Office of Chairman TNF: Red Army takes NM, UT, ID, AZ

[TNF]

Comrades, if the recent polling is to be believed, I'm in the most approved of Senator in the Republic!

I'd like to thank you all for your support since the 56th Senate has convened. I have striven to be a voice of all working Atlasians, an honest and true friend to the working class. I will continue to be that voice only with your support and help to shake up the schlerotic, unresponsive nature of our aristocratic Senate. We have a great deal of bills in the queue that will vastly improve the lives of working people, but the Atlasian right wants these bills tabled, defeated, or worse. The Atlasian right has no room for working people in it's vision of a society based upon hierarchy, upon greed, upon dare I say it, despotism by wealth - that is, plutocracy.

They have ridiculed my proposals as 'far-left,' 'Soviet', or godforbid, 'socialistic' () but in doing so they have only shown themselves for who they truly are - pawns of a reactionary financial elite intent upon the degradation of Atlasian living standards and the destruction of our communities. I reiterate that I am not afraid to be red-baited by the right because I am honestly and truly a 'red', a socialist without adjectives, a friend of the workingman and the workingwoman. Governor ZuWo recently attacked me for seeking restrictions upon trade with Switzerland, berating me for pushing for Atlasians to lose their jobs, or some such nonsense.

What candor these right-wingers have! What honest-to-god nonsense! It's funny seeing them all jump to the defense of the 'Atlasian worker' when they've never been willing to associate themselves with the Atlasian workingman or workingwoman before. Opportunism is the first sign of weakness, and the Atlasian right, I am happy to report, comrades, is weakening every day.

Another sure sign of weakness is the willingness of the Atlasian right to engage in a political witchhunt against members of an opposition party. Senator Yankee has led the charge to destroy the National Movement "Aliya Mustafina" a party of patriotic Atlasian citizens whose only crime is taking a stand against the sclerotic, conservative nature of the Republic itself. It is regrettable that many members of the Atlasian establishment that are members of the Labor Party have likewise taken up the cause of political persecution and engaged in political witchhunts, and I hope to see this pass and an productive understanding established between those elements of the Labor Party and the National Movement.

[Maxwell]

I think the Midwest seems to like its Government officials though... I have a 100% approval rating

[TNF]

I think the Midwest seems to like its Government officials though... I have a 100% approval rating

And there's no denying that in spite of our ideological differences, we make a good team.

[tmthforu94]

Personally, if I were in your shoes, I would be more concerned about the fact that only two Midwest citizens bothered to even vote in the poll.

[TNF]

Personally, if I were in your shoes, I would be more concerned about the fact that only two Midwest citizens bothered to even vote in the poll.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mPlXwpJ1I8

[tmthforu94]

Personally, if I were in your shoes, I would be more concerned about the fact that only two Midwest citizens bothered to even vote in the poll.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mPlXwpJ1I8

I think I'd have to disapprove of the job you're doing and/or not like you personally to be classified a "hater", and neither is the case.

[Napoleon]

There's a five vote minimum, which means I am Atlasia's most beloved. I will now accept my accolades!

[Maxwell]

My question for you Senator TNF, is with your proposal that disarms the police and other administrators, is the question of your principals. Maybe you didn't run on it, but your views are anti-gun control. Do you think this legislation violates your own ideas of gun ownership?

[TNF]

My question for you Senator TNF, is with your proposal that disarms the police and other administrators, is the question of your principals. Maybe you didn't run on it, but your views are anti-gun control. Do you think this legislation violates your own ideas of gun ownership?

I am opposed to the police being armed but am fully supportive of individual citizens' right to keep and bear arms, to answer your question, Governor. I would oppose any and all legislation that seeks to restrict the right to bear arms for individual citizens.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

So why do you seek to disarm law enforcement? Both citizen and law enforcement need to have this important right to protect this country against the forces who would seek to destroy our republic from all enemies foreign and domestic.

[TNF]

So why do you seek to disarm law enforcement? Both citizen and law enforcement need to have this important right to protect this country against the forces who would seek to destroy our republic from all enemies foreign and domestic.

As it stands the right to bear arms for the average Atlasian is restricted based upon a number of criteria, which renders law enforcement, specifically the police, with a near monopoly on force in Atlasia. My proposal will remedy that inequality and allow the average Atlasian to be on a more equal footing with the police when it comes to the issue of firearms ownership and use.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

So why do you seek to disarm law enforcement? Both citizen and law enforcement need to have this important right to protect this country against the forces who would seek to destroy our republic from all enemies foreign and domestic.

As it stands the right to bear arms for the average Atlasian is restricted based upon a number of criteria, which renders law enforcement, specifically the police, with a near monopoly on force in Atlasia. My proposal will remedy that inequality and allow the average Atlasian to be on a more equal footing with the police when it comes to the issue of firearms ownership and use.

