Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2013 12:02:03 GMT -6
Since I first served as Attorney General, I have dedicated myself to trying to build our legal system into a fully functioning, honest to goodness system capable of handling caseloads and rendering fair and just verdicts within a reasonable timeframe. To this end, I created the position of Clerk of Courts and wrote a book about how to prepare cases before the courts.
The courts offer us a unique opportunity to not simply play the back and forth game of legislate and repeal. That game is merely regulated mob rule. The simple majority can shift the direction of the nation unchecked. The judiciary should, as it does in other nations, serve as an independent body ensuring that the constant back and forth does not infringe upon the rights of its citizens or step all over itself by passing legislation which conflicts with one another. I have tried to get people to use the judiciary to remedy their problems. Unfortunately, people do not want to because it would involve reading the law and typing a well thought out argument rather than a quickly thrown together bill.
This fosters an environment where the judiciary is unable to protect because the people will not allow it to. If a bill passes to become law despite it being inorganic, the judiciary has the authority to quash it. But instead, people are content to let inorganic and conflicting bills lord over them. They won't make a move to extricate themselves from the situation because it is easier to say "we can't! We're the minority!" or "I tried! The Senators of my own party blocked me!"
The Talossan Courts offer an avenue to play a hand in the legal framework of our country without being a legislator or even without maintaining a political affiliation of any sort. But no one seems interested besides myself and a very small group of others.
Most recently, I engaged in an act of civil disobedience to try to take down the wholly inorganic What's the Difference Act. I was prepared to face criminal charges because the law does not support conviction and, even if it did, certain organic protections could well invalidate the proscribed verdict.
Others seemed keen to protest as well, waiting for their day in court.
I also filed an appeal in my case where I again argued the organicity of the What's the Difference Act. These indeed were proving to be interesting times for the judiciary.
Unfortunately, the government decided to take the easy way out. Rather than take me to court and face the various conflicts of law in the trial, verdict and sentencing which are caused by this inorganic law, they whitelisted the nation I created in protest thus ending my channel for legal action and obliterating my standing to make such a challenge. Now, the law stands as illegal as ever and no one seems to care. They will remedy it with a law that will likely be repealed in the future and replaced with an equally as repressive one with no one wanting to test the law in court.
It is sad that the government felt the need to take the cowardly way out. I must accept responsibility, as my own vote helped to empower those who now wish I would just sit down and shut up.
They finally have their wish.
There is nothing left for me in Talossa. If the judiciary is to serve only as the chancery tally police, I am not interested in being around.
Effective immediately, I hereby renounce my citizenship in Talossa. I will be working on Eurusia. I hope, for the government's sake, that their whitelisting scheme has served them well.
Though hardly necessary given the nature of my post here, I would also like to return my coat of arms to King John with my thanks. I joined Talossa around the abdication of King Louis and was present during the debates over whether we should even have another King. I argued and later voted for King John (then Sir John) and I thank him for providing me guidance and encouragement during my first few years in Talossa.
Thus ends my nearly six years in Talossa. I will miss some of you.
The courts offer us a unique opportunity to not simply play the back and forth game of legislate and repeal. That game is merely regulated mob rule. The simple majority can shift the direction of the nation unchecked. The judiciary should, as it does in other nations, serve as an independent body ensuring that the constant back and forth does not infringe upon the rights of its citizens or step all over itself by passing legislation which conflicts with one another. I have tried to get people to use the judiciary to remedy their problems. Unfortunately, people do not want to because it would involve reading the law and typing a well thought out argument rather than a quickly thrown together bill.
This fosters an environment where the judiciary is unable to protect because the people will not allow it to. If a bill passes to become law despite it being inorganic, the judiciary has the authority to quash it. But instead, people are content to let inorganic and conflicting bills lord over them. They won't make a move to extricate themselves from the situation because it is easier to say "we can't! We're the minority!" or "I tried! The Senators of my own party blocked me!"
The Talossan Courts offer an avenue to play a hand in the legal framework of our country without being a legislator or even without maintaining a political affiliation of any sort. But no one seems interested besides myself and a very small group of others.
Most recently, I engaged in an act of civil disobedience to try to take down the wholly inorganic What's the Difference Act. I was prepared to face criminal charges because the law does not support conviction and, even if it did, certain organic protections could well invalidate the proscribed verdict.
Others seemed keen to protest as well, waiting for their day in court.
I also filed an appeal in my case where I again argued the organicity of the What's the Difference Act. These indeed were proving to be interesting times for the judiciary.
Unfortunately, the government decided to take the easy way out. Rather than take me to court and face the various conflicts of law in the trial, verdict and sentencing which are caused by this inorganic law, they whitelisted the nation I created in protest thus ending my channel for legal action and obliterating my standing to make such a challenge. Now, the law stands as illegal as ever and no one seems to care. They will remedy it with a law that will likely be repealed in the future and replaced with an equally as repressive one with no one wanting to test the law in court.
It is sad that the government felt the need to take the cowardly way out. I must accept responsibility, as my own vote helped to empower those who now wish I would just sit down and shut up.
They finally have their wish.
There is nothing left for me in Talossa. If the judiciary is to serve only as the chancery tally police, I am not interested in being around.
Effective immediately, I hereby renounce my citizenship in Talossa. I will be working on Eurusia. I hope, for the government's sake, that their whitelisting scheme has served them well.
Though hardly necessary given the nature of my post here, I would also like to return my coat of arms to King John with my thanks. I joined Talossa around the abdication of King Louis and was present during the debates over whether we should even have another King. I argued and later voted for King John (then Sir John) and I thank him for providing me guidance and encouragement during my first few years in Talossa.
Thus ends my nearly six years in Talossa. I will miss some of you.