The Seek and Desire Are Not the Same Thing PD

The Office of the Prime Minister of Talossa
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L'Óifisch dal Seneschal del Regipäts Talossa

The Seek and Desire are Not The Same Thing Prime Dictate

I, Txec Róibeard dal Nordselva, Seneschál del Regipäts Talossán, with all duly vested authority and stuff, do hereby and forthwith declare the following Prime Dictate, beseeching his Majesty the King to grant his assent with all due celerity that it might become law:

WHEREAS, on June 22 the Magistrates Court issued a ruling declaring that the words seek and desire are synonyms and by this nature make enforcement of The What's The Difference Act impossible;

and WHEREAS debate has erupted in certain corners of Talossa as to the exact meaning of these two words;

and WHEREAS the Kingdom of Talossa itself has been defined by the Magistrates Court as being a micronation despite the fact that the Kingdom of Talossa does not meet all four criteria because The Kingdom of Talossa really should by default recognize itself;

and WHEREAS let us resolve this issue;

THEREFORE;

Section 5 of 37RZ22 The What's the Difference Act is hereby amended to read:

A micronation is hereby legally defined to be any society of persons (whether claiming territorial sovereignty or not) that

* claims a governmental organization and citizenry and
* is not a member of the United Nations and
* is not a member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization and
* is not the Kingdom of Talossa or a subdivision thereof, or officially recognised by the Kingdom of Talossa.



and FURTHERMORE;


Section 6 of 37RZ2 The What's The DIfference Act is hereby amended, striking the word "seek", to read: 

It is a criminal act for any Talossan citizen to accept or hold citizenship in a micronation. The penalty for committing such a crime shall be the revocation of Talossan citizenship. The Attorney-General, on being informed of any alleged violation of this act, and upon verifying the same to his personal and legal satisfaction, shall immediately notify the accused that the government has determined that valid cause exists for a criminal case to be brought against the citizen in the Uppermost Cort. After providing this notification, the Attorney-General shall allow ten days for the accused to dissolve any and all allegiance to the micronation, or to organize a defence against the charge. If, after this ten day period, the Attorney-General determines that the criminal act yet continues, he shall immediately file criminal charges against the accused with the Uppermost Cort and there shall seek the prescribed penalty for the violation of this act. If after this ten day period, the Attorney-General determines that the criminal activity has permanently ceased, he shall not file the considered charges, and the accused shall continue as a fully privileged citizen of the Kingdom.

Done under my hand and seal, as from Kenwood House, this day the 13th day of July, in the Year of Our Lord 2013, of the independence of Talossa the thirty-fourth, and the seventh in the reign of our gracious Sovereign John.

Txec Róibeard dal Nordselva, MC
Seneschal

Proclamation of Mourning: Connecticut School Shooting

The Office of the Prime Minister
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L'Óifisch dal Seneschal

Proclamation of Mourning

With all the changes that are going on in the kingdom, it pains me that this is my first order of duty as your new Seneschal. As many of you have heard, or will shortly hear, yet another act of senseless violence has taken innocent lives in Connecticut. Innocence lends horror to violence, and none are more innocent than our children. It is with great empathy for the friends and families of the deceased, and with horror at the actions that have caused the need for empathy, that I issue this Proclamation of Mourning for the kingdom. My heart and the heart of the nation goes out to all involved. 


WHEREAS the loss of innocent life is horrible and always to be mourned, and

WHEREAS none are more innocent than children, and

WHEREAS the people of the Kingdom of