Post by kri on Aug 15, 2005 8:08:31 GMT -6
... would serve no purpose.
A few last minute items of clarification: As Secretary of State, my last official act is to officially recognize the renunciations of Márcüs Cantaloûr and Tomás Gariçéir. And now I hereby resign as Secretary of State.
As King, I have a last official act to perform as well. When I renounced my citizenship in 2003 (at the height of the Halloween Crisis, masterminded by the "friends" of the CLP), I made it quite clear that I was not abdicating, but would continue as King outside the country. There is no provision in the Organic Law which forbids the King from being a non-citizen.
Therefore, I hereby officially and formally abdicate the Talossan Throne effective immediately, leaving King Louis I as your lawful sovereign. God save the King!
I take no action to leave a Regent -- the Uppermost Cort will have to appoint one. In addition, due to the renunciation of the Prime Minister, there is no effective head of the government. Once a regent is appointed, he can appoint a PM.
In closing, let me thank the numerous Talossans who have called, e-mailed, and spoken to me in person concerning my decision. But for me, Talossa has become nothing but constant bickering, fighting, and backbiting. Sure, I could return and stage some brilliant comeback, using all my legal tools and talents to undo the illegal citizenships foisted upon us and probably win the election, but that would really, in the end, solve nothing.
For if anything is clear to us now, nothing is ever "solved" in Talossa. In August of 2005, we are still fighting the same battle with Penguinea that we were fighting in August of 1997! Back then, I understood the only way past the fight was to ignore the quitters and move on with our own development. But few would join me whole-heartedly in the quest, and as a result, we had years of strife with the Liberal Party and even after Penguinea collapsed, they used Penguinea as an example of everything that was "wrong" with Talossa.
(I realize, virtually nobody in the CLP has any idea what I'm talking about -- but those who do not know history are truly damned to repeat it, and are literally repeating it even now!)
I am simply tired with fighting the same battle for eight long and boring years, especially when decent but unbearably naïve people like Tomás refuse to recognize basic intellectual property rights.
The same mindset led to the 'republic' of 2004, and the same mindset says it is wrong to draw lines and boundaries between patriots and quitters today.
Talossa has no law-enforcement mechanism. Everything we do relies on, and demands, an absolute environment of trust. That climate of trust was injured in 1997, mangled in 2004, and, I believe, totally and irreparably destroyed in 2005.
The CLP boasts about being "the future" of Talossa. I have no doubt that they are right. In the course of 48 hours we all learned that the CLP has a "policy" of packing the country full of 'phony votes' in order to inflate the CLP vote total with people who have no clue at all about what Talossa is or what its history represents -- all to retaliate against real Talossans who have long and illustrious careers in Talossan politics in the past. We also saw, simultaneously, that the CLP has no intention of preventing supporters and even members (!) of the quitters' group from participating in the Talossan government. Finally, we also discovered that the CLP maintains a "secret membership list", an incredibly clever and diabolical tactic which immediately throws a pallor of suspicion over every single Talossan citizen and vitiates completely that climate of trust so vital to maintaining the whole Talossan community.
That is indeed Talossa's future, and I want no part of it.
Ben
P.S. Assuming the CLP can cobble together a Secretary of State and hold an election, I have no doubt the CLP will win the election in a landslide (CLP supporters may be the only people left.) This assumes, of course, that they are interested in holding elections at all. If the CLP by some bizarre stroke of fate conducts itself responsibly and patriotically, and if the next Ziu (or some subsequent Ziu) passes a resolution asking me to return, I will consider it. Never say never. Just not now.
A few last minute items of clarification: As Secretary of State, my last official act is to officially recognize the renunciations of Márcüs Cantaloûr and Tomás Gariçéir. And now I hereby resign as Secretary of State.
As King, I have a last official act to perform as well. When I renounced my citizenship in 2003 (at the height of the Halloween Crisis, masterminded by the "friends" of the CLP), I made it quite clear that I was not abdicating, but would continue as King outside the country. There is no provision in the Organic Law which forbids the King from being a non-citizen.
Therefore, I hereby officially and formally abdicate the Talossan Throne effective immediately, leaving King Louis I as your lawful sovereign. God save the King!
I take no action to leave a Regent -- the Uppermost Cort will have to appoint one. In addition, due to the renunciation of the Prime Minister, there is no effective head of the government. Once a regent is appointed, he can appoint a PM.
In closing, let me thank the numerous Talossans who have called, e-mailed, and spoken to me in person concerning my decision. But for me, Talossa has become nothing but constant bickering, fighting, and backbiting. Sure, I could return and stage some brilliant comeback, using all my legal tools and talents to undo the illegal citizenships foisted upon us and probably win the election, but that would really, in the end, solve nothing.
For if anything is clear to us now, nothing is ever "solved" in Talossa. In August of 2005, we are still fighting the same battle with Penguinea that we were fighting in August of 1997! Back then, I understood the only way past the fight was to ignore the quitters and move on with our own development. But few would join me whole-heartedly in the quest, and as a result, we had years of strife with the Liberal Party and even after Penguinea collapsed, they used Penguinea as an example of everything that was "wrong" with Talossa.
(I realize, virtually nobody in the CLP has any idea what I'm talking about -- but those who do not know history are truly damned to repeat it, and are literally repeating it even now!)
I am simply tired with fighting the same battle for eight long and boring years, especially when decent but unbearably naïve people like Tomás refuse to recognize basic intellectual property rights.
The same mindset led to the 'republic' of 2004, and the same mindset says it is wrong to draw lines and boundaries between patriots and quitters today.
Talossa has no law-enforcement mechanism. Everything we do relies on, and demands, an absolute environment of trust. That climate of trust was injured in 1997, mangled in 2004, and, I believe, totally and irreparably destroyed in 2005.
The CLP boasts about being "the future" of Talossa. I have no doubt that they are right. In the course of 48 hours we all learned that the CLP has a "policy" of packing the country full of 'phony votes' in order to inflate the CLP vote total with people who have no clue at all about what Talossa is or what its history represents -- all to retaliate against real Talossans who have long and illustrious careers in Talossan politics in the past. We also saw, simultaneously, that the CLP has no intention of preventing supporters and even members (!) of the quitters' group from participating in the Talossan government. Finally, we also discovered that the CLP maintains a "secret membership list", an incredibly clever and diabolical tactic which immediately throws a pallor of suspicion over every single Talossan citizen and vitiates completely that climate of trust so vital to maintaining the whole Talossan community.
That is indeed Talossa's future, and I want no part of it.
Ben
P.S. Assuming the CLP can cobble together a Secretary of State and hold an election, I have no doubt the CLP will win the election in a landslide (CLP supporters may be the only people left.) This assumes, of course, that they are interested in holding elections at all. If the CLP by some bizarre stroke of fate conducts itself responsibly and patriotically, and if the next Ziu (or some subsequent Ziu) passes a resolution asking me to return, I will consider it. Never say never. Just not now.
