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The Morals Of The Rich - An NPN Radio Address

Nazguul
16-07-2004, 03:20
All activities ceased at 9:15 Central time in Nazguul as the weekly radio address was about to be broadcasted from a small bunker in the heart of New Prague. The Nazguulian Party Network was controlled by the nation's beloved Chancellor, Viktor Lazlo.

The Morals Of The Rich

It’s easier for the rich to be moral than it is for the poor. Wealth protects the wealthy, but encourages the poor to action.
A rich man, for example, would never think of stealing bread. Only someone who is hungry but has no money steals bread. When the rich man is hungry, he has more than enough bread and everything else besides to quell his hunger.
Likewise, a rich man with a car will never travel without a ticket on the subway. Aside from the fact that he could easily buy a ticket, he has a fancy car waiting in front of his fancy house.
The rules of social conduct are also stricter when one is poor. The poor are crammed together in huge apartment buildings, while the rich live in large houses with enough rooms so that everyone can find a place away from everyone else in the family when necessary. In an apartment building, on the other hand, where people live on top of each other, one has to turn off the radio by a certain hour, since the neighbor wants to get to sleep, sleep he needs if he is to get up and go to work tomorrow. In a big house one can let the radio blare all night, since the nearest house is 30, 40 or 100 meters away.
The poor live a more disciplined life than the rich, otherwise they could not get along with each other.
It is absurd for the rich to complain that certain rules apply to the poor that are not at all necessary for the rich.
As far as morals go, the most moral people are those who have had an exciting life already. As the proverb has it, the old whore prays the loudest. Nature makes morality easy at that point, and it easy to understand why at an advanced age one might attempt to atone for a wild life. They want to forget a notorious past, and therefore love to preach morality to those who are still in the middle of life, or have not even yet begun to live. Everything is suddenly turned around. The old demand morality of the youth, especially when they used their own youth to the fullest.
This is true not only of individuals, but also of peoples. This is the real reason why we are not at the moment able to agree with the democracies.

The democracies talk a lot about political morality. They have everything they need. They established a world empire at a time when politics was not all that concerned about morality. Now they are defending their empire with moral platitudes. They do not even think about stealing food, since they are not hungry. They have enough food whenever they want it. They can joke about us, since they have at their disposal the enormous wealth of their empire. The boundaries of their national life can be very lax, not to say democratic, since they face no threat to their national existence.
It is not so easy for us Nazguulians. We have been a fully unified nation only for the last six years. We are still young and bear the scars of our former discords. We have to be cautious, sometimes even strict, lest the old wounds reopen.

The democracies can afford the luxury of so-called freedom of opinion. It costs them nothing. The unity of the empire is in no danger. They need no startling actions or "fait accomplis," since they have everything the need, or even could wish for. It would never occur to them to add to their nation, since they have been united for centuries. We, however, were forced to such things. We had no choice. We do it not because we feel superior, but because we must in order to live. That has nothing to do with morality from either side. One should be wary of using terms that have an entirely different meaning in political life than they do in private life.

Leading officials in the democracies recently have been saying that while it is true that they have protectorates, democratic protectorates exist only to guard the freedom and culture of the peoples who live there.
The democratic world grinned as this profound wisdom was revealed. The democracies have the ability to conceal the truth with moralistic phrases, sometimes concealing rather dubious situations that otherwise would provoke some excitement. They are such moralists today because they have their sheep safely in the barn, and would like to forget their past. They find nothing wrong with the fact that the world is divided into haves and have-nots.

They have no idea that the have-nots may not be happy with the situation. They would never even think of changing the way things are. The world is the way God wants it. He ordained that the democracies have everything, and the other peoples of the world are poor, and therefore dependent on the wealthy.
They have a newspaper that is prototypically English. It is called the "Times." It is mostly very refined and serious, and only rarely throws insults. It is extraordinarily moralistic, and thinks that its God-given task is to deliver political rebukes to the rest of the world. It thinks itself called to comment on everything that goes on in the world, and embodies the typical democratic notion of how things ought to be. The remarkable thing is that sometimes the democracies actually believe what they say. They know how to be so insolent and blatantly deceptive that one does not know what to say. They hold to their lies so strongly, even when they are proven false, that one who does not understand the mentality might easily believe that they had fallen for their own lies. That is not the case. It is only proof of the remarkable national discipline that the democratic press maintains, despite all the talk about the freedom of opinion.

