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Just for the record both of mine are "non-entries."  It would be too long of a swim for me to get there, and though mine has Prosecutor Fargo in it, it relates to a time before anything in the Dredd series so doesn't apply.  Thanks for the kind thought though!

K2

500;

Nope, just plain old high-speed cable as a service direct to the site.  Once again, I'm betting it's due to the yahoo email, however I don't like using our internet provider emails except for direct personal/business interactions with people I know personally.

Thanks again!  Maybe I'll try one of our provider accounts one day.  I'll think on it.

K2

500; No luck, thanks for the help in any case

K2

No apology needed, and I understand why you wouldn't throw me a bone in the way of a correction.

Sorry to trouble.

K9... Err I mean K2

Hey guys;

Thanks for all of that, every little bit helps set things up to play out in the future yet being 20+ years after the fact may not matter as much.  Never the less, it's been fun putting together every little bit and piece I can find regarding Fargo to formulate a whole personality.  I've even found a couple of frames of when he is speaking with Dredd and Rico when they are young.  His statement of; "Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, they were promised that too--"  That plays in directly into what transpires in my story.

(Though I may have mentioned it previously)  The lead (Rokka-Kae) character in my story made a promise to a Triad back in Hong Kong.  Once she realizes the foresight of the one who had her make it, once in the U.S. she has a then guard also make the same promise to her.  When that guard raises up to being the U.S. Attorney General, she realizes the insightfulness of it and agrees to bring a new young prosecutor to Rokka-Kae so that they can both try and fulfill their promises.  Naturally Rokka-Kae and the USAG also have Fargo make that same promise which hopefully one day he will fulfill.

That promise being:
"When, not if... but when you realize what you have been fighting for and believed in all of your life turns out to be wrong, that you not let pride, vanity or apathy keep you from trying to change it to what is right."

A simple thing, yet any of you with a few years behind you will understand regret.

K2

500; Will do, though it has been over numerous attempts, days, and times that I have tried.

Thanks again!

K2

["Whoops, looks like something went wrong."]

Any specific error messages? or did you just a blank page?

Thanks for the response lewism!  500, It shifts to a blank page with this as a narrow banner at the top.

"Whoops, looks like something went wrong."

It does that with any and every  action/entry I try to make be it contact, login, signup, etc..

Thanks guys for helping out!

K2

I've not been able to register an account, or even send a "contact us" message via the shopping portal.  Is it currently inoperable?  All I can guess otherwise is that yahoo email accounts aren't accepted.  Unfortunately, I can't contact them to find out.

Any insights?

K2

[Lest ye be Judged]

Just an update in that you all helped me out tremendously.  Currently the (now) short-novel which I expect to be around 80K words, as of Chapter-23 (including much of the backmatter) is has hit 53K-words.  The story itself has evolved to something I'm very pleased with keeping in theme with the existing 2000AD storyline.  More importantly, I believe it sets a very reasonable and realistic tone as to the "hows and whys" of Eustace Fargo and the Street-Judge system.  Neither being as blunt and simplistic as you might expect.

Additional information which explains in detail the world as it stands as of 2029, how it got to such a point, the government and culture, etc. is extensive, even including an explanation of the "grid" or mapping system which only applies to my story.

In any case, the current story's contents are as follows:

Lest ye be Judged

Preface (including acknowledgements which means you guys and this forum):
Introduction:

Table of Contents:
1. Harvest Time
2. Crush of Humanity
3. To be a Reaper
4. Into the Land of Madness
5. Horror Compounded
6. To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
7. Training Day
8. With Furious Wrath
9. Grappling with a Monster
10. The Mad Clown
11. Revelations
12. Ever Deeper
13. The Dancing Instructor
14. Way of the Future
15. Altered States
16. Let it Flow
17. Respect da Choka
18. Eeny Meeny Miny Ho
18. Parking Old School
19. Same Difference
20. Another Day
21. Onward to Eden
22. Oasis of Humanity
23. Hide and Seek
24. Tin Can Alley
25. Policy of Erasure
26. A Mother's Wrath
27. Tower Horizon
28. Finger of God
29. American Atlas

Clearing the Buffers ~ A Postscript

xx. Outro: Breathe by Télépopmusik

Epilogue:

Appendix:
xx. Vocabulary of the New Order Federal Government
xx. Equipment of Reaper-379, Rokka-Kae (Rahk'kuh-Kay)
xx. Pastoral Pidgin/Slang Vocabulary (122-count)

(Saved Deleted Chapters)
xx. The Woo-Bar
xx. Knockin' at the Woo-Bar

(Reference Documentation Not for Public Viewing)
xx. Archival Film Footage (transcript) of Chief Justice Eustace Fargo
xx. Chief Justice Fargo's Last Conversation with Judge Dredd
xx. Existing 2000AD Fargo/Dredd/Mega-City One/"Dredd-world" History


Thank you all so much once again!  I'm really enjoying this project and due to your help am very pleased with how it has evolved!

