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Sunday, August 2, 2020

Authoritarianistan form of Government and elections

State government:

3-member commission, makes general laws. Appointed bureaucracy makes bylaws, including regulatory and administrative laws.
Part of the bureaucracy are Administrative Courts, which try people who run afoul of bylaws, regulatory laws, administrative laws, or traffic laws. Authoritarianistan Public Schools has its own Administrative Court. They all use the inquisitorial system. 

Supreme Court of 3 Justices. Judiciary is highly centralized, with Appellate Courts (which appeal criminal cases), General Courts (which try civil cases & criminal cases in which the punishment exceeds 182 days imprisonment &/or a $500 fine), & dozens of Minor Courts (which try criminal cases that exeed 182 days imprisonment &/or a $500 fine). Each judge is appointed by 2/3 or 3/3 of the State Commissioners and may serve until their mandatory retirement at 70 years.

Regional government (Regions are localities drawn by statute):

Sole Commissioner. Under the Commissioner is the Commissioner's Court, which is responsible for hearing traffic cases, violation of Regional ordinances, and other misdemeanors. 

Elections for the State Commission and regional governments:

. Each Commissioner serves 6 year terms with no limits. 

. Commissioners are elected by General Ticket. The State Commission has staggered elections.

. The type of primary election used is a closed partisan primary.

. The type of election used is General ticket/straight ticket, though for federal elections partisan first-past-the-post elections are used. 

. A political party was required to get a petition with signatures of at least 15% of the state's population of registered voters, though this was reduced to 5% after Williams v. Rhodes.

. Write-in candidates are never allowed.

. Voter ID is not required to vote. The state does same-day voter registration. The state tends to not remove dead people or former residents from the list of registered voters.

. Convicted felons are legally prohibited from voting.

. The state's electoral college awards all of the state's votes to the presidential candidate who has the most votes. For Faithless Electors, there is a fine of $500, 182 days imprisonment and the elector is replaced.

. All elections are done by mail-in ballots.



Powers:

All powers are determined by statutes as written from the state commission. 

State responsibilities:

. Lawmaking (constitutionally granted).

. Department of motor vehicles, including vehicle inspections.

Ministry Of Love And Peace responsibilities:

. Prosecution, through the Attorney General's Office and District Attorneys' Offices..

. Law enforcement, including jails/prisons. Contracted to the Armed Security Service by the Attorney General's Office.

. Government (public) schools and regulating education, including making curriculum, testing, and licensing teachers by the Board Of Education.

. Fire and ambulance services. Contracted to the Armed Security Service.

. Elections.

Regional powers: 

Regional responsibilities are:

. Property taxes.

. Consumption taxes.

. Zoning and approving businesses.

. Urban planning and development and infrastructure planning.

. Roads. All roads are toll roads.

. Streets.

. Welfare.

. Government (public) housing.

. Rent control.

. Museums.

. Arts.

. Human Rights Commissions (goes after discrimination and hate speech, but never goes after or criticizes government).

. Preserving history.

At the discretion of the Sole Commissioner, either providing such services itself, or granting monopolies to and subsidizing the following:

. Utilities, including handling sewage and water.

. Waste collection and sanitation.

. Parking lots.

. Auditoriums and convention centers.

. Sports facilities.

. Recreational facilities.

. Parks.

. Street lighting.

. Cemeteries.

. Clinics and hospitals.

. Public transportation.

Proposed responsibilities:


. Fire and ambulance services. These are contracted out to the Armed Security Service by the State of Authoritarianistan.

Thursday, April 4, 2019

State alternate history: Law enforcement & private security-patrols in New Israel

Armed Security Service/ASS:

The Armed Security Service is not really a single company, but rather, a conglomerate under joint ownership by Israeli, Saudi Arabia, & Chinese companies & a handful of businesspeople from aforementioned countries, in that exact order. 

It started a Pinkerton-esque private investigation & guard service based in the state of New Israel. But, it has since expanded from a law enforcement force that enforces nanny state rules just to keep the private prisons at 100%+ capacity into the armed wing of the police state & a gendarmerie heavily armed enough to crush insurgencies like a boot crushes an egg.

