The Theft of a Party

Day 638, 15:30 • Published in Latvia Latvia • by Mushmoon

I am not the first one to write about this. Maybe I should have been, but to be honest, I’ve been too frustrated to write something without so much profanity that it would have to be 18+.

Okay, so for your all information, I will give you the entire story, from my view. If you do not wish to read the history, you can scroll down to next line of =’s.

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For approximately one month ago, it all started with Nicholas Anatoliovic being on his vacation, and the United Latvian Socialist Party (ULSP) was taken over by dsr9500 and his people. Dsr9500 was, as I have understood this, members of the already overtaken party Friends of Latvia, and wanted to have a replacement as their own has been taken.

After the election, I spoke with dsr9500, and he told me that he just wanted a party, and that he would support us in the upcoming Party President election, a month later. I wasn’t worried really, after that talk, as dsr9500 seemed like a decent person. I ran for congress, and was elected - no problem there.

Some few days before the Party President election in August, a man named THN33 ran for Party President, and the rumor that the ULSP was going to be TO’d started to spread. Of course, we were worried, as we didn’t know how many voters he might have – and numbers in the party grew.

Then, our “rescuing angel” contacted us, Zemessargs.lv. He wrote me some long PMs were he said that we were going to lose if we didn’t accept his help, which were that he would participate just to draw votes from his liege THN33.

I discussed this with my leader and partner, Nicholas, and we rejected his help as vote-magnet. However, we encouraged him to vote for us. We also were very grateful of his engagement, and welcomed him big time in media.

As a response for our articles, a eLatvian citizen sent me a message and warned me, that Zemessargs was a leader in a IRL far-right nationalist party, and that had recently joined with several of his supporters. We were a bit shocked, as our party has the opposite political view than Zemessargs obviously had IRL, but we agreed that anyone that wanted to help was welcome, no matter their real life. After all, this is a second life, and people shouldn’t be judged by their real life. And as about this day (might been the day before/after), our party members went from ca. 60 to 120+.

On the election day, when I logged in, it was already lost. Nicholas got 15 votes, and Zemessargs got about 30. That’s when I got truly suspicious. The “dangerous threat” THN33 had “impressive” 1 Vote…

Nicholas contacted Zemessargs, that promised he would “do the right thing”. It was not specified indeed, so there is no argument here for either side because of the lack of clarity; however I’m sure we all know what it meant for both sides of the argument.

Yesterday, I received a message from Zemessargs. I will publish a few quotes, which mostly summarize the letter:

“Thanks for your cooperation. The Latvian nationalist group "Visu Latvijai", which is also a RL party in Latvia, has taken control of ULSP.”

“The plan of taking the ULSP was made by me and the current Minister of Defence of eLatvia VL_JD, as well by some other officers of eLatvian Army, which are all the supporters of "Visu Latvijai". We had a goal to lower the influence of foreigners into eLatvian politics and that goal is completed.”

“There is no ULSP anymore and won't be in the future too”

“Socialism is not for Latvia. You can stay in eLatvia's business, of curse, but the politics of eLatvia is only for Latvians. You have no right to poke your nose into Latvian matters, bringing your allien ideology. Nothing personal.”

Well, what can I say – that’s definitely not democratic, and how about a Non-Latvian Speaking Apartheid anyone? With statements like “You have no right to poke your nose into Latvian matters” or “your alien ideology”, so, I felt it was my right to be angry, and did not write anything. The same goes for my colleagues.

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Well, that’s the story, and now to our statement, at United Latvian Socialist Party:

We, the leaders of ULSP, are very taken and hurt by the actions of these Right extremists. Though, we would like to say that this doesn’t concern the population of eLatvia. We have been very well met by the Latvians, and have made many friends here. We’d like to announce that the act of some men will not ruin the entire nation’s reputation. On eRepublik, and especially in the real world.

We would also like to thank all nice comments in several articles that are positive and progressive. Especially, Krishjaanis very friendly article, and Kurcs who were the first man to donate for the rebuilding of ULSP.

We thank all our voters in the Party President elections and all other voters during our time here, and everyone who has supported our cause, even the workers of the ULSP Commune.

The question still remains.
Are we going to stay?

Right now, I cannot answer that question. If we start another party, I fear that it will be TO’d just as fast, regarding the fact that this recent TO was planned by high post people like the Minister of Defence.

However, the thought of leaving is equally depressing, because so many of you are so kind and helpful, it outweighs the bad folk’s presence.

Our destiny lies in shrouded in the fog of the future...