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It is up to the party as a whole to decide the slate. I plan on putting my name forward as a presidential candidate, but I would support whomever the party nominates.
 

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Per O'Floinn, i think the points are good.
Of course mine was just a "reminder", so we don't get in any rush when it's time to get the propaganda machine rolling.
 

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Thanks to Pers Braxton, FitzHerbert, McGrath, Truman, and O'Floinn for renewing their voting registrations for Term XI. That would seem to leave Eugene Sweerd, Jean Saint Daere, William Caldwell, Patrick Connell and Jake Langley who haven't registered yet. If anyone who knows them personnally could give them a call and remind them, it would be appreciated. I know Jean Saint Daere didn't want to serve in the GA next term, to be able to devote more time to business, but he did promise to register and vote for our slate.
 

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Per O'Floinn, the prison reform you talk about what is about? New jail facilities or a different approach on reclusion (like forced labour, or on the other side more "freedom")?
 

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One of the ideas was to make it less likely that a term in jail would serve as training for a life of crime. Two ways to help this are separate facilities for first time inmates (not on long term sentences) and better vocational training. I am not sure whether separate facilities would require any new facilities or not. Better vocational training would cost something, but should save money over time if effective, as the successful graduates would be paying taxes instead of being back in prison costing us money. To be successful, we would need to have better job placement for recent released prisoners, and rehab to get recently incarcerated prisoners off any addictions.
 

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I think that we should be careful about the job placement thing. We must be really sure that if one of the recent released prisoners make any mistake, he'll be punished even harder than before. We can't transform the penal system in a heavily-ruled-hotel.
 

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Busco said:
I think that we should be careful about the job placement thing. We must be really sure that if one of the recent released prisoners make any mistake, he'll be punished even harder than before. We can't transform the penal system in a heavily-ruled-hotel.

But their might befinits if it is an heavily ruled hotel as they say a Bit of sugar goes much futher than a lot of bile. I feel if we show the prisoners that people do care about them they might stop comminiting crimes. But I'm not saying that kindness is all you need to lower the crime rate.
 

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I understand what you are saying. I know a small local firm that specializes in hiring carefully screened recently released convicts, getting them bonded, and using them in various day labourer or semi-skilled roles, like janitorial temps when the regular janitor goes on leave. I asked my wife if she wanted to use them for an odd job, and she wasn't comfortable with that, so we got someone else. That firm had supplied someone to a church that I went to, who worked out fine though, while someone else that same church hired, who had never been to prison stole a laptop from a preacher and is now doing time, so you never know, even though the odds would have been that the ex-con was more likely to have committed the crime.

We clearly don't want to the get the government into guaranteeing the honesty of people released from prison. But a little bit of investment in placement will make whatever vocational training we offer much more effective. The point is to get them productively employed before they resort to criminal activity through lack of choice. Some will revert because that is what they prefer. We won't be able to do anything about them. If we want to keep the government out of it, we can simply pay for privately provided placement services, although that could cost more and we would have to be monitor their performance.
 

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Have have just had another idea to reform the criminals send the arsonist to the fire briagde where they will see what effect their actions had and then take them to work at the burn unit at a hospital. So we can give them a job where they can firstly be allowed back into the community and secondly where they can see the effect their crimes have on ordinary people.
 

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Mmmhh...i'm not very reassured by that idea, Per Braxton. I don't think that a man sentenced as a pyromaniac can be used in any kind of responsability job to prevent fires. I'd feel much better thinking of him far from the fire, for a while.
 

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Well then make him work at a burns unit. Away from the love of fire and the destruction that it causes. But still the suffering but on a human scale and if that has no effect on the peson In any way that person is a truly sick indivdual
 
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The election announcement has been posted. Eugene Sweerd, Jean Saint Daere, William Caldwell, Patrick Connell and Jake Langley still haven't registered yet, and so cannot be candidates or won't be able to vote unless you do so by (RL April 19th).

Of those who have registered, please indicate your willingness to run for GA. We will probably be able to accomodate everyone, as there are 9 slots and we only have six eligble candidates at present.

I am willing to run for GA and for President. If anyone else wants to run for President please let us know so we can discuss who to put forward.
 

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Well we at least have enough people to qualify. Per Truman, given your preferences, we will probably list you a little lower on the slate. I have spoken privately with Dagmar FitzHerbert, and understand that she is not looking to run. That just leaves our party leader and current GA Speaker, John O'Floinn to weigh in. Assuming he does, as he has spoken of continuing as Speaker and no one else wants to put their name in for President, then I would see the GA slate as:

1. John O'Floinn
2. Thomas McGrath
3. Loic de Fourgéres
4. Frans Truman
5. Edward Braxton

If I were elected President, and we win at least 3 GA seats, I would have to give mine up. I know Frans would rather serve in the cabinet, so if that could be arranged, we would have Major Braxton replace me in the GA. If we win 4 seats and the Presidency, we could ask Per Truman to do double duty, as all of the other candidates would be MGA's. If we win 5 seats and the Presidency, we would have to allocate a seat to Dagmar FitzHerbert, despite her wishes.
 
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