Thank you, Shadow. I believe this has progressed at an appropriate pace.
A foreword: I too am not thrilled with the timing of these logs’ delivery. The explanation was that Haitianstates was not a publicly-disclosed operation until November, 2024, and that TEP was warned back in 2020 with as much information as the asset could provide without potentially jeopardizing the operation, but I agree with the Defense that providing these during an election where the defendant is a candidate could be perceived as interference and complicates my position as a prosecutor on this case; it could, however, also be viewed as highly relevant to the security of our government, as again, a hostile foreign agent could be running for delegate, which may have reminded and spurred the purveyors of the evidence to deliver. Ultimately, the court’s judgment will decide how we are to perceive all this. I will remind the Defense that he had the opportunity to question the witness who forwarded the evidence regarding his timing, in order to strengthen his case, but that he chose not to.
Regarding the overall response from the Defense:
I don’t know how else to put it: this defense is bewildering, as is the apparent confidence with which the Defense presented it. To me, it raises more concerns than it alleviates. It would seem to me that the Defense might have been better off pleading no contest, because this is almost equally inexcusable as taking the Prosecution’s evidence at face value: you have shown yourself in DMs conspiring with the principal architect of TEP’s attempted coup in 2019 consistently for several months and within less than a year of the coup attempt, regarding operations against a treaty ally, TSP (treaty established 6/28/2020), both before, during, and after the alliance was established and while you were a citizen of TEP (a discrepancy in your argument: “I was also not a citizen of the East at the time” versus “the Prosecution’s timeline of me joining TEP in 2019 . . .”, and citizenship records from TEP that show no interruption between today and when you achieved citizenship on May 2, 2019 - certainly not “five years ago” precisely, but within three months of exactly “five years ago”: (https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/old-citizenship-application-and-welcome-thread/1590/953?) - this was also four months after you joined LWU under Dream Killers AKA Cain AKA Aeneas Rahl’s leadership: perhaps you were instructed to get citizenship in TEP, much like I was instructed to get citizenship in Lazarus by Badger / Evil Wolf, while undercover as Wrektopia), and where you are shown using TEP as “bait”, in your own words. This is assuming you don’t also have designs for capturing TEP that you’re trying to obscure by creating these logs with Fedele in anticipation of (or perhaps after; I cannot verify your screenshots’ authenticity) any intelligence being released.
In fact, if we are to believe everything you say in your defense to be true, what you are shown doing in these logs is inciting defenders to consult TEP’s leadership, as they did, and putting innocent members of our citizenry and government under suspicion and surveillance, which is exactly what happened - with these innocent citizens and the concern and stress of members of our security apparatus being collateral in your designs against a treaty ally, which you are shown to be aware of and endorsing (re: “Good, good”, and “Sounds good”, in response to Fedele, in June 2020). All the while, you sit here in our citizenry, lips zipped. Not a peep from you: no warning, nothing. Those of us at the top back then are left to wonder whether we are being infiltrated and undermined. This is the BEST reading of your defense, even though its truth remains dubious given who you are shown closely communicating and conspiring with (Fedele, Cain “Aeneal Rahl”, Lamb Stone, Evil Wolf, apparently Davelands) and our knowledge of how they operate, TEP having been among their victims in the past. And even if we are to believe all this and believe that you had no designs against TEP (you fail to mention Lamb’s comments on it later, or other commentary re: quorum raiding to prevent Commend Libertanny, as was apparently requested by members of TWP, which you would apparently have said yes to “if it was an official TWPAF thing”) (evidence drawn from the full logs provided to the Conclave during Pre-Trial), your actions and statements show a blatant disregard and outright disrespect for our sovereignty and security, and for celebrated members of our community:
