The Warning to the eNetherlands
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NoTie112
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EDIT: Just as this article was being written, Van Spijck has abolished the official IRC channel and it's 5-year old community in another attempt of massacring those neutral and opponent to him. Another example of clinging to power eternally!
Dear citizens of the eNetherlands,
In any other case, I’d have congratulated the victor of the Presidential Elections, but this time I will not. While in Egypt, former president Mubarak has been released from prison, raising fears in the general population, we in the eNetherlands took it even a step further in neglecting the history of a former president. Being elected for more than a lifetime now, Van Spijck has once again - although he never left power - claimed the throne of the eNetherlands. Some call him Captain Schettino, but of course that name doesn’t hold any value anymore, as the ship of Democracy & Liberty has already long been purposely sunk by the Captain, with it many opposers of his rule.
Of course, any dictatorship exists based on good management and part support, part manipulation of the public opinion. Therefor, I’m likely to receive once again many shunning remarks about this article, but those are made by the innocent victims that have been trapped in the indoctrination of a cult-system. I’ll however take this opportunity to slowly explain how Van Spijck has managed to control every institution of power in the eNetherlands. Don’t be fooled by the in-game definition of the eNetherlands as a democracy, but be an informed and warned citizen. Most importantly, act upon it.
Enabling Act I: Disable Legislative Institutions
When our nation fell to the Polish nation, we were unable to hold any in-game elections for Congress. The Congress that was last elected agreed upon holding temporary power to the day of liberation. While that seemed to be a wise thing back then, it essentially gave the Legislative power to only one party, Geuzen Party Nederland, based upon a biased election result (as GPN has a majority, based upon luck in the last official Congress elections). This meant that the check Congress gives upon governments doesn’t exist anymore.
Now, this was believed to be going for just a month or two, but this situation has already been going on for months and is likely to continue for many more. Of course, not every party would take the opportunity to claim power in the darker hour of the eNetherlands, but van Spijck and his associates apparently did so. For starters, Van Spijck has continuously ignored democratic proposals and motions made by Congress, most infamously a Motion of No Confidence against him as President.
Other crimes made against democracy include filibustering and obstructing proposals to have a restored democratic Congress, which was actually a proposal made by his fellow party member Zeeuwsmeisje (of course, not the whole of GPN is too blame!). When it became apparent that allowing elections would result in a more balanced and fair share of seats in Congress, instead of GPN holding veto-rights Zeeuwmeisje ‘vanished’ and van Spijck declared it to be useless. If by manipulation he doesn’t succeed in twisting Congress, he ‘boycots’ the palace of democracy and demands his associates to do the same.
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Enabling Act II: One Party Status
Geuzen Partij Nederland was created with the intention of it being an anti-establishment party. The fact is was a radical and anti-democratic party allowed Van Spijck and his clique of power to take it over in a coup d’etat in the eye of the public. They claimed to have changed it into a more honest democratic party, fighting for the ‘normal man’. In the background however, the party returned to it’s most radical roots and has changed into a mere pool of sheep voters and helpful assets in establishing a system, which can be rightfully called a One Party State.
Not only has GPN unrightfully gotten the power of Congress (and refusing to hand it over), they’ve also abused all possible in-game mechanics to establish a privileged party. They’ve gained the exclusive ability to recruit new citizens with more indoctrination tools than the other parties can, which massively influences the democratic state of the eNetherlands. First of all, GPN has established the Praetorian Guard Military Unit, which acts as an additional political recruiting pool in disguise. Currently, it’s the biggest, the most financed (very attracting to new citizens, indeed!) and wants to replace the official government armies. Where have we heard that before, a political army replacing the regular one?
In comparison to that, the facts that Van Spijck has the eRepublik ‘mentor’ status, which means he can easily recruit every new citizen combined with the almost complete control over the media are hardly remarkable, but dangerous nonetheless.
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Now the eNetherlands has elected Van Spijck for the 10th time as President of the eNetherlands, which is comparable to 40 years of real-life power, the secondary liberation of the eNetherlands (the first being from Poland), namely the restoration of democracy, seems very far ahead. While Van Spijck uses all kind of fanatical promises to ban opposers out of Congress, Government and even outside our country borders, it’s not too late to be aware of the dangerous state the eNetherlands is now finding itself in. Luckily, the eRepublik mechanics only allow limited dictatorship that can be brought down at any given time. It depends on the citizens of the eNetherlands,
Yours sincerely,
NoTie112,
Party President Libertas
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En dat van iemand die zich verschuilt in eCanada...
lekker makkelijk Frankie, ik mag na jaren inzet voor eNL geeneens met ePensioen. Bovendien KAN ik geeneens terug naar eNL omdat we geen regio hebben. Zoals ik al maanden geleden aangaf zou ik wel terugwillen, maar gek genoeg worden de beloftes van VS dat we een regio krijgen nooit waargemaakt.