At the moment, however, the democratic press really has gone too far. No one else believes it any longer. Everywhere in the world, people wink when the democratic machines begin to speak on difficult political matters. They invite people to morning and evening prayers, where they hope to do a little political business or cattle trading.
Were they battling for their national existence, they would doubtlessly use every means at their disposal. However, they have always thought it better to fight to the last Frenchman, Russian or American.
An example of the depth of London's lies is the recent story about an alleged German ultimatum to Rumania. London invented the whole thing to rouse the world public against the Reich. Both Berlin and Bucharest immediately denied it in the strongest terms. But the English certainly did not look like sinners who had been found out. To the contrary, despite the forceful denials they continued to speak about the matter as if they were not sure whether it were true or not.

Now they seem surprised that Nazguulian radio has begun to broadcast news in English. Soon they will start to complain. They cannot imagine that any other nation in the world has the same rights they have. Our empire was built through war, oppression, concentration camps, starvation and blood.
We Nazguulians are glad to listen to moral advice, but only from those who have the right to give it. The democratic, communist and zionist political machines do not. When people are talking about political morality, the Empire had best remain silent. We have some friendly advice for the world: Do not shout so loudly. You are not alone. The whole world is laughing itself to death at pious talk of morality coming from those who reek of blood.

Rudolph Hoess
Minister Of Propaganda
Nazguul
16-07-2004, 15:44
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Read it, people!
Aust
16-07-2004, 16:05
OOC: Interesting.

IC:
To: Nazgul
From: His Imperial majesty Emporer Palpatine the 3rd of Aust.

Your ideas on morals are interesting, amusing even. It is strange to see that you balive such things. Only one set of rules for life are needed to go to Paradise. Follow the code of honour and it shall be revealed to you.

The world is not perfect, if there was a creator he was a madman. We must strive to correct his faults. Cast down the false systerm of Democracy and freedom of speech.
Left Winged Saudis
16-07-2004, 16:17
wow, well i understand what you mean about the morality of people, but most of that is based of free enterprise, and other such things, that allows people to get richer while poor get poorer. In a set collectivist government the people only ha ve what they need, and nothing more, that keeps most everyone politically moral.





hey wasnt rudoplh hoess a nazi propagandist during wwII
Nazguul
17-07-2004, 16:03
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Yes, Hoess made a few speeches but Goebbels was the main propaganda speaker.
Monte Ozarka
17-07-2004, 17:25
The GDMO, a democratic nation, would like to be the first of the "democratic" and "free" nations of the world to praise the Minister Hoess' speech. Although our government stands for the ideals of democracy, we understand that democracy is not a "one-size-fits-all" fix, like how most democracies believe. Circumstances often do not allow countries to employ the tenets of democracy fully. In fact, if one looks back in the annals of history, the only places in which democracy has been successfully implemented have been developed areas and/or areas with a history of stability, politically and economically (i.e. U.S., France, Britain). When a nation that does not fit those requirements attempts to create a government "by the people, for the people", the circumstances for non-stability often twist the "democracy" into thinly-veiled dictatorships that create a mask of "democracy" through (unfair) elections and titles such as "President" (i.e. Africa, Southeast Asia).

We admire Minister Hoess' courage in speaking out so openly and eloquently on this touchy topic, and hope that, although Nazguul is not a democratic nation, it may perhaps gradually come to develop the boons usually seen in democratic nations. We like to think of government as a means to aid the people, and democracy is simply one path to such aid.

The Grand Duchy of Monte Ozarka wishes the nation of Nazguul the best of luck in the building of its country.

--ROBERT WERTER, Count of Viscosia, Foreign Minister for the Archduke Philip IV of the Grand Duchy of Monte Ozarka

P.S. We will be highly pissed off if your country, one day, decides to wage war against the GDMO. Have a good day.
Nazguul
18-07-2004, 02:12
While we do believe that aid is a nessessity to a ever growing populace, we believe that aid comes in a different form. Rather than using a democratic stance on all descisions, we leave that to the Fuhrer and his cabinet. The people are happier this way. Now, getting back to my original point: We do aid our people. It just comes in different forms. For example; a large, well equiped and well funded police force makes crime in Nazguul non existent. That is just one form. It should, though, be enough to make you realize that Nazguul will not adopt a centrist view on government or politics.

Rudolf Hoess
Minister Of Propaganda
Nazguul
18-07-2004, 16:28
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