Orange
Re: Fiat Justitia, pereat mundus.
Friday, 25-Sep-98 18:39:13
    12.76.123.114 writes:

    Your Imperial Majesty:
    Naturally, I am pleased with the outcome of this battle. However, I am concerned with the bitterness with which you address it. I do not know to what extent you were involved with the details of the Act of Union, and it does not matter to me now. It may be that Andre, Guilherme of Orange, and Filipe at this point were more Reunian than you were in what they would offer Reunion in return for the Act of Union. In their enthusiasm, they might have placed greater restrictions on Laranjian sovereignty than you envisioned; and created enemies for the Act of Union that would not otherwise have surfaced.

    Tonight, I was prepared to announce a position paper from the Rally for the Principality, a moderate Loyalist political party, that would offer some practical compromises to end the struggle. One of them was the acknowledgment that the Act of Union was, in fact, legal, however great the deception used by supporters of the Act in Orange. This is what turned the Loyalists against the Act with such fury. To us, the Act of Union, as it finally came out, might have been legal, in that it went through the process; but was not just, because Orange did not appear to get what the majority bargained for.

    I, too, believe in the rule of law; and anarchy in Orange is a long-standing and serious problem -- one that in time will be resolved by loyalty to our Constitution, which, happily, transcends all considerations of Reunista or Loyalist.

    Despite all the struggles, most of us in Orange still feel warm bonds of friendship with the people of Reunion; and there remains much that we can do together. I, for one, would like to see the Simulated Economy (our term for the Plan Cifra) become successful, with free access by Laranjians and their corporations to an intermicronational monetary system and adding strength to the Beatriz stock exchange. For similar reasons, I would like to see us develop the first _practical_ micronational language -- easier on Brazilians than English, and easier on Anglophones than Portuguese (possibly even with Laranjian and Reunian dialects ?!) But these projects should be entered into by our two nations as two separate, proud, free and independent nations, perhaps along with one or both of the Porto Claros and other South American micronations -- and in that spirit I would embrace them.

    Let us look upon this experience not as a victory or defeat, but as a valuable learning experience for both nations, one that in the end will add to the greatness of both.

    Jean Tisserand,
    Speaker of the Council of Floresters, and
    Loyal Subject of Her Highness, Princess Anne.
    Calais-sous-Soleil, Lafayette, Orange, 25 September 1998.




    Jean Tisserand

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