Dictatorship...lol... get real! Unity on the other hand is a good thing!
I suggested we held our own congressional elections a couple months ago.. but elgorro and basically the 'group' that is against our current CP... declined when he edged me out by 1 vote.. it would be easy to do.. but they will not give up their self proclaimed seats, or support fighting back..imo they are the dictators.. not the ELECTED CP!! so its a bit twisted to be complaining now... and in a small country that doesn't have many players interested in being CP... 10 terms isn't that many(and they aren't consecutive, in fact they are spread out over quite a long period..so really he is just a constant pillar of patriotism 😉 and making a statement that a leader in real life that leads around 40 years is a negative, is pretty ignorant..(& very U.S. bias) there are many countries that dont re-elect their leaders ever 4 years... so im my mind thats a pretty stupid & meaningless thing to say.. I think we are lucky to a player so interested in fighting back and re-establishing the Netherlands...
& the state of affairs in our country has been pretty disgraceful for a good 6 months now.. this is nothing new. & in my opinion slanderous articles like this one, are a big part of the reason.. along with the self proclaimed congress members that will not relinquish their seats.. they are the only real tyrannical branch of government we have.. At least our CP won a democratic vote.. thats not the case with these 'congress' members..
many of those members wanted to relinquish their seats but it was halted by the current ruling party.
we need to start over.. the old congress has failed.. they shouldn't be the ones voting on congressional change.. it should be every active citizen, as thats who congress should represent.. letting the incumbents vote.. is ridiculous! they are bias, and do not represent to populous.. all of our citizens should get a vote.. like the one we had to join Asgard..
I do not recognize our current 'congress' as a part of our government or the Netherlands.. Just a group that is now lost in the Bermuda triangle! its a joke as far as im concerned.. & a big reason why we constantly lose active new players to other countries..
Syria has elections, too.
And it's good to see you agree on the corrupt Congress system
A despicable piece of trash written by the one person who is puked upon by a large part of eNetherlands community for the suspicious and extremely cowardous way he behaved after eNetherlands gold mysteriously disappeared during his presidency. What did you pay the voters club with?
Relevance
Exactly!
As relevant as several figures in GPN are to the values of a democratic state.. Thanks for proving my point! 🙂
On the contrary, you've proven my point - but you wouldn't understand that.
Je weet je mening in ieder geval goed te brengen, ongeacht hoe waar die is 😉
Big talk for a thief...
Rather be a proven innocent of a robbery case, than an actual thief of the eNetherlands community, history and democracy!
And when exactly were you proven innocent? Oh right, you weren't...
I'm not proven guilty either? Which is equal to being declared innocent and not valid to be taken account too, which is called Justice (another value for Democracy). But this is not relevant to this subject at all, right? If we want to talk about complete disrespect for the Congress and the population which is what I'm being attacked on: What is Van Spijck ignoring motion of No Confidences, and replacing official community channels (Forums, IRC) with his own?
You behaved guilty enough by trying to deceive eNetherlands citizens with lies and then just disappearing. No honest person with nothing to hide would have behaved like that.
Keep ignoring the actual debate with all your deception. I asked you a question, which is far more relevant and far worse than I have ever done in your eyes.
The actual debate? This is not a debate, this is just a piece of trash with some comments under it.
Yes, denounce it as a piece of trash to avoid the need to actually address the problems 😁
It seems GPNers really cannot address the issue here and rely on personal attack on Tonie. All of your comments here is very evident. Bash Tonie to the ground and create red herring argument. Slander Tonie so people can forget the real issue of the debate, the strange behavior of the GPN administration in regards to IRC etc...
If people didn't want him as President, he would not have garnered 68.75% of the popular vote against I might add a coalition of three major parties. Obviously he had votes from your own parties to get elected.
This is not a good argument, as pointed out in the article.
He obviously had support from the people in your party as well as I&W and demNL. He couldn't of been elected without it. You needed a stronger opponent.
Could be, probably because we don't as strictly control our members as other do, at least at the immediate start of their eLife. Which is exactly the point I'm trying to make. The circumstances make Van Spijck's run biased. Elections 😕= Democracy
Van Spijck has no control over YOUR party members so their freely casted votes must be based on common sense...