K2

Because I'm using it in the novella I'm trying to finish up:

Breathe by Télépopmusik
https://youtu.be/1DTNO0Mwhhg

K2

"We need guns to defend against tyranny" is kind of predicated on the idea that gun nutters would actually fight back against tyranny rather than embrace it - a lot of them seem quite happy with a Russian stooge in the White House.

How can I argue against such blunt logic?  Odder still, look up the connections with Alexander Torshin (good friend of Putin, Russian banker) contributing huge sums to the NRA (because everyone knows how much Soviets love the idea of Americans having guns) wherein the NRA then contributes huge funds to Trump.  Coincidence?

Like I said, the NRA has little to do with guns anymore.

K2

Oh and for the record, the reason I came to this forum to gather information to write a fictional story, is about the coming of the Judges because of abuses of a president known as the "Mad Clown" which sent the world into a spiral flush... and it's about to be taken back... The government that is.

Oddly, my story set in 2029, regarding events of 2019-2029, isn't so much about the 2029 president but the one before 2019/2020.

Kooky, huh?

K2

["Well regulated militia"]

Herein is exactly what I meant about two different societies speaking two different languages and not understanding the others viewpoint.   You all keep seeing "Well regulated militia" in the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights... Though Red Dawn makes for a fun movie, fact of the matter is that come that point something went terribly wrong with our well equipped and trained military.

As I stated 2-pages back, Americans see this:

Secondly, the 2nd Amendment is not just about defending against other nations, or other individuals.  It is most importantly about defending against your own government if they decide that the constitution can be scrapped and they can just take charge (The Declaration of Independence spells it out much better than I ever could... Simply replace Great Britain with "the U.S. Government").

Seriously, the U.S. DoI is an amazing document to read, words well worth everyone in the world taking to heart... However, to save you the trouble of looking it up, I'll just paste the passage here:

-That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--


Americans view their right to bear arms first and foremost to state "we have the right to defend ourselves and our nation with military equivalent force..."  BUT also, MOST importantly, that we have the right to not be forced into a situation... BY OUR government, wherein we cannot defend ourselves from it and take back the government and return it to the people.


Forget Trump... The guy is as whacky and self serving as they come, I'm still stewing over that.  Forget the NRA... Though they started with good intentions for some time now they have used firearms as their soapbox to control politicians (the same ones that the nation may one day need to be taken back from).

It is an Americans God given right, as all peoples of the world, to not be oppressed by their own government.  Why I'm explaining this I don't know in that: We hold these truths to be self-evident...

K2

Those with mental health issues are more likely to be a danger to themselves or themselves victims than a threat to society.

Agreed 100%... However, if no one stands up to help them, or directs them to help, or directs help to them, then I suspect it doesn't get much better.

In the end, though I don't like it I'm a firm believer in "to change the system, you have to be a part of the system."  That lends itself directly to what I've been saying about family/community/state/nation responsibility.  Therein lies one of the big problems.  No one wants to be responsible or have to contribute or participate, they all just want to do their own thing in their own little world hoping that everyone else will do their part too.

Finally as well although no one likes hearing this, that applies to this discussion.  We were each raised (though perhaps some hatched) and shaped by our families, our community and our national standards.  That goes back to again, responsibility in raising our own and responsibility for community.  So really us (the barbarian savages) and you folks from the UK are speaking totally different languages from totally different perspectives... Besides the fact the conversation is difficult with the British not speaking English, by not having the same values and viewpoints raised so differently, it makes finding a mutual resolution difficult at best.

K2

Make the jokes, everyone who knows the place does!

Oh no, you're not baiting me in with that one.  I've seen British TV and movies, I'm pretty sure you fellas don't have a sense of humor.

In any case... Once again, forget Trump who I personally refer to as the, hmm, how to say this... Posterior-Clown.  Trump is all about destroying America from the government on down.  As to mental health, there have always been depressed people, every war has produced people who suffer with PTSD, etc., etc. to flat out homicidal crazies.  This goes right back to responsibility to your community, and thusly, visa versa.  Now I agree that the old standard of "he's nuts, shun him or lock him up" isn't right, but in the same vein of being a responsible citizen and good neighbor you would offer help, and if you can't help (more than likely), than you alert others in your community who can, if anything for simply the safety of the community let alone the individual.

There are a gazillion examples I could use, yet even the old standard (not ideal) of excluding a person or family from interacting with yours, socializing with others and so on was better than nothing.  AND that also applies to when one in your own family goes off the rails.  Your responsibility is to their well being, and the community.  It forced someone to either interact properly, or they didn't get to interact... No doubt making things worse for them, but, they didn't have an opportunity to interact, influence, right down to even reproduce.  Eliminate that societal buffer yet don't replace it with a better way of which their are many, and crazy does what crazy does.

It's about being a good citizen, but you British know that very well being so domesticated and all that.

Finally, I'm Native American.  When faced with a government that had guns and we didn't, it didn't exactly work out so well.  Then again we're not a compliant lot when it comes to obeying our government.  So you've got us beat there

K2