[Dan/naD For CP] The Inspiration

Day 2,051, 12:40 • Published in Belgium Switzerland • by Dan/naD Wilshire


The Introduction

Today I am coming to you to announce my candidature for the Country Presidency of eBelgium. I have spent a lot of time considering the implications of running. I have come to the conclusion that it is the right moment for me to run. I have a small support network that I let down last month when I pulled out of the elections. This month I will not step down as a CP candidate. That is a promise, one that I will keep.

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Dan/naD Wilshire for President?



I have played this game for a very long time. Some would argue that I have played for far too long. Just take a look at my friends list. The first few pages are full of old friends who have left the game. I started playing erepublik when I was thirteen. Looking back at some of my older articles I wonder how I have got to where I am today. The answer is surprisingly obvious if I really think about it. The reason why I have a CP medal already is because of the people I have met along the way. Some who have left the game like Veritas Causidicus, TroyTrojansCoach and William Choi while others who are still here like Rory Winterbourne, Jackdaknife and TheDark Ace to name a few. There are many others but the list is too long, these are just made out of the first 3 pages of my friends list.

These guys have moulded and guided me as I have progressed through erepublik. Always there, willing, happy to lend a helping hand. They are the reason that I play, the inspiration behind everything I do. Without them I would have left the game a long time ago.

You may be wondering what this has to do with my candidature for President. Some players within the Belgian community don’t trust me. They are quick to judge and see me as a potential threat. I have been called a PTO threat, a security risk yet I am still entrusted with roles sucks as being the Minister of National Security and my new role in Belgium as Minister of Foreign Affairs. This is something that I have been trying to understand over the past few months. How can someone who is seen as a threat be given governmental roles. The only answer that I have come to is the fact that I must do a good job. So here is my point. Without the people I have met on this game, I would have never been considered for a ministerial role, whether that was here, in the UK or Switzerland etc.

Fire Squad – The party that destroyed it all



I have had a lot of trouble in Belgium when it has come to political parties. To begin with I was part of Union Unie. They graciously allowed me to represent them in congress. I was not given the opportunity to run for a second term so I was given the opportunity to think about what I could do next. One night Beaver was talking to me about how he was stuck in a political party which meant that he could not do as much as he would of liked to have done for his country. I offered to take the party off him under two conditions. The first was to ensure it did not fall into the hands of any PTO group. The second was to give it back to him on request.

Being the person that I am, I decided to increase the membership of the party. This to me would ensure that the party would not leave my hands. This however would backfire. Beaver didn’t like what I was doing so asked for the party back (at this point he was ATO candidate for the CP election). I explained how the only way he could get the party back was through him running in the PP elections. I heard nothing back from him so I assumed everything was ok and he just busy writing all those article for his campaign. He published his cabinet and I saw that I had not been given the opportunity to have my fourth successive term as MoNS. I asked as to why and it was explained to me that I was a threat, that I had done bad things.

It only got worse from here. One of my party members came to me asking is it would be possible for me to organise them a chance to run for Congress. As any Party President would do I said yes and started to consider my options. Considering the fact that I wasn’t in the CP’s good books I decided to not consult ATO. Bruno and I had had a disagreement so Union-Unie was out of the question. With Res Belgica full of good candidates I was left with two options. The first was to try making friends again with TRM, or trying something new by going to H.O.P.E for help. H.O.P.E were very kind and allowed my members to run for congress. Doing this meant that Cliffe, the guy who gave me my first ministerial job in Belgium now saw me as a threat just like Beaver. So now I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. I can could of either ended my contact with H.O.P.E who had just allowed one of my members to run for congress to ensure I wasn’t seen as a threat. Or I could stay close to H.O.P.E and be seen as a threat to the country.

What I did was effectively nothing. I didn’t want to annoy H.O.P.E as they had been kind to me. I also felt that I did not need to prove myself to the people who saw me as a threat. This may have made things worse for me but really I could not see much more that I could have done. I guess you could say my pride got the better of me in this situation.

So now I am here running with the support of my party Fire Squad, the moral support of Jens Leupe in the Belgian Labour party and the support of Zangetsu in the United Left Alliance. On the whole Fire Squad has brought me a lot of trouble. Without it I would probably have had an easier ride in Belgium. But to me Fire Squad is more than a party; it is an extension of myself. Not many of you in the Belgium community will understand this, but some of my oldest subscribers will remember my last love child back in South Korea. It is more than a party. It is what best represents myself, better than anything else. That is why I carry on with Fire Squad to this day.

Final note

That too a lot more words to explain than I had planned on. So I will be splitting this article in half so you won’t be faced with a 2000+ word wall of text. My policies will come out tomorrow. This is just a taster of what is to come.

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

Dan/naD Wilshire for CP!