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De Folken fan Eskyld - News from Greater Eskild
« on: January 12, 2021, 05:31:28 PM »


High-Ranking Militia Officers Arrested for Conspiracy of Assasination

Official sources in the government and the ruling Nasjonale Folkspartij (National People's Party/NFP) have confirmed that several high ranking members of the Frijwilligermilysje foar Nasjonale Beskering (Volunteer Militia for National Defense/FNB) were arrested & taken into custody around the New Year. These officers for the FNP's paramilitary unit are believed to have taken part in a conspiracy to assassinate Gebietelieder Inke fan'e Berch, head of the Nasjonale Folkspartij in Lordsgate and daughter of our nation's beloved Folkslieder. Local police are said to have stumbled upon evidence of the plot whilst investigating several of the officers in a case involving illegal dog-fighting, at which they turned the evidence over to the Geheime Steatspolysje. Investigations by the State Police then uncovered evidence implicating numerous members of the FNB's officer corps in Lordsgate. The assassins include a dozen of the ranking FNB officers in Lordsgate including the former FNB-Brigadelieder Gerrit Lyks, former head of the FNB contingent in Lordsgate. Sources say that disagreements between Gebietelieder fan'e Berch and former FNB-Brigadelieder Lyks over what the Gebietelieder have referred to as "the FNB's excesses" were a common source friction between the FNB and the main body of the NFP. However the motive behind the assassination plot has yet to be officially announced. The men will be tried in the Folksgerjocht, a special court with jurisdiction of political offenses in the Kingdom of Greater Eskild, on Friday, January 15th.

A reporter managed to ask Gebietelieder fan'e Berch herself about the attempted plot, to which she had this to say: "I must admit that I am truly shocked at the revelation of this plot against my life. We did not see eye-to-eye on many things and had a number of professional disagreements with the man. But I still believed him to be a good & loyal Eskilder citizen. That our disagreements came from different ideas of what was best for our nation. It pains me to find out that he was simply a traitor. A traitor to his people, his nation, and his Party. And that a dozen men in the FNB would go along with such treachery? I weep to see how far deep the rot must go."


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Re: De Folken fan Eskyld - News from Greater Eskild
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2021, 01:01:16 AM »


Former FNB Officers Found Guilty & Sentenced to Execution

The twelve former members of the Frijwilligermilysje foar Nasjonale Beskering (Volunteer Militia for National Defense/FNB) reported as having been arrested for conspiracy to assassinate Gebietelieder Inke fan'e Berch were found guilty of all charges late Saturday night, and sentenced to be executed early Sunday morning. According to official transcripts the judge found there to be "overwhelming evidence of the defendants' intent to murder Gebietelider fan'e Berch for explicitly political reasons". Among the evidence presented was an eye witness account from former FNB-Briagdelieder Gerrit Lyks' wife that she had overheard her husband talking about the plot with his co-conspirators & that he had threatened to use his position in the Party to harm her & her relatives, as well as signed confessions from all twelve of the defendants. As with all verdicts passed by one of the the special courts there is no possibility of appeal. The conspirators are currently being held in Kingsford Detention Center where they await their sentence.

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Social Credit System to be Implemented Nation-Wide

Klaes fan'e Berch, Prime Minister of Greater Eskild & Folkslieder of the Nasjonale Folkspartij, announced in a speech early Saturday morning that the nation's experimental "Social Credit" system was to begin a new phase of 'consolidation & expansion'. The Social Credit System is a set of databases & initiatives aimed at monitoring and evaluating the trustworthiness of individuals & corporations in regards to their economic and social reputation. It functions by enacting restrictions for 'untrustworthy' behaviors such as failing to obey traffic laws, failing to comply with waste-sorting rules, or cheating on official while providing rewards for 'trustworthy' behavior such as donating blood, volunteering for community service, or donating to charity. Early versions of the Social Credit System were implemented in a select few regions of Eskild beginning in 2015, and officials say that the results of these pilot tests have been very promising. According to them the System helps to "improve the overall trustworthy of the population, encourage adherence to proper moral values, & promote honest dealings in all facets of society" and "improve cooperation with the state & party on all levels of society". And the upper echelons of the government agree, as evidenced by the Folkslieder's statement that the Social Credit System will be fully implemented in its fully developed form across the whole of Eskild "by decade's end".