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Lorrdian Export Concerns
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| Roman_Lekpin | Date: Tuesday, 04 Dec 2012, 5:42 PM | Message # 16 |
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| I passed your words on to Lord Stark, Senator. He wished me to inform you, with some amusement, that if dueling were not illegal on Lorrd, he would gladly cast down the gauntlet and challenge you. He also wished me to inform you this was 'dark humor' as in his opinion, you lack a sense of humor and that furthermore, he has no need to refute your opinions because while they exist as untruths, they are untruths that he is unconcerned with because they were stated by yourself.
Perhaps the two of you should just talk it out. I dislike wasting valuable Senate time between pointless squabbling.
Roman Lekpin
Representative, Lorrd (11 BBY-10 BBY) (9 BBY-Present)
Chosen of House Garth
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| Senator_Cambrist | Date: Tuesday, 04 Dec 2012, 7:58 PM | Message # 17 |
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| Mr. Stark is already well-represented in this Senate without the need to relay messages for him, Senator Lekpin. Indeed, there's already a "Senator of Alyn Stark" in this chamber; I regret to say it is my colleague, Senator Thanatos. Her bias in Mr. Stark's favor may not be obvious to her, but it is to the rest of us. I mean no disrespect to the Senator of Chandrila, but for her to stand up for Mr. Stark's interests more often than the interests of her people, and to claim that her familiarity with Mr. Stark and her personal enchantment with him makes her less biased rather than more, is embarrassing.
Senator Thanatos can be depended on to come to the defense of Alyn Stark, fraternally so. Indeed, she has destroyed her credibility on this subject. Having probably never listened to a word Senator Terrawin has spoken in this chamber until today, when he criticized Mr. Stark, she now declares that "without sarcasm, he has nothing." How would you know, Senator? I scarcely see you here or hear you on any topic other than Alyn Stark. You've been called out for this before, but still you persist in blind advocacy of this man whose interests have nothing in common with those of Chandrila and her people.
Rarely do I agree with Senator Terrawin, and I must correct him on one point; dealing with Senator Thanatos as I do on a weekly basis, I can assure you she is a capable Senator of Chandrila—more so, perhaps, than her people appreciate. But whatever the reason for her baseless advocacy for Mr. Stark, she should be aware that it's not only destroying her credibility but prejudicing the Senate against Mr. Stark. I, for one, wouldn't have had much to say on this subject if not for Mr. Stark's cabal of supporters who self-sacrificially defend him at the slightest affront to his reputation or that of his arms company (and, to a one of them, attended the man's wedding).
As for what I do have to say on this subject, the Commerce Committee naturally discourages system-wide bans on products that haven't been independently verified to be dangerous. The Dominion Federation has the right to do this, of course, if it feels it necessary. But the Commerce Committee has received few consumer complaints about Mr. Stark's products, and I agree with Senator Terrawin that an independent investigation would be helpful. The reliability of Mr. Stark's products should be investigated as well as the veracity of the claims made against them.
Brentaal will continue to permit ingress of these products while an independent investigation (and I must stress independent) is conducted, if Lorrd assures us that such an investigation is underway.
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| Roman_Lekpin | Date: Tuesday, 04 Dec 2012, 8:08 PM | Message # 18 |
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| I can safely say that in light of the allegations, Senator Cambrist, an investigative committee is already in the process of being formed from both independent Lorrdian sources from the Ruling Houses coupled with Imperial investigators from Moff Shirnoq's office to ensure impartiality.
Roman Lekpin
Representative, Lorrd (11 BBY-10 BBY) (9 BBY-Present)
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| Senator_Cambrist | Date: Tuesday, 04 Dec 2012, 8:16 PM | Message # 19 |
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| I would never call into question the impartiality of an Imperial Moff, but considering that Moff Shirnoq also attended Mr. Stark's wedding "as a friend of Stark," I think concerns about Stark's products would be better put to rest if a representative of the Commerce Committee participated in the investigation as well.
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| Ilanah_Thanatos | Date: Tuesday, 04 Dec 2012, 8:19 PM | Message # 20 |
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| Reuke, I think that perhaps you need to go back and read the transcript of this session before you continue your baseless tirade about my apparent lack of credibility. If someone had slandered you, Senator Cambrist, I would have come to your defense as well, as it is an unnecessary and classless thing to do to anyone; deserved or not.
I agree that an independent investigation be performed.
And Senator Cambrist, before you accuse me of not listening to a word in Senate and of being a starry eyed fan girl, perhaps you should listen to what I have said before you decide what I am and am not capable of being objective about. Though I do thank you for your kind words in regards to my ability to represent Chandrila.
Ilanah R. Thanatos
Senator of Chandrila
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| Roman_Lekpin | Date: Tuesday, 04 Dec 2012, 8:20 PM | Message # 21 |
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| If it pleases the Commerce Committee to do so, I have no objections if they contribute an investigator. You will have to communicate with Moff Shirnoq's office as well of course, but that should be no issue, and I'm sure the Ruling Houses hold no issue to an investigator either.
Roman Lekpin
Representative, Lorrd (11 BBY-10 BBY) (9 BBY-Present)
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| Senator_Cambrist | Date: Tuesday, 04 Dec 2012, 8:44 PM | Message # 22 |
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| To clarify, Senator Thanatos, I'm glad we agree on this, as indeed we agree on most things. Ours are neighboring worlds, and that is a bond that won't be sundered by the occasional misunderstanding. I suppose I may have spoken in haste, having seen "the usual suspects," if you will (attendees of the man's wedding, no less) come reliably to Mr. Stark's defense as they have in the past. I swear everlasting hostility to any sort of personal bias in this Senate. I'm willing to grant, however, that you didn't object to Senator Terrawin's criticism so much as the manner in which he phrased it, and that perhaps I didn't appreciate this distinction at the time.
Senator Lekpin, I'll see to it a representative of the Commerce Committee is dispatched to Kelm this week.
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| Artemis_Vanden | Date: Tuesday, 04 Dec 2012, 11:44 PM | Message # 23 |
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| For the record, Senator Cambrist, I also attended the wedding but you don't see me heaping praise on Alyn Stark. I know him to be a good husband to his wife, but I have no other comment on the man or his business, except that his business model of profiting on both the dealing and healing of wounds is never one I've been comfortable with. Though I've never discussed it with him, I suppose Mr. Stark knows that I don't admire his line of work. Indeed, I find it rich that we're arguing about the "safety" of weapons designed to kill people.
I fully support the right of the Veragi Federation to ban from its space any weapons it deems dangerous to its people. If more planets did this, it might convince Mr. Stark to focus more on the "life" division of his Conglomerate than the "death" division; his investments in the medical industry are noble, but nothing compared to the money the Conglomerate spends on weapons.
Artemis Vanden
Representative of the Naboo
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