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Region: Libertatem
I understand that I called for elections a few days too late, and I apologize for the delay.
The next Board term will begin as soon as the Seat Three election has concluded, so that our legislature will still have most of this month to operate.
Oh I totally agree. But the reality is they're taking money away from my paycheck before I ever see it, so when I have the opportunity to get something back, I'm going to.
To be fair, you did get screwed over by how short February is.
Dammit, Caesars.
So a couple hours ago lol
I would agree if this were the first time this happened, but it isn't. Over in the IRU, I'm usually late with elections, so it's definitely a problem of mine.
Thank you for the votes my fellow Libertatemites, definitely feeling the love.
Now who is gonna make roads breakfast? :D
Just a reminder that Presidential elections are at the end of this month.
Post self-deleted by Pevvania.
To the Board
I vote for myself for Chairman. My long-stalled agenda of clearing up the Constitution will be proceeded with if I am elected. I will also introduce the Radio Denationalisation Act and my proposed amendment to Article VIII.
Let's make history, friends.
Actually, they are in late April.
You've probably succumbed to the error within the Presidents' Amendment which is entirely my fault, and I have wanted to rectify it for a long time. It says that pres. elections occur every four months, "starting in December", implying elections in April and August. But I was stupid enough to say that presidential terms begin in January, April and August - which obviously makes no sense, since if Condealism were to be defeated next election he would have served a three-month term.
In the long-delayed Constitutional clear-up, I will address this problem and several others.
You're right. That should get fixed for sure.
The Libertatem Attorney General of Humpheria(246 days ago)
Honestly, I just can't even. I sound like such a white girl.
Your point? You got words for me big dog? I see you.
I finally achieved anarchy!
Miencraft, Muh Roads, Austex
#1 most eco-friendly government in Libertatem!
I'm as green as it gets!
That is not hard to achieve here lol
It's been my goal for ages :p
Oh you meant Rot woops
Chairman's Address
Shy of just one absent vote, I have been reelected to the office of Chairman of the Board. Thank you to the people of Libertatem for this, and for delivering me to the Board for a third term. We stand at a historic time. For the first time in the history of the Board, a single party controls every seat. That party is my party, the Reaganist Libertarian Party, co-founded with Condealism several years ago through a merger.
The dominance of one party of an entire chamber can be dangerous, if course. Recognising this, I affirm that there will never be a party whip - members will vote their conscience. As Chairman, I will work WITH the Board FOR Libertatem.
Unfortunately, in this game government is not just a necessary evil but a built-in game mechanic, so its ugliness is not something we can avoid. What we can do is make it as unobtrusive and noninterventionist as possible.
The next chapter in my quest to limit government and reform the Constitution, began during my Presidency, begins today. Weeks of foreign troubles and domestic scandal have brought me little opportunity to develop my agenda. But now, with all of that behind us, we can get to work.
I have already proposed two pieces of legislation for the Board and the region to consider: the Radio Denationalisation Act and an amendment to Article VIII. I would ask them Board to consider both pieces so they can be brought to a vote as quickly as possible. The former unshackles a stagnant industry from the jaws of state control, and the other rights past wrongs by expanding political freedom while maintaining our firm opposition to authoritarianism.
By the end of the month, you will see a comprehensive bill in the floor of the House to clear up our laws. They are frought with errors, contradictions and ambiguities, and if misinterpreted could be used against the good people of this region for nefarious deeds.
So here's to a strong, prosperous March for Libertatem: pensive in self-reflection, aggressive for change and optimistic for the future.
God bless the Republic of Libertatem
Chairman Pev
The Radio Denationalisation Act
FIRST DRAFT
Section I
This Act hereby dissolves Libertatem Radio
Section II
The creation of an official or regional government-managed radio station is hereby prohibited
Section III
As per Article VII, Section I of the Constitution, this Act affirms the right of any nation to operate their own radio station
Section IV
Libertatem Radio is encouraged to be replaced by competing, privately run radio stations
Authored by Pev
This just in, Humpy is a regular peeping Tom at Muh's house.
Obama considering raising taxes by executive order
http://rare.us/story/white-house-obama-is-very-interested-in-raising-taxes-by-executive-order/
It's dead today.
Without the state to protect us North Korea will nuke us into the ground. What now lolbertarians?
Northern Prussia
One post?
ONE POST?
Really, guys. I haven't even had a telegram. Get active.
You want activity?
Hokay, fine...I think I have an idea, anyway.
....you guys could just, y'know, respond to the posts I made. I haven't got much of an RMB response to the RD Act. Speaking of which, Mr. President, could you help me think of a clever acronym for RADIO?
