This morning President Stark faced some of his toughed criticism yet since the start of his presidency. It has been claimed that as a direct result of his orders to divert food and supplies to the refugees in orbit of Earth no less than 7 Starfleet vessels have been left dead in space unable to carry out their duties following failures which could have been prevented.
Senator Viar of the Federation council released the following statement
“It’s a terrible shame that our armed forces have been brought to their knees by the idealistic crusade of a single man, that we now live in a time where one man can still enforce his whims on us all is unconscionable. I for one will be discussing with my peers methods of curbing President Stark’s powers to avoid this kind of issue entirely.”
The senator’s words were met with out cry from several prominent sentient rights activists who have long been campaigning on behalf of those left homeless by years of war. Martin Drayson of the United Rights Alliance appeared on the Galactic News Network this lunch time to speak out against Senator Viar.
“Perhaps the Senator would like to leave his ivory tower at some point and re-join the real world” Martin Drayson said during an interview with the Galactic News Network today “People are dying out in the upper atmosphere of Earth and people like the honourable Senator seem determined to ignore that fact, instead they concentrate on an enemy we’ve not seen for years. The sooner the Federation realises the Borg are gone the sooner we will all be able to move on.”
Fleet Admiral Taylor waded in to the debate with a statement of his own indicating that at no time was the efficiency of the fleet impaired by the ships being out of commission, he went on to point out that there have been numerous occasion in the past 5 years where several ships have been unable to take part in fleet action for months at a time due to supply chain issues. Why he went on to ask do people suddenly care about it when they didn’t care 6 months ago?
It’s a good question and one the Federation News Service hopes that Senator Viar will answer when he joins our news team tonight at 2000 hours.
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