You have insight in what my members have voted? I might as well be the only one in Libertas who voted! And yes, that's the downside of having elections in a manipulated state system, that's why this article is written. A warning to the eNetherlands.
Based on the numbers at least some of your party members must have voted for van Spijck...
You have insight in what my members have voted? I might as well be the only one in Libertas who voted! And yes, that's the downside of having elections in a manipulated state system, that's why this article is written. A warning to the eNetherlands.
Actually, our party VVN was advised to vote for van Spijck, so you must have gotten some votes from our party.
Funny thing is that when you came back to the gamefield you where preaching that e_NL is to divided and needed unity to succeed in the future.......
IMO this article doesn't help that objective.....but than again i could be wrong ......
Being repressed, banned from power and exiled out of the eNetherlands will surely give a one-sided united eNetherlands! But I don't think that kind of unity will do our country good.
you make it sound like that all that voted pro vS where held at gunpoint when they casted their vote .......
Its not that it was an election won by margins......
What they do now within GPN i don't know , but when i was there everyone was free to choose who ever they want.
Ofcourse the party nominate is promoted but would be weird if they wouldn't do that in a political party.
About PG i can be very clear and have a short answer...... PG is an MU and politics is not appreciated within PG.
So it would be loudacrous to say that PG is a recruiting tool for GPN and a plain lie.....
But its not the first time you have your truth & a large group of the country don't share ur opinion ....
My geuss it won't be the last time either .
That's why there is election advices in the PG feeds now and then? And it has a GPN-image attached towards it, not being forced, but hey, let's not kid ourselves.
i just checked the last week for feeds , but again either you're misinformed or like i said before you have your own truth that differs from alot of people .
You weren't exiled out of eNetherlands, you just disappeared on your own accord when it became clear that the citizens wanted truthful answers concerning the disappeared gold that you weren't willing to give. You were temporarily banned from the forum for that exact reason but you aren't anymore so what are you whining about?
Already answered - Not relevant to the addressed problems, too
Ahhhh riiight... nothing is relevant for you unless it confirms your warped ideas. If you really want this supposed debate to center on your imaginary problems, then don't answer replies with lies and half truths that must be addressed for their own sake.
Whow! This must be the biggest case of butthurt I've ever seen!!!
Yes, the butthurt is strong in this notie. Noclue would be a better name.
First off lets settle the PG used for recruitment crap
http://i.imgur.com/qi3lUsz.pngmade screenie of the last 5 days, there is no GNP recruiting and no voting advise, and there rarely ever is only times any political stuff gets posted it comes from new players and are instantly told off and to remove it, last time i saw any thing to do with politics has been well over 2 mounts ago it is a very rare occurrences, and never done by people that are in PG for a longer period of time.
"Some call him Captain Schettino, but of course that name doesn’t hold any value anymore, as the ship of Democracy & Liberty has already long been purposely sunk by the Captain, with it many opposers of his rule."
First off you know damn well he takes great offence to being even compare to that guy, so ofcource you had to use a picture off him and name it, seems to me a clear attempt to get under vS skin. Also how is democracy and liberty being killed? Liberty seems to never really be influenced by a gov anyways its what game/admins allow or not. And how is democracy hurt?? Two thirds of the population voted for him but i guess you definition of democracy is when you or those you want to win doesn't its a blow to democracy ?? cause i really don't see how else any harm has been done to democracy with the elections.
As for congress i do agree, it needs a change but i dont see anyway that is really gone work.
Forum - nope to many people are the on forum nor are likely to sign up
Article - allot of people do not read them.
PM - That is allot of PMs plus who is gone do it? You? Van_Spiick? cause there be trust issues here over a fair count.
Plus for all 3 there might be plenty of people who do not want there choices know by others.
eNL now doesn't have region, how can it has congress and also has vote in it?
it can't... because the biggest party has had a policy of 'eNL not being on the map is good for the country, and even better for tour party' for many months... promising many many months they'll get eNL on the map, but never ever really delivered on that promise.
You are accusing GPN, its members and sympathisers of intentionally keeping eNetherlands occupied by ePoland?
Orenjirenji, when a country is fully occupied only party presidents and country presidents can be chosen but not congress members. That is why everyone is so eager on eNetherlands having at least one free region when the next congress elections take place so a new congress can be chosen.
I'm accusing VS of not delivering on his promises, and yes, ZM has made clear that not being on the map is good policy (for the not happening babyboom).
@DP, please do not take one random remark outof context and present it as if policy. Some other countries have indeed witnessed a babyboom after being wiped, that is all I ever said. But the way you put it is really uncalled for. Not to use the words populistic or manipulative.