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Maria Elena's emotions were in turmoil. As much as she dreaded going on trial and was happy about the delay, she also was dumbstruck that, even without a trial, automatically she was considered a criminal. Essentially it meant that she already had been convicted, and the trial would be nothing more than a formality confirming her status. There was no hope, none whatsoever, that she could get out of her situation. She continued to stand, trembling, and quietly cried while she listened to her Spokeswoman and the committee chairman converse in Danubian.
Suddenly Cecilia came to attention and replied "Doc" several times in response to a series of questions from the committee. She saluted the officials before turning to the Spokeswoman to salute her. She touched Maria Elena on the shoulder but told her to remain in the prisoner's stance.
"Here's what's going on...the committee has formally awarded provisional custody of you to Spokeswoman Lee-Dolkivna. That custody will become permanent after you go on trial. Whatever your Spokewoman tells you to do, you will do. No arguing with her, ever. If you don't like something, talk to me and I'll get you an explanation."
Cecilia paused while the committee chairman signed several documents to give to Kim. Once the Spokeswoman and the committee members saluted each other, she quietly continued speaking to the prisoner in Spanish:
"There's a problem, and that is that your Spokeswoman doesn't speak any Spanish and you don't speak any Danubian or English. That leaves me to do all the translating. So, they're gonna allow her to delegate custody to me, whenever it's necessary, so I can take you around the capitol and show you what you need to do. Once you learn Danubian, Spokeswoman Lee-Dolkivna will to talk to you directly."
The director of the committee suddenly stood up and drew his fist across his chest, indicating that the arraignment hearing was over. Cecilia ordered Maria Elena to kneel. Criminal # 98946 quickly moved forward and knelt next to her. Once her wards were properly kneeling, Spokeswoman Lee-Dolkivna saluted the committee members, who in turn saluted back.
"Criminal # 98946 and Prisoner # 101025, please stand so we can fulfill our paths in life."
The two naked women stood up, and with that Maria Elena's arraignment hearing came to an end.
- COMMENTS
Steve150177over 10 years agoI started reading "The Girl with No Name", which is still in progress.
Next I read "The Outsider", then "The Freshman", and the "Magarenta Girl". .
Danubia is OK in the past, but in the now it is farfetched. You claimed they have joined the EU, but this is impossible so long as they treat foreign visitors and probably their own citizens in this way. This is a life sentence of slavery. They don't collect their pay until they finish their sentence and many will not live until they are 74, so they will never see their pay.
This system is also a violation of the UN Charter.
Elsewhere I have posted that I think some sort of similar system is better than our system of prisons, but 20 years with a brutal whipping 4 times a year for perjury under stress with no warning (or out of ignorance of the law) is not going to sit right with the rest of the world. Just wait until the child of a bug wig falls victim to this system.
Then travel sanctions, trade sanctions, and finally armed invasion would, IMHO, be the result.
There needs to be involvement from the accused's Embassy, time for appeals, and a reasonable length of sentences for a given crime. Otherwise international intervention is inevitable.
Finally, I don't doubt that it will all work out for the "best" because it is fiction and you control the ending. Reality is not like that. It is messy. And parents often don't see that spending 55 years as an unpaid slave riding a bicycle as a package deliverer is the best outcome for their child.
