Appeal to Reason [Attn: Beautancus]

[Clarenthia]

COMMISSION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
June 24, 2019​

The Honorable Edward C. Orton
First Citizen of the Confederated Republic
Drummond House
2552 Company St.
Welmonton, City of Welmonton, CRB, 58362

Dear Seigneur Orton,

My name is Rowena Langdon and I am President of the Commission for the Preservation of Human Rights, or the CPHR. Founded in 1973 in response to gross negligence on behalf of the Commonwealth Government toward the natural rights of the people it claims legitimacy from, our organization has constantly sought to ensure that governments adhere to the order and values of a true civilized society. Our organization has always seen the predisposition of the Thaumantic countries for liberty as a model for which the world should follow. It is with that knowledge at heart that makes this particular letter disheartening to pen, but all the more crucial to see its completion.

I write to you today after hearing reports in the Welmonton Nativist of protestors gathering in opposition to the Universal Basic Subsistence Exclusion Act, or UBSEA. We are, of course, happy to know that the protests were peaceful and that their dispersion did not cause any unnecessary harm to either the Capital Security Service nor the protestors themselves. However, I would feel that I have betrayed my duties to the CPHR and human beings at large if I did not write to request that you use your powers to suspend the UBSEA until such a time that its provisions can be reformed.

For all the similarities and differences of the Engel nations, our fierce adherence to republican values binds us closer than any other value. Our people are not shackled by the tyranny of a King nor the more peculiar philosophies of faith. Instead, all of the Engells are permitted to engage in their government to ensure that it best reflects their ideals. That right is quintessential to our existence as civilized society – and that right must be universal.

The CPHR formally appeals to the high reason of your Office to use your power to suspend this law. To deny an individual the right to participate in civic discourse due to their economic condition is to betray the values with which the Thaumantic Horizon is founded upon and forever bonded. It is a betrayal of the negotiations currently under way to bind our countries into one alliance, the League of Four Nations. There must be another way and it is our firm belief that the esteemed leaders of the Confederated Republic can indeed find a balance that does not encourage dependency but neither strips the basic, fundamental rights of a human being.

I speak for the CPHR when I say that we stand ready to assist in this endeavor however we may. Once more I ask, please do the right thing.

Sincerely,

Rowena Langdon
President

@Beautancus

 

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CONFEDERATED REPUBLIC OF BEAUTANCUS
DEPARTMENT for PROGRESS,
OFFICE for the ADMINISTRATION of GOVERNMENT
Old Mission House, 752 Creekmeadows Boulevard,
Welmonton, City of Welmonton, CRB, 58362
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Gentlewoman Langdon,


This Office for the Administration of Government must first express its admiration for your commitment to the cause and values of the forthright and true Order of Civilized Nations, and our thanks for your diligence in pursuit that cause and those values. The engagement in civic discourse by all elements of proper society within the Engellexic States of the Thaumantic Horizon is one of those features of our shared heritage and traditions that most sets us apart from the lesser peoples and powers of the world. It should be cherished and lauded where found, with the same spirit in which it is presented.

The Confederated Republic shares your concern for the future development of the League of Four Nations, and has no doubt that whatever the future holds for our four kindred states, we will be more than equal to it.

That said, we find a number of items from your letter to be more than a little unclear, even more than a little troubling, though we are sure that such a contradictory pronouncement could not have been intentionally forwarded to the Office of the Chief Executive of the Confederated Republic of Beautancus. The implication that the Universal Basic Subsistence Exclusion Act accomplishes, or is intended for anything so much as safeguarding the the stability of the Cussian popular electorate, even and especially those individuals that are, for whatever reasons, found to be incapable of economic responsibility and self reliance and/or fulfilling their obligations to civil society as legal adults of the Confederated Republic.

This measure (the UBSEA) is and has been framed as an extension of the Confederated Republic's Human Commodity Exchange System, which likewise is and has long been regarded as the most humane example thereof within the entirety of the Thaumantic Domain - including that found within Clarenthia itself. All individuals processed into the wider HCES voluntarily forego participation in the popular electorate for the duration of the equally voluntary contract of indenture.

The central idea that the UBSEA is founded upon is an expansion and extension of the Basic Subsistence Provisions of the wider HCES for those individuals either unwilling or deemed otherwise unfit for placement within the HCES, in the context of this program as Universal Basic Subsistence (UBS). As such a substantial portion of the number of Cussian residents now receiving UBSEA benefits are now self-designated as unwilling to work while otherwise sufficiently capable of and suitable for doing so, there exists a substantial risk that this, as noted, substantial number of Cussians might be wielded as an impartially and unsoundly biased voting bloc for whatever political caucus will fortify their benefits.

