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presentation flashed up on the four screens on each of the four walls. Starting slowly, “Good evening everyone, I will attempt to make this as brief, but as thorough as possible,” he shuffled some papers and continued, “At approximately 16 hundred hours a growing peaceful demonstration was gathering on the southern quad of the Villaggio College’s campus. It was at this point we were alerted to the actions, however as we all know, constitutionally citizens have a right to gather peacefully. The original reasons for this gathering was to demonstrate against Virtagwalla’s decision to apply for statehood, along with a slew of other things, most likely including the recent tough economic times we are facing,” the presentation flipped from maps of the Villaggio’s city center, to the campus of the college, to pictures of the signs and such from the rally. “At approximately 17:30 around one thousand students and none students had gathered for this demonstration. At this point it was still a peaceful demonstration, and the national guardsmen on the ground had no reason to believe that the group would get unruly. At 1800 hours the Mayor of Villaggio, Mr. Kel Goldberg took the stage. It seemed to be Mr. Goldberg’s passionate speech that excited the group.”
                  “Why am I not surprised?” Zhang hissed slamming his fist against the table.
                  “Artimus, now hold just a moment. Kel would never have wanted this to happen,” Rove said interjecting.
                  “Right, and do not believe that his intention. However he did speak very provocatively, and from all the accounts of what I heard it could have been interpreted as threatening to the National Government, to Ponchertrain, and possibly to specifically some individuals in this room.  However Kel Goldberg has the freedom of speech and thus is constitutionally protected to say such things,” Stewart Bush clicked the presentation forward and now it began to show images of the riot growing, “Roughly fifteen minutes later the peaceful demonstration did in fact turn for the worst, and became violent. The mob broke from the campus and began moving through the city center to what we like to call the epicenter. This epicenter is in fact the land purchased by the University of Virtagwalla for the alleged Villaggian Campus.”
                  “Now that is frankly unjustified tittle-tattle,” Sylvester Chamberlain piped up, arising from his drowsy stupor.
                  Staring blankly at the Chancellor, “Mr. Chancellor they used the signs advertising the future campus as torches to burn the foundations of the buildings!” Hampton Ray jumped in, “So don’t attempt to fool us any longer. The University is greedily doing something over in Villaggio and your twisted lies can’t protect it now.”
                  “Why how dare your ignorance and gerrymandering!” Sylvester growled shifting in his chair.
                  “Gentlemen!” Rove barked leaning forward, “Hampton is right Chamberlain, the University can no longer lie about this venture, and especially now that these images are being flashed on every news channel across the world.  But we mustn’t allow this to distract us from the true crisis at hand. Mr. Bush, please continue,” Rove growled leaning back.
                  “As I was saying,” Bush started again pushing up his glasses, “At this point the mob had grown significantly, picking up people as it moved through the city center. By the time the mob had made it to the UV site near the town square, the crowd was rallied by a one, Mr.” Bush had to look at his notes, “Ty Allewoman. This man excited the rioters, and urged them to bring down the ‘Gold hands’, implying not only the national government but also the people living on the eastern part of the island.”
                  “Where was Goldberg