Gracias Senor, this bill will no doubt help preserve the sanctity of our republic.
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Allied Government Stability Act:
Yes: 9
No: 6
Abstain:
1894 Land Reform Act:
Yes: 4
No: 6
Abstain: 4
Agrarian Agglomeration Act:
Yes: 6
No: 5
Abstain: 3
Allied Government Stability Act:
Yes: 9
No: 6
Abstain:
1894 Land Reform Act:
Yes: 4
No: 6
Abstain: 4
Agrarian Agglomeration Act:
Yes: 6
No: 5
Abstain: 3
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I fear you misunderstand, Senor Salazar. I do not desire merely for militias to declare their loyalty to the government; I demand that they be dissolved altogether. An oath of loyalty is no guarantee against insubordination. It is as easily discarded as it is made. Rather, the existing militias must be disarmed, decommissioned and disbanded. The creation of further militias must be prohibited outright. We cannot entertain the existence of an underground army of political malcontents and saboteurs, awaiting the opportune moment to rise up against the constitutional order. So long as militias continue to exist, the Chilean Republic will continue to be crippled by disorder.
- General Charles Maximilien, Prince de Conti
- General Charles Maximilien, Prince de Conti
But they would also be forced to undergo heavy scrutiny, if congress suspect's anything they can shut it down. What you would do is only raise mor militancy.
And when Congreso commences such an inspection and orders a militia - armed and naturally distrustful of constitutional power - shut down, how do you imagine said militia will respond? I doubt that she shall 'go quietly'. It is not enough to respond to malignancy as it arises - it must be pre-empted, or else we shall face more bloodshed. Only by disbanding the militias now, after the full threat of their existence has been revealed, can we hope to disarm this concern without conflict.
- General Charles Maximilien, Prince de Conti
- General Charles Maximilien, Prince de Conti
Then the military will shut them down, just as you wish to do, only they all rebel at once if you had your way
-Colonel Salazar
-Colonel Salazar
((TH, I thought the Navy Marine Force was under the control of Admiral Alvarez))
I appreciate this new bill, Colonel Salazar. I cannot, however, keep silent on the matter of the Comunistas. I urge and demand a provision within the bill disbarring the Comunistas from raising a militia of any kind.
They have made their intentions known with two consecutive rebellions in as many years! You cannot allow them to arm themselves, as revolt is imminent and a "thorough investigation" will amount to nothing more than proving the known fact that Comunistas look to destroy democracy and silence the Chilean man.
I would therefore amend your bill to say as such. Please, contact me at your convenience if you wish to discuss this with me.
Regards to all Patriots,
Senator Alejandro Ruiz de Escovedo
They have made their intentions known with two consecutive rebellions in as many years! You cannot allow them to arm themselves, as revolt is imminent and a "thorough investigation" will amount to nothing more than proving the known fact that Comunistas look to destroy democracy and silence the Chilean man.
I would therefore amend your bill to say as such. Please, contact me at your convenience if you wish to discuss this with me.
Regards to all Patriots,
Senator Alejandro Ruiz de Escovedo
"How are we the ones wanting the Chilean man silenced? We are not the ones advocating for the banning of an entire ideology. We are not the ones depriving Chileans of their ability to think. I am merely standing up, against what is blatant abuse and tyranny. For the soldiers without jobs because of their beliefs, for the homeless without food because of the rampant Industrial drive, fed by the capitalists. To silence the Communistas, is to silence a portion of the people. To silence the people, is to grasp tyranny's hand, and make it your wife."
-Comrade Armando Renin
-Comrade Armando Renin
((To clarify, at least under Gogolow the Navy Marine force was under the control of the commander of the Navy [which, unless Rivera had other ideas for it, would mean it follows me]. We added in the Marines so we could give naval officers control over some army divisions if we were short of trusted generals, or generals control over naval forces if we were short naval officers [without the weird situation like General-Admiral Gabriel Alvarez awhile back. At least there would be a tenuous link between their position and the forces they were leading, without always needing one naval officer and enough trustworthy army generals to split the troops around].))
Communistas are being robbed of their liberty for the crime of being the single most loyal group to the bourgeois state and constitution. The Juarez revolt versus all of the liberal revolts, all of the the nationalist revolts. Men cut from the same cloth as Zepeda, Cesar, Disraeli, and the other rightist juntas are calling US disloyal. Let's see them kill a nationalist general defending a Communist president, the way we killed a Communist general defending a nationalist President. Of all parties ours has been the most loyal, the most law-abiding, defending the republic wholeheartedly without the constant revolts of the liberal militias; and serving honorably with less coups proportionately than the nationalist generals. Only by virtue of being pacifists, not being more loyal, can the FNT claim to be more law-abiding than we; and they did not contribute to the defense of Chile during the coups the way we did.
We were the greatest patriots in all of Chile, and in exchange for being better than you, rising above the expectations you have for yourselves, all we demanded was equality - and you have all, every one of you from the nationalists to the liberals to the socialists, betrayed us; robbed us of our rights and murdered us.