It’s basically the State’s de-facto state-level law enforcement agency, & corners the Private Security market within the state. The Armed Security Service is not really a single company, but rather, a conglomerate under joint ownership by Israeli, Saudi Arabian, & Chinese companies & a handful of businesspeople from aforementioned countries, in that exact order as a thinly-veiled way to funnel money to the companies & people that it owns. It personnel also uses much of its smaller equipment, such as small-arms & outfits, along with commissary items, from said countries.

It started a Pinkerton-esque private investigation & guard service based in the state of New Israel. But, it has since expanded from a law enforcement force that enforces nanny-state rules just to keep the private prisons at 100%+ capacity into the armed wing of the police state & a gendarme heavily armed enough to crush insurgencies like a boot crushes an egg.

The Fast Action Response Team is their equivalent of a SWAT team, with the following functions, in order from top priority to lowest priority:
. Functioning as the Praetoran Guard for the government & corporate ruling class (State Government officials, high ranking members of companies that get Government officials to do their bidding including lobbyists, etc).
. Keeping the rest of the Armed Security Service in-line.
. Serving warrants related to weapons, particularly confiscation.
. Arresting people who violate state tax laws.
. Hunting down truant K-12 students & their parents/guardians.

Enlisted Guards are NEVER allowed into the Fast Action Response Team; only Commissioned Officers & Warrant Officers are allowed in.

Because of the high prices for Officer’s Commissions, & the heavy nepotism involved in selling Officer’s Commissions which requires connections to high ranking members of the Armed Security Service, it’s common for an Enlisted Guard to stay as an Enlisted Guard & work harder than a workaholic for several years, doing things such as constantly volunteering for unpaid “overtime” every single day/night with no breaks & taking no days off or holidays off to prove their loyalty to the leadership of the Armed Security Service so they can enter training to become a Warrant Officer, which is an instant ticket from being barely above poverty or bottom working class to the upper middle class because the pay is high enough to thrive with a 99.99% income tax rate. Most Warrant Officers are members of the Fast Action Response Team, who undergo brutal, torturous training at least as hard as Russian Spetsnaz or North Korean Special Forces to pass.


Uniforms:

IDF combat fatigues (but dyed "grim reaper" black).


Their ranks are based on (but not identical to) the United States Marine Corps ranks system, with the addition of civilian leadership positions.

Officers:
Chief Executive Officer (hold no law enforcement power).
Shareholders (hold no law enforcement power).
General.
General.
Major General.
Brigadier General.
Colonel.
Lieutentant Colonel.
Major.
Captain.
First Lieutenant.
Second Lieutenant.

Warrant Officers:
Master Cheif Warrant Officer (A skinny red bar on a silver bar).
Senior Cheif Warrant Officer (Three red dots on a silver bar).
Cheif Warrant Officer (Two red dots on a silver bar).
Senior Warrant Officer (Three dots on a gold bar).
Warrant Officer (Two red dots on a gold bar).

Enlisted Guards:
Sergeant (Four stripes).
Corporal (Three stripes. Only exists in some units).
Guard (Two stripes).
Intern (One stripe. Unpaid).
Recruit (No insignia. Unpaid).

Fast Action Response Team/FART:


FART is made up purely of Warrant Officers & Officers. 

Commands:

ASS takes on many different commands, being Conventional Law Enforcement, Property Security, and School Security.

ASS SchoolSecComm riot shotguns:
Single-shot break-action.
Maverick 88.



https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/Turlock/html/Turlock04/Turlock0417.html#4-17-04
https://www.bsis.ca.gov/industries/app_bpci.shtml
https://www.azdps.gov/licensing/sg
https://www.dos.ny.gov/licensing/lawbooks/PIBailWtchGuard.pdf
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/626.88
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/169.98

In the State of New Israel, Private Security Guards (PSG's) who are not part of the Armed Security Service or under the command of the State Government have no law enforcement power. They may have the power to do a citizen's arrest, at best, but that's about it. Unless a situation gets particularly violent, they must call law enforcement.

Their uniform restrictions are as follows:

. Cannot be predominantly in the colors brown, green, or blue.

. The outermost top garment cannot be black. Black jackets, however, are tolerated.

. The outermost top garment must have the guard's name (minimum last name) displayed on the one breast in contrasting colors & in large enough lettering, while the other breast must have a patch, or, alternatively, a badge.

