Manabu Yukimura waited for the others to finish speaking, after a short discussion with the another minister he stood up and approached the podium.
Fellow ministers, while Councillor Ikeda-san's heart appears to be in the right place, the Kusari Reformation Party can not condone this action as it stands.
Kusari is made great not through weakness to criminals but by hard work, determination and placing the needs of the state before your own.
Moral fortitude is the strength of Kusari, not victim mentalities to justify the slaughter of innocents and theft of peoples hard earned lives.
The Golden Chrysanthemums are not some oppressed people fighting for a better future, they are pirates, murderers, drug traffickers and enemies of the Kusari people.
They have sided with enemies of Kusari at every available opportunity, not even the Blood Dragons have sunk so low.
The only oppressed people are the victims and the families of victims, to the heinous crimes committed by these drug addicted criminals with no guilt for the actions they have forced on decent hard working citizens of Kusari.
Now we are to insult those very victims by showing them that although they are responsible for their actions and must live within the law of Kusari, these vile demons do not?
The very foundation of our society is that every man and women has a responsibility of living in a lawful manner and contributing to their state.
Why would we punish those that have done so by allowing the worst criminals Kusari has to offer, a freedom from those same responsibilities that we all are blessed and burdened with?
Will you, fellow ministers, head out to the orphanages where children are housed due to losing parents to these vicious attacks and explain to them why their parent's killers will be forgiven for their crimes?
Will you go house to house and explain to each widow that her husband's life is not to have justice.
The Kusari Reformation Party will support this committee when we can be guaranteed that each and every criminal that is accepted back first pays their debt to society in full by facing the full punishment for their actions just like the rest of us must do.
Surely if they are sincere and wish to reintegrate back to Kusari, and contribute again to society, you would no doubt see it as fair that they are treated the same as any other member of our great nation.
Only by staying the course of justness can we guarantee a nation that we can be proud to pass to our children, knowing that the rule of law passes equally for all.