MapleSAP News [Oct 29- Nov 4]
Haloween Special

MapleSAP wishes all its readers a happy and safe Haloween!

PUMPKIN PALOOZA IS MACK, WITH MEMORIAL SERVICE
|Kerning City|
This year’s Pumpkin Palooza festival, which goes from Haloween until Thanksgiving, will begin on a rather somber note this year. The Pumpkin Co. which runs the festival announced on Monday that the first day will be to remember the many people; most of them Permanoob civillians, who fell victim to attacks committed by supporters of the Justice Arrow organization. Every year, the Pumpkin Palooza is plagued by incidents of violence against the many harmless hackers, youth, and children; many of whom are from Kerning’s Azn districts.
At the 2005 Pumpkin Palooza festival, groups of heavilly armed J.A. members and supporters charged into the festival grounds and opened fire; killing up to 23 people, and injuring many more before the PumpkinSquad guild responded.
Five of the attackers were caught and arrested by police.
Among the victims were famous Permanoob celebrities Osuwarii, KawaiiBerry, and MadButter’s sidekick Devieu.
The GM ordered the festival to be ended on Haloween night following the violence.

This year, the Palooza will go on as scheduled, but security will be tight, and people entering will be searched to make sure no weapons are being carried in.
For more info, call the Pumpkin Palooza hotline at 318-26643 or /PPF2007

PEACH BLOSSOM ISLAND CLOSED
|Ammoria|
After a month of almost no business, Peach Blossom Island’s wedding services collapsed under the weight of their own operating costs and were forced to close. On Monday, PBI chief Sam Yoong filed for bankrupcy in Singapura, and submitted his business license as ordered. Nearly all of the wedding resort’s 600 employees were laid off this week and returned to the SEA Lands after they were denied permits to apply for employment in Ammoria; where demand for new employees is high.
PBI’s cash flow dried up after the MNHR allowed couples in the SEA Lands to marry at Ammoria instead, and the economic forecaster and financial advisors warned that they would all be over their heads in debt by the end of the year and fail to pay the taxes.
The fate of the island’s resorts will lie in the hands of the SEA Lands government.

ZAHKS RIVER DEEM DANGEROUS
|Kerning|
The Zahks River that runs from the glaciers of Kankoku Mountain to the swamps was tested last week, and contains over 15 times the safe limit of alcohol and magickium particles, the primary ingredients of mana fuel. The river is a popular swimming and fishing area in the summer and a great ice skating spot in the winter. The Kerning City Dept. of Envornment declared the river off limits and yellow tape was raised to mark off the area. “We are not joking here, fines will be 10 million, no less even for setting one toe past the yellow line! A glacier up there cracked, openeing up deposits of frozen alcohol and magicium, and the levels are far beyond the safe limits,”
An expedition team is to be dispatched in a few days.

AIR SHIP FARE HIKES NOTICE
Tired of paying 80K for a one way ticket between Ellinia and Orbis? Well the price is to change soon.
Maple Transit announced that on January 2, the fare will rise to 90K for one way. A book of 10 tickets will only cost 850K.

*SPECIAL*
KLON LAWSUIT ‘A THREAT TO FREE SPEECH’
|Singapura| Kerning|
Media giant KLON’s massive 2.2 billion meso lawsuit against STAMP, a small time youth operated newspaper,
is a threat to the freedom of speech everyone has under federal Maple law. If KLON wins, STAMP will be crushed to crap and we will unwillingly take this as a wrongful lesson to keep quiet. KLON is suing STAMP because these kids exposed KLON’s lies about the Justice Arrow in their recent documentaries on Henesys.

KLON portrays the J.A. as an organiziation of exclusively righteous bowmen who wage a holy religious crusade against the rest of us (mainly people from the SEA Lands, hackers, permanoobs, magicians, and children) because we don’t all uphold their twisted conservative moral values. In their videos, KLON failed to mention anything of the Justice Arrow’s crimes; from their barbaric wars against Victoria’s Sharenian tribes and fairies in the past to their attacks and kidnappings of people and kids in Kerning, Ellinia and Lith Harbor. Instead, they portrayed the J.A. as the angelic saviors sent by the Universal Migrator. The documentary ‘Wrongly Accused’ broadcasts the message that the J.A. were framed and accused by their haters (victims), while the attacks were carried out by idiot posers looking to stir up trouble and save their own asses by saying ‘the Justice Arrow did it.”
Not one negative comment or acknowlegement of public oppostion to the J.A. was mentioned in the videos that are constantly being broadcast on radio and TV accross the southern territories. It is definately a tactic to gain the J.A. some public favor and to keep the government away.