You happen to be going in the wrong way to equalize this issue. The people need to be as strongly armed as the police are. If not a little bit stronger. Including giving back the right of owning semi and fully automatics like AR-15's and the like. Say the military of the national starts publicly going after law abiding citizen without cause, the citizen and the law enforcement officer need to be as well armed as our military with the exception of the WMD.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Police officers carry guns in Canada despite heavy-handed restrictions on firearms for the general populace. Canada's crime rates are exceptionally low.

The thing is, there is a huge black market for weapons that surely must exist in Atlasia with all gun restrictions we've got. If you've got a black market for weapons, it makes it more likely that the people who have guns actually have them to commit crimes. In that scenario, wouldn't it be prudent to give police officers the ability to legally defend themselves from illegal guns? I would think so...

[PJ]

So why do you seek to disarm law enforcement? Both citizen and law enforcement need to have this important right to protect this country against the forces who would seek to destroy our republic from all enemies foreign and domestic.

As it stands the right to bear arms for the average Atlasian is restricted based upon a number of criteria, which renders law enforcement, specifically the police, with a near monopoly on force in Atlasia. My proposal will remedy that inequality and allow the average Atlasian to be on a more equal footing with the police when it comes to the issue of firearms ownership and use.

Who knew there's an issue where TNF is to the right of JCL. I think I'm some kind of paradox bizzaro world.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

Police officers carry guns in Canada despite heavy-handed restrictions on firearms for the general populace. Canada's crime rates are exceptionally low.

The thing is, there is a huge black market for weapons that surely must exist in Atlasia with all gun restrictions we've got. If you've got a black market for weapons, it makes it more likely that the people who have guns actually have them to commit crimes. In that scenario, wouldn't it be prudent to give police officers the ability to legally defend themselves from illegal guns? I would think so...

Atlasia isn't as heavily involved in the drug war, and from my knowledge our approach to crime is very different from that of the United States, so I don't know how big our black market is.  That's probably something worth asking the GM about.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

I don't want to argue with you because we're arguing the same thing, but I'd just add that gun culture shouldn't be the pivot point here. There's no American-style gun culture in Canada (which makes it infuriating to debate American gun laws with a bunch of Torontonian idealists, but I digress), yet the undermarket for guns is still there. If you really wanted to commit crime with a gun in Canada, you could get your hands on a gun.

Therein lies the problem. Good people don't have guns and bad people still do. The only good people who do carry weapons in the street are police officers. I can't imagine the world of trouble we'd be in if these men and women were left unarmed. That's the reality we'd be dealing with in Atlasia too.

But yes, there'd probably be some lunatics out there who'd want to kill you. Except under TNF's proposal, your police escorts would be unable to do anything about it.

[Sec. of State Superique]

So why do you seek to disarm law enforcement? Both citizen and law enforcement need to have this important right to protect this country against the forces who would seek to destroy our republic from all enemies foreign and domestic.

As it stands the right to bear arms for the average Atlasian is restricted based upon a number of criteria, which renders law enforcement, specifically the police, with a near monopoly on force in Atlasia. My proposal will remedy that inequality and allow the average Atlasian to be on a more equal footing with the police when it comes to the issue of firearms ownership and use.

I didn't know that it should be something like a Gun ownership equality. Why should people have the same level of guns of the police force. There is no reason for that, unless you think we are in one of Clint Eastwood's Movies...

[TNF]

REMARKS CONCERNING THE PASSING OF THE AMENDMENT TO THE LABOR RIGHTS ACT

Fargo, North Dakota - Folks I am glad to be here today in Fargo to announce the successful passage of, and signing by the President of, an Amendment to the Labor Rights Act that outlaws scabbing during the course of a strike. This is the first piece of what I think will be a number of bills I have proposed that will help to empower Atlasian workers and take the big boys, the 'Captains of Industry' down a few notches to where they ought to be. It's class against class folks, and today, the working class won a major victory, and I'd like to thank those members of the Senate who voted for this bill and President Nix for his signature. I'm proud to say that we can retire scabby the rat (pictured above) once and for all!

Solidarity forever, brothers and sisters.

[TNF]

I am proud to announce that my second piece of legislation, the Responsible Federal Contracting Act, has been signed into law by President Nix. This legislation will offer some degree of accountability to the contracting process. I would like to also urge my comrades in the Senate to consider and pass the amendment to the Productivity Act and my amendment to the Student Loan Interest Rates Fairness Act, both of which will go a long way in helping working class Atlasians.

In solidarity,

Senator TNF

[TNF]

I am proud to announce that my third piece of legislation, the Death With Dignity Act, has cleared the Senate and is currently awaiting the signature of the President. This is a humane piece of legislation and I thank those members of the Senate, Laborites and Federalists alike, who gave their support to its passage. Again, I would encourage fellow members of the Senate to support my amendment to the Productivity Act (which few of them, except for Senators Polnut and Yankee, have even bothered to address) and my amendment to the Student Loan Interest Rates Fairness Act (another victim of inactivity.)

