Klington- Running for Senate For ACN (Sen 1/05)

[Klington]

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Note: Some of you may not like Nixon, and I can understand that, im not trying to say I would be like Nixon in office, I just like the two finger thing.

Good Day my fellow 10000 Islanders, As many of you probably know, and some of you dont, Im running for the position of Senator in the 10000 Islands goverment.
First of all I would like to get down my formalities before we get down to buisness. I would like to say that I am sorry to see Yavanna leaving this grand ol' office, and if she was to rerun and I lost, I would still know in my heart that the goverment was in good hands. I would also like to wish good luck to the other candidates who are running agaisnt me, (While I cant seem to remember, I believe they are Sheynat, and Serconea. Good Luck you two!), and also know that if I lose to you gentleman I will have the same feeling as with Yavanna, that the 10000 Islands position of Senator will be in good hands and I can count on and trust it will be in great working order.

I will now begin to express what I will do as a senator:

• Compromise- I cannot pass all of your ideas, and I will not say "I will to the best of my ability represent the people of the 10000 Islands." Saying such things, while making one trust the Senator even more, are false. I cannot do this, some of your ideas have natural impurities, but I can offer you the next best thing, compromise. I will take your resolutions and will work with you to leave the raw intention of your idea intact, but make it more suitable for going into effect in 10000 Islands. My analogy is like this, your idea is a folded shirt. While it is compact and looks neat, it has one problem, creases, (impurities in the proposals), what I would do is unfold the shirt, put it on a hanger and hang it up. Sure, you miss the neatness and compactness(the loss of unesscary parts), but your shirts impurities are gone, and the shirt itself(the proposals main idea) still resides. While you may not get 100% of what you want. Your ideas will have a better chance of going through the Senate succesfully.
• Immigration- I plan on expanding immigration greatly. I want to improve SFTI greatly, by getting more people involved. And I even have a couple new plans for immigration, I will list them here:
  1. Outside-Recruitment: This involves getting your friends to join Nationstates and then getting them to come to 10000 Islands. It is generally outside of the internet, but can be on it as well. If 200 people got two people to join, we would have 400 people, if those 400 got 2 more... You get the idea. While this idea probably wont rack in those numbers, it should still work well.
  2. 10000 Islands RPs: We should have 10000 Islands RPs on the Nationstates forum, this will rack in the massive amounts of RPers out there. At the bottom of our RPs we could have "Come see more at 10000 Islands...." Or we could just put the basis of the RP around 10000 Islands.
  3. 10000 Islands Newsletter(by TG): We could assign a special group of people who would write a daily/weekly/monthly, (havent decided as of yet), newsletter and send it out to the people of NS through telegrams. Now, if the Telegram load is to big, we could get volunteers of people to take a certain number of people to send the TGs to. I.E. I think I could send out 150 TGs a day, I would volunteer to send these TGs out and get a list of 150 subscribers. In addition to making 10000 Islands more know around NS, this would also help to spread the great deeds of defenders and show the rest of the NS world our viewpoint.
• Defence: I am willing to back TITO at all costs and will not make political impositions on them. Any proposals that contain this kind of action(political restrictions on TITO and etc.), I will not support, unless we can compromise the nature of the proposal to get around that part.
• Education- I think that our Education system is one of the best in the NS world. And I dont know if there is much I can do, I will try to encourage more people to help in this system, and if anyone has any suggestions or ideas they want to be brought into the education system, I am all ears and will be willing to work out a deal.
• Classes in the University- I will fully support these classes, I think they are a great idea and will try to work and make them more numerous and more educating.

About Me:
For those of you who dont know me, I am a prominent member of 10000 Islands, I am your Cartographer, (Map Maker), and started the "Post your Pictures Here" Thread. My favorite music is Rock, mostly classical rock. Some bands I like are Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Guns N' Roses(I know Axl is a d**k), Ted Nugent, Van Halen, The Cars, Rolling Stones, Blue Oyster Cult, Tom Petty, Nirvana, and Foreigner. I am a TITO Member with 28 Battle Stars and one Coast Watchers Eagle. I can speak a little spanish and I am in the 8th Grade.


Well, I think thats all, perhaps it is not. So please check back to make sure you dont miss anything!

[The Peoples of Yavanna]

I have some questions for ya....

1. What other new ideas do you have for new regional involvement? What would you like to see implemented? I am interested in what you plan to bring to the table.

2. University classes.... yes it is a good idea. What would you like to see happen with this idea, specifically? What qualifications do you think teachers should have? What classes would you like to see offered?

