Declaration against Imperialism.

[Maelstrom Vortex]

The United States does not approve of the seizure of Los Angeles without a vote by its people to determine if joining with J Andres is what they want. At the same time, we have not declared that we shall intervene in acts of Imperialism. It is not our duty to police the world. We can only control our own sovereign actions. We simply do not condone the behavior. The people of the former states of Tahoe who are west of the Mississippi and part of its former protectorate lands ratified the Constitution of the United States. They are not occupied and assisting them was not an imperialist act. If J Andres has a public vote and Los Angeles chooses to remain as part of their territory they will be congratulated by us. As of now, while their behavior is not condoned by us and we do not think it is a step in the right direction for North America, we recognize J Andres as a mostly benevolent influence in North America who has given away far more land than they have taken. That said, we will not condemn them as an imperial power when they have in the past liberated nations many fold their own domestic land area.

We now wonder if the Republic of Tahoe will allow the people of Los Angeles this vote since they now occupy Los Angeles or if they will become the one to have taken actions we cannot condone due to the recent signing of Los Angeles over to the Tahoe Republic by J Andres.

That is all.

Edited June 11, 2010 by Maelstrom Vortex

[Proxian Empire]

[quote name='Maelstrom Vortex' date='11 June 2010 - 10:43 PM' timestamp='1276292569' post='2333800']
The United States does not approve of the seizure of Los Angeles without a vote by its people to determine if joining with J Andres is what they want. At the same time, we have not declared that we shall intervene in acts of Imperialism. It is not our duty to police the world. We can only control our own sovereign actions. We simply do not condone the behavior. [b]The people of the former states of Tahoe who are west of the Mississippi and part of its former protectorate lands ratified the Constitution of the United States. They are not occupied and assisting them was not an imperialist act.[/b] If J Andres has a public vote and Los Angeles chooses to remain as part of their territory they will be congratulated by us. As of now, while their behavior is not condoned by us and we do not think it is a step in the right direction for North America, we recognize J Andres as a mostly benevolent influence in North America who has given away far more land than they have taken. That said, we will not condemn them as an imperial power when they have in the past liberated nations many fold their own domestic land area.

We now wonder if the Republic of Tahoe will allow the people of Los Angeles this vote since they now occupy Los Angeles or if they will become the one to have taken actions we cannot condone due to the recent signing of Los Angeles over to the Tahoe Republic by J Andres.

That is all.
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So, effectively your new policy is that imperialism and annexing new territory is acceptable if done on behalf of the United States, but is evil if someone else does it? Government propaganda can easily dictate that the newly annexed people are "happy" and do not feel oppressed or occupied. What you are saying is illogical.

[Sargun II]

[quote name='Maelstrom Vortex' date='11 June 2010 - 04:43 PM' timestamp='1276292569' post='2333800']
The people of the former states of Tahoe who are west of the Mississippi and part of its former protectorate lands ratified the Constitution of the United States. They are not occupied and assisting them was not an imperialist act.
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In essence, it's okay if you do it but not anyone else? It is remarkable, how it was only after you lost your bid to expand that you become some sort of anti-imperialist crusader. This is but a publicity stunt and will only gather the signatures of fools and naive children.

[Hepzibah3]

Newly elected President of Harramlar, Charles Fernandes praises this decision.

" Nearly 200 years ago, foreign imperialists occupied Harramlar. After the first Revolution, where we overcame our foreign overlords, we became anti imperialistic. With this decision, it is unlikely that countries will try and revoke freedom from smaller Nation or City States. Harramlar stands with the US Government fully, But I must know how the US plans to enforce this? If expanding countries colonize, will the United States use Military force against those countries? It seems as if the US is making very broad statements at the moment."

Edited June 11, 2010 by Hepzibah3

[Maelstrom Vortex]

The doctrine no where mentions intervention against states which conduct Imperialism. We are not the world's policeman. We simply condemn it in principle and it is a practice we shall not be replicating. If we expand at all it shall be because the people of a given territory have voted to join the United States of America of their own volition and ratified the constitution of the United States. This is not imperialistic expansion. This is expansion at the request of a sovereign people who wished to join the governmental system that the United States has put into place.

Violence will not solve the problem of imperialism. Changing the world's view of it may.

[Hepzibah3]

Mr Fernandes agrees entirely with what is being said by the US Government and is proud to denounce imperialism itself today.

[zzzptm]

Military force should be used only in the defense of a nation or people.