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"No, sir, it hasn't been much of a concern -- it's a natural reaction to the sort of emergency we've seen recently. People don't feel safe, and want to protect themselves. Of course, the wait time is increasing proportionally to the increase in applications, but that's OK -- it means by the time they get approved, a lot of people probably will've thought better about buying a gun.

"The permit fee has always been fine as it is, but if you want to get it raised I would be all for it. We could use the money for any number of programs -- firearms safety education among schoolchildren, gun buybacks, you get the idea. Of course, that will take GA action, since the fee is mandated in the RoFA, and it will take new legislation to alter it."
 

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Well if the GA has to get involved, then it isn't worth it, they are backlogged enough as it is. So we will keep the fee as it is, but every problem is an opportunity, if you think creatively.

Let's have one person process one permit per business day, for new applications, starting from the end of the current backlog. We will announce an expedited permit processing service, for an additional fourty ducats, that will get the application back in the normal queue. That wouldn't violate the firearms regulations would it? Besides, with inflation running as high as it is, the legislature should know not to fix any price in such a way that it requires legislation to change it, it is just to cumbersome.
 

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"When you say one person, do you mean each person? Our field agents don't have the time to add a background investigation to their workload, nor, frankly, the experience with that specific responsibility. We have a roomfull of specialists downstairs that takes care of these things.

"Now, if the extra 40 ducks was a popular option, we could afford to hire another person or two to handle the load, but I'm no lawyer, so I'm not in a position to tell you whether that would be permissible under the RoFA. Of course, it's been on the books for, what, fifteen years now? So I'm not sure you can hang out the current guys to dry over setting a specific fee table."
 

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No, sorry, I meant let the usual people, the specialists you referred to, continue processing the gun permits. We put all the new applications in two stacks. We process one application from the normal stack per day, and the specialists spend the rest of their time on the appications in special service stack. We use the extra money for anything but these specialists, except perhaps a little incentive compensation if they do well.
 

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Loic calls the head of FLEA, Hedgar Joover.
"Can I have a count on the number of FLEA agents confirmed dead, injured, or still missing from the blast at the ECB? We have room in the budget for a 10,000 ducat reward for each FLEA agent killed or injured by criminal activity in the line of duty, so when you tell me the numbers, I will make an announcement and hopefully, as you expected, it will act as a focal point an attract additional private donations. Now that the new CoJ nomination has cleared the GA, it shouldn't be long before we can discuss what kind of immunity we can give to an informant who takes us up on our offer.

Also, I would like to know when any and all of their memorial services or funerals are scheduled. Thanks."
 

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A message by a courier from AAH arrives with a message for the MIDA.


Loic,
That is a fine idea. I'd be happy to contribute. How about 250,000 ducats? Think that ought to get someone to come forward?

Amric
 

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An aide comes into Loic's office looking somewhat frazzled. "Sir, we have a situation...could you accompany me to the secure office?" Once there, the aide hands Loic a piece of paper:

To: CJC General Levarge, Command and Operations Center
From: Admiral Tulp, CoSN, TF Tulp

Will try to solve or stall situation sir, possibility exists that people aboard Hainan Star are refugees or similair but will be dealt with as possible terrorists. Women and children aboard Hainan Star. Help from FLEA or HUPD would be good as well.

"The military just forwarded this to us. It appears that the Navy has encountered a Chinese-registered ship that is currently about half a mile from our shores and began unloading people at a rather frantic pace after the Admiral fired a warning shot. As you can see, there are women and children on board, and the Admiral has declared he will deal with them as terrorists. They may also be illegal Chinese immigrants or some sort of refugees, and if he deals with them as terrorists they may wind up as a whole lot of dead illegal Chinese immigrants or refugees.

The Admiral has asked for help in the form of FLEA officers in the area to aid his men in detaining these people. We're pretty short of manpower, and there's no way we could get any teams there before these people hit the shore. Our closest assets are maybe a half hour away, and that's probably only 2-3 FLEA agents. The Admiral will probably try to detain whoever's on the boat with his men until backup arrives...but those are Marines, not police. The kind of people we'd want around if that boat is full of terrorists, but..." he tails off, not finishing the sentence.

"What should we do sir?"

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Refugees belong to the Immigration portfolio, which is part of MTIA, so unless the President has appointed someone recently, we are unlikely to get much action from them, but I will let them know.

There could be terrorists mixed in with the refugees, so let's try to keep people contained in that area. If they get ashore and ask for asylum, we (meaning not just FLEA) should put up some tents in that area and keep them there while the initial processing is going on. Use one of the local FLEA resources to try to coordinate local or provincial police support. Send the other one or two with a big sign saying:
Welcome to Eutopia!
Refugee Welcome Center
欢迎
Bienvenue, Bienvenidos​
Tell them to take a stack of paper and get everyone to write their name and country they came from, a country they were born in.

