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Originally Posted by helbent4
Nate,
In the canon rules, the MP Intranet is called MORONET (see "Computers in the Morrow Project"). Personally, I call it MORROWNET because it avoids the word "moron", but there you go. 
Interesting rationale for the North, makes a lot of sense to hide stuff up there. Except for the permafrost, that is! But there are mountains in parts of the north, so those would be good places to hide stuff. I use the canon background, so units allocated to "Nunuvat" would be folded into NWT and the Yukon.
I'm pretty much with you until you get to your personal political and social views, and I respect them on a personal level.
Overall, the Project should appeal to more than one set of American political ideals, therefore a "neutral" model seems like the best way to go. That is, rebuilding the USA to the pre-war political and social status quo: a liberally democratic centrally-governed industrial nation with a free-market economy governed by the rule of law. (I should point out this model heavily favours big business.) Then if the American people want to change things for "the better" then they can do so democratically, without the Project dictating their choices for them.
Note I'm not suggesting an abrogation of a social or political role for the Project; by its very nature the Project is going to significantly change many lives and communities, even in the 3-5 year window. (At least, that's the plan.) On a local level there might be shifts to the left or right (depending on the situation). The overall idea shouldn't be to force Americans into an overall conservative or liberal political or social mould until such a time as they can decide for themselves.
Tony |
Tony, That's the point of my political and social ideals, and how the Project works in my opinion. Local communities who believe in socialist dogma can live it right up until the local government has collapsed due to burecratic redtape and taxes have risen to a point that the productive citizens have fled as fast as their feet can carry them. Just as the founding fathers wanted and planned when they created this Representative Republic. While The USA isn't the OLDEST republic, it does have the Oldest Written Constitution that has survived with only minor changes (Amendments).
A STRONG central government is only good if it's kept SMALL. Jefferson spoke elegantly to this point, that Government grows at the expense of Liberty.
The Project would be dedicated to rebuilding the Republic using a 'hands-off' policy when it comes to local politics. It's why i laugh at the people who write the New Confederacy and KFS as a bunch of evil right-wing fascists... Because they forget that Fascism is a left-wing ideology that emerged from Marxism (Goebbels sang the praises of Lenin and Hitler in the same breath so many times as being the two greatest men he had ever met, and in a way that sounded more like a religious experience than just meeting a 'great' historically significant personality).
I'm a constitutionalist when it comes right down to it. I believe that we have a federal government to protect us form outside forces, and those inside forces that would force their will upon us (Ie enemies foreign and domestic), this is why we in the military swore and oath to protect and defense it instead of the government and what ever political administration is in power.
It's why i believe that any attempt to create a dictatorship in this country would be put down quickly by the armed forces, because we are loyal to the ideals this nation was founded upon, and not any one single POLITICAL IDEOLOGY.
Strong Central Governments are way to easy to become tyrannies, and so-called 'Liberal' governments are the ones most prone to become tyrannies. Because they believe with all their hearts that they KNOW Better than everyone else what is best for them.
Try getting a Happy Meal with a toy in it in some parts of California, or buying a sugary snack or drinks in some government buildings in New York... or even 'hate speech' laws in Canada as evidence of this trend.
Yes the Right can get tyrannical when it comes to forcing Moral issues on people, but even they are called on the carpet by others on the Right when to many times those on the Left defend 'nanny state' moves when they come from the left side of the political spectrum.
Thus my belief that the Morrow Project would be working to set things up with as little political interference as possible. Because Politics and Religion are two things that cause fights more than anything else. Even when you are not trying to start one when you are just trying to explain your position or what you believe.
As for the MorrowNet name for the Project's Shadow internet, it sounds good... but is a little long. especially when something like MPNET works as a .mpnet prefix at the end of a URL address (like .gov is used by official US government websites).
Thus why i used it for the name of the network. of course there would be other prefixes that they'd use for various parts of the network... but we wouldn't have to actually say that since we already have .com, .net, .gov, and plenty more.