Last week, J&M Ham Associates filed the suit in Orbis Supreme Court, and the first hearing was held.
The poor guys at STAMP had to use up their own savings accounts to get to Orbis and pay some of the court fees, and to pay to validate some of their evidence, some of which KLON’s lawyers negated, calling the articles a violation of copyright. The judge allowed this cheapshot to pass, and the date for the main hearing, will be anything but a walk in the park.

It only gets worse: J&M Ham Associates’ attorneys travelled to Singapura and consulted with legal firms representing the medicine companies who tried to kill STAMP in court over the ‘Mozzie Cases.’
The suit was re-filed with at least five Singapura clients, one being Peach Blossom Island Resorts.
This week, the orginial 2.2 billion meso suit was re-filed and now sits at a cash magnitude of 500 billion mesos!
These legal attacks are the losers’ response for the effects caused by STAMP’s harmless work in informing the people.
This year STAMP submitted a 300 page report to the MNHR about people’s concerns for PBI’s outrageous expenses. Under law, STAMP did nothing; no crime was committed. It was the MNHR’s actions that caused Peach Blossom Island Resorts to die out from lack of busniss.

The Mozzie Cases were medical companies’ repeated failures to book STAMP for spewing out crucial information to the public on how to prevent mozzie mosquitoes. Without mozzies, people don’t get bitten, dont get sick, and dont need expensive medicines to flush out the diseases the insects carry. Corrupt corporates fell prey to STAMP’s investigations, many cash embezzlers landed in jail.
STAMP’s expose of crappy hospital conditions pushed the Singapura territorial government to pass strict health standards at all medical facilities.
In all, the newspaper’s work resulted in several things: The mozzies died out this year, people seeking affordable marriage got what they wanted, stolen money was returned and the economy recovered, and under new health regulations, the mortality rate at hospitals decreased 10-fold, and recovery times cut down for patients.
In the spring of this year, STAMP’s president Yaman Kow recieved the SilverStar award for his efforts.

But now the tables turned and bad guys want some revenge. The new lawsuit could no-doubt vaporize everyone who worked for STAMP and it’s parent companies Singa Times and The Kerning Sun newspapers.
On top of that, J&M Ham is also scheming to target the defense attorney Ram Hoikensan on charges of dangerous driving and manslaughter (In June, Hoikensan was going over the speedlimit when some other guy rammed him into oncoming traffic. Hoikensan struck another car instantly killing the 2 occupants on impact)
Here is the ugly of the ugly: If J& M Ham’s lawyers manage to get Hoikensan convicted and jailed, there will be nothing to protect STAMP from impending doom. Here is the nasty of the nasty: J&M Ham is looking to add the Justice Arrow to the case in hopes of booking STAMP on mass defamation charges.
Singapura’s government won’t send a lawyer or even raise a finger to aid STAMP’s defense, because everyone thinks only the Kerning branch, who they claim no responsibility for, is being targeted. In Kerning, The Sun newspaper is doing all it can to detatch from STAMP before they get flame broiled in court.
The ‘Save the Stamp’ mobilization was already crushed by the police and GMs who raided their offices and arrested
the major activists.

To simplify everything: KLON and its allies are going to crush a free press company for spreading information and raising awareness. The suit is designed to scare the crap out of all of us and discourage further ‘press of dissent.’
The bad guys do this because they want to carry on their tyranny and abuse and to sit on top without anyone pushing them off, and they will do whatever it takes.

Under Maple law, if a lawsuit is filed, and the prosecutor wins, the loser must pay the money. Nobody alone will ever be able to pay up 500 billion mesos and the bill might fall on Kerning City council. Kerning’s budget will be sapped dry and they will become economically paralyzed. As they try to recover, taxes and prices will skyrocket, services will be slashed, everything in town just might stop working and grind to a halt.

Not only are the people of STAMP under attack, but Kerning City is also under the gun as well.
This advice is for the one perpose: to advise the public.

A message from the staff of MapleSAP Magazine