Zoner Council Restructuring

[Malcolm_Reynalds]

Comm ID: Malcolm Reynolds
Location: Freeport 1, Omega 3

Recall the motion that passed regarding O-49 being a no-fire system. Most of those who opposed it were Faction members. Now if you were to revisit the motion you would have a drastically different result and that says something about the extremes of our political differences.

Yev, I recall that motion.
The record shows that the motion to declare O-49 a "NFZ" was defeated. 12 yea 14 nay, I also noted when I looked at the record, both Doc Holliday of the TAZ, and Samuel Nichols of OSI voted FOR it. so the Factions were split as were the independents, and the motion failed.

Miss Silvan, you seem to overlook where the power of the Council came from. We are Zoners. There is no sovereign body that controls all Zoners but ourselves. The reason why the Council could enforce edicts upon all Zoners is because in addition to the independent delegates it had dozens of representatives from the TAZ, OSI, (]c[), and ZAS. There was no one in the Zoner community to rival the CoZ because nearly everybody was in it.

I believe Yev, that you too overlook where some of the power came from, Malaclypse himself. We all followed his lead, not everyone agreed with him, but he kept us all together. Now he's gone, and the factions have separated themselves from the council.

I don't see us as "Taking over", The COZ elected a new chairperson. The COZ did not kick out the factions, They left on their own to go their separate ways. I totally accept and respect that, all the factions supported the Council, the council supported them. The fact remains, no matter what the reason, The factions left the council. By doing so they forfeited their say on what the Council does.
SHIZL was formed by the then Council Chair, and who's members were made up of members of the CoZ, and since it dealt with Zoners across all of Sirus, It is therefore my opinion that the new Council Chair has the authority to restructure it, as the former chair had the authority to create it in the first place.

/signed,
Malcolm Reynolds
Secretary/Treasurer CoZ