[FDP] In Response to Recent BEP Statements
Day 828, 00:53
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by Free Democratic Party HQ
Good day fellow citizens of the eUK. It has come to the FDP's attention that once again a particular political party is irresponsibly claiming a special relationship to the military, namely the British Empire Party. They've recently released this article claiming as much. This is not the first time something like this has happened; however, most previous instances have been due to poor choice of words and these statements have been quickly retracted.
Not the BEP however. They're serious- SUPER SERIOUS. (and also completely wrong)
Caps lock: cruise control for cool
To quote the BEP: "MILITARY & POLITICS SHOULD GO HAND-IN-HAND... We are the only top 5 party committed to being the voice of the military." Even better, their leader Lemuel Gengulfus claims not to be a politician, in spite of his three terms in Congress. What Lemuel doesn't tell you is that most of the eUK's leadership spent months in the military before running for any sort of political office. These so-called "corrupt" politicians are more in touch with the average soldier than he's ever been. For example, our own Party President works in an official Government weapons company since he can't go on missions with the Paras anymore. Indiekid and Iain Keers, presidents of the RFA and TUP respectively also both work in gun companies run by the Military. Where does Lemuel Gengulfus work? His own weapons company.
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One of these things is not like the other...
What other proof do we have? The BEP has gone on to publish their plan for reforming the military. As can be expected, any attempt to "reform" the military that doesn't come from within the military itself is generally a bad idea, and the BEP's plan is no exception. Their plan to set up territorial armies goes completely against our longstanding Fortress London plan, crafted by our nation's greatest military minds. By spreading ourselves too thin, we become much too easy to conquer, but if we concentrate in one region, such as London, that region becomes nearly impossible to conquer due to how the game mechanics work. If you need proof that Fortress London works, look no farther than the recent war with the Yankees, where we were able to successfully turn the tide at London and force EDEN into a ceasefire restoring our territory. Despite his claims not to be a politician, Lemuel makes the classic politician's mistake of attempting to legislate something he doesn't fully understand.
Moreover, Lemuel suggests that the chain of command should be determined by someone's ingame rank. That's good and all, except most people in the military are already ingame Generals or Colonels. If everyone is now the same rank, who will give orders? The current rank system was NOT developed by politicians as has been claimed, but by career military men who realized that a system like Lemuel's would quickly lead to Chaos.
The BEP apparently likes to make contradictory arguments that "corrupt politicians" have too much influence on the military while simultaneously not being involved enough. The fact of the matter is that we keep the two separate institutionally, though most of our politicians are great supporters of the military (and often former soldiers) who understand that its not their place to tell the military how to run itself. There is a reason that we keep party politics and the military separate; namely that most politicians have no clue how to run the military. In short, if its not broke, don't fix it!
"But what about the recent ceasefire with EDEN!", you might argue. The BEP claims that this was a unjust action of the politicians against the military. What they forget is that this ceasefire wasn't negotiated by Congress, it was negotiated by Country President Dishmcds and members of his cabinet. Why is this important? Well, the Country President is the commander in chief of the military; that is to say part of the military. Even the game mechanics reflect this- the Country President is the only guy who can propose Wars to Congress, the only guy who can launch an attack, and the only guy who can retreat a region. Dish was only doing what he was elected to do, and his actions were nothing out of the ordinary.
The BEP is an irresponsible party attempting to wave the banner of false populism despite having no clue what they're talking about. This isn't surprising coming from a party that for months didn't even have an official set of policies, though frankly they were probably better with no policies than the nonsense they're spouting these days. This is not the case with the FDP or any of the other major political parties- we respect the military's independence and we have the common sense not to act like experts of something we know nothing about. To sum up, while we'd love to have you, the reader, join the Free Democratic Party, the point of this article is to urge you to do yourself a huge favor and join any party BUT the BEP.
Regards,
The Free Democrats.
Free Democratic Party.
Free Democratic Party IRC.
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Not the BEP however. They're serious- SUPER SERIOUS. (and also completely wrong)
Caps lock: cruise control for cool
To quote the BEP: "MILITARY & POLITICS SHOULD GO HAND-IN-HAND... We are the only top 5 party committed to being the voice of the military." Even better, their leader Lemuel Gengulfus claims not to be a politician, in spite of his three terms in Congress. What Lemuel doesn't tell you is that most of the eUK's leadership spent months in the military before running for any sort of political office. These so-called "corrupt" politicians are more in touch with the average soldier than he's ever been. For example, our own Party President works in an official Government weapons company since he can't go on missions with the Paras anymore. Indiekid and Iain Keers, presidents of the RFA and TUP respectively also both work in gun companies run by the Military. Where does Lemuel Gengulfus work? His own weapons company.
[img]http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u57/Outer_Kharkistania/oneofthesethings.png?t=1267087506[/img]
One of these things is not like the other...
What other proof do we have? The BEP has gone on to publish their plan for reforming the military. As can be expected, any attempt to "reform" the military that doesn't come from within the military itself is generally a bad idea, and the BEP's plan is no exception. Their plan to set up territorial armies goes completely against our longstanding Fortress London plan, crafted by our nation's greatest military minds. By spreading ourselves too thin, we become much too easy to conquer, but if we concentrate in one region, such as London, that region becomes nearly impossible to conquer due to how the game mechanics work. If you need proof that Fortress London works, look no farther than the recent war with the Yankees, where we were able to successfully turn the tide at London and force EDEN into a ceasefire restoring our territory. Despite his claims not to be a politician, Lemuel makes the classic politician's mistake of attempting to legislate something he doesn't fully understand.
