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IZQUIERDA-  The Voice of the Kalistani Left
ODEN Director Magelleno expresses concern over Commonwealth "Witch Hunt"
Impending Prosecution of Attila "Problematic"
Kaliburg, Ananto
May 5, 4113


ODEN's Magelleno, denouncing prosecution efforts against Csatar Attila

ODEN Director Juan Magelleno was on hand at a press conference staged at LK-SLC HQ in Kaliburg this week.  There he discussed troubling reports that well-respected Freedom Front Leader, Csatar Attila, was in danger of losing immunity against prosecution for so-called "drug crimes."  The ODEN Chief issued a statement which is sure to cause a rift in the recently strengthened relations between Kalistan and New Endralon/Kizenia:

"Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press.  We greet you today.

"The Freedom Front were a dastardly rightist Political Organization, however they wanted to portray themselves.  Under normal circumstances, they and the Socialist and Labour Caucus of Left Kalistan would see eye to eye on very little.  But political ideology aside, what we here in Kalistan are now seeing is a witch hunt.  These charges of drug smuggling are framed in a way designed to provide the maximum penalty for Attila.  And for what?  For selling a weed?  Is there proof?

"We in Kalistan know that it is not just a weed.  This is a cash crop which Attila is accused, unjustly, of smuggling and selling illegally.  We ask the Commonwealth Government then:  Did you see this marijuana?  Did it contain an ODEN stamp?  If so, let's be clear, Kalistan has an interest in that.  We cannot deny that we sell our national product across the face of Terra.  Whether it arrives legally or illicitly, we merely supply the products to sellers.  So I ask-  if it is ODEN marijuana, which is very possible, how can the government possibly be sure as to whether Attila came upon the plants in contravention to laws of the Commonwealth?  Is it at least possible that it was ODEN who originally supplied these crops, legally, in Kalistan, or in Dolgaria, where its use and sale is legal and regulated?  Can you be sure that it was even Attila who purchased the plants?

"The witch hunt that organizations such as the Hosian Democratic Union are on, looking for any trace of a sliver of evidence that Attila is a criminal, have not even been completed before the HDU has moved to strip Mr. Attila of his parliamentary privilege, (in contravention to the Law, as far as we can tell, so much so that they need to make a special exception to the law to prosecute him specifically) his rights as a person, and without any conclusion by a duly appointed legal authority that Mr. Attila has broken the law.  Any proceedings going forward are tainted with the stench of impropriety and failure to adhere to correct procedures which are the basis of procedural justice.  In a word, the persecution of Mr. Atilla are problematic, from root to tip. 

"And I can say one more thing:  Kalistan will be launching an official protest to the Government of New Endralon/Kizenia over this affair.  Do we have Standing?  You bet-  We are interested in the cause of liberty and human decency, and this persecution of one man for doing something which, if it is against the law, stands as a violation of an unjust law and therefore serves as civil disobedience, should not be countenanced by a free government.  We urge the Government of New Endralon and Kizenia to refrain from the prosecution of Mr. Attila and furthermore, make him whole by either completely restoring the property that the Government no doubt stole from him in their immoral raid, or by compensating him for the property if it is too damaged to restore. And finally, We ask that Mr Attila be put at complete liberty and all of these witch trials be ended.

"Kalistan will not rest until justice is done."