[SFP] Official Media Issue #8

Day 2,839, 05:18 Published in USA USA by Franklin Stone

SFP Official Media Release #8
Place: SFP Headquarters
Date: 08/29/2015 (Day 2839)

Welcome to SFP Official Media!
Today’s agenda includes:
1. Revolutionary Committee Message
2. Congressional Proceedings
3. Party News
4. Domestic News
5. Opinion Editorial
6. Guest Commentator
7. Editorial Opinion




Jude Connors
Chairman, Revolutionary Committee

Once again, Congressional elections have come and gone; and once again SFP proves that it is the Kingmakers. This month, we were sponsored by our friends at the Black Sheep Party. With a united front supporting the lowering of taxes, SFP/BSP winning the election with 25.76% of total votes cast. Our Congresspersons this month are Jaden A, Illiguy, and Wooky Jack, with Illiguy serving as the party Whip. We thank our Black Sheep friends and look forward to caucusing together with them to lead the way in lower taxes.

The Country President elections are next and the party primary was opened earlier today on the SFP Forums. Make sure you speak your mind and make your selection for the person you believe the SFP should endorse to be the next Country President. So far, Aramec and SColbert have both asked for party support, and each has opened a Q&A thread .

As of this writing, SFP currently has 122 members, merely FIVE short of 3rd place in the Top Five. Make sure you recruit your friends, family, enemies, strangers, etc. and get them to join the most active party in the eUSA. Be a part of the revolution - JOIN SFP!




Illiguy
Congressional Whip

Congressional Proceedings

So a new term is upon us, and congratulations are in order to our party for helping the Black Sheep Party capture the most votes in the Congressional Elections! Of course, that means that Jaden A, Wooky Jack and myself all made it into Congress through our host party. The three of us are already working closely with the BSP delegation on our strategy for getting taxes lowered this term. While we share a common goal with BSP this term, we are by no means taking orders from them. You can be assured that your SFP congress members will continue to speak with the party's voice.

The last week of the 92nd Congress was pretty dead, the only measure was to renew an MPP with the Czechs. That vote crossed over between the terms, and will pass.

The next thing to look for in the new term is Speaker elections. Orikfricai and Bob Boudahili have received 5 nominations each and both have accepted, voting should open sometime today. We will keep the party posted here as things develop.





EddieA
Department of Citizen Affairs

Party News
Saludos Camaradas,

Eddie here! Well lets talk about this thing called, Snag-a-Socialist.

After a huge success of Summer of Love, the SFP leadership brings you another event. It might not be similiar but still its something worth the effort of reading and taking part in.

Snag-a-Socialist - SaS - is a SFP recruitment competition. All you need to do is to recruit as many socialists as he can.

Rules are simple:
1. Invite, recruit, poach or whatever you do, get as many citizens as you can into the SFP before September 1st.
2. On the 1st you need to send me the list of citizens you recruited along with some proof.
3. Results will be announced on 2nd Sept.


Note: Participants are not allowed to make multis, which is against eRepublik Rules. Recruitment by this method is something that SFP WILL NOT condone, members are encouraged to report any suspected SFP multis.
Prizes:

1st: 10G
2n😛 3G + 3G = 6G
3r😛 2G + 2G = 4G

Note: The additional gold is added by me to the pot, anyone else who want to add to pot, he is more that welcome to send the gold to me!

Start recruiting, Socialists




Tom Cauchon
SFP Resident Stud

Why Abnormal Things Scare Us

As many in my party know, I am currently abroad in a foreign country. This experience over the past week has given me reason to reflect over the abnormalities between our own in RL America and this new land I have discovered. It is terrifying to subject the self to something new and unique, and consequently abnormal. It seems oddly ironic that this same situation in my own real life now appears in game.

The eUS faces a crossroads with SFP nearing the Top 5. Will the eUS accept a new member of power into its folds? Or will the eUS become Ishmael, retreating to what is comfortable, just as Ishmael would return to the sea whenever he became restless on land.

We all know the result of the fated voyage of the Pequod.

Do we follow our comfort, or do we try something new?

You tell me America.





Phoenix Quinn
Old, Old Party Hack

Freedom-Socialist Wisdom

Pondering the end of the RL Civil War 150 years ago, and wondering at our on-going struggles to determine what kind of country we have created and are continuing to create in its wake, I am reminded of one of Frederick Douglass' insightful quips:

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."