This can only result in the creation and ceaseless growth an economic underclass in the electorate, ingratiated and inescapably beholden to whomever will ensure that they are able to receive their wholly unearned UBS, with absolutely no incentive or motivation to seek better opportunities for themselves elsewhere in the Confederated Republic or Thaumantic Horizon, in order to return to a natural state of liberated self-reliance wherever that is possible for them. Such a state of affairs would be paramount to the erosion and eventual negation of the popular sovereignty exercised and rightfully earned by the financially solvent, self-reliant and socially responsible voting citizens that make up the rest of society - while supporting the whole with taxes levied from their own assets and labor.

To see their vote reduced to equivalency with that of individuals that are not only not fully or properly invested in Cussian Civil Society, but also subsisting upon UBS benefits drawn from taxes exacted solely from the forthright and gainfully employed would be a perversion of the spirit of the Republican Constitution of this Great Nation, and the Nativist idealism upon which it has been founded.

The UBSEA exists to ensure that this never comes to pass in this country. Neither UBS or processing through the HCES were designed or intended to be open-ended or perpetual solutions for the problem of poverty in Beautancus or the wider Engellexic Civilization. These measures exist as temporary assistance and motivation for individuals who find themselves in difficult circumstances, not as a free lunch for life - that is not and has never been the Cussian or Engellexic way, nor should or will that ever change.

It is more vitally important now than it ever has been for the Properly Order Nations of the Civilized Order of the Thaumantic Domain to recognize and celebrate that which makes us exceptional, and has allowed us to achieve such wonders in this New World we have made in our image. It is specifically because we have and do recognize that freedom is and has never been free that our societies have been able to realize and enjoy that lofty ideal. We could do no worse than to surrender to the false assumptions, ignorant preconceptions and at times intentionally malicious misconceptions harbored and promulgated by the essentially Medieval Fictional Societies and Competitor Powers of the World. Most corrosive and essentially disrespectful among these is the notion that anyone is entitled to something that they haven't earned or are worthy of - especially something so vitally critical to the security and well-being of the entire nation as access to the franchise. The very idea is anathema to Engellexic Civilization and the Guiding Vision behind everything that Civilization has built. Regardless of the Clarenthian lack of inclination to assertiveness or proactive self-defense, the concerns voiced in this letter are troubling in their foreign character and devoid, as it is entirely, of Thaumantic Reason.

If anything might be construed as a betrayal of the spirit of the negotiations involved in the formation of the League of Four Nations, it would undoubtedly be an attempt to extort the Office for the Administration of Government or the State Legislature of the Confederated Republic to somehow subvert their Constitutional Mandate on the grounds of an inconsistent assessment of a single Legislative Act, based upon an interpretation of liberty clearly derived from a Fictional definition and understanding of the term.

It is our most sincere hope that the Commission for the Preservation of Human Rights conducts an immediate audit and thorough examination of its legal team and any potentially suspect international associates to determine if it has not in fact been infiltrated by some element or elements of Foreign, Fictional, Interests, intelligence agencies or Fictional inquisition most likely. Such entities would obviously be more interested in subverting the harmony enjoyed between the kindred nations of the Thaumantic Domain prior to the reunification as the League of Four Nations, regardless of the damage their actions might do to the organization within which they had secreted themselves. Furthermore, it is our experience that such deviation from the norms of Engellexic/Thaumantic Interpretation of Key Legal Terminology is often related to cognitive contagion borne from prolonged contact with Fictionals - or even more nefarious entanglements.

We must remain vigilant, now more than ever, and in order to ensure that such is in the case here, I have informed the State Service of the nature of this missive and the possibility that the legal team, at minimum, of the CPHR has been subverted by Fictional Interests. Their Office has indicated it will be following up with their Clarenthian counterparts to ensure a lack of subversion or other cognitive contagion. For all our sakes, let us hope this is not the case.

Otherwise, I thank you once more for your engagement with this Office for the Administration of Government and our hope that this letter finds you in the best of health and a more sound state of mind than you were in when you sent the last one out.




Ximontichacca Rouen Chacaninni,
Director of the Office of Public Relations for the Department for Progress,
Confederated Republic of Beautancus