Questers
30-05-2008, 10:04
(OOC: I use the pre-decimalisation currency - defence spending has gone up from 10-11.25% of GDP)
A General Speech by the Prime Minister
I have been asked by those in Parliament and by the political body of the country suspicious of the actions undertaken by my Government to justify said actions, and as every accountable Government must do so to preserve at least a basic suggestion of political freedom, I will do so today, but I will not make a mere answer expected by the House of Commons, because before this day has passed the entire world will hear this message, a greater message that will reach every corner of the earth and shake the boots of every tyrant who lies currently secure under a shield of well armed military forces and totalitarian state power. Those same intelligence bureaus responsible for the torture of dissidents and the arrest of political and civil opponents to the regimes they prop up by their contemptible acts have watched with interested eyes as our military has rebuilt itself. They have watched as our nation tore the proverbial economic arrow from its chest and stood back up, her shoulders once more brushing the clouds and her eyes once more looking upwards and meeting those of almighty God himself. And I, my fellow Questarians, for I sit at the head of this nation, have looked into the eyes of God, and he has looked back at me, and in the eyes of our creator I saw nothing less than the red, white and blue.
Yesterday, the Military Bill passed Parliament, legalising my Government to spend an extra three pence in the pound of our gross domestic product on the military. This means that for every pound of Questarian money produced, twenty-seven pence will be spent on our Armed Forces. It will be spent on ships, aircraft, and tanks. Missiles, bombs, and guns. Why is it that our nation must spend more on defence when we already spend a tremendous amount of money on machines of war? In our country, every single man and woman owns as much of their lives as any other, they have the same basic human rights, they have the same sensibilities and dignities, they have the same liberty to enjoy as one another. In Questers, free black men choose to shake the hands of free white men in friendship and compassion. This is not the case across much of the rest of the world, and yet, this is not related to Racialism nor its decline in light of the spread of emancipation in our country, but related to the very basic human freedoms that our countrymen share with each other, as Questarian citizens protected under their untouchable Bill of Rights.
Every Questarian is now born knowing their rights, and if a Police Officer or Soldier breaks into their house without a properly obtained warrant, they may - and many do - present to him their Bill of Rights and escort him from their premises at gunpoint, so extensive is the Liberty we enjoy. If the armed police of the local council see it fit to break up a private meeting of individuals, they are commiting the greatest offence that it is possible to commit under the Questarian Common Law. Yet these rights are not those extended to so, so many people in different lands across the sea, who bear the burden of unfair taxes, who every day live in fear that their lives could be brought to an end or their souls fed to the torturer, as equally foul as he is brutal, who have no right to petition their Government and who have no right to speak freely and who have no right to privately address their deity of choice. Yet these people soldier on, day after day, because they know that across the seas, there are lands where there lie better existences than the miserable lives these oppressed citizens suffer. They pray to their Gods, secretly if needs be, and at the risk of torture and execution, they pray to be liberated. They pray for the overthrow of their despotic and tyrannical leaders. They pray that one day they may enjoy the light of a free society.
Perhaps The Honourable Gentleman, Sir Rutledge, my Conservative opponent is entirely unawares as to the nature of the Market Liberal Party. We will not sit idly by while an injustices are carried out overseas that are so great it would sicken any one of the Houses's Members to the deepest bowels of their hearts to hear the morbid details of many of them. And it is not just the political and civic liberties that we observe being violated - there are no shortage of states who see their nation's economies as playtools for social redistribution, who do not believe in the power of every individual to act together to run a nation in cooperation like our own, but instead believe that the power of the invincible state, that the supremacy of collectivism, will lead them to glory. The many that starve under their planned economies are to them not individuals with hopes and dreams and aspirations, but mere numbers to be discarded as part of paperwork in an endless bureaucracy. Perhaps the Honourable Gentleman of the opposition enjoys his three course dinners at his stately home - possibly, sometimes, he may even give grace, but he cares not for the hundreds of millions, if not billions, who live in poverty, their motivation and their talent viciously crushed under the fist of the state.
It is true that we have fought before, and it is true that we sustained terrible casualties in our quest for Havenic independence. But as the good Samaritan gave his aid to the victim of robbery, so we will give aid to those who are victims of robbery, for a crime is a crime irregardless of those who have committed it. The guns of their Army and the laws of their country make no excuse for their actions. They will and can not avoid being tried for their offences against human dignity when the time comes, and if that Samaritan in that story had faced the same bandits and rogues who had troubled his neighbour, he would not have cowered in the face of their aggression; nor shuddered from their cruel and wicked smiles, nor ran from their blades. That then, is our aim, and our calling: to stand our ground in the defence of human Life and Liberty. Why? Why must we fight to give those who we are in no way assosciated what we cherish and enjoy? Arbitrarily defined nationalities cannot stand in the way of the bondage that human beings discover when they find it in their hearts to assist those in their greatest need.
