Abolitionist Comms: Sentencing

**Williams:** Welcome. Sir, you stand accused of numerous charges, including but limited to unlawful kidnapping and imprisonment, human trafficking, and the seizure and sale of multiple individual into servitude. How do plead the charges?

**Unknown:** Let me go, you assholes! I ain't done nothing wrong!

**Baker:** Sounds like guilty to me.

**Unknown:** Fuck you! I'm just trying to make an honest living!

**Brent:** Honest living?! You sold people, children into slavery, you sick fuck!

**Johnson:** Let's lynch this fucking asshole!

**Baker:** Hell yeah!

**William:** Hold on. We hold a trial first. Give the defendant...no matter how depraved they are...a chance to tell their side. Sir, have the floor. Do you have anything you wish to say in your defence?

**Unknown:** Yeah. You're all delusional, you know that! This is how the world works now! It's survival of the strongest! There's no room for morality anymore. Sane people recognize that, which is why there is and always will be a market for the strong to rule the weak, the feeble, the useless. Those who can't survive without a whip to their back. Heh, if anything, we're helping them to survive a little longer than they would out there. You gonna hunt down and kill every slaver and slaveowner in the country?

**Williams:** If we must. Like the great Saint John Brown once said, "*I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with blood."* We intend to purge the sin of slavery from our great country like our ancestors did 156 years ago. And if this time it takes ten times the amount of blood that was spilled, so be it. We're ready for that fight. We gladly give our lives for the vulnerable you choose to prey on. That is what makes us different. We're willing to go to any lengths, do whatever it takes, to purge your vile kind and end your abhorrent practice once and for all. Whoever stands against us will we wiped away all the same. For every one of us that die as martyrs to a cause greater than them, a dozen more will rise in their place. That is why we will win.

**Unknown:** All of you fanatic nuts are gonna get gutted, I promise you that. Sooner or later, someone is gonna put you all in the ground. And then we're gonna track down all your freed slaves and put them in shackles again. And we'll laugh that all your hard work, all your sacrifice, was in vain.

**Williams:** I think we've heard enough. For the crimes of kidnapping, human trafficking, capture and sale of slaves, neglect and abuse, unlawful imprisonment, and enforcement of forced labor, you have been found guilty. The punishment for your sins is death! You will burn in the deepest part hell, and we, the Abolitionists, will send you there, along with all your misbegotten kin!

**Unknown:** *(struggles)* I'll see you in hell, bastards!

**Williams:** Brent, Johnson, hold him still. Baker, get the noose. We'll hang him in the big oak tree in town, for everyone to see.

**Baker:** Been looking forward to this.

**Johnson:** Nothing like a god ol' fashioned lynching. 'Cept this time it's the other way around. Doesn't feel so good, does it you slaver fuck?

**Brent:** Amen to that, brother.