Currently, everyone is able to request for an appeal if they are brigged. This includes hostile factions.
and currently, if one of the hostile factions is per say..the CLF. They can request an appeal, potentially being able to be released, especially if they don’t get their appeal form. Lets think this for a moment, the CLF are a known terrorist organization, they use several tactics often known used by you know..terrorists. So if we return to the topic of appeals, it makes no such sense to allow appeals for CLF to begin with. They should never be released under any circumstance, even “friendly” CLF are brigged. With how the current Marine Law works, they are given the same appeal rights as everyone else and if the MPs in question are new to the role or just plain incompentent in the law process, the CLF can be released even though they blatantly are still hostile. Not to mention there was a recent CO ML change that they are no longer able to issue Discretionary Arrests to civilians such as the CLF which would have been the last barrier before they end up being released due to a technicality or the CMP’s decision.
TLDR: The CLF should not have the same rights to appeals and should never be released under any circumstance except for hijack. It doesn’t make sense that they do while they are still hostile to the marines (they are literal terrorists) and will end up becoming a major threat to the ship if they somehow get released due to how the current appeal process works. It can happen and if it does, it becomes a major headache for the players and the staff.
The core problem is the potential of being released to begin with. Doesn’t matter if hostile or not, terrorists shouldn’t have any freedom while on the Almayer and the way how the ML works, they are able to obtain it. Them being hostile just reinforces how stupid this can get on how MPs are OOCly forced to release a terrorist while they’re obviously planning to kill people on the ship.
While there is some truth to this concern, such problem can be best described as skill issue. You can always postpone the release and ask Provost or HC for the CLF member to be kept detained despite the procedure break. Alternatively, You can always arrest the CLF member on some other technicality as soon as they get released or shortly after.
With enough ML knowledge and dedication, a CLF member will not leave brig. Believe me. And the mentioned fax responder will probably help you too anyway, as they are bound by the holy fax responder rules to not release CLF without express staff permission (although it technically only applies to appeals, I don’t think a Provost responder will set a CLF member free)
Besides. We all know that if not the magical “all charges are void if the appeal form not provided” is probably one of the very few, if not the only thing keeping the prisoner rights sanctity in place.
Why should someone proven to be working for a terrorist association be given right by the UA of all things? Do the guantanamo terrorists even have human rights in the real world?
I’d probably not use guantanamo bay as an example, but the USCM at this time in lore isn’t known for being exactly a “good guy”, so you could probably state that their rights are basically stripped away in an authoritarian move.
Thats why i brought up guantanamo, as thats the famous “Terrorist Resort” of todays authority. But thinking the U “Glass the austrailains” A would either treat terrorists the same, or better? Thats just cope thinking when you get jailed as CLF.