To indict me or my party as warmongers is an action so foolish I would expect it not even of the opposition. When a man breaks and enters his neighbours home to defend him from a murder he is not violent or aggressive, for there is no shame in protecting human life wherever it can be found, just as there is no shame in denying those murderers the opportunity to strike at those who are easiest to prey upon. Noone has ever dared to attack our nation, for they can see the military consequences are not favourable towards them, and to our military they have given a wide berth, for they know that challenging it is to invite defeat. They are, in perhaps the greatest sense of the word, cowards, who feast upon the freedom of the undefended but never dare to attempt to make a meal out of us. The United Democratic Front has branded me the title of International Police Chief - and let me tell you, it is a title I savour most approvingly, for there is no greater task ascribed to mortal men than to bring justice to criminals caught in the act of repression.
The hopes of billions rest on those who are ready to say that they are no longer willing to substitute the spread of Liberty for political ideals as shallow as convenience and as pathetic as safety, for there can be no convenience in petting the shark and there can be no safety in entertaining it, for once you tread in its waters the scent of your blood is in its nose and to give up such easy prey as an appeaser is something a shark is pained to do. Their hopes rest on us in Questers, and our allies who are ready to stand by us in our struggle, that we have the conviction to take up our morals in defence of humanity. No doubt in the oppressive summer sun the tyrant closes his curtains to stop the sun from leaking into his chambers and awakening him early. There is no closing the curtains on the light of Liberty. This is a light that will find its way through closed curtains, through locked doors, and if needs be, through concrete bunkers. We call upon our allies, our friends who have shown themselves to be nations as free and Liberal as any, to march with us. The advance of Liberty is unstoppable. It is the destiny of the whole world to be free from the shackles of economic tyranny and the chains of political oppression. Perhaps the dictators who feel this wave of manumission sweep over their population will respond in their typically jingoistic manner and attack our Nation; Our People, Our Freedom.
To those in power in these tyrannies scattered across the globe who are as morally guilty as a common murderer or a pety thief, be prepared. Our military is well armed and ready. Here in our capital we can hear the voices of those who cry out for Freedom. We can hear you, and we are coming for you. Liberty will be enslaved no longer. She is breaking the chains of her cage as we speak, a roaring lion prepared to maul her repressive captors. The hour of Liberation is at hand.
Lux Libertas Justitia.
(OOC: "Light, Liberty, Justice")
A General Speech by the Prime Minister
I have been asked by those in Parliament and by the political body of the country suspicious of the actions undertaken by my Government to justify said actions, and as every accountable Government must do so to preserve at least a basic suggestion of political freedom, I will do so today, but I will not make a mere answer expected by the House of Commons, because before this day has passed the entire world will hear this message, a greater message that will reach every corner of the earth and shake the boots of every tyrant who lies currently secure under a shield of well armed military forces and totalitarian state power. Those same intelligence bureaus responsible for the torture of dissidents and the arrest of political and civil opponents to the regimes they prop up by their contemptible acts have watched with interested eyes as our military has rebuilt itself. They have watched as our nation tore the proverbial economic arrow from its chest and stood back up, her shoulders once more brushing the clouds and her eyes once more looking upwards and meeting those of almighty God himself. And I, my fellow Questarians, for I sit at the head of this nation, have looked into the eyes of God, and he has looked back at me, and in the eyes of our creator I saw nothing less than the red, white and blue.
Yesterday, the Military Bill passed Parliament, legalising my Government to spend an extra three pence in the pound of our gross domestic product on the military. This means that for every pound of Questarian money produced, twenty-seven pence will be spent on our Armed Forces. It will be spent on ships, aircraft, and tanks. Missiles, bombs, and guns. Why is it that our nation must spend more on defence when we already spend a tremendous amount of money on machines of war? In our country, every single man and woman owns as much of their lives as any other, they have the same basic human rights, they have the same sensibilities and dignities, they have the same liberty to enjoy as one another. In Questers, free black men choose to shake the hands of free white men in friendship and compassion. This is not the case across much of the rest of the world, and yet, this is not related to Racialism nor its decline in light of the spread of emancipation in our country, but related to the very basic human freedoms that our countrymen share with each other, as Questarian citizens protected under their untouchable Bill of Rights.
