Woman Carrying Baby While Fleeing Accused of Theft

The GG has just learned from a source close to the woman who was killed yesterday while fleeing from a People's Proscript Party re-education center that what she carried was not the Sword of Flames but instead her infant son.

Cause of death is undetermined, but a large amount of blood observed on her chest area suggests a bullet or knife wound, according to eyewitness testimony.

"Carla Bowen did not steal the Sword of Flames. We left the re-education center together, and there's no possible way she had it then or at any time before her murder.

"Carla was wearing a cloak at the time to hide Connor, and that provided the perfect cover for the Party's scheme to pin the theft on a Grotian," the source explained.

"The Party knew that some Grotians would attempt to escape and clearly planned to pin the theft on one of them.

"Sadly, not only did this young woman and child perish but also her name is now wrongly linked to a crime she did not commit. The responsibility for this lies with PPP President Garfield Jameson" our source said.

Barry Bowen, husband of Carla and father of Connor, was too distraught to comment on this story except to ask for prayers for his family and to ask, "When will this horror end? How many have to die so that Garfield Jameson can continue to harm so many innocent lives?"

Editorial

The Grotian Grapevine finds it ironic that Dan Framlin, spokesperson for People's Proscript Party, said in yesterday's report on Proscript Power Day that "a sleeping giant has awoken today." GG readers will recall that this phrase is borrowed from a statement made by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who said following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

Yamamoto knew then what the PPP should know now: a critical error in judgment was made yesterday when a rash conclusion was reached regarding the theft of the Sword of Flames from the Purity Towers lobby area without proper investigation. President Garfield Jameson and his administration should know that the Grotians are a gentle people who do not steal or destroy the property of others; they never have even while living under PPP subjugation. The accusation that it is the work of the Grotian Underground is an outrage and insult to all Grotians.

Grotians, like all citizens everywhere, should have the right to assemble and protest peacefully, as they have done by publicizing the truth about their housing situation. Instead, after speaking their truths, they were forcibly detained and "re-educated." The Grapevine soon will publish reports about precisely what inhumane brainwashing and torture tactics were used by their so-called merciful captors to so quickly subdue the protesters.

Nonetheless, we do not wish for this unfortunate situation to escalate. Therefore, The Grotian Grapevine editors call upon President Jameson and his senior staff to meet with GU leaders to reach common ground so that all parties can live freely and at peace. This inequity cannot, must not, continue on.