Town Meeting

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John awoke at his usual early hour on the morning of the town meeting. He dressed with slightly more than usual care in his suit of clothes from home, broke his fast with a light meal, and headed to the Golden Horseshoe to ensure that things were the way he wanted.

The chairs and small tables were already perfectly arranged, but John dragged a podium he found backstage out to the front of the curtain. Then he bustled about in the kitchen area setting out drinks and whatever small snacks he could find back there.

Before long, interested citizens began filing in and he went up to the podium. There was no microphone because he'd never heard of such a thing, but John Adams never had difficulty making himself heard.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome. If you would please pick up any refreshments you'd care for and take your seats, we'll begin in just a few minutes."

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Re: Tl;dr, I apologize.

[veronica-pi.livejournal.com]

Veronica lifted her hand to ask a question.

[under-arrest-d.livejournal.com]

"Yes, you?" Leon asked, looking significantly more frazzled than he did at the beginning of his speech."

[veronica-pi.livejournal.com]

"I'm Veronica," Veronica said. "Look, I'm not entirely opposed to the idea of us establishing some kind of authority here. But it sounds like you want this police force to be the judge, jury, executioner and governor as well, and that's never going to end well. If we do anything here, there has to be some kind of oversight."

[under-arrest-d.livejournal.com]

Leon shook his head. "Honestly, for now, the most we're going to do is lock the people in the fights up for maybe a night, until they cool their head, possibly less than that. If a serious crime arises, then we don't intend to make the decisions. We'll take the decisions to the people and have them decide. As has already been noted, there are obviously going to be problems with this, but we're open to finding out another way to do things."