Jita Park Speakers Corner

Last night EVE time Trabzz of the Goonswarm Federation had this to say,



This if true is quite clearly Extortion.

Extortion
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"Extortion (also called shakedown, outwresting, and exaction) is a criminal offence which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person(s), entity, or institution, through coercion. Refraining from doing harm is sometimes euphemistically called protection. Extortion is commonly practiced by organized crime groups. The actual obtainment of money or property is not required to commit the offense. Making a threat of violence which refers to a requirement of a payment of money or property to halt future violence is sufficient to commit the offense. Exaction refers not only to extortion or the unlawful demanding and obtaining of something through force, but additionally, in its formal definition, means the infliction of something such as pain and suffering or making somebody endure something unpleasant."

Now I personally don't know and can't say what CCP's view on this is all I can go by is:



If extortion and the like are fit and proper examples for elections why do we even have a CSM. We have that sort of behavior in EVE its self.

The CSM elections are supposed to be


The big word there being democratically as in a democracy.

Democracy
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"Democracy is an egalitarian form of government in which all the citizens of a nation together determine public policy, the laws and the actions of their state, requiring that all citizens (meeting certain qualifications) have an equal opportunity to express their opinion. In practice, "democracy" is the extent to which a given system approximates this ideal, and a given political system is referred to as "a democracy" if it allows a certain approximation to ideal democracy. Although no country has ever granted all its citizens (i.e. including minors) the vote, most countries today hold regular elections based on egalitarian principles, at least in theory."
it goes on to say
"Elements considered essential to democracy include freedom of political expression, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press, so that citizens are adequately informed and able to vote according to their own best interests as they see them."

The essential element of all this being freedom of political expression.

If this kind of behavior is allowed to stand then all the CSM will become is members of the largest alliances. Hardly elected representatives.

Due to this I am asking that The Mittani's candidacy and any others linked to this extortion be suspended until an investigation into this behavior can done.

I am aware of the ridicule the Goons will level at me for what they will call a crackpot theory but I must point out it was a member of Goonswarm Federation who brought this to the publics attention in the first place.

Frying Doom

Guys, goons don't actually reimbuse remember? The Mittani eats all the tech.

Mind you, some CFC membercorps have their own candidates (like TEST). However, some of their members still decided to vote for The Mittani.

Oh, oh I see. It's just a trap for silly people to fall into.

Sheesh, I should have been tipped off when apparently it was a goon posting it. Perhaps you'd care to double your isk?

We are required to fraps the voting process, for each account, and send the fraps to war commissar

and I, the war commissar, have to watch them all, lest Mittani eject me from this noble space guild

And I really wanted to vote for someone else, since I really like the idea of my Nidhoggur wearing a hat and shiny pants

"lol"

If this is true it isn't surprising.

What surprises me more is that someone like Trabbz whines about it whereas he has the option to leave Goons if he isn't in agreement with them.

But a lot of people like the easy way out. Cry like a little baby but don't do anything actually to change their situation.

If you had also pasted in the Wikipedia entry for "Baby" you would have taken Frying Doom's place as top trollfood, but as it stands this is just your usual badposting.

No, no, no. See, he knows we troll a lot. Whenever we say "that idea is stupid", "WiS is dumb", "that theory is ridiculous", "are you high?", "I think you have mental problems", all of that - we're trolling, obviously.

This one Trabzz post, he KNOWS it's the truth, that it's totally not just confirmation bias and delusion getting into a car accident, and there's nothing we can tell him to make him think otherwise. Why not? We'd be trolling, of course!