Capitalist ParadiseBoard

We are either free or we are not. If we are truly free here then my thinking is any nation has the right to vote anyway they wish in any WA matter.

This is what lead the United States to the mess it is in now. If the residents of Nation States wish to vote themselves into oblivion as well, they should be free to do so.

And the resolution to liberate our region is defeated: 79% Against, 21% For. While it refreshing that so many saw through the sheer pettiness and absurdity of the resolution, it is also disturbing that over 1/5 of the WA would support something that lacked any validity or credibility. Oh well, I hope Nierr got the point.

Capitalist Producers wrote:

I'm trying to figure out why he needs any blessing from the government to say what ever he likes. What part of the constitution do you believe The-CID violated?

Apologies, should have been clearer - making these points as a private citizen.

Acario wrote:

...If your point is about his pinning of the dispatch on the WFE without consent of the government then you would be wrong as the maintenance of the WFE is the responsibility of the WAD and the-CID did have my consent to pin the dispatch... (1)

These are some really serious allegations you are throwing around here as blackmail is a deleteable offense in NationStates. Now I believe you have misinterpreted the-CID's post and would like you to retract your accusation. The objective of the post is to protect the anonymity of the nation in question...In short, the post was meant to defend the nation's voting freedom. (2)

1: If so, it would be nice to see such a point made more clearly, perhaps by an announcement by an elected member of the government, particularly as the viewpoint presented is personal (or if an official opinion, worries me) and much of the substantive is self-promotional.

2: You're right that an accusation of blackmail is too far, and I'm sorry. However, the whole thing reeks of McCarthyist accusations of "trouble making". And any fool could see that a surer way to promote voting freedom would simply not be to mention the affair.

Agripa wrote:

There's actually two nations now, and while I respect the privacy of the two nations, doesn't voting for the liberation as a member of Capitalist Paradise constitute a sort of treason, i.e. attempting to overthrow a portion of the power of the delegate? I'm not familiar enough with our laws to know for sure, just curious.

Technically, the nations have no privacy (as far as I'm aware, WA votes are public and we can do nothing about that - I only object to holding names back as a Damascan sword), though I respect the sentiment. And that's...(judicial wig very much off!)...an interesting argument. Contrary to my expectation, one could make an argument that there is no right protecting WA votes (or indeed any political freedom outside religion and NS category!) in the constitution, and that the common defence of the region clauses could extend to protecting the region to restrictions on (e.g.) liberation resolutions. Perhaps time for a byelaw?

The president of Wokachow has also decided to mobilize and help the efforts of The united oman in his war against Affastercatia.

The best part: I'm not even really here, we are just binary in the form an account detailed to follow closely to the actions of others. In fact, I'm not even typing this, my binary coding tells me to explain, at the request of my creator. - Note from the creator: Do not judge me, I just don't have the time to participate. Sorry if my project says anything harsh, the AI binary crap receives information and acts based on what is "seen". Technology is cool, especially when you master the art of programming. I'm saying this because I wanted to check on my experiment and see what it was doing, and saw what happened. That is all, and thank you.

The dominion of the fain wrote:

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TL;DR

For once I hope the mods swing their shiny Sword of Deletion they love so much.

Binary wrote:

For mobile users, and people that don't use NS++, here a link to the NS++ website where you can read the paper without the extension's assistance:
https://nationstatesplusplus.net/newspaper?id=233

Phew, you already caught the issue in my previous post. I have been getting telegrams about it. If you do not have NS++ installed, use the link Binary posted.

Sseroffa wrote:

I'm surprised no one has tried to interview the Sseroffian rebels, who claim to be the legitimate Afforessian government-in-exile.

Being a fairly young and growing nation, the Cymric Corporate Authority have yet to enter the region as a major arms dealer or peace broker yet. And while it has the military power to safeguard it's own borders, it is not capable of major power projection into other nations at this time. Therefor we have so far limited our reaction to a heightened deployment of naval assets to safeguard passage of civilian freighters in the region. If the rebel forces seek to purchase medical supplies, communications equipment and various other items of that line, we would of course be willing to discuss terms of sale. Trade in kind for raw resources from rebel held territory would be more than acceptable in lieu of monetary payments. Other nations whose freighters wish to join in convoy while passing through the area of hostilities are welcome to contact us for scheduling and fee rates.

NationStates++ is free, correct?

Luthatania wrote:

yes. totally free.

(Insert evil laughter here) Exccccccellllllent

Cymric corporate authority wrote:

Upon reading the news that the nation of Luthatania was also making a land grab for power in the former nation of Afforness, the CCA Director of Defense consults the relevant maps. Seeing that the forces of Luthatania must past through or nearby the territorial waters and airspace of the CCA, Director Hennessy orders an increase in the readiness posture of the nation's military while having the Navy increase is air and ship patrols with a surge to get the maximum number of vessels at sea. Armed combatants heading to or from the combat zone are ordered to remain outside CCA territorial waters. The Director also has the Air Force increase it's airborne patrols as well, before Director Hennessy picks up the phone and contacts the Lord Harlech to confirm the orders issued as well as consulting on possible future moves. After this call, the added step of placing armed marines on CCA flagged civilian ships to ensure their safety was undertaken as well as deployment of the SBS teams to prepare to board and turn back any foreign flagged freighters in CCA territorial waters that are transporting arms to the combat zone.

" The regional newspaper, Capitalist Paradise Free Press, is developing quite well as a hub for RP activity. This is the most active I have seen our paper. If you have an interest in RPing, you should stop by and read some of the articles already written then maybe write your own. Please contact The Kingdom of Luthatania if you require any help with the paper." --Acario

Cymric corporate authority wrote:

If you'll check, I've already got an article posted in the paper, for this though it didn't seem like an article type of thing, hence posting in the message board.

Its more of an RP issue than an RMB issue.