(10-17-2013, 07:16 PM)Pavel Wrote: Most probably they'll be declared contraband in Rheinland.
Most probably some Rheinlanders will be strongly against it including some high ranked police officers. Especially after some recent changes about drugs (Rheinland logic - yes to drugs, no to traditional local flowers?).
(11-26-2014, 02:19 PM)Pavel Wrote: Sorry Thyr but many leaders of official rheinland factions have attitude like they were farmer terrorists (
I don´t remember you saying anything about putting jillies on contraband list when new laws were discussed. Also would be nice to bring some arguments as I do below.
So, I see here very important difference between Blood diamonds and jillies. First - diamonds are sold only by Hessians and they are important source of money. Simply they are still diamonds but they have even wider use than standard diamonds because they are different than them and thus interesting as jewellery and of course as symbol of resistance against government.
Jillies on the other hand are grown on Stuttgart for centuries (as infocard say: "A native species of Planet Stuttgart, Blue Jillies have been cultivated for centuries."), way much longer before LWB appeared. Putting them on contraband list would be another final nailtm on the rests of the local farmers and making situation even worse (yeah, more LWB, that´s what government need right now). Also, jillies are far less profitable than diamonds and harder to obtain (because you can secretly mine in space, but where you can secretly grow and harvest large amounts of flowers on the government controlled planet, hm?).
Tl;dr: All Blood diamonds are made by Hessians and money from it goes to them, but not all jillies are made by LWB and not all money from it goes to them.
And by the way, just because terrorist organisation starts to use as symbol some traditional local product, does this mean we will declare it as contraband? Okay then, be right back, I´m going to ask Unioners to start brewing Rheinbier and put it as their symbol, and VWA to start baking strudels. Rheinlanders can drink wine and eat muffins, right?