Radio and Airwave Denationalization Initiative Online... nah, doesn't have a good flow to it...
Anyway, I agree - we should consider the legislation Pev has put forth, while I try to make a bill out of an idea of my own.
Regional Airwave Decentralization for Independence and Originality? The IO is the hard part.
Indeed.
I like that.
RAdio DenatIonalizatiOn Act :P
Video killed the radio star.
Just call it radio act
B-b-but muh cool acronyms :(
Austex
In my mind and in my car.
Too long
I Finally get a good internet connection to see that the RLP has the full power in the board, and that a newcomer has been defeated in the RLP primary.
Come on guys, bring some new blood in the board, some political diversity too...
Cause now we have :
- Pevvania : has been president for 8 months ( am I right ? ), and participated to 3/15 board's terms.
- Humpheria : has been president and participated to 10/15 board's terms.
- Muh Roads : participated to 4/15 board's terms.
- Right Winged nation : participated to 8/15 board's terms.
- Nothern Prussia : only 3/15.
Is this Italy or what ?
Ankha
Sry, I should have said mandates instead of terms.
Ankha
We have a dissenter. Prepare the Martial Troops.
I agree with the general sentiment, but of all the political organizations in Libertatem, I most agree with the RLP (and so it would seem, the RLP best represents the ideals of most of the region).
The people are voting for who they want.
Yep and I have the right to criticize their choice.
Ankha
Well, now it's time to create tyranny. #RLPTYRANNY
#RLPTYRANNYISBACKAGAINYO
#HATERZGONNAGETIT
Any constructive reflexion about the fact that the board begins to look like a retirement home ?
BREAKING NEWS:
This just in. The RLP exists.
In other news, water is wet and TTA was an idiot.
Though it may be hard for our viewers to believe, the sun makes light and ice is cold.
Ankha
Sure. Our members have proved to be more active, more involved, and have an excellent track record. I'm not saying that others have not contributed immensely, but the RLP has done a lot for Libertatem. It would be great to have other parties and individuals stand up, but it hasn't really happened yet. Maybe your the one to make such happen.
329 Posts since last login. I think that is a record.
to be fair it's not like Ahnka is really a newcomer
And my pr isn't doing great.....
pictures came and broke your heart
The election of an all-RLP Board reflects the will of the people. But perhaps you're right that there's too much political recycling. The best go into the system, go out, then go back in again. The solution to this is to recruit more people and show more nations the ropes.
I wasn't talking about Ankha.
It's a real life thing called a dominant party system. Libertatem is basically ideologically homogenous which would obviously lead to such a result.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant-party_system
The Party for Resitance led by Actum and Yrelllian Confederacy did have a candidate in the Board 2 election.
Also, isn't Ankha leader of the American Dream party, so why was he listed as Indpendent?
Austex
Term limits could be imposed? Why not have what Russia does and say you can have unlimited terms but no more than 2 in a row? Just a suggestion
Hey, RRRG. It's been awhile.
Ah, term limits. Reminds me of a discussion I took part in over in the IRU.
We have a small polls of nations in our region and so few nation actually run which limits the practicality of term limits.
Also, what's with the lack of people in the non-Reaganist Libertarian Party here?
It's not so much a lack of people as a lack of good people. Most of our experienced government officials cling to the RLP for some reason.
I was creating fact books about my country and created the ideology of Libertarianism with Japanese Characteristics. It will be the ideology of Your Party, a party I intend to from here based off that now defunt political party that used to exist in Japan. Bing or Google Your Party or Yoshimi Watanabe for info on the defunct real life party. You can also read all my fact books for info.
There are essentially three LPs: The Reaganist Libertarian Party, the Libertarian Party ([nation=short+noflag]Lack there of[/nation] CTEd about a week ago), and the Libertarian Imperialists ([nation=short+noflag]northern prussia[/nation] is in the RLP). The description on the parties page offers no real distinction between the RLP and LI; as far as I can tell they are both Libertarian in nature and support the regional use of force to spread Liberty throughout the NS world.
I think the only real possibilities of ending the RLP dominance are either 1) everyone not supportive of the RLP coalesce into a single party (The Party for Resistance and Reform seems to be attempting this) and form a two-party system or 2) the Nations of the RLP split up over some ideological difference.
Term limits... as many of the elected officials are unopposed, what good would they do, but create vacant positions?
On a totally unrelated note, it seems our military is quite inactive. I have enlisted, and would love to participate in the war against our enemies.