I do not believe I require a motion to provide the additional screenshot, as it was pulled from the dump file which was provided to the Conclave during Pre-Trial, and will also posit the following in my closing arguments for their consideration:
Again, this begs the question of whether these actions against TEP were ordered by Jo himself, rather than done of Fedele, etc.’s own volition. The defense’s decision to deflect / throw shade on Fedele / Scardino, a “loose cannon” who was technically his subordinate while all of these logs were being generated, seems to me to be in poor taste. It also seems like a cheap trick, as I know from my own personal history working undercover in this organization / working with its affiliates that they’re entirely willing to publicly burn each other and hedge their bets by playing both sides (see Aelitia, “opposing” the coup after previously attempting to recruit an undercover Feux as Adytus “Rahl” to join TEP’s Conclave, and being subsequently rejected from joining our government) for the sake of an operation or for the sake of future operations, while remaining privately collusive. At no time did Jo, in any of these logs, tell Scardino to stop what he was doing, despite having the authority and agency to do so. Rather, he is clearly working with Scardino to whatever end the latter (or Jo himself) seeks to achieve. Jo can’t seem to decide whether he was “young, headstrong, and foolish”, or the proud leader who “revive[d] LWU” after joining the region “in a terrible state”. He also can’t seem to decide whether he is “retired”, given he obviously still has access to #command-room and remains an Alpha Emeritus, which appears to have the same permissions as Khalif, the high-ranking role he admits to holding during the coup attempt perpetrated by Fedele. If he truly “opposed” this coup (what did that opposition constitute? One RMB post?) perpetrated by the people in charge of LWU at the time, why was he almost immediately promoted by them? I know these people. They do not reward disloyalty.
I beseech the Conclave: do not believe the Defense and do not underestimate the defendant. JoWhatup is an extremely intelligent, cunning, articulate, and patient adversary who will appeal to every angle, logical or emotional, to achieve his ends and try to save face. He keeps trying to invoke the age of the evidence in order to weaken our case, yet we all know how many years have gone into efforts to capture TEP (people in this circle’s sphere of influence have tried repeatedly for almost twenty years) and other regions like it. I do not believe his memory is as “hazy” as he claims, and I do not believe that he cannot remember exactly when he became a Khalif. The Prosecution asserts that Jo is an enemy, and that he was always in the pockets of our enemies - that he is an enemy of TEP and an enemy of our allies. The depth of his organization’s subterfuge is bottomless and, simply, we believe that the defendant lies - just like his closest colleagues lie and have lied while attempting to undermine and usurp us previously. Even if we are to believe what he says about no infiltration of TEP happening in 2020, his defense falls flat and fails to defeat the charge of high treason levied against him. This action of indirectly sending an intelligence asset to our doorstep to make us question our own citizenry constitutes “an act preparatory to war”, in my mind. It “assists . . . any forces against whom the East Pacific is engaged in hostilities” by enabling people banned for treason, with whom we are clearly still engaged in hostilities re: their interactions with us and our adversaries abroad and their posts from these logs, and with whom will be engaged in hostilities forever, purely by nature, in any of their endeavors, but specifically in their hostilities against a treaty ally, and hostilities indirectly perpetrated against us by using us as “bait”. And the nerve to run for Delegate, which would be in charge of Foreign Affairs, after perpetrating this action against our treaty ally. But I digress.
