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A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of The United Defenders League, This week, during the slower part, I was focused on foreign affairs – expanding The United Defenders League’s base of embassies to new and exciting frontiers (*tips his hat in the general direction of Panopticon...

A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of The United Defenders League, Poor Wednesdays, they always get a bum reputation. As Lieutenant Tim joked, there’s no need to just pick on Wednesday — all around it has been a rather quiet week in NationStates. The United Defenders League has seen...

-ANNOUNCEMENT- Just two things: 1. I'd like to invite EVERYONE to the UDL Military Channel (#udl on Espernet) for Movie Night; tonight at 7:30 PM EST. No idea what the movie will be yet (I've heard "Hook" as a suggestion). Movie Night is where we all watch a film at the same time and comment...

I love it too. :P

DEFENDERS SAVE ASIA IN A CLOSE VICTORY AGAINST KANTRIAS!02 February 2013 The two endorsements's that made the difference: UDL and TITO. Nice job, Unibot and Land Filled with People! - Staff Reporter, The Sherwood Post.

A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of The United Defenders League, *sniggers*. Thanks for the introduction, Carta. It has been a relatively quiet week on the battlefield for The United Defenders League, so a lot of our work this week has been administrative activities (sekrits), which I...

Can you show me where anyone is flying the Coat of Arms, not as a regional flag? I don't see that as usual government protocol, at all.

And the law can't distinguish between the two. So what is it? Have a reasonable law that let's people you dislike off of charges that are too harsh for them to deserve anyway? Or an unreasonable law that makes you feel good?

No I'm reasonable. I don't think we should be applying treason or fraud to things that are hardly that at all. We've already got a reputation of being perhaps one of the most legalistic regions in NationStates.

And you haven't been thinking at all during this discussion!

But now the delegate cannot exempt the Coat of Arms for newcomers who don't know they can't fly the Arms. Do we really want to charge people with conspiracy, treason, fraud etc. for flying our Arms in flag form?

Well you need some way of suspending the constitution. It requires some sort of power, unless you're already the delegate, then it means maintaining your power with force.

You do realize that if someone wants to coup the region, flying the region's official flag for sixty seconds would at maximum be 0.0000000000000000001% effective. But flying the official Coat of Arms on a white background, for a total of sixty seconds? That's not even...

Sure. I would gladly accept the penalties for flying the region's Coat of Arms. But the penalties do not reflect the crime because it's unclear what I'm supposed to be charged of, for breaking a "Cultural Declaration" -- two counts of fraud and a count of conspiracy, apparently. Because clearly...

I'm aware of the law, but since this is not a retroactive law imposed as to any act for purposes of criminal proceedings, then it is totally legal. Criminal proceedings would only apply to "criminal" proceedings, which would only apply to "crimes", aka the criminal code which Section 7.1 does...

Sure. Why not? It's not like I'm a fan of being accused of wanting to coup The North Pacific.

I don't have a problem with Gaspo's law so long as it can be applied retroactively so that a newbie using the Coat of Arms can be pardoned and stuff.

If you want to convey authority, how'll about you start with being the fucking authority in the region. If someone who isn't a government official is using the seal and you don't notice, then the response is either: A. That's a threat to security. B. Learn who your government officials and stop...

LET'S PLAY A GAMESHOW.. IT'S CALLLED "GUESS WHAT FLAG IS ILLEGAL"!!! The rules are simply, out of these five flags, one of them is illegal. If you wear one of the four legal ones, your prize is "not being accused of fraud, conspiracy and murder". Let's play then? A. B. C. D. E...

But how can you use the Coat of Arms "alone" on a flag? Any flag must require at the very least the Coat of Arms on a white flag. Thereby making it different than the original (which has no background at all since it's a PNG file).

No run-off for the speaker?

Do any government officials fly the Coat of Arms? How is the Coat of Arms even an official flag, if it isn't used in the form of the Official flag? It's a white flag that uses the Coat of Arms. Any well-intended newbie could make a flag using his region's coat of arms. Maybe he thought he was...

Yeah, because citizens not having fundamental control over what flag they fly in The North Pacific isn't something concerning at all. Why do we even bother having a Bill of Rights?

Our justices have decided that the fundamental Right to Self-Determination over what flags we can fly is limited on the basis of a law that says you cannot use the Coat of Arms. I call for the section prohibiting the use of the Arms to be removed. We already have a section on Fraud...

I must dissent, a mere use of the Coat of Arms does not convey enough information to express legitimacy. People can now be tried in The North Pacific, with no concern for their right to self-determination over their flag, because the justices believe that it is reasonable to assume that a...

I will defer to the greater knowledge of the justices on the law, but I haven't found anywhere in law where this is required, it seems improper, perhaps illegal to disenfranchise someone on the basis of reasons not supported with blackletter.

Goddess of Love, Unibot. ;)

To be fair, it is kind of my style of writing. :tb3:

*hugs Blackbird* Hi! Thanks for helping out, BB.