There is always Your Party, the party I intend to found which could siphon off enough support from the RLP and LI. Either that or if we don't do that enough, we could possible fuse with LI to form a two party system.
ACOP also exists, guys. It's about as anti-authoritarian as you can get.
Most of people from other parties have never been in office, because the RLP didn't let them the chance to win anything.
About that, your party description still says that you want to interrupt our relations with socialist or statist regions.
http://i62.tinypic.com/birmnp.jpg
Didn't let them have the chance? Are you kidding?
If you want change make it happen. The RLP has done a resounding *nothing* to stop other parties/individuals from becoming leaders in Libertatem. My president's bla.. I mean ACOP.
Didn't let them the chance to win an election. I'm not saying that the RLP used other ways to avoid having oppositions members in office.
But by the democratic game, newcomers or non-RLP members have few chances to gain any experience in office, so it's not very fair to say that these people are not experienced.
Anybody up in an election has a chance to win.
It just so happens that people tend to support the RLP candidates as, for the most part, everyone knows them, and they've got great track records most of the time.
And do I really need to remind you that an ACOP beat an RLP last presidential election?
Your point being?
Yes because it is our fault that people vote for us.
Active parties play a day-to-day role in domestic political affairs, and either hold or are actively seeking to hold political office.
Founded July 3rd, 2013. The Reaganist Libertarian Party: Led by President Pevvania. Formed through the merger of Conservative Idealism's Minarchist Party and Pevvania's Christian Libertarian Party, the RLP is a neo-libertarian party that supports the protection of freedom beyond borders along with a strong emphasis on economic and personal liberty. Largest party, and in control of three out of four branches of government. P: 1/1 M: 2/3 B: 4/5
Founded November 11th, 2012. The Libertarian Party: Currently led by Lack there of, this is the party for members who adhere to the laissez-faire/free enterprise form of economic thought; may vary with liberal to conservative social views. Has a strong anarchist wing. F: 1/1 B: 1/5
Founded November 15th, 2013. The Anti-Corporatist Party: The ACOP is a reactionary movement that seeks to sway the Libertatem government into not only avoiding relations with fascist regions, but with all regions dedicated to big government or government-corporation relations. Opposed to government regulation. Led by IRU founder Conservative Idealism in Libertatem.
Founded on April 16th, 2014. The Libertarian Imperialists: This party is what its leader Northern Prussia describes as a "libertarian party with imperialist elements".
Founded on June 7th, 2014. The American Dream Party: Founded by Ankha, this is a party that promotes the use of the free-market system, specifically advocates for the building block of the economy: the small business. Supports strong civil liberties, human rights, and little or no taxation. Also supports right-to-life and few, weak gun control laws. Over all supports :American Dream"/Common man's political voice. Welcomes all. (Completely tolerant)
The Enviro Party: Founded November the 26th, 2014. A liberal political party committed to protecting the environment. Founded and led by United environmentalist states of mhomen.
Founded on December 18th, 2014. The Party for Resistance and Reform: Led by Actum and Yrellian Confederacy, the PRR is in favour of national sovereignty and ending the war. Our goal is to reduce bureaucracy, repeal Article Eight of the Constitution, and have more board members and department heads elected. This would help break the one party monopoly on our region. We are also Anti-WA and Anti-Imperialism. We support anarchism and minarchism as well.
We currently have seven active parties. I intend to found an eight maybe. The parties need to field candidates I the first problem. I can solve it by running at the next Board election under my Your Party banner.
Yet to be officially founded. Your Party: Led by Your State, the YP is in favor of Libertarianism with Japanese Characteristics and is based off the reali life Your Party and Yoshimi Watanabe which used to exist in Japan as political parties. It is pro defense, anti hate speech, anti nuclear, as well as other Japanese Characterisitc that buffer out the the complete platforms with most, if not all, positions being libertarian positions. More specifics can be found in my factbooks. I was going by memory, so can't remeber how fully I captured the platform accurately.
It is the fault of most of the parties for not fieding candidates at all. PFR and ADP (labelled as Indpendent though) fielded candidates in the last two Board elections. One fueled one in each board election. The RLP is the only party that runs candidates in all Board elections constantly.
You are not wrong, it has primarily been RLP running for the board. The other parties must step it up
Wish you good luck [nation=short+noflag]your state[/nation], but I don't think the answer is more parties. At this point, I think ACOP is the most attractive affiliation for me, but I think I'll remain independent and see how things shake out.