Every Questarian is now born knowing their rights, and if a Police Officer or Soldier breaks into their house without a properly obtained warrant, they may - and many do - present to him their Bill of Rights and escort him from their premises at gunpoint, so extensive is the Liberty we enjoy. If the armed police of the local council see it fit to break up a private meeting of individuals, they are commiting the greatest offence that it is possible to commit under the Questarian Common Law. Yet these rights are not those extended to so, so many people in different lands across the sea, who bear the burden of unfair taxes, who every day live in fear that their lives could be brought to an end or their souls fed to the torturer, as equally foul as he is brutal, who have no right to petition their Government and who have no right to speak freely and who have no right to privately address their deity of choice. Yet these people soldier on, day after day, because they know that across the seas, there are lands where there lie better existences than the miserable lives these oppressed citizens suffer. They pray to their Gods, secretly if needs be, and at the risk of torture and execution, they pray to be liberated. They pray for the overthrow of their despotic and tyrannical leaders. They pray that one day they may enjoy the light of a free society.
Perhaps The Honourable Gentleman, Sir Rutledge, my Conservative opponent is entirely unawares as to the nature of the Market Liberal Party. We will not sit idly by while an injustices are carried out overseas that are so great it would sicken any one of the Houses's Members to the deepest bowels of their hearts to hear the morbid details of many of them. And it is not just the political and civic liberties that we observe being violated - there are no shortage of states who see their nation's economies as playtools for social redistribution, who do not believe in the power of every individual to act together to run a nation in cooperation like our own, but instead believe that the power of the invincible state, that the supremacy of collectivism, will lead them to glory. The many that starve under their planned economies are to them not individuals with hopes and dreams and aspirations, but mere numbers to be discarded as part of paperwork in an endless bureaucracy. Perhaps the Honourable Gentleman of the opposition enjoys his three course dinners at his stately home - possibly, sometimes, he may even give grace, but he cares not for the hundreds of millions, if not billions, who live in poverty, their motivation and their talent viciously crushed under the fist of the state.
It is true that we have fought before, and it is true that we sustained terrible casualties in our quest for Havenic independence. But as the good Samaritan gave his aid to the victim of robbery, so we will give aid to those who are victims of robbery, for a crime is a crime irregardless of those who have committed it. The guns of their Army and the laws of their country make no excuse for their actions. They will and can not avoid being tried for their offences against human dignity when the time comes, and if that Samaritan in that story had faced the same bandits and rogues who had troubled his neighbour, he would not have cowered in the face of their aggression; nor shuddered from their cruel and wicked smiles, nor ran from their blades. That then, is our aim, and our calling: to stand our ground in the defence of human Life and Liberty. Why? Why must we fight to give those who we are in no way assosciated what we cherish and enjoy? Arbitrarily defined nationalities cannot stand in the way of the bondage that human beings discover when they find it in their hearts to assist those in their greatest need.
To indict me or my party as warmongers is an action so foolish I would expect it not even of the opposition. When a man breaks and enters his neighbours home to defend him from a murder he is not violent or aggressive, for there is no shame in protecting human life wherever it can be found, just as there is no shame in denying those murderers the opportunity to strike at those who are easiest to prey upon. Noone has ever dared to attack our nation, for they can see the military consequences are not favourable towards them, and to our military they have given a wide berth, for they know that challenging it is to invite defeat. They are, in perhaps the greatest sense of the word, cowards, who feast upon the freedom of the undefended but never dare to attempt to make a meal out of us. The United Democratic Front has branded me the title of International Police Chief - and let me tell you, it is a title I savour most approvingly, for there is no greater task ascribed to mortal men than to bring justice to criminals caught in the act of repression.
The hopes of billions rest on those who are ready to say that they are no longer willing to substitute the spread of Liberty for political ideals as shallow as convenience and as pathetic as safety, for there can be no convenience in petting the shark and there can be no safety in entertaining it, for once you tread in its waters the scent of your blood is in its nose and to give up such easy prey as an appeaser is something a shark is pained to do. Their hopes rest on us in Questers, and our allies who are ready to stand by us in our struggle, that we have the conviction to take up our morals in defence of humanity. No doubt in the oppressive summer sun the tyrant closes his curtains to stop the sun from leaking into his chambers and awakening him early. There is no closing the curtains on the light of Liberty. This is a light that will find its way through closed curtains, through locked doors, and if needs be, through concrete bunkers. We call upon our allies, our friends who have shown themselves to be nations as free and Liberal as any, to march with us. The advance of Liberty is unstoppable. It is the destiny of the whole world to be free from the shackles of economic tyranny and the chains of political oppression. Perhaps the dictators who feel this wave of manumission sweep over their population will respond in their typically jingoistic manner and attack our Nation; Our People, Our Freedom.
To those in power in these tyrannies scattered across the globe who are as morally guilty as a common murderer or a pety thief, be prepared. Our military is well armed and ready. Here in our capital we can hear the voices of those who cry out for Freedom. We can hear you, and we are coming for you. Liberty will be enslaved no longer. She is breaking the chains of her cage as we speak, a roaring lion prepared to maul her repressive captors. The hour of Liberation is at hand.
Lux Libertas Justitia.
(OOC: "Light, Liberty, Justice")