I'll see what help we can get.
 

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The aide nods, taking notes. "OK sir, you got it. MESA has jurisdiction over Social Services, so if we're going to set up tent cities and such, maybe they should run that show?

Assuming for the moment that they aren't refugees, but rather terrorists or illegals, and they try to leave the area...what should our agents do?"

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I have informed the President already at the cabinet, so MESA might have picked up on it already, but perhaps not so I will let them know directly.

The objective should be to turn them back into the area near where they landed. If they keep trying to proceed they are violating our immigration laws and should be detained for processing. Grab the riot gear, you know those plastic strips with the locking tab that can be used once as hand cuffs. Be creative, but try not to do them any permanent harm. Use those to handcuff them to immoveable objects like trees, or if you run out of suitable trees, telephone poles, etc., then handcuff enough of them together, facing different directions so they can't move very fast. More help will be on the way, but it might take a couple of hours. If someone is eluding you, follow standard procedures. Deadly force is not called for in an immigration evasion case. But they don't know that, so you could fire in the air, over their heads. See if we can get photographs of any who are getting away. If any seem to slip through we will try to seal off the area, er, where is this area anyway?

See what you can dispatch from further out.
 

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"The area is the St. Espritian/Eutopian border region, virtually right on the border as I understand sir. The vessel is the Hainan Star, registered to the Peoples' Republic of China and 45 days out of Shanghai. I will pass your orders along to FLEA and ask them to send whatever nearby assets they have available." The aide finishes scribbling his notes and ducks out of the office, then passes on the MIDA's orders to a colleague at FLEA.

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Loic informs FLEA that, given the shortage of effectives to respond to the Hainan Star matter, he has arranged for some security guards from the Eutopian Monarchist League to assist, strictly under FLEA or local police control.
"They will be arriving at FLEA offices or provincial police offices in Hurteau, Sablé, and Grandville. Use them as reinforcements or back up, on easy things like roadblocks. Don't expect them to have well developed people skills. As soon as you get enough regular FLEA, police or government workers in send these guys home. They owe us a favor for processing their applications on a provisional basis, but at that their rates will have used up that favor very quickly."
 

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Loic makes some calls to try to get three or four buses to pick up the volunteers from Verneuil to get them to cordon, but has difficulty due to all the ones that have hire by the ECL. He then places a call to Mercedes Classico, Chancellor of Nouvelle Acquitaine asking to borrow some school buses, but doesn't expect much, given their prior situation on opposing sides, even though Loic's actions were as a paid lawyer.
 

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Loic, seeing the newscasts of the gathering for the workers march, calls the head of FLEA. "This seems to be a purely local affair, so let's let the Eutopia City police handle it. Let me know if they call for assistance though."
 

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MIDA Loic de Fourgéres calls the head of FLEA.
"Both the main and back entrances to the General Assembly building seem to to be closed off by the demonstrators from the workers' march. I plan to stay put here for the present, but the demonstrators were supposed to be staying on the plaza side. Please contact police chief Mulhoney about whether he needs assistance. It would be nice to keep the crowd controlled. Also, there seems to have been some violence, so we are going to want to help them pick faces out of the crowd from the security tapes. I will be calling the military next, just to alert them."
 

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a call comes in from Former President Al'Aeshir...

"Loic? I've put in a call to the President as well, but I wanted to let you know that I have a division in my company that deals specifically with environmental messes. I understand that you have such a thing in New Lancaster at the ECB bombing site. No, I don't care about being paid for it. This is a public service. The men working for me get their hazard pay, but don't worry, I won't send the government a bill."
 

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Loic calls to get someone to arrange to have some soccer balls delivered to the Statute of Morgan in the park and the ENU playing fields, with instructions to provide some refreshments at halftime for the numbers that showed up.
 

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Loic contacts Hedgar Joover, head of FLEA
"The marchers seem to dead set of rioting, give whatever assistance to the local police seems appropriate. I am sure their capacity to handle those arrested with be overstretched.

When you get a chance, I would like an update on the bombing investigation, the goat that exploded, and the Hainan Star situation. The president has also passed on a request from the Independent commission investigating the bombing for an update on the first two. Please cooperate, but it needn't be a priority. I sent them asking for them to route requests more directly in the future."
 

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Loic calls Chief of the Eutopia City Police, Per Mulhoney.
"Your men did good capturing the ringleaders of the rioters. FLEA will want to question Cornelius Dank about other matters as well. There is a possibility that he has been in communication with the terrorists, so he should be held as incommuncado as possible, i.e. he can see his lawyer, but not touch or be able to pass anything to them, and the lawyer should not have any recording device, not even pencil and paper."
 
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