[Presidential Statement] Thank You and more
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Mitch Rapp
Dear Fellow Citizens,
Thank you for giving me a third term. Also my thanks to all my opponents (MaartenW and Refl3x) for running and especially Mattio because he made it such an exciting and close race. These kind of races are always much more fun for everyone, except the candidates themselves.
Why Not To Give Belgium Anything
Now that I have your attention I would also like to discuss the result of the elections in Belgium. As you no doubt know the Belgium government has laid claim to around 50% of our assets (amounting to hundreds of gold). I am sure you know by now that fiercely oppose us giving Belgium anything except the two companies they already stole. But let us leave that in the middle and instead look at with who we are dealing.
Yesterday, Ragoth was elected President of Belgium. Ragoth is a Real Life (RL) American and he suggested that Belgium would allow Croatia free passage to Asia. For those who don’t know this yet: EDEN their main goal is to get Croatia from Europe to the USA and then to Asia where they can use their active MPPs against Hungary and Serbia to remove those countries from high iron regions. We, as part of PHOENIX, have one main goal as well and that is to stop this so called Croatian land bridge. Also look at what he claims is his motivation: money. Isnt that interesting?
But enough about Ragoth let us take a look at the Cabinet he assembled around him. Note these are just the important minister posts and not the whole government.
Minister of Home Affairs:Gibberish45 (American)
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Stilpo (American)
Minister of Budget and Revenue: Kylero (American)
Minister General for Treasury: Ragoth (We discussed him already)
Are you missing Real Life Belgian players like: ThomasRED, Olv007, Apotygma, Kravenn and Dylan Verstraete? These individuals have actually told us not to give anything to Belgium right now!!! If you check the above named person you will also notice that ALL (except Olv007) have left Belgium and are not active in its politics. So it seems they are either scared away or have given up hope for a free Belgium.
So let us be crystal clear about this: we aren’t dealing with Belgium. This isn’t the people we lived and worked with in union but a foreign pro-EDEN occupation force. If the above named RL Belgian players don’t spend time, effort and money on Belgium why should we?
I hope you all now have some understanding why I oppose this so strongly . Be sure to know there are many more reasons why we shouldn’t give them anything but I will not name them here.
Regards,
Mitch Rapp
Proud President of the eNetherlands
Comments
First Denied
Voted and statement supported by a rl belgian (me).
Fortunately congress decides what we do not you.
The Congress has voted yes on negotiations. If you don't want to continue negotiations, well ask congress for that and kick me out of the government.
and a claim of 50% from the eBelgium?? It was a proposal, that's something people do when they negotiate.
Pippodeclownmaxxx
are you racist Mitch or selfish?
when i proposed to buy himself the companies before the change : it was refused.
Be honest, just one second. I hope for your, you will have a lot of diplomats, to repair your mistakes.
Soon we will see in your list : "wallons"
because i'm a real belgian, maybe you think "wallon" is not belgian.
I don't think you will be again president after that, you really want bad relationship and you try to make anger the population from your country against us.
Am i a rascist? No Elynea i am someone that believes in freedom of opinion. Fact is that all your minister and your president is American and in my opinion that is noteworthy.
And why is it that we have to always worry about our relationship with you when you can steal and act like nothing happend? How many politicians are going to be needed to repair that mistake elynea? I havent seen any effort to return our stolen companies.
Then you must explain me before the "stolen of companies". On irc i proposed to buy myself companies BEFORE : 50 golds! Refused. You said, so late, negociations are over.
which negociations? There was nothing. That's all.
Maybe you are not a racist, maybe; but a dictator, yes !
I'm a carebear and I do not support your Belgium statements.
Enjoy your I&W win 😉
what if we attack it and then liberate it again 😃
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This are the words of a really dictator, not a diplomatic CP.
Go home Mitch, and let the congres impeach you, fouls like this... you cant do that as a CP.
Some countries has probably never elected a RL citizen to the presidence : like Ireland
During the UK-US war : Our CP (dishmcds) was a RL american, so where is the problem ? He has done a great Job
If the CP do correctly his job and understand what the people want. I don't see a problem.
Before say stupid things (or your memory has a problem) : I never left eBelgium because I never went there. I left 4 months ago for eUK.
Quote from Ragoth: "we have been PTOd by the USA"
So how is my article not right? Afraid of reality?
And on the subject of me being a dictator: get Real and come up with something more orginal for crying out loud. For the eDutch that are making those allegations you should know me better.
For the others, i come with facts you come with insults. Maybe start attacking my facts instead of myself.
@Kravenn, you might like a PTO'd government but that doesnt mean that we the UNL like to deal with PTO'd governments. Especially not when they are enemies of us and the subject is the donation of gold and assets.
We, as part of PHOENIX, have one main goal as well and that is to stop this so called Croatian land bridge.
I lolled, let me correct that:
We, as part of PHOENIX, have one main goal as well and that is to protect Hungarian and Serbian high iron regions.
thats the truth, hungary and serbia dont care about you, face it.