Again, the Defense does not deny the authenticity of these logs: this is the fatal mistake, because their very existence, apart from any excuses or explanation, constitutes treason. Please observe the words from the defendant’s own mouth in 2020, in a hidden command channel for LWU, for exactly what they are: the conspiring of a foreign agent with TEP’s worst enemies in schemes against TEP, possibly against TSP in addition to TEP, and against anyone they think they can get the better of in any way they can imagine. Remember that this is the modus operandi of this organization of self-ascribed “lone wolves”, and consider the meaning of this expression they’ve chosen to describe themselves. Then remember that this “foreign agent” was a member of our citizenry at the time, and later a member of many other facets of our government, who never willingly shared any of this information with us, and presumably hoped it would never surface. Consider why the Defendant might have chosen never to bring these logs to our attention. Consider that we cannot verify the authenticity of the Defense’s additional evidence and that the Defense has no witnesses, and chose not to question the Prosecution’s witnesses despite apparently taking issue with one of them. Consider anything else you read in the files and images provided, as there are comments galore on how this organization looks down on and seeks to manipulate practically everyone outside itself, including its own allies (see the dump file for derisive commentary re: TBH and Antifa), and seems to view the entire world as a tool for advancing its private agendas. Consider these quotes from the accused:
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Re: Fedele, banned for high treason, treason, and sedition, obtaining citizenship again in The East Pacific, claiming that security here is “hilariously bad”, and recommending putting “four or five trusted people in [TEP]”, on May 14, 2020, JoWhatup states “I don’t want too many people in on it”, acknowledging Fedele’s actions against TEP and being an active contributor to a plot against our government and thereby committing an act of high treason,
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Re: Fedele, on July 27, 2020, claiming to be going “WA immobile once [he gets] citizenship in the East [Pacific]”: unrelated posts by JoWhatup flanking this comment seven days and a single post prior and two days and two posts after, having obviously seen Fedele say this and saying nothing to deter it, clearly expressing tacit approval of or not discouraging what Fedele is apparently doing secretly and illegally in TEP,
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A post by the Defendant 5 minutes before a post by Lamb Stone / Aleister, banned for treason, where Lamb claims he “almost got [Cain: Aeneas Rahl] back in TEP” (context unclear) on December 8, 2020: showing the Defendant was aware of whatever this was,
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Suggestions by the Defendant re: “update bending”, “[running] raids to unseat delegates to block a proposal” immediately prior to Fedele claiming his “infiltration operation has made important progress”: a comment likely aimed at The East Pacific, and demonstrating some of the underhanded tactics the Defendant is willing to employ to achieve LWU’s ends,
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All of these collectively constitute an act of omitting to prevent treason, as most of the individuals featured in these logs discussing their activities in TEP are banned for treason and barred from obtaining citizenship here; the defendant has effectively fully admitted in his case to perpetrating this offense, regardless of any excuses or explanation provided,
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Finally, not contributing to direct evidence of lawbreaking but demonstrating the character and attitude of the Defendant in ways pertaining to the charges and therefore relevant for the court’s consideration, and demonstrating that the attitude displayed in the logs from 2020 is the same one held by the Defendant today, comments from the accused re: Feux’s recent activity in Lazarus: “I ran the math, you’d have had enough to eject Tubbius/NR before TRR updated, seize the delegacy and banject McChimp. Frankly I figured you had it in the bag when I heard you were Feux, and the people who pat themselves on the back for foiling your plot were ineffective idiots . . . you should have gotten Retz on board and then approached Malice when everything was in place. Their pilers would probably have allowed you to succeed”.
I’m going to repeat this one more time: if we are to believe you, JoWhatup / Soramra / Kingdom of Napels / etc., you used us. You callously used The East Pacific like a tool, as “bait”, while you were a citizen here: used us as collateral in a dirty game played against one of our allies, then never told us about it. You did this without shame or apology, then present it to us here as if it absolves you of any wrongdoing. Why should we ever trust you, or believe anything that you say?
The Prosecution encourages the Conclave to convict and to punish this individual to the full extent of the law for the crimes of high treason and omitting to prevent treason: among, if not the most serious of crimes against our democratic government, our region, and the good society it is designed to protect. The Prosecution does not believe the Defense, and, even if it chose to, does not believe that its case would “lay suspicions to rest” or “assuage [anyone’s] concerns” as desired, but rather raises additional and very severe ones and does not defeat the Prosecution’s charges.
The Prosecution rests its case and awaits a verdict. The Prosecution also requests that the Conclave release the HTML file containing the entirety of the logs from #command-room into public domain upon conclusion of the trial.