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Washington D.C. (INN)— In the wake of the Utopia/Proteus scandal, the Directive has announced its intention to challenge Utopia's position as the pre-eminent international peace-keeping force.
"Utopia has proven its vulnerability to professional espionage," Arnold Harris, Director of the American branch of the international intelligence agency, said in a prepared statement yesterday. "It is time to curtail its pseudo-legal powers of nova law enforcement and allow an official governmental organization to take over. The Directive has resources equal to Utopia's, as well as experience and security measures that a young private organization will lack by definition."
The proposal, which Harris says the agency has been drafting since the so-called "Angel of Wrath" incident, proclaims the Directive's legal pre-eminence on nova issues within the nations that maintain the Directive — the United States, Great Britain, the Russian Confederation, Japan, and Germany — and requests that the United Nations recognize its authority in all other member nations as well.
It goes on to condemn Utopia's "extra-legal" authority and asks the member nations individually, and the United Nations as a whole, to ban private organizations, "nova or baseline," from exercising "non-existent enforcement authority" without proper and official recognition from each individual nation.
Senator James Helms (R-NC) was more direct on the issue. "These so-called 'Utopians' have proven themselves to be a threat to everything our great nation stands for. This Project Proteus is what Utopia is really all about — manipulating decent, God-fearing men to allow leeches, heathens and homosexuals to prosper at the expense of the rest of America. And the world."
The response from Project Utopia, unsurprisingly, was swift and uncompromising. "The Directive is throwing stones while making speeches from a glass house," Caestus Pax replied. "Their own activities have bordered on the Orwellian, we have found ties between Proteus and their organization, and Utopia's efforts to battle Proteus — both before and after the Bahrain incident — are well known. If the Directive wants to take a more public role in fighting crime and terrorism, more power to them. If they want to tear down Utopia, they're going to have a fight on their hands."
The Directive has dismissed the accusation of Proteus involvement without further comment. In an official statement from the White House, President Portman has come out in opposition to the current proposal. President Portman went on to say, however, that a treaty revision giving the Directive more leeway "without undermining other allies in the war against terror" would be acceptable.
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