that way, she called him neu, or whatever endearment she could think of, but now, monsieur?

it had been 2 days since the talk she had with neuvilette. she tried to pay no mind to it. 'i've got more important things to achieve and more important things to learn.’ she tries to convince herself. but no matter what she did, she could never forget the look on neuvilette’s face when she left. she never wanted to; she didn’t have a choice. what more could she do when even her beloved neuvillete is not on her side?

she then hears a knock on her door—a very aggressive knock, to be more specific. she goes on to open the door, wondering who it could be at this ungodly hour.

"how may i hel-"she was cut off by two gardes putting handcuffs on her.

"y/n l/n, you stand accused of delving into the depths of the 'primordial sea,' accessing forbidden information, and trespassing into restricted areas without the necessary permits. you retain the right to maintain your silence and will be provided the opportunity to secure legal counsel to represent you in a court of law." the gardes say. you tried to protest, but you could only do so much.

"your beloved, Neuvilette, has been caught doing unlawful activities? It is indeed regrettable. i’ve been eager to make her acquaintance." the hydro archon stated to neuvilette, who was absorbed in the letter detailing your arrest.

"i must address this," neuvilette attempted to object, but furina swiftly interjected, her tone stern. "you do realize that you have no influence to manipulate the course of the law, neuvilette? the oratrice mecanique d’analyse cardinale is the one who decides in this matter, not you."

neuvilette walks out of the door, impatiently waiting for the trial to commence.

during the trial, neuvilette couldn’t stop looking at you. the chief justice was known for his stern and neutral look, but this time, he looked at you with genuine sadness and concern.

it was the people of fontaine against you, the prophecy—it had been blamed that you were trying to sabotage the people of fontaine. there was enough evidence that you, in fact, tried to take part in illegal activities just to uncover the truth about the primordial sea.

after the trial, it was unclear what your punishment would be. neuvilette finally spoke.

"we now turn to the oratrice mecanique d'analyse cardinale to render the final verdict on the charges." "according to the judgment of the oratrice mecanique d'analyse cardinale," he continues.

"y/n l/n, to be punished via..." he then turns pale; one could not imagine how he could get any more paler than he is.

"the death sentence." he finally states, his voice shaking.

the people of fontaine cheered, even the hydro archon herself. you, on the other hand, were so shocked that you couldn’t even manage to utter a word.

the day finally came, and you were being executed. it made you laugh that you were being executed before the man responsible for the serial disappearance case. neuvilette has been forbidden to talk to you ever since you received that punishment. it pains you to know that your last interaction was you leaving him. they cheered—everyone watching, they did. thinking that now that you are gone, the sin of the people has been washed away. fontaine will no longer be submerged underwater.

fools, they are fools. you think to yourself.

"i believe it would be rightful for me, your beloved hydro archon, to do this!" with that, everything became black to you. furina had pressed the machine, whose goal was to decapitate you.

for a while, everyone was filled with joy—then boredom. leading for them to exit the venue, preparing for their celebration of “breaking” the prophecy.

neuviellete ran to you without any thoughts; he had been able to serve justice to everyone else in fontaine. but this time, why couldn’t he? why couldn’t he when it was his beloved? why?

"i’m sorry, mon ange." he says, looking at the two parts of your body that have been cut.

and then—it rained.

the hydro dragon weeps.

#neuvillette #fontaine #neuvilette genshin #neuvilette x reader #neuvilette x you #genshin impact neuvilette #neuvilette angst #neuvilette x y/n #neuvilette imagine #angst #genshin angst #genshin impact x reader #genshin impact x you #genshin impact x y/n #genshin x reader #genshin x you #genshin x y/n

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“JUDGE DECLARES POLICE CONDUCT PROVOKED MEN,” Kingston Whig-Standard. October 27, 1932. Page 1. ---- Acquits Six on Charges Unlawful Assembly, Riot, and Assault ---- SCORES PENAL SYSTEM ---- WINNIPEG, Oct. 27 - Judge L. St. G. Stubbs, in County Court yesterday, delivered a verdict acquitting six men of charges of unlawful assembly, riot and aggravated assault. They are: Samuel Barber, Steve Horbul, James Spinvolov, James Collin, Jared Liddle, and David Rousen.

 The Judge said that although all six were acquitted "five of them could no doubt - on strict technical construction of the law be considered guilty: but in the circumstances of this case, in view of the arbitrary and provocative conduct of the police, and the fact that as much wrongdoing has been established on their part as on that of the accused, I feel that justice does not require strict technical construction of the law and that they ought not to be declared guilty and branded as criminals tor the rest of their lives." 

