Town Meeting

[john-adams-1776.livejournal.com]

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."

Comments

[kzadbhat.livejournal.com]

"Since property isn't much of an issue here, our idea of law would be simple-- we'd stop people from doing things that would hurt other people. And since it was brought up before, sparring and that sort of thing wouldn't count."

[under-arrest-d.livejournal.com]

"The police where I come from at least don't typically deal with emotional damage. We've got no authority to deal with things that aren't physical in nature. The child spanking question I'm going to consider rhetorical, as I haven't seen a plethora of children running around at this time, but unless you were beating the child, then no, I don't think it would count. Lightly backhanding also does not count as a beating. Other cases, we'd take case by case."

[kzadbhat.livejournal.com]

"I come from a city where people from entirely different cultures and species manage to live together in relative peace. I think there's a big difference between varying customs and things that should be wrong no matter what the culture, and those differences are mostly clear. I'm a dwarf myself, by adoption, and I wouldn't support any law in Ankh-Morpork that challenged most dwarfish customs, but I still would support the police stopping gang violence between dwarfs and trolls."

[kzadbhat.livejournal.com]

"If you'd heard what I'd just discussed with Rukia," Carrot said pleasantly, with no trace of condescension in his voice, "Detective Orcott and I were never promoting a system where the police would decide what would become of the people we arrested. We'd leave that up to everyone, so our biases wouldn't be an issue in that case."