BREAKING NEWS: Election called in Rheinland! Referendum on Kanzler passes!

[Claussen]

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With cordial respect to the recipient, from the office of the VonClaussen estate, Planet Hamburg.

Sent on behalf, and dictated by, his excellency, Herr VonClaussen of the Sternenseegarten, Östlichedornberge, Planet Hamburg.

Reviewed by the pressers and communications team of the #Linus827 campaign.

Communications do not constitute policy declarations unless stated by Linus VonClaussen or a representative of the VonClaussen policy team.

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Addressed to: The Electoral Office of the Bundestag.
Open to all.

Urgency: Moderate.

Encryption: Unencrypted. Transmission is viewable to all. Replies are open.

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Linus straightens his tie, reclining with the comfort of a groomed and immaculate statesman of the old guard. In the well-appointed and opulent Emerald drawing-room of the Sternenseegarten, Claussen was, quite evidently, in his element. He was the centrepiece of the room, flanked on all sides with holoprojectors.

"Good afternoon - for it is a stellar afternoon over the südwestliche Kontinentalplatte, is it not? For those joining us in space or elsewhere, may your travels be prosperous and productive."

"Men and women of our beloved Rheinland, and to my fellow members of the Rheinland Federal Diet;

May you be courageous in difficult times."

"Gentlemen. My fellow statesmen. My countrymen."

"As appointed servants of the people through our placement within the Bundestag, by the electorate, we have a duty of care to our populations. Amongst the litany of our services is the mantle of obligation to accurately inform the populace, and the fifth estate - the media, as to our internal workings. The power of the people withers in a lack of transparency. "

"Therefore, I must reveal - as the Libertonians might say 'Blow the Whistle' - on a troubling and malcontentious act that has been made by the majority party that holds the Bundestag, the people of Rheinland, and our image before the varied houses - hostage to intransparent machinations. I am quite certain I will be denounced by my peers within the prevailing party - nevertheless, the electorate must stand upon its own determinations."

"Attached to my transmission is the following file. It is a letter of accusation by the Minister for Foreign Affairs Hans Averbach-Schmitz, of the reigning Federal Summative Party, to the Bretonian Government. He declares the government of Bretonia to be acting in violation of the Treaty of Snowdon, a document ruled into the legislature eight years ago. As of one year ago, the Treaty of Snowdon was internationally declared quidquid voverat atque promiserat - Null and void. Replaced, by a revitalised document of peace within the Omega systems."

"Why, some will be asking, has this declaration been made?"

"In short, it is a pretense of provocation. The treaty was rendered void by the newfound resolution to the Aland crisis - an incident that entangled Rheinlandic corporate interests in a shameful cabal with Red Hessians. A folly that was widely documented and televised. The claim upheld by the FSP and my collegues within the halls of the Neumann administration, ministers towards a revisionist history. The IMG themselves no longer uphold Snowdon. Why, may you state, is this rhetoric deployed under the flag of the Republic? One so uncaring in its detailing as to describe the Bretonian territory of "Nottingham" as "The Snowdon System"."

"Why indeed?"

"I address this open letter to my peers in the Bundestag."

My constituents are concerned, Sir. House Chancellor Neumann was appointed by this office upon a platform of respectability, peace, and international tolerance. It was expected that she would grow the economy without draconian, or hawkish adventurism. That the growth of Rheinland industry – the employers of our citizens – and the rights of said citizenry, would develop even-handedly! That there would a future beyond the cloying pervasion of the Libertonian war, and that interhouse politics would not trouble our populations any longer.
I have the privilege and responsibility as Provincial Councillor for the Hamburg System, I must raise extreme concerns when our government makes steps against its own mandate and populace. Challenging the Bretonians – a growing market for our industry and services as they rebuild their ailing postwar state, over the Treaty of Snowdon? An ageing document that catered to the protection of Rheinlandic entrepreneurship and the extraction rights of Daumann has been pulled up to validate the status of the… the so-called “Independent” mining guild? An entity that paid, as of Federal finance year 826 AS, let’s see – Zero – credits in federal tax? An entity that corrupted members of the Abfallentsorgung to assist them in martial collaboration with Red Hessian terrorists in the Nottingham system?"


"Have you any idea, sir, how your hawkish assertions will harry the stock market? How it will undermine the efforts of those of us who have been placed within the Bundestag as elements of an anticorruption platform?"

"Odin’s blood, Sir – leaving the currency aside – our beloved Republican Shipping and Kruger Industries are vital Rheinlandic employers within the Omega trade artery. Daumann’s extraction operations in Nottingham keep our economy and the Bretonian economy bound together. Your provocations have led to layoffs and uncertainty within Hamburg – I can only imagine what they will do to the populaces of Stuttgart."