Honorable Acquittal Judge Stubbs placed David Rousen in a different category from the other five, wholly exonerating him from any complicity in the offenses with which he was charged and according him an honorable acquittal and discharge because of evidence that established that Rousen had not been near the Wellwood Box Factory in Elmwood when police clashed with strike sympathisers and arrested the other five men. 

Regarding the other five, the Judge said: "Even if they were found guilty and sentence suspended, they would have a conviction recorded against them, to follow them to the ends of the earth if they were sent to a penal institution. Being working men they would receive no ‘preferred Class' or preferential penitentiary treatment but would feel the full rigor and severity of our antiquated barbarous and unscientific penal system. 

“I do not believe the accused were actuated by any criminal intentions in what they did and honestly feel the ends of true Justice will be best served by acquitting them. I therefore find them not guilty and discharge them from custody," he said.

[AL: Stubbs is a notorious and fascinating character, a ‘Red’ on the bench who alone among judges sided consistently with workers and accused against the police and state.]

#winnipeg #strike #strike violence #penal reform #riot #unlawful assembly #prison riot #1932 kp riot #collins bay penitentiary #brokers' trials #police violence #strikebreakers #box factory #factory workers #criminal record #judge stubbs #great depression in canada #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada

[beguines]

In every industrial society and in every epoch there are examples of psy-professions pathologising dissent and resistance to the social order. As agents of the state, these ideological institutions have defined collective struggles at various times as unlawfulness and as mental illness. As Foucault reminds us: "To be dangerous is not an offense. To be dangerous is not an illness. It is not a symptom. And yet we have come, as if it is self-evident, and for over a century now, to use the notion of danger, by a perpetual movement backwards and forwards between the penal and the medical."

Indeed, the diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder (APD)—the DSM-5 psychiatric label that equates closest to the mythic "sociopathic" or "psychopathic" personality types often found in psychology textbooks and popular Hollywood movies—overtly makes this connection between the violation of social norms, unlawful behaviour, and mental illness by the construction of symptoms including, "[f]ailure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest," "[d]eceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure," and "[c]onsistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations". The production of such psychiatric discourse holds the promise for liberal democracies and dictatorships alike of nullifying opposition and confining problematic elements on the rational basis of "medical science." In this way, psychiatric intervention has become a much more useful method of neutralisation within neoliberal society compared to the criminal justice system. This is due to the power of the mental illness label to devalue political action and collective sentiments much more effectively than the martyrdom and punishment often associated with the imprisonment of political activists.

Bruce M.Z. Cohen, Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness

[thecameronchronicles]

Rafe Cameron MasterList

SERIES

The Debt: Masterlist

Best Friend's Girl: Masterlist

Breaking And Entering: Part 1 / Part 2: Barbados

The Dare: Part 1 / Part 2

Leverage: Part 1: The Boiler Room / Part 2: The Adventures on the Coastal Venture

Getting Even: Part 1 / Part 2

Friends With Benefits: Part 1: Birthday Party / Part 2: On The Edge

After Class: Part 1 / Part 2: Extra Credit / Part 3: Punishments

Too Close For Comfort: Part 1 / Part 2

Going Full Kook: Part 1 / Part 2

Gullible: Part 1 / Part 2

ONESHOTS

A Deal With The Devil

More Than Friends

Hole In One

The Exes

In Control

Only Me

Quiver

Sacrilege

Breathless

Payback

More Than Watering Plants

Do You See What I See?

Misbehavior

Maid For You

Harder

A Change of Hearts

Out of Control

The Heart Wants What It Wants

The Lengths Love Goes

The Gift

Pumping More Than Iron

Give It To Me

No Other Option

Watch Me

Fright Fest

Out of Excuses

Him and I

Dinner At The Cameron's

White Lines

The Stepbrother

Insatiable

Thinking Of You

Collateral

Come Again?

Bleed For Me

Breed

Psychotic

Virtue

Scream For Me

Just As Twisted

Insurance Policy

Catch Me If You Can

Ulterior Motive

Record

Private Show

Cherry

Relinquishment

Start Your Engines

No Other Name

Repetition

Self Sabotage

Darling

The Price of Teasing Rafe Cameron

Proactive

Delivery

Rectifying The Situation

Sensuality

Those Three Words

Homeroom

Mary On A Cross

Definitely Not Vanilla

Unlawful

My Best Friend, The Cam Girl

Tied Down

FLUFF/BLURBS

One Call Away

#rafe cameron #outer banks