Both ones are true Gassie 😛
Wow Elynea that's a pretty low blow from you there: implying that Mitch is racist because you're not in his list of Belgians, saying that that could be because you're Walloon.
Maybe you should take into account the fact that you have never played as a citizen of the Union (for as far as I know, please correct me if I'm wrong). Therefore he doesn't include you in that list, that's just mentioning a few of the important Belgian politicians that the Union had. And most of those actually were Walloon themselves.
@ Gassie125: as AI stated, both are true. You probably don't recognize that because the USA has an issue with actually helping out its allies where needed. ;burn;
As far as I know, Apotygma stayed in eUK to pursue a political carrier there, while helping eBelgium out on our national forum. Olv007 has been president for one (and a half) term. Kravenn also stayed in eUK (his post above). I don't remember seeing Dylan Verstraete in eBelgium for the last two months or so, and ThomasRED was a special case, in which I won't go on with more detail here. It seems you're using seriously outdated intel here, but presenting it as something fresh.
The Americans you listed (and whom you try to discredit in a very unelegant manner) have proven their trustworthiness and genuine commitment for our nation - every eBelgian (whichever nationality he might have in RL) who visits our national forum will agree on that in a heartbeat.
And the way you present Ragoth's opinion on letting the Croatians pass, seems almost to imply that he invited them or was keen on seeing them use us as a land bridge. Nothing is farther from the truth - his reaction should be seen in the context of the real threat of having eCroatia at our borders at that time, and when they contacted the eBelgian government they proposed a reparation fee for going through our territory, implying that they would go through regardless of what our decission would be. Having the example of eAustria in mind, Ragoth defended the most pragmatical decission, and I must say many eBelgians (many of them also RL Belgians) agreed with him.
I must say your whole representation can hardly be even called subjective - it is straightforward manipulation of facts and blatant disinformation, trying to put eBelgium and its governement in a bad light. Totally undiplomatic and just dishonest.
Alright I think everyone is taking this a little bit too far. Our president is entitled to his own opinion whether people agree with that or not. I think he has a right to be skeptical especially when there are so many Americans in KEY positions of the cabinet. Whether Belgians trust these people or not does not change the fact that there are no RL Belgians in these positions. Isn't that just a bit odd? How can real life Belgians settle for this? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the situation. I think many of the Belgians are forgetting the kind hospitality we gave them in our country not so long ago. Remember this is my opinion and I'm entitled to it as is Mitch. Dictator 1 - The Rest 0.
No one denied anyone the right on personal opinion, but this doesn't mean that every opinion is right (not if it diverges with facts). The opinion stated in Mitch's article diverge so strongly from facts, that I for one start to doubt whether he really believes the things he says, or he just wants less informed citizens to believe those things to serve his personal goals.
RL citizenship and eRepublik citizenship issue - it's been discussed so oftenly, and in my opinion it's just so obvious, that it really surprizes me that this issue keeps coming up. This is a game, in which you can be almost whatever you want, even North-Korean 😛 I think that says enough 😉
About the Americans in key positions - when the citizens voted for Ragoth, they voted for his cabinet. Congress can vote a motion of distrust against anyone who might seem not suited for the position. I know how Ragoth chose this cabinet - by asking active people whether they would want to dedicate their time and energy for a governement position or not, and aparently few RL eBelgians would, while some RL Americans did agree. I was MoHA under Elynea, but I couldn't go for a second term in this position and not neglect my studies (it really is a lot of work), and I am sincerely glad Gibberish45 agreed to follow me up - I know he's a great guy, very active and full of creative ideas, and I don't care if he's RL American, Mexican, Dutch or my next door neighbour in Ghent, as long as he fullfills his duties correctly. And I know he will.
And a final remark - on eDutch hospitality. It were fun and merry times and all that, I don't question that, but that was almost half a year ago, which in eRep terms isn't "not so long ago" anymore. A good host understands when it's time to leave for his guest, by the way, and he doesn't keep reminding about his hospitality every time they meet afterwards. But that's just my opinion 😛
The opinion stated in Mitch's article diverge so strongly from facts,
i loled because all i state is that Americans are in control of Belgium something confirmed by your president.
+1 on Aldous Zamiatin's post; a post of a REAL Belgian, trying to shed some light on the situation from eBE side, without attacking anybody, and phrasing how many Belgians (as far as I can see on the eBelgian forum) think about the situation.
In my opinion, we should more actively listen to and talk with people like him.
Furthermore, I can see no prove of Ragoth and Gibberish wanting anything bad for eBE, only good things. (I have seen less posts of Stilpo and Kylero, so I won't judge about them, but I'm sure Ragoth has selected them for valid reasons too.)
Thanks, Boklevski, I like to keep it constructive and fair.
What Ragoth actually wrote, Mitch, was:
"Belgians control the presidency and the Majority by the US is so slim that once vote lost and they loose the majority. Oh and did I mention that there have a already have been two defections from their side to ours? So don't just constantly bitch at us about being EDEN puppets, We are an indipendent nation that the Brolaiance has a lot of influence in."
Please pay more attention while reading and interpreting, run some fact checks and weigh your words carefully - something a good president would do.