It was good advice then and now.  And it's good advice for our New World too.  

I suppose it captures the SFP Spirit too.  We may not always get it exactly right -- though often we do.  But in any case we goddamn sure aren't going to go gently, submitting quietly, into the good night.  


Our destiny is largely in our own hands.

Footnote: It was pointed out to me that maybe not everybody knows who Frederick Douglass was.  An escaped slave, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement who was noted internationally throughout the second half of the 19th century for his oratory and insightful writing.  He wrote two books that were best-sellers prior to the Civil War, and was well-known for his feud with leading abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison over the nature of the US Constitution. While Garrison condemned the Constitution as a legal cover for slavery, Douglass sided with Lysander Spooner in finding a legal basis for the abolition of slavery in the Constitution.  During the war, Mr. Douglass served as a recruiter for the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.  

Frederick Douglass was a strong supporter of women's suffrage. He was the only African-American to attend the Seneca Falls Convention and promoted women's rights in his newspaper, The North Star. Throughout his life, he consistently agitated for full engagement by women and people of color in every aspect of American public life. He was a strong proponent of education and of workers' rights, not neglecting to combat racism within labor unions.





Beach Bunny
Dictatoress

Guest Commentator

The SFPOM invited the Dictator to write a segment, however due to the pressures of office; she had to postpone. We thank Madam Dictator for her consideration and hope that she can write for this Newspaper at a later time. The SFPOM has invited both Dictator Candidates -Aramec and SColbert- to write a segment for our Newspaper following the election and hope that one or both will do so.





Comrade Franklin Stone
Bear Cavalry, 4th Regiment
Committee for Correspondence
Media Director

Over The Back Fence


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A couple of months back over on the Ministry of Truth (see what I did there) I posed a question in the following threa😛 [Question] Poaching Party Members. Now I will let you read and decided for yourself what the attitude of the Top 5 parties is on poaching their members, they are all represented there for you to read. Also a while back in a Jägermeister and THC induced haze I posed another question to some friends, 'Every time a party gets near the Top 5, the guys in the UNITY T Shirt start shouting and trolling and screaming 'Political Takeover! (PTO) Help the Anti Takeover! (ATO)'. I wondered what would happen if an old party, a party that has been around since the first; approached the Majestic Heights of a Top Tier Party.

Well our first piece of evidence to their reaction can be found in Public Congress in the thread Application status doc needs updated quick link?, where the simple question, 'Why is the IES Status List not working?' was asked; brother let me tell you the clowns come out. Now this question is about a 'meta government' document concerning Citizenship Applications; used by the IES to confirm or deny citizenship to immigrates. Of course we have seen how this 'meta government' treats wealthy immigrants who come here, they raise the Work As Manager (WAM) Tax by 93% to its highest ever rate of 15%

Now as can be seen Israel Stevens -a leader in the American Military Party (AMP)- has made it plain he wish the Socialist silenced, he will only vote for the Speaker who will close SFP threads the second they open. Again, it is all there for you to see; that is unless they...oops...needed to switch serves and lost it. Now I have pointed IS out and that is really unfair, because every other party has a representative there and some of them are 'meta government' leaders, like the United States Workers Party (USWP) leader; that Boy Scout Henry Pfeiffer Arundel whose sole purpose seems to be going around tell everyone how stupid they are. Now I think a fair question has been asked, one that should concern all parties; the SFP has many friends world wide and some wish to come here. They come here and follow the rules, they apply through the proper forms, but...oops...the document which tells them their status doesn't work.

Now coming from a 'meta government' who claims to be transparent, I and a few others wonder if this is an attempt to stifle the SFPs overseas recruiting; not only for our party -but our Private Military Unit (PMU) as well. At this point I won't point fingers -its not polite, however many of America's top PMUs are filled with foreign fighters; citizens who have been true and loyal to America. I wonder how many have been denied American Citizenship? Again I am going to leave it up to you, the Citizen Soldiers of America; to get involved enough to read those threads and make a FN judgement. Think for yourself and if you don't like something express those feelings; the Socialist Freedom Party Official Media is open to all. I will publish anything you wish to say, hell I might even pay you if its good enough.

Ursa Fi, till I Die!
Strength & Honor!

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