Moreover, Lemuel suggests that the chain of command should be determined by someone's ingame rank. That's good and all, except most people in the military are already ingame Generals or Colonels. If everyone is now the same rank, who will give orders? The current rank system was NOT developed by politicians as has been claimed, but by career military men who realized that a system like Lemuel's would quickly lead to Chaos.
The BEP apparently likes to make contradictory arguments that "corrupt politicians" have too much influence on the military while simultaneously not being involved enough. The fact of the matter is that we keep the two separate institutionally, though most of our politicians are great supporters of the military (and often former soldiers) who understand that its not their place to tell the military how to run itself. There is a reason that we keep party politics and the military separate; namely that most politicians have no clue how to run the military. In short, if its not broke, don't fix it!
"But what about the recent ceasefire with EDEN!", you might argue. The BEP claims that this was a unjust action of the politicians against the military. What they forget is that this ceasefire wasn't negotiated by Congress, it was negotiated by Country President Dishmcds and members of his cabinet. Why is this important? Well, the Country President is the commander in chief of the military; that is to say part of the military. Even the game mechanics reflect this- the Country President is the only guy who can propose Wars to Congress, the only guy who can launch an attack, and the only guy who can retreat a region. Dish was only doing what he was elected to do, and his actions were nothing out of the ordinary.
The BEP is an irresponsible party attempting to wave the banner of false populism despite having no clue what they're talking about. This isn't surprising coming from a party that for months didn't even have an official set of policies, though frankly they were probably better with no policies than the nonsense they're spouting these days. This is not the case with the FDP or any of the other major political parties- we respect the military's independence and we have the common sense not to act like experts of something we know nothing about. To sum up, while we'd love to have you, the reader, join the Free Democratic Party, the point of this article is to urge you to do yourself a huge favor and join any party BUT the BEP.
Regards,
The Free Democrats.
Free Democratic Party.
Free Democratic Party IRC.
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First! 😛
voted!
You cannot deny that the eUK is run by a small clique of people who spend most of their time playing a TOTALLY different "game" down on the eUK forums - the majority of people in eRepublik are not here to draft and argue pointless boring "forum legislation". Unfortunately the other 4 main parties seem set on claiming this is the only way to be a "proper serious party". We disagree and are here to remind you, the TUP & UKRP that there are a large number of unrepresented citizens that need a voice.
No wonder you don't like us - we're threatening your cosy arrangement!!
@LG
My gawd. You srsly think that those reform plans are a good idea?
The Navy works perfectly well if people don't join in on the forums, or the IRC channels, the ones that do are retained.
Player retention is a huge part of the Military, and you seem to want to squash that in favour of giving everyone the 2 clickan experience rather than offering people more if they chose to have it.
Good day sir!
FDP cannot into top 5 ;_;
I support this article!
One year ago you weren't allowed to be in the military if you weren't on the forums. My name received a bit of a slating on those very same forums when I suggested that perhaps it ought not to be so.
Since that time, thanks to the hard work of folks like Kumnaa and Polio, the military is now open to anyone who can click a link or type on IRC and I myself am in the Paras without having logged into the forum in 12 months.
I agree that the forum legislation has little utility in the game, this is why I'm not there, however Tom_Morgan is completely correct about today's military. It's only just undergone one major reform and it looks in the best shape for months.
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I support this article!
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Nobody can deny the fact that here is a "Liberal Elite" clique who run this country and whenever there's a threat to your clique - the BEP - you all gang up on that threat and try to destroy it to preserve your clique
Oooh I'm a Liberal Elite.
@ ProundtobeBritish23
TUP already played the Elitist card a few months back. Been there, done that, etc.
Glad to see the BEP representatives resorting to name-calling rather than addressing the points the FDP has made.
No Mahmoud we're explaing the reasoning behind this campaign.
@Tom Morgan the TUP are hypocrites they are part of the Liberal Elite
Voted!
Voted,
Everyone else seems to have common-sense, even if politically all parties are rivals. But BEP... ;_;
This clip pretty much sums up my feelings about this topic
As a long standing critic of elitism and cabalism in all its forms, I can assure you their is nothing elitist about the current setup of the military. I agree with the FDP whole-heartedly on this one. I have seen citizens rise to captain their own ship in the navy within a month of joining, and our current MoD was less than six months old when he took office, one of the highest ranked positions in the world
Hard work and commitment wins you promotion. I give my labour to the Navy because I admire them for their diligence and hard work. My productivity is nothing compared to the amount of hours they put in. The BEP has insulted those hours by suggesting the navy command are not only unqualified, but also there due to nepotism.
For shame.
Iain Keers
TUP Leader
And for god sakes people, stop referring to us as "The The Unity Party"!
Well said Iain
Full support here for this article from an old soldier 😛
Ian, these people who've risen through the Navy. Who do they know? Bacause I can just about guarantee that they know one of the Liberal Elite thus giving them special treatment.
I concur with both the FDP and TUP.
IndieKid,
(Slightly worried) RFA PP