3. What specific ideas do you have for the Education department (you brought it up ? How would you seek to improve the system?



Thanks for indulging me.

[Klington]

Yavanna said:

1. What other new ideas do you have for new regional involvement? What would you like to see implemented? I am interested in what you plan to bring to the table.

1. Regional Involvement, Interesting question, (wow, I just noticed how used that cliche is ), Well I plan to make things more appealing. This game is very appealing to many people, but it would be nice if I used it in Emeril's terms to "Kick it up a notch." I plan to use codes. What are codes you may ask? Lemme show you my ACN sight and I will show you codes:
EDIT: ACN site is located here- acn.proboards38.com/index.cgi
See the information box at the top? Thats from codes, see the new info box at the bottom? Thats codes. If you click on a thread it now has these really cool sub-profiles that I enjoy looking at. There are many more modifications one can make to a website like this. Many more. I can make a site look all futury with a couple of designs made by people. Now, this will probably be an ungoing thing, some of these codes cause problems, but with expiermentation, all things will work out.
We could also make things more interesting, now this one is a little more difficult to make happen. I think we could make certain events happen at times in the day when activity is low. This will make people want to come on and once your on, one would usually check his favorite threads and etc. We could also put more thrill and exaggerate a little to make things more exciting which would also help make things more interesting.
And to attract already active players more often, we could make more specialized(this way everybody has a board for there favorite thing to do), instead of generalized boards. 10000 Islands has already done a great job in this field, and I think that this wont require too much work, but it wouldnt hurt to "kick it up a notch".(Wow, thats twice! Whats up with me today?)

Yavanna said:

2. University classes.... yes it is a good idea. What would you like to see happen with this idea, specifically? What qualifications do you think teachers should have? What classes would you like to see offered?

Oh man, you hit a spot there! Im just bristling with ideas for this thing. I want to make the classes more numerous and more compact, (Not as in smaller, but as in all in one thread, this way we dont have to go searching for older lessons and we also dont have classes scattered everywhere.), I plan to have two types of the same class, like this:
A. (Example)Defending 101
B. (Example)Defending 101-Homework Ed.
It would basically be like this, both classes would contain the same material, except Defending 101- Homework Ed., would have a teacher and you would have to enroll in the class. This will allow for people with little time on there hands to just take the normal defending 101, but those with some time on there hands will take the homework edition class. Now, dont tell me "People wont want to take the homework edition, who wants to do homework?" It would be fairly simple homework, and I would expect those of us who want a better education on these things would take it. Now, as for grades in this class, (there would be grades on the papers, which wouldnt be public), Im not sure about it. We would have to debate furthur, some of us dont want to be known for our grade in blah blah blah class, and it probably isnt needed. I also would like to make another class called "Academic Studies" Which would basically be homework help and etc. For those of us who are in school. These are my basic ideas at the moment, and I probably will come up with more as I go.

Yavanna said:

3. What specific ideas do you have for the Education department (you brought it up ? How would you seek to improve the system?

I dont think I said anything about specific ideas for the Education Department, (But you are using the basic question structure for the other candidates, so maybe this was meant for someone else , thats ok though, I judge candidates all on there answers to one specific question as well, Ill still try to answer this to my best ability.) I did say I think its one of the best in NS and that I really couldnt do anything to assist it, but I am open ears and Im willing to take any ideas for it. But I might have a few tricks up my sleeve...
First off, the above University Classes are very crucial and important to my plans for Education, this will make life much eaiser on the people in the Education department, (sadly, we are going to use this extra time they gain to teach more stuff! ), I think that we should have more specific guidelines for those who are mentoring a younger nation, when I say guidlines, I dont mean they need to be followed, but just suggestions for day-by-day telegrams and the basis of a lesson. Also, I think that if the new nation joins the UN and later on TITO, that the mentor should go out on a defending mission with the younger nation, (if this older nation isnt in TITO, a TITO person should be assigned to and help the little guy in his first defense.), this will Help root out bad spys, (because some spys dont like to fight for TITO, if they dont this could help expose them), and also aide the little nation in its first mission. Well thats all, but as I said earlier, I get new ideas all the time!

Yavanna said:

Thanks for indulging me.

It was my pleasure!

[Klington]

Yavanna said:

1. What other new ideas do you have for new regional involvement? What would you like to see implemented? I am interested in what you plan to bring to the table.