We are the loyalist front of the nation, you are all traitors; by the treachery of Rivera, authoritarian abuses of power being attempted by the far-right lobby in Congreso even as we speak, the power plays and corrupt of the self-proclaimed political royals in the Santa Rosa family, and the turncoats of the FNT - including Gogolow. Gogolow! We defended you, when we could have rebeled against your wishes after you lost the election. We followed your orders, because you gave us our military appoitnments. We repaid your trust with loyalty, you repaid our trust with nothing but betrayal.
We were the greatest patriots in all of Chile, and in exchange for being better than you, rising above the expectations you have for yourselves, all we demanded was equality - and you have all, every one of you from the nationalists to the liberals to the socialists, betrayed us; robbed us of our rights and murdered us.
We are the loyalist front of the nation, you are all traitors; by the treachery of Rivera, authoritarian abuses of power being attempted by the far-right lobby in Congreso even as we speak, the power plays and corrupt of the self-proclaimed political royals in the Santa Rosa family, and the turncoats of the FNT - including Gogolow. Gogolow! We defended you, when we could have rebeled against your wishes after you lost the election. We followed your orders, because you gave us our military appoitnments. We repaid your trust with loyalty, you repaid our trust with nothing but betrayal.
I support the idea of banning private militias, as solders looking to further their own political beliefs will cause more hatred and violence. Politics itself cause unnecessary death, lets try not to help the process along.
General Guerrero, I have nothing but respect for you. But be honest, you're the one betraying the Republic. You're the one backing a movement that turn their weapons against an elected government. The FNT can never back such a betrayal. We are Socialists, which means we are on the side of the people. Betraying the people is not an option. We are saddened to see our Communist brothers go down this road, frankly we expected better of you. Don't you share the same ideology, the ideology speaking of a World of Equality? Such a world can never be born through a violent revolution. That won't eliminate the wretched class society. It will just create new upper classes as well as new forms of oppressed classes. Only through reform and the democratic progress can the true classless society be born.
"Guerrero, if you were the most loyal element of Chile, you would not be rebelling. Therefore, since you are rebelling against the government you have sworn to serve, you are being disloyal, and as such your argument is invalid. "
Severiano Miramontes
Minister for the Interior
Severiano Miramontes
Minister for the Interior
With only one vote necessary to ensure passage of the Agrarian Agglomeration Act, I implore any members of Congreso who previously chose to abstain or vote against the legislation to recast their vote in favour. If this bill does not pass, the land reform issue will continue to consume more of government time. It is important that we produce a swift resolution to this question that also favours both sides and creates a lasting and satisfying settlement. The Agrarian Agglomeration Act aims to do just that. If this bill is not put into practice, both sides shall suffer: the labourers shall remain impoverished and malcontent, while the landlords will remain dispossessed and dissatisfied.
- General Charles Maximilien, Prince de Conti
- General Charles Maximilien, Prince de Conti
I am For the Government.
Sample Ballot:
Allied Government Stability Act: Yes
1894 Land Reform Act: Yes
Agrarian Agglomeration Act: No
It is with great distress that the final years of my military career are spent fighting fellow Chilean soldiers. I sympathise with their plight - lacking jobs or pensions. I am proud of my service work in the General Staff; my greatest regret is that our soldiers still lack pensions on retirement.
Sample Ballot:
Allied Government Stability Act: Yes
1894 Land Reform Act: Yes
Agrarian Agglomeration Act: No
It is with great distress that the final years of my military career are spent fighting fellow Chilean soldiers. I sympathise with their plight - lacking jobs or pensions. I am proud of my service work in the General Staff; my greatest regret is that our soldiers still lack pensions on retirement.
Allied Government Stability Act: Yes
1894 Land Reform Act: Yes
Agrarian Agglomeration Act: Yes
1894 Land Reform Act: Yes
Agrarian Agglomeration Act: Yes
Polls close in an hour and a half. As a reminder, Leeroy, you're still disenfranchised for your role in the last coup.
The results of the Revolution will be folded into the next update.
Allied Government Stability Act:
Yes: 11
No: 6
Abstain:
1894 Land Reform Act:
Yes: 6
No: 6
Abstain: 4
Agrarian Agglomeration Act:
Yes: 7
No: 6
Abstain: 3
The results of the Revolution will be folded into the next update.
Allied Government Stability Act:
Yes: 11
No: 6
Abstain:
1894 Land Reform Act:
Yes: 6
No: 6
Abstain: 4
Agrarian Agglomeration Act:
Yes: 7
No: 6
Abstain: 3
Rebelling in defense of the Constitution against an usurper government is no vice, or else the Republicanos were traitors too. The purge is a vicious attack on political liberty completely irreconcilable with the Chilean Constitution. If you had directed such a purge against the Liberales, Santa Rosa the Younger would be in the jungle leading militiamen as we speak. It is only because you singled the Communistas that even those who recognize political purges and bans on parties as unconstitutional are doing nothing but talking. They do not realize that after purging us you'll be after them next, or else they'd be fighting alongside us.
We are rebels, yes, rebels for the Constitution. You are the government yes, a government that has violated the Constitution, and has no right to rule us.