French and Moland vs. Republic of Congo

[Dîn-Heru]

Moland was a second lieutenant in His Majesty the King's Guard, as far as I know he didn't serve his compulsory service in the Guard, so the ID is that of an officer (the pink one stating rank and such) not the blue one us privates had. Which was "destroyed" when we were discharged by punching a few holes in it.

Are they guilty, I have no idea. The monetary claim against the Norwegian state however is just ridiculous. (Especially give that the statistical value of a human life (in America) is in the range between 1 and 8 mill USD), and that there is no ties to official Norwegian involvement in them being in Kongo in the first place. The court proceedings is a farce, hopefully the appeal court belongs to this planet and not outer space, so that they can get a fair trial.

[HoreTore]

I am sorry do you really believe this.

Yes, and that might be because it's.... True?

Congo gives people the death penalty, yes. But they haven't executed someone for a long time. The procedure is that the prisoner sends a letter to the president asking pardon, which the president doesn't reply to. As long as he doesn't reply, the execution cannot be carried out, thus turning the sentence into de facto life in prison.

Of course, you could argue that spending time in a congo prison equals a death penalty....

Moland was a second lieutenant in His Majesty's Guard, as far as I know he didn't serve his compulsory service in the Guard, so the ID is that of an officer (the pink one stating rank and such) not the blue one us privates had. Which was "destroyed" when we were discharged by punching a few holes in it.

Ah. Well, given the army way of handing things in after you've quit, I can't imagine it would've been hard to sneak it out as a souvenir.

There's a reason I have a complete uniform(perm), 2 "ullfrotte's", my boots, 5 AG-3 magazines(the backup clean set I had so I never had to clean the set I used...) and more socks than I can count.

Everything supposed to be returned.
None of it paid for.
The document for turning in stuff has it listed as turned in, all signed and good.
Everything is in my closet as we speak.

[Dîn-Heru]

Hehe, the ironic part is that if they get out of the hellhole that is Congo they risk facing charges for not having turned in their ID's apparently.. (but still better than a life sentence in a Congolese prison..)

As for sneaking the ID out for us regulars, perhaps not as easy, as they collected all of them and went berserk with the hole-punch machine before they handed them back to us as souvenirs... (officers don't face such scrutiny it would seem..)

[Sigurd]

Hehe, the ironic part is that if they get out of the hellhole that is Congo they risk facing charges for not having turned in their ID's apparently..

As for sneaking the ID out for us regulars, perhaps not as easy, as they collected all of them and went berserk with the hole-punch machine before they handed them back to us as souvenirs... (officers don't face such scrutiny it would seem..)

Thats right... It is a hard earned card.

Well I don't have the new fancy pansy ID card. In my time we had the red book and the "King's card".
The last fits nicely in my wallet and reminds me of the good old days.

Ah well... the court is finally in session running late, again, which seems like the norm in Congo. (has it ever started on time - 0900?) It was declared in session 12 minutes past 11.