The man killed a chieftain in a Minmatar cultural festival, and lest we forget he killed numerous others as well. Let the Minmatar have their justice. It boggles my mind sometimes why my own kind whine over things like this.

"Justice is the only thing that was served here. To extend this trial for the sake of allowing the accused to offer an ineffective defense would have made it a mockery."

Well said Shakor, the man had his chance.. no need to let the man live any longer for his atrocities.

This. All of my this. Who cares if he was killed? He didn't deserve any mercy.

In recent years the Federation has been 'invaded' three times, None of these events have resulted in a counter-invasion. Not when the Amarr or Caldari attacked us with MUCH larger forces.
So why, in the name of sanity, would we attack the Republic for sending a much smaller fleet under FAR more emotionally charged circumstances?

The man killed a chieftain in a Minmatar cultural festival, and lest we forget he killed numerous others as well. Let the Minmatar have their justice. It boggles my mind sometimes why my own kind whine over things like this.

"Justice is the only thing that was served here. To extend this trial for the sake of allowing the accused to offer an ineffective defense would have made it a mockery."

Well said Shakor, the man had his chance.. no need to let the man live any longer for his atrocities.

What has been done, has been done and we can agree or disagree with the handling of the situation till we're a blue in the face.

What saddens me the most is, the more this conversation continues, the more attention is given to a terrorist and his action than to the unfortunate victims, survivors, and their families.

Both sides, Republic and Federation, have, by all estimates, done a poor job of handling the situation from the start. Instead of crying foul and pointing fingers, let us take a moment to learn from the mistakes made and move forward.

Remember the fallen.

So to "Let them have their justice" We just have to forget about the fact that the Federation was INVADED and thousands of Federation Navy personnel killed. Have their justice to continue to insult Federation legal systems trying and sentencing a man who killed federation citizens.

So the rouge Republic gets to have its justice and screw everyone who died by their hand to get it and screw their allies is that correct?

No. There must be a response to this.

Yes, how dare we be upset at being backstabbed. How dare we!

Ignore Cypher. He's an armchair chickenhawk who neither feels strongly enough about anything to fight for it in a militia nor operate from a corporation not covered under CONCORD special protections. It is only by hiding behind the Sebiestor Tribe corporation's unassailable position that he feels secure enough to issue his poorly reasoned screed-ettes. In effect he is a child running around saying "Pay attention to me! Pay attention to me!" while the adults talk.

Funny that you consider the Federation that has done so much to help the people of the Republic a "Poisonous ally" I doubt that any other group would have taken an invasion and killing of its military as some kind of misunderstanding that could be potentially solved by giving the invaders what they want later on.

The Federation did not invade their allies and kill their military. Please do not compare the response of the Federation which by all estimates have been amazingly patient to that of the savagery of the Republic that now considers their allies sovereignty optional.

This conversation will continue and hopefully the Federation will take action against our so called "Friends" because it must.

Why wouldn't they? The Federation gains so much by keeping to Republic blue to them:

• They benefit from injections of art and culture from our artistically and culturally superiors Tribes.
• They have a more martially proficient ally at their beck and call.
• They gain a major, friendly trade partner and a woefully open market for their trashy music and smutty daytime holodramas which invariably flop in the State and the Empire.
• As long as the slaver is looking at us, he isn't looking at them - which is really the core of it.

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Holy crap, it's Matar's answer to DK.

I do not have a problem with him being executed. Anyone with sense could see the decision to extradite was a death sentence in the short term. I will shed no tears over Broteau's death, nor would I shed them for any of his ilk. I have far more important things to do that over.

I do, however, find the second trial itself to have been entirely unnecessary. As has been stated multiple times before in this thread and others, anyone who expected another result from such a trial was naive and fooling themselves at best.

That is what the "show" was. Holding a trial when it did not need to be held. The Federation knew Broteau was dead the moment he was transferred to the Republic and taken across the border. The Republic knew this. Everyone else knew this.

So why waste money on a trial where everything is predetermined? Why allow him to breathe the air that he has no business breathing, even for the two days it took to go through the trial and then execute him?

If it would have been so insulting to the Republic to allow him to live long enough to provide an "ineffective defense", surely it is just as insulting to have made him, the victims and everyone else watch a trial that was scripted as a holovision series, rather than just getting it over and done with as quickly as possible?

If nothing else, at least this part of things is over and done with. It would be nice to move on and try and deal with the rest.

We don't have to turn anyone. They already are killing our people.

So to "Let them have their justice" We just have to forget about the fact that the Federation was INVADED and thousands of Federation Navy personnel killed. Have their justice to continue to insult Federation legal systems trying and sentencing a man who killed federation citizens.

So the rouge Republic gets to have its justice and screw everyone who died by their hand to get it and screw their allies is that correct?

No. There must be a response to this.

Yes, exactly that. Let them have their justice. What happened at Colelie was an incredibly unfortunate misunderstanding. We are a culture that isn't of vengeance or revenge. Should we ever become one it'd be a start to yet another sad age beget by very own arrogance. Minmatar are not Caldari and a senseless, vengeful war, would perhaps be the end of both of our beautiful cultures and civilizations.

The Federation Navy personnel at Colelie fought and died against a small sect of Minmatar who were hellbent on achieving justice, we feared and made a decision. That decision was a tragic one. They died with honor believing they were protecting Gallente from an impending invasion, leave it at that. For you to accuse the entire Minmatar of one fleets actions is a massive dishonor to what both sides were trying to do on that fatefilled day.

Remember what happened, honor the Gallente dead and turn the cheek. Minmatar are a good people with a culture much different than ours. We should have enough sense to understand before we are understood.

What has been done, has been done and we can agree or disagree with the handling of the situation till we're a blue in the face.

What saddens me the most is, the more this conversation continues, the more attention is given to a terrorist and his action than to the unfortunate victims, survivors, and their families.

Both sides, Republic and Federation, have, by all estimates, done a poor job of handling the situation from the start. Instead of crying foul and pointing fingers, let us take a moment to learn from the mistakes made and move forward.

Remember the fallen.

Fact of the matter is, the Federation does in fact need the alliance with Minmatar.

What happened at Colelie was an incredibly unfortunate misunderstanding. We are a culture that isn't of vengeance or revenge.

The Federation Navy personnel at Colelie fought and died against a small sect of Minmatar who were hellbent on achieving justice, we feared and made a decision. That decision was a tragic one. They died with honor believing they were protecting Gallente from an impending invasion, leave it at that. For you to accuse the entire Minmatar of one fleets actions is a massive dishonor to what both sides were trying to do on that fatefilled day.

Remember what happened, honor the Gallente dead and turn the cheek. Minmatar are a good people with a culture much different than ours. We should have enough sense to understand before we are understood.

We are a culture that isn't of vengeance or revenge.