. Patches are to be rectangular in shape, and be 3 by 4 inches in size, & must be on both sleeves. Badges must be a minimum 2 ½ inches by 3 inches in size, while headgear badges must be minimum 2 ½ inches by 2 ½ inches in size. Badges are to be non-metallic. Patches & badges, at a minimum, must read "Private Security Guard", & patches must contain the name of the private security company. Badges and patches may not contain a prominent star or a seal of the federal or any state or local government.

. The outermost top garment must read "SECURITY" on the back, with the letters being a minimum of 3 inches high. Button-down shirts are exempt from this.

. Masks are not authorized to wear, with the exemption of a PSG being deployed in a "sufficiently hazardous working environment", such as wearing a medical mask while inside of a hospital full of sick people or wearing a respirator while in a hazardous material processing facility.

. Law enforcement officers employed as Private Security Guards are never authorized to wear their uniforms while acting as a Private Security Guard, including referencing themself as a member of law enforcement or having law enforcement powers, including showing law enforcement identification or a badge.


. The following words may never be used:
Officer 
Police 
Patrolman 
Agent 
Sheriff 
Deputy 
Marshall
Public Safety
Law Enforcement

Vehicle marking regulations are as follows:

. May not be predominately blue, brown, black, or green (except for lime green).

. Must be marked

. Never permitted to have rotating or strobe lights.

. Vehicles registered as private security vehicles are issued license plates that are pink with white lettering that read "Private Security Guard Car".

The best type of firearm that is authorized to possess while on duty is a single revolver in .38 special. 
.357 magnum revolvers, so long as they are not initially loaded with .357 magnum rounds, are tolerated.
Non-nfa non-repeating firearms, in general, may also be authorized to possess as an alternative to the .38 special revolver.

The types of ammunition that may be possessed is also restricted, with the following not authorized:
. Armor piercing, including Teflon-coated.
. Hollow points.
. Exploding.

. Reloads.


https://www.pacode.com/secure/data/037/chapter42/chap42toc.html

https://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.08.065

http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/Archives/19951996/leg/fulltext/hb234.htm

https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title49/T49CH9/SECT49-910A/

http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4549.13

Sunday, September 23, 2018

I'm going on semi-hiatus

Due to stresses in my life, especially with homework, schoolwork, and general stresses in my real life I am declaring a state of semi-hiatus. Basically, expect a long time before I do any content releases, and do not expect consistent releases, either.
I'm just getting this off my chest.

By the way, if you have the time and energy to do so, please save my social media and blog content using archive.org and archive.is in case any of them get deleted.

Sunday, August 19, 2018

I should push myself harder

I rarely talk a whole lot about myself and my personal life online, but there's a little bit that I would like to confess.

Since nearing the end of summer, and entering school, I have gotten overly lazy, with borderline mind-numbing, and definitely unproductive surfing the internet, watching videos, doing minor playlist updates on YouTube, looking at Zootopia fanart on DeviantArt, and doing almost nothing to update either this blog or on Quora, and do little to update my trivia blog. Never mind other social media sites that I almost never bother to update.

As much as I am worn out by school and homework, I know that I have to do better than just become lazy and unproductive, especially considering that my situation isn't that bad. I can't just say that I'll push myself tomorrow; I got to push myself more today.

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Posts and updates to expect, and expect more delays

Over the summer, I had yard work, vacation with my family, more yard work, driver's ed and finishing driver's ed, over-the-summer homework which I better get cracking on, and a AFJRORC leadership class which I'm just about getting anxious over, with the closing of the summer.

I prioritize my time. Looking at art and reading and writing Zootopia fan-fictions is not high on my priorities, hence why development is so slow.

I also officially announce the storyline will take a darker turn, with black and black morality when it comes to geopolitics, the NATNWO's fight against international central banks and world powers. 

An excerpt from The Pot Calls the Kettle Black will be on the bottom of the article. 
I'll explain the specifics further in The Pot Calls the Kettle Black story outline.


Events outlines and countries involved:

. The Pot Calls the Kettle Black.

. The Pot Calls The Kettle Black: World War III in a nutshell.

. Using The Pen Before The Sword.

. NATNWO affiliates: Iran, Malaysia, & Taiwan.