In solidarity,

Senator TNF

[TNF]

MIDWEST SENATOR TNF ANNOUNCES BID FOR SECOND TERM

Lincoln, Grit – Comrades, working men and women of the Midwest, my friends – today I stand before you as a candidate for re-election to the Senate of Atlasia. While I will not be up for re-election until the month of October, I have already announced my intention to seek another term and now I'm reiterating that announcement with a public campaign kickoff. While in the Senate I have been arguably the most active and most effective legislator on behalf of working people not only in the Midwest, but across the Republic. Since my inauguration, I have sponsored and been able to pass into law the Prison Reform Act, an Amendment to the Labor Rights Act, the Responsible Federal Contracting Act, and the Death with Dignity Act. In addition to these, the Senate is currently considering two pieces of legislation I have introduced, one of which will reduce working hours and raise the minimum wage, and another which will require stricter standards for educational spending and reduce student loan interest rates. I have made no bones about my ideological posture – I am a proud socialist. You may not always agree with me, you may feel that at times I am too rough around the edges, too ideological, what have you, but you will always, and I mean, always, know where I stand. I thank you all for your support and hope to have it again in October.


Solidarity forever!


Senator TNF

[TNF]

MIDWEST SENATOR TNF ADDRESSES RECENT POLLING

Lincoln, Grit - So it looks like a bunch of right-wingers upset with the fact that I bother to have an agenda have voted me down in a few polls. Let 'em. Hell, vote me to oblivion in every single poll you can throw up, because I got news for you reactionaries, moderate heroes, and "me too" Federalists -- I am going to win this election and make you like it. As we speak another one of my bills, which would give workers the day off for black friday, is moving quickly to passage in the Senate. I am proud of that fact. But I am yet ashamed of this Senate, which recently voted down a proposal to shorten the workweek and raise the minimum wage. The Senate should be completely ashamed of itself for voting to continue poverty wage levels in this country. This Senate will soon consider a plethora of other bills that I have introduced, all of which will improve the lives of the average Atlasian workingman and workingwoman. I ask the Senate not repeat their mistake of denying wage increases for workers who desperately need it.

I also wish to address my critics, all of whom would rather go after me, go after Labor, and go after my agenda rather than offer one of their own. I ask you - what has the Federalist Rich Man's Party and their foil, the so-called "Progressive Union" offered to the voting public? Absolutely nothing! They have no agenda, and so they attack those who do. They have no ideas, so they attack those who have them. They are ideologically committed to inactivity and inaction - they do not care about this game or Atlasia. They are willing to vote for far-right politicians who favor the banning of same-sex adoption, the privatization of Social Security, and the ending of the minimum wage, rather than vote for someone with ideas. They are among the most disingenuous individuals in this game - and we would all be better off without them.

I have no more to say that hasn't already been eloquently said by my good friend Adam Griffin. I repeat to my friends in the Federalist Rich Man's Party and the Moderate Hero Union - I am going to win this election and I am going to make you like it.

[Maxwell]

Federalists aren't voting you down in a Midwest Regional poll. There are five Federalists in the Midwest, in a region of 26, and only two of which are especially active. There are Midwest voters are voting down your extreme, liebral agenda and your negative campaigning inspite of not running for office until this point. Also, nobody likes a poll truther. I mean, you labor guys are like, well, these two men:


Karl "TNF" Rove


Dick "Griffin" Morris

Surely, you aren't so filled with paranoia that you think Federalists are violating the rules of the polls just to get at you, right?

[TNF]

Federalists aren't voting you down in a Midwest Regional poll. There are five Federalists in the Midwest, in a region of 26, and only two of which are especially active. There are Midwest voters are voting down your extreme, liebral agenda and your negative campaigning inspite of not running for office until this point. Also, nobody likes a poll truther. I mean, you labor guys are like, well, these two men:

Surely, you aren't so filled with paranoia that you think Federalists are violating the rules of the polls just to get at you, right?

I don't think it's paranoia to assume that I would be the most hated of the Labor delegation on the part of the Federalists and the Moderate Hero Union, neither of whom have an agenda and are extremely threatened by someone with one.

It's also hilarious for someone to said mine represents an 'extreme liberal agenda' when you of course are on record favoring privatizing Social Security and the abolition of the minimum wage, Senator-elect.

[Maxwell]

Federalists aren't voting you down in a Midwest Regional poll. There are five Federalists in the Midwest, in a region of 26, and only two of which are especially active. There are Midwest voters are voting down your extreme, liebral agenda and your negative campaigning inspite of not running for office until this point. Also, nobody likes a poll truther. I mean, you labor guys are like, well, these two men:

Surely, you aren't so filled with paranoia that you think Federalists are violating the rules of the polls just to get at you, right?

I don't think it's paranoia to assume that I would be the most hated of the Labor delegation on the part of the Federalists and the Moderate Hero Union, neither of whom have an agenda and are extremely threatened by someone with one.

It's also hilarious for someone to said mine represents an 'extreme liberal agenda' when you of course are on record favoring privatizing Social Security and the abolition of the minimum wage, Senator-elect.

I wasn't talking about my extreme agenda I was explicitly talking about yours.