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[norainu]

Today there was a fight between forces near Old Los Angeles in the downtown. Neither group is large enough to be considered a threat to the US, but the armed forces were sent to calm (suppress?) things and all seems stable. The two men identified as the leaders of the groups have been taken into custody.

I heard this briefly last night, and have copied it as accurately as memory allows. I don't really understand it. But perhaps one of you will find a clue in it. The dialogue was cut off by a high-pitched sound and a blue screen.





(野良犬)

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[lighthearted]

Oh, you beat me to it! Thanks for posting this. Hopefully someone will be able to help.

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[norainu]

I don't know how well I remembered it. Correct it if I got anything wrong.

[lighthearted]

I think it's fine. The main meaning of what was said is there, so no worries!

[totallytheseme.livejournal.com]

Los Angeles is in California, in America. It's by Disneyland. Don't know what all this was about...but I do hear that people there are pretty violent. Lots of gangs.

My brother and I went there when we were younger, to go to Disneyland.

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[norainu]

What is a Disney, and why does it have its own land?

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[claire-ity.livejournal.com]

It's a theme park. You're not from America, I take it?

[high-prosecutor.livejournal.com]

The armed forces were involved in the case? This is certainly unusual, as they do not normally involve themselves in criminal affairs. I suppose the police departments in the United States are as incompetent at times as the Japanese ones. At any rate, if the trial system is anything like the one that I am accustomed to, the Prosecutors' Office will have this case wrapped up in three days, at most, and these unsavory characters will be brought to justice.

Unless, of course, they happen to have a lawyer of the type that prefers trickery and foolishnessif their clients even think about proclaiming innocence.

You fool, Edgeworth. He's still in Japan for all you know or all you care.

- M.E.

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[norainu]

...I don't understand your crazy moon language.

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[high-prosecutor.livejournal.com]

I'll try to explain it more carefully.

It's unusual because the army does not normally become involved in a street gang fight like this one appears to have been. Our police department would normally arrest the culprits and bring them to a detention center. I suppose that in this case, there was incompetence in the police department and thus it didn't happen.

At this point, the prosecutor in charge - and before I left the Prosecutor's Office, this was part of my job duty, but I am no longer worthy to call myself such - would prepare the case against them and bring them to trial. Trials take no more than three days in the system, and in the majority of them, the defendant is found guilty of the crime.

In this case, I assume that the ones who started the altercation would both be found guilty. It seems like an open and shut case.

I was quite good at this type of case. I had a perfect record of prosecuting cases, in fact, before I left the Prosecutor's Office due to...certain circumstances. If you have more questions about how the legal system works, it is an area I have expertise in.

- M.E.

I hate to ask you this. But the report did not mention who the prosecution and the defense would be for this case, by any chance?

[beforehertime.livejournal.com]

Doesn't ring a bell. I'm sorry.

Where did you hear this?

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[norainu]

A box with moving pictures. I think I've seen them before, casually, but I'm not familiar with them. Some sort of modern thing. There was a section of it that was the speech I transcribed, and then it was cut off by a blue screen and a high pitched whine. Startling.

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[beforehertime.livejournal.com]

.....What, a television?

[claire-ity.livejournal.com]

Los Angeles may have crime, but this sounds a bit more serious than just gangs if they sent in armed forces.

It's also a bit strange that they said Old Los Angeles instead of just Los Angeles.

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[norainu]

So I take it that there is not a New Los Angeles in the land you are familiar with.

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[claire-ity.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they should have just said Los Angeles. Weird.

[never-learns.livejournal.com]

Huh, sounds like what happened in Tokyo about three years back. The man who murdered his way into becoming Prime Minister declared martial law and sent the Special Defence Force after a supposed terrorist group.

I've heard of Los Angeles and the US, but not Old Los Angeles. I'm not well up on the news, but I'm fairly sure I'd have heard about an event of this size in America.


工藤耀爾

[totallytheseme.livejournal.com]

Since when? I've lived in Tokyo my entire life, and...uh...three years ago, the PM was Koizumi Junichiro. He never declared martial law, and since Japan has no real military (though not for long, if Abe Shinzo gets his way), it doesn't really seem that likely that any sort of "Special Defense Force" would be launched. If anything, Bush and the Americans would be the ones fighting terrorists, right?

...Hey. I like to read the newspaper after Kyouya gets done with it, okay?

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[norainu]

I haven't heard of such a thing either, but I am not so good at keeping up on current events.

[ontheabyss.livejournal.com]

Old Los Angeles? That's weird... Los Angeles was bombed into oblivion not long after San Diego. It was never rebuilt. Hell, the whole area wasn't even habitable until the mid 2300s.

[claire-ity.livejournal.com]

Bombed? What are you talking about?! What happened to the US?

Mid 2300s...? It's only 2006...

[ontheabyss.livejournal.com]

It was nuked. First city to be wiped out by nuclear terrorism. California was hit hard from what I was taught. But the US wasn't hurt too badly, the damn country did take over the whole world. Unforntuately.

I don't know what year it is here, but I was born in the twenty third century.

[not-a-savior.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, you got this posted.

Maybe now we'll have some answers.

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[norainu]

Apparently, it's called a television. And everyone is confused by the reference to "Old" Los Angeles. I don't know how much it's really helped with our current problem, but I've sure learned some new facts...

野良犬

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[perfect-meld.livejournal.com]

So how come Wilson said it was New Jersey?

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[norainu]

Would this "New Jersey" be able to receive news of "Old Los Angeles"?