fortinbras wrote:Once again, the Special Joint Session conference call, on Tuesday, March 24th, performed no legislative action but was, again, a sounding board for Geiger's (and others') articulation of the goals and limitations of the RuSA.
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This time it seems that someone put the fear of God into the leadership of the legal risks of actually doing anything that pretends to be a governmental activity.
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And over and over, the RuSA really couldn't accomplish anything in this time-space continuum because it was merely "pre-emptive" and interim and so forth. So don't expect it to do you any good.
This is kinda interesting because I ~think~ it indicates that being
somewhat realistic is in fact injurious to fantasy republics. Tim Turner was really bad at a whole lot of things, he was an inept administrator, he squandered the good faith and best efforts of literately thousands of his
freedom minded followers by being more dictatorial, vindictive and having far less respect for his own imaginary "rule of law" than he could ever accuse the "de facto" of being. Yet he was a fluent and flowery liar who could spin fables of foreign supporters and metric mega tons of gold leaving his followers feeling that they were part of something important, something to be proud of.
I remember the special election night call when President Geiger won office. Up till that time the number of loyal "green states" was a more or less a closely guarded secret but on that call it was revealed that there were only 15 states left in RuSA and two of them couldn't even be arsed to submit a slate of electors. On the recent "two Senators overboard" call it was mentioned that the green state count has dropped to 9 under Geiger's leadership. Is the active number of participants per state to qualify as "green" more than say, three?
And now their "leaders" are admitting to the unsovereign like sin of paying income taxes. Somewhere Jimmy Tim is turning over in his jail cell. Admitting to people that RuSA has no power or authority what so ever and that just because you're a citizen of the reformed republic doesn't mean you don't have to pay your speeding tickets or tax bills, as realistic as it may well be does not in fact seem to be an effective way of retaining let alone growing their membership.
President James Buchanan Geiger is a more honest and realistic leader than Tim Turner ever was which, in this particular instance means he is far less qualified to hold the office.