Zoner Council Restructuring

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Comm ID: Aurelia Silvan

You claim I do not have the authority to dissolve the SHIZL and claim that the SHIZL was a creation of the TAZ and its property.. And here you are quite mistaken. The SHIZL was an organization made by, at that time, the Chairman of the Council of Zoners, Malaclypse. SHIZL did not belong to any 'faction' of the Zoners. If it did, I'd never have been a member of it myself.

SHIZL has always been under the control of the Council Chairperson. First it was Malaclypse, and when he left, Doc Holiday. However, I understand that some of the factions may be disgruntled at my decision, but nevertheless I stand by it for the reasons I gave before. You may have noticed, I gave an invitation for any of the factions to send representatives to the new Security Council. This Council will operate the same way the SHIZL did, but with a few distinct differences.

First, the Security Council, unlike the SHIZL, is not a leading body. When it was made, SHIZL was made distanced from the Council of Zoners. The SHIZL did not have to fear reprisal, objection, or any form of intervention on its decisions, for it did not answer to the Council of Zoners. As time passed, the SHIZL became more and more a leading body, making policies and decisions that affected all Zoners. But still, the SHIZL was not required to take the Council of Zoners into account. As such, regardless of the Council's decisions, the SHIZL could overrule it. This was detrimental to the democratic process. Democracy being the defining attribute of the Zoners. We've all left the houses for individual freedom, living away from oppressive governments. To ensure this didn't happen within the Zoners, every Zoner was given the right to speak his mind and vote on any issue that came up, guaranteeing that Zoners were equal and that the decisions reached truly were the majority's decision, not the decision of a few.

The SHIZL evolved from a small group dealing with the abuse of our equipment and vessels to a political entity - An 'Oligarchy' in control of the 'Zoner State.' The SHIZL had lived long enough to become corrupt in itself. In the past few months, the SHIZL has not dealt with any ship and equipment abuses, but with policies, politics, and diplomacy. That was never the goal of the SHIZL, but there was no way to stop the process from continuing and growing worse.. Except this.

The remaining SHIZL members may decide to keep it alive, but it doesn't have authority over the Council of Zoners, or other Zoners. The SHIZL was never subserviant to the Council of Zoners, and now the opposite is also true, the Council is not dictated by the whims of an elite few who have the arrogance to decide the fates of many. I am as much to blame for this as the other members of the SHIZL, but I choose not to continue in that oppressive form of control.

However, the Security Council does have the authority and right to deal with misbehaving Zoners and abuse of Zoner equipment.. However, there is also now a check on the Security Council's power. It can't grow out of control like the SHIZL did. It's responsibilities are clearly defined, and it can not stray from them. This gives control back to the Zoner people, where it belongs.

On your concerns about the authority of myself in making this Security Council;
You forget the past. The SHIZL itself was made without the consent, approval, or even opinions of the Zoner people, the Council of Zoners. This was a mistake.. But it is not one that has been repeated. Yes, I made the new Security Council on my own decision, but the Zoner Council also has authority over the Security Council along with myself. And if anyone does object to its creation, they can bring the matter up for discussion and possibly a vote as well. I never make a decision related to the Zoners without allowing any of my fellow Zoners to criticize that decision and have a chance to oppose it and undo what I've done.

While SHIZL was property of no one but its own leader, and answered to no one but itself, the Security Council is property of the Council of Zoners, and must answer to it and the chairperson.

The Council of Zoners had no say in the people chosen to become part of the SHIZL, it was always an internal decision. That, also, was a mistake. No matter which way you look at it, we created an organization with took it upon itself to dictate the lives of others without giving those others any representation.


And now for my own concerns.. You mention "We can all conduct our own diplomacy within our geographic regions without ideological interference." What is it you mean by geographic regions? The CoZ, as it always has since its creation, and as former Chairmen and the leader of the TAZ strove, myself along with him, has authority over all territory around Zoner stations and systems. The only places this was untrue of was Baffin, which was property of the TAZ. I can not imagine that the TAZ has forsaken it's former leader's beliefs and wishes to cut the Zoners into little pieces to dispense at its pleasure to others? And furthermore, what authority could you possibly have to make that decision?

You state that the Council of Zoners does not have authority over your factions, which I very much doubt, but where does the TAZ, or the OSI, or the ZTC have the authority to take territory from other Zoners? Omicron Theta, Freeport Six, Corfu, Freeport Eleven, all of these stations belong to the Zoner people, not individual corporations. To say otherwise would be an attempt at thievery, stealing from other Zoners, and completely destroy any meaning of the word Free, for what Freedom can there be under the explicit control of a few elite people?

The Zoners are not a people to be ordered about by other Zoners, simply because they are a group, rather than operate on their own. If this is indeed the direction the factions have taken, then they have taken the Oligarchic stance of the SHIZL and spread it, along with the oppression and unequal status that comes with such a style of governing.

So I ask again; What possible Authority can any group of Zoners have over others or the Council of Zoners, a Council of the Zoner people and controlled by the Zoner people through our treasured democracy? How can a faction justify the thievery of Zoner territory to claim as their own? Our stations have stood for decades, and I will not sit by idly while a group of people think they have the right to call those stations their property after barely a year of existing!

I will not tolerate a mirror state of the Sirius Houses to cut up the Zoners and dole it out. This is not Fascist Rheinland, Corrupt Liberty, or the Oligarchy of Bretonia. If you are so interested in a house government, I suggest you return to those that exist, but the Zoners stand for freedom, and that is a belief I'll protect with my life.

-Aurelia Silvan

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