Ok, Im not quite sure what you meant by Regional Involvement, it might be Activity in 10000 Islands or its getten known in Nationstates. Since I answered Activity above, I will seek to answer the other part here. Alrighty! First of, theres the Newsletter idea, that would aide our cause and give people the viewpoint of 10000 Islands, and it wont be as imposing as our propaganda, because its just good ol' news. Ambassadors are crucial first of all. But everyone says this, and its basically known, so I wont speak at depth about it. But I do have a good idea. What was more known and though about in post-WWII Germany? The U.S. itself, or The Allies? Im betting the Allies. In the same way, we should be 'Defenders' to our enemys and TITO or 10000 Islands to our Allies and Neutral Regions, this way we arent just some Defenders who are coming to save us, we are a great and strong region of noble and kind people. Another good way to get things under way is to have some Regional RPs, many will think this wont help, of course it will! Because while forming an RP relationship, we also slowly form a bond. Im tired now and think I wills stop typing.

[FThomason]

First of all I would like to say congratulations to all the canidates for senate. This years race will be very close, and all the canidates are extremely qualified.

Here is my few questions...

1. If there could be one constitutional amendment or addition in your term. What would it be?
2. How do you plan on greatly increasing are immigration numbers, but also keeping out spies. Will the TITO application process become more strict?

[Klington]

Thomason said:

1. If there could be one constitutional amendment or addition in your term. What would it be?

Thats a very good question, *sits back to think about it*, I would probably add a Judicial Branch into our goverment, but it wouldnt be very immense, and I wouldnt take away Grubs power to Ban/Eject with the Judicial Branch, it would just be for minor offences, and with it some minor forum/region laws. But I dont know If Its really worthwhile to implement, it still has its holes in it, and Grub makes a good judge.

Thomason said:

2. How do you plan on greatly increasing are immigration numbers, but also keeping out spies. Will the TITO application process become more strict?

While the TITO first mission mentor idea, (Which can be found amongst my answers to Yavs questions), and beyond that, maybe a Counter-Spy organization. Also, I dont think its neccesary to make the application process more strict, if we do that we could lost potential members, this application process usually downs most of the Wannabe-Spies, and those who do get by normally are aiding in our TITO missions, and when you think about it, how hard is it to figure out where TITO is moving? We will most likely head to invadeing regions, then theres the other fact that Sensitive information is not posted on the boards.

[Used To Exist]

Who would appoint/elect the Judges and what would their qualifications be?

Where would the line be between the Co9 and the Judicial Branch?

[Klington]

Used said:

Who would appoint/elect the Judges and what would their qualifications be?

A judge would have to be non-partisan, naturally. So I think that if one allowed the public to elect judges, its would lead to these judges becoming partisan in some way or form. Now, if these judges were elected in the Co9, I can understand a Political Party endorsing a Judge, because this is a less extreme route, its not offering votes for one to conform to anothers political ideals. It is simply saying we support this candidate.

Grub has alot of power, and I can understand this and I do not condemn it, he does a great job with his position and I hope no one takes this the wrong way, (I do not want Grubs power taken away or restricted.), but perhaps, instead of having Grub pick a justice and Co9 approve it, we could have the Co9 pick a justice and Grub approve it(Please note, Grub would not vote in the Co9s Picking of a justice, he would only approve it). This will not give Grub as much power in this matter, yet still have the ability to make sure Judges are fit to do their duty. Again, I havent fully developed this idea, so dont criticize it too much.

Qualifications, eh? Personality wise, I would say, Fair, yet harsh when things get out of hand. One must have the ability to control the court. But as far as general qualifications, I just tried to draft one out, but its got a lot of holes in it, as far as that goes, its up for debate.

Used said:

Where would the line be between the Co9 and the Judicial Branch?

The Judicial Branch would outline laws and libertys. In the initial first stages, I think punishments and laws and rights should be drafted up in basic form, than passed to the Co9 for approval. By making it basic form, we could avoid having to type up a bunch of sub-laws, that basically fit under one law. This would make it easiser to handle, IMO. It has its problems, but so do a lot of things. And besides its a still a draft. If you like this proposal, just send me ideas concerning it and where you would like to go with it and what I can do to fix it and etc. Thanks

[Klington]

Used said:

Who would appoint/elect the Judges and what would their qualifications be?

Where would the line be between the Co9 and the Judicial Branch?

Also, I dont know if I want to implement this, its just one of those ideas I had, and I havent really had the time to cultivate it. But, if you really want it added in, I will do what I can.