My only concern here is, this party may struggle to attract members due to its Japanese characteristic. Nothing against Japan, but I think this aspect may limit membership to those either from Japan, or those with a keen interest in Japanese culture. It makes me think of this --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suvJai5IC6c
I wasn't wrong when I noted that party politics result in some degree of factionalism. Each of our government officials should be encouraged not to think communally, but individually, and remember that their loyalty is to this region more so than it is to their respective parties.
Today I met the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman, as a part of some Labour community outreach program trying to find out why people were/were not voting.
I had a brief debate with her about freedom and libertarianism. She said, "Wouldn't you like the freedom to enjoy a good health service and a good education?" I countered "If it's funded by theft, then that's not freedom, that's force. Government is built on violence and force."
She seemed to want to avoid being argumentative, so tried not to debate me for too long. Overall, the Labour people there seemed shocked at my views.
Yrellian Confederacy, Samarian Imperium
Good on you.
I assume you are referring to British politics. I think any libertarian Brit will obviously vote UKIP!
Samarian Imperium
You go pevvania!
Atta boy!
That moment when more than half of the nations in your Dossier have CTE'd...
My thoughts on this ultra-takeover thing.
Minorities: If you don't want the RLP to have every seat, make an effort to win rather than 'hey, im running lol" and then never doing anything else.
RLP: Don't gloat. It takes away from the victory.
Mr. President: Quit going back and forth, pick a side and stick with it.
Humph is on point here. We're the only properly organised party, and we benefit from our ideals being shared with most of Libertatem's residents.
Not sure about that. I was once sure that I'd be voting for UKIP. But now, I'm seriously debating it. They're xenophobic anti-immigrants that have silly protectionist views on international trade. They're also trying to appeal to the NHS Fundamentalist crowd with their pledge to increase healthcare spending by £3 billion. Not even the Conservatives want that. So this election is basically just choosing what kind of knife I want to be stabbed with.
There is no libertarian choice in the UK. None at all. We have a small libertarian party, but it's not putting up any candidates for this election.
I'm really afraid of an eventual labour victory allowed by the division of the UK's right, between the Ukip and the Conservatives. the " First-past-the-post voting " system could really be a disaster with a too strong Ukip.
An a labour victory would mean... Miliband PM...
My side is Libertatem. I may have co-founded your party, but I am not a member: I support the RLP in areas where it benefits the region, and no further - the same idea applies, by the way, to the other parties.
Isn't the UK's left divided between Labor, the Greens who are rising in popularity apparently, and the Scottish National Party (Scotland only)?
Greens and Green parties only siphon off votes that would have gone to a different left wing party. They are a party most associated with spoiling elections for other parties as they hardly ever get enough votes to get representation, but prevent those votes from going to a left wing party that would have been bumped up in represenatation.
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2015/02/18/atlantic-article-spotlights-proportional-representation/
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2015/02/09/why-uk-young-greens-membership-has-grown-1000-in-1-year/
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2015/01/30/monbiot-the-fear-based-two-party-system-is-collapsing/
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2015/01/22/13-reasons-the-uk-green-party-is-surging/
Those four articles deal with the rising Green Party in the UK. (There is one each in England/Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, but no one overall Green Party of the UK due to allowing for Scottish independence and/or Irish reunification should they ever happen.)
Anti-nuclear is not a libertarian characteristic. It is a green one.
Most libertarians are quite supportive of GMOs and Nuclear energy, like the Libertarian Party of Canada for example.
A better term for "anti-nuclear power" is "emotionally charged science denier".
The Canadian Libertarian Party is a good one.
The LPC has become relevant after 30 years it seems. If he plays his cards straight, Tim Moen could become the next David Leyonhjelm. He seems to be popular and if I move back to Canada (probably not), I'd definitely throw a vote in his direction if I find the time.
But it seems like I'll be wishing them luck regardless.
I actually emailed David Leyonhjelm a week or two back. I expressed my support, and he replied saying that he appreciated it. I asked him for his position on the monarchy and republicanism in Australia - he replied that he and the LDP had no position on those because they "aren't libertarian issues".
That's fair enough. I've met libertarian monarchists before, and the LDP could use all the help it could get.
I'm strongly opposed to the monarchy's continued presence in Australia. We are in dire need of an expansion of our federal model to protect rights and limit government power.
Aye, I like the LDP a lot. They tick nearly all the common libertarian boxes, and have a few other common-sense policy positions that aren't typically libertarian, such as recognising the rights of Tibet and Taiwan to independence.
Lack There Of
Does it really matter though who rules the state if the state is truly limited?
Assembled with Dot's Region Saver.
Written by Refuge Isle.