. How the NATNWO tried to strengthen Iran against the New World Order, & what happened to Iran during & after World War 3?

The human experience and cost:  

. The human cost of World War 3 (The Pot Calls The Kettle Black).

. Conscription in the Nations Against The New World Order. 

 . What happened to Israel & Saudi Arabia during & after the war?

. China story, & what happened to China & central Asia after World War 3.

Government agencies:

. Cascadia military & law enforcement branches & structure.


Equipment and uniforms: 

 . A few Naval & Sea/Coast Guard ship classes of Cascadia & the NATNWO.

 . ZHHF Stealth Ultra-Battlecruiser & 6th generation fighter-bomber concepts.

. Combat aircraft & towed & cold war & modern air-droppable howitzers of Cascadia & NATNWO countries.

. Armored fighting vehicles & self-propelled artillery of Cascadia/NATNWO/Real-life military equipment to use for reference.

 . Real-life Cascadia & NATNWO government firearms & military, paramilitary & tactical combat uniforms.

. NATNWO & Zootopian military equipment & weapons sold to or licensed made in affiliated countries.

 . Small warships, patrol ships & fast attack craft of NATNWO countries.

. Overkill CIWS. 

. The NATNWO's export of military equipment & uniforms.


Stories & story ideas: 

. Sergeant Wolf & the Maga-yacht Lavon Oded Yinnon (aka Talpiot) draft.

. Punisher thoughts & ideas, along with Punishernator, a Terminator-Punisher crossover, & a Truancy crossover.

. Zootopia Tame Collars uprising idea.

. Lord Superintendent General John Dewey's assassination.


Article updates:

. Armed Security Service/Law Enforcement in New Israel.

. Libertopia law enforcement equipment regulations & guidelines update.

Possible unimportant articles for the far future:

. Sheriffs in New Israel.

. Armed Security Service Fire, Rescue, & EMS corps.

Other:

. Zootopia taxes headcannon.


"The explanation for why I am doing this:

I, at first imagined the NATNWO as being more or less good, avoiding causing unnecessary or unjustifiable damage or committing human rights violations. But this changed after listening to a talk (the second one, specifically) between the historian & political analyst Ryan Dawson & historian & author Tom Goodrich, which described war crimes committed by the Allied Forces. After listening to the interviews between Dawson & Goodrich the documentary Hellstorm, I decided to make the story be from affably good vs evil to darker,  to evil vs evil, & have what the NATNWO forces did to Israel & Saudi Arabia to reflect what the Allied Forces did to Germany & Japan.


In this timeline, instead of the NATNWO using diplomacy to solve problems and using its armed forces to protect its borders (which they do in an alternate timeline), they're using the full might of their military to go after a few dozen to a few hundred individuals (the powers that be, mainly bankers, people involved in the Military-Industrial Complex, lobbyists & government officials) while killing hundreds of thousands to millions of people just to capture or eliminate the aforementioned few hundred, which involves an utter disregard for the most basic human rights (the bombardment and invasion of Israel, then Saudi Arabia), only continued when one individual (a Six-star General, which I'm proposing to be either Tyrannicus Tiger or Shere Khan) wanted to eliminate a perceived problem group (namely Jews & Wahabi & Salafist Muslims)."

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Why I haven't invited the Alt-right or the Far-left for story writing; the factors of seriousness, common ground, & fringe elements in movements

This article is NOT necessary reading. This is just to satisfy anyone's curiosity as to why I am going to make invites for ground collaborative writing for liberals and conservatives but not to people in the circles mentioned in the title.


(I got the above image from http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1164559-alt-right.)


Both sides are going to be highly alienating and discrediting. Letting Neo-Nazis march alongside of a movement is about as discrediting as letting Communists march alongside the movement.


Another concern that I have is that, in the (unlikely) case that these people get into power, the human rights situation would be atrocious, to say the least.



The Issues that I want to cover are talked about in my blog post Uniting Americans: the common ground principle.


P.S.:
To give you an idea of how damaging the Alt-right and related circles here, even William Luther Pierce (yes, the same man who literally wrote novels that describe the total extermination of non-Caucasian people), a popular figure in the aforementioned circles, denounced stereotypical Neo-Nazis for poor mindset and public image.