Is River a Slave?

POSTED BY: Nogard
UPDATED: Monday, January 11, 2010 19:39
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Originally posted by Cavalier:
"the historical likelyhood that anyone would prosecute you for killing one"

I would say that Rivers problem was not that she did not have a right to the protection of the law - it was that the Alliances' law enforcement arm is less powerful than whatever branch of its security services took an interest in her.

People in Stalin's Russia had legal rights too - but they made no detectable difference if you fell into the hands of the cheka/KGB.

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Well yes, I think we're talking about the same thing. It's not that she's legally unprotected (shown in the absconded slave vs. fugitive distinction above) it's that the likelihood of her being treated fairly by the surface everyday "law"--which is separate from and overridden by whatever branch is hunting her--is about nil.

So the historical point I was getting at was "four legs good, two legs better"--not that her legal status was inconsequential, but that now she has disappeared, the only group that cares or knows about her legal status is also the one trying to recapture her, or, barring that, kill her.

At this point I wonder what that Operative's exact purpose was...to recapture, or to kill? If recapture, who would he return her to--the same program, restructured? Since the powers that be are obviously unhappy with the way Mathias ran his.

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Traditionally, the common law presumed that everyone was free until proven otherwise. If that still holds, everyone who meets River would be required to assume she is free.

As for the Operatives orders - who knows?

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