Edict #98
“We’ll just have to cross that bridge when we come to it.”
“No, the bridge is too well guarded”.
“No, actually, there I was using a cliche.”
It is long past time to correct a mistake that was made six years ago. During the situation which became known as Electiongate, voting records were falsified, exploiting a breach in effWeBB’s security in order to alter the outcome of the August 2002 Presidential election. Following the investigation into this action, Mackael Stockhausen and Simon Kelly were permanently banned from STF by then President Emma Rouse-Deane. At the time, Simon and Mackie lived together and with the access logs coming from a single IP, it was the only considerable action at the time.
Later events and testimony from several members of the time have since revealed that Simon in fact played no part in the hacking of effWeBB or the alteration of voting records. It has often been discussed that the ban should be overturned but Simon has expressed no desire to return. Having said that, it doesn’t mean that an injustice shouldn’t be corrected.
Edict Rouse-Deane-1 #32 is hereby rescinded and superseded by this edict.
Simon Kelly is no longer banned and may return to STF at his previous member rank. The Office Of The President offers its apologises and welcomes a lost brother back with open arms.
Mackael Stockhausen is hereby permanently banned from STF and all related resources, including the #star-fleet IRC channel.
Fleet Admiral Andrew “Wolfe” Robinson
STF President
6th December 2009