"I have a veteran’s wealthfare bill to pass, sirs. Rheinland has a great many victorious sons, who whilst they return from the Sigmas with their lives, will need federal assistance to bring them back to society. I would prefer if you did not distract the damned Colonial News Service with yet another incident of international brinksmanship orchestrated on behalf of foreign special interest groups."
The IMG are corrupt. They are visibly and nakedly corrupt. It is on every news channel for the last several years. My god man, look beyond your payoffs and wake up, Sir.
They bent the knee to the deposed exo-Sirian invader, and now they take up arms with Hessian terrorists and encourage brinksmanship and unlawful opportunism within the wealthy and the well-to-do in Rheinland. Our foreign policy does not reflect their interests, and we will not coquettishly protect them. IMG hired mercenaries are responsible for the extrajudicial killing of working men and women living wage to wage in the Omega mining fields.

We are elected representatives of the Rheinland. We do not serve the corrupt. And sir, you must know by now that the Rheinland people widely consider the late actions of the Neumann administration to be parcelled with that corruption. Whilst the Hessians and Unioners chip away at any remaining vestige of trust we have with the common people – you would turn them against us once more.

I was not appointed to this chamber to safeguard some private sector payoff or the retirement slush-fund of a braggart in a two million credit dress suit. No sir.

The goverment has forged a precedent today - the basis of all law; the precedent of revanchism. An old law has been recycled as a pretext to start a conflagration with the Bretonians. A confrontation the Rheinlandic people justly oppose.

Precedent knows no political party or affiliation. If you choose to recycle the treaty of Snowdown, the Royal Parlimentary Coalition of the
Hamburger Reichspartei, Sechs-Kronen-Konkordat, and the Alternative Arbeitswelle declare that the Proclamation of Unionisation, 025 AS, Remains a valid and instructive document for protecting the rights of the working class from predatory foreign enterprise, such as IMG. We declare that the Neumann administration as it stands has consistently prioritised predatory foreign influences who offer cushy private-sector consultancy positions to our so-called public servants, over the political norms of our state.

This is but the latter of a litany of transgressions, too long to list in their entirity:

The Chancellor has failed to prosecute officials investigated and evidenced before military tribunals of Sedition, including unelected officials within the defence department responsible for the early and undue withdrawal of the BDM from the just and lawful conflict against the Gas Mining Guild monopolists. An act investigated by the Justice department, yet still the man holds an official position despite being in contempt of court.

The abandonment of Dresden to terrorists.

The horrific humanitarian catastrophe of the Nuremberg disaster - a tragedy where many thousands suffer still as the beurocrats nickel and dime every credit over their salvation.


A failure to provide social wealthfare to our citizens.

The continued legalisation of the corruptive Gallic narcotic, Nox, a substance that has claimed over twenty thousand lives. A highly substance that has been used to fund the spread of organised crime in Rheinland, under the control of the pharmaceutical industry, billed at a sales price vastly in excess of the cost of production and export.

The complete abandonment of Stuttgart - the jewel of the Rheinland, to Synth Food's creditors. The climate has encountered planetary holocide on an apocalyptic scale as the temperature has been artificially raised five degrees by corporate interests - our very heritage has been sold downstream to foreign corporations.

A failiure to maintain Rheinlandic infrastructre.

A complete disregard for the wellbeing of veterans, the working class, or any attempt to legislate the rise of wages in correspondence with the growing economy.

A re-assumption of the same catastrophic Libertonian debts that hamstrung our economy for the entire history of the Rheinland Republic.

A failure to respond to rising terror and insurgency, with neither law enforcement, nor social services, nor the education and health system, enjoying adequate state support.

An abandonment of domestic corporations, such as Republican, Daumann, and Kruger, even in the face of general strikes. For the first time in our modern history you have united the haves and the have-nots in mutual scorn for the Neumann administration.

The deliberate demotion and unlawful purging of anti-corruption officials.

You will find I wield significant support in the HIP and LRW. I will have the votes to bring a vote of no confidence to the chamber, Sir, and whilst I do not expect them to pass without a referendum, you will have to answer for your rhetoric in full public scrutiny. I remind the Chancellor that she was appointed by emergency powers following the forced resignation of her predecessor. She has not had to answer to the people since the end of the Liberty-Rheinland war. This will change today. The Federalists are not the only powers within the Bundestag, nor are they beloved by the people in isolation.

Signed,

LvC. Provincial Chancellor of Hamburg.

The Campaign of Linus Von Claussen notifies the Chancellor that an investigation into corruption within the halls of goverment will be sponsored by the Hamburg Chancellory.

The party calls for a refferendum, held by the public, into the powers of the Chancellor.

"There is a statement upheld by one of the Rheinland's pre-eminent pre-Sirian philosophers. I maintain that his insights into human nature may be of use to deciphering the mechanism of government:

"There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value.
This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive?
One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived. "

"I understand that my actions may come at some political expense to myself. I will have made enemies within the Bundestag today. This is why I choose to allow my decisions and the rationale that sits behind them to stand on their own before the electorate, and the people of the Rheinland."

"To the people, I can only ask for your continued support, and that you support one another. Your entire government has not abandoned you. There will, one day soon, be a return to dignity, order, and above all else - truth. "

"Now that, I can promise. I hope you will join me in our campaign to turn the historical wrongs of the Republic, into a history of triumphs. Our nation, our peoples, our flag, and our principles, deserve nothing less. All else is but a hollow imitation. "

"Thank you for your time - I will concede to our broadcasters."

With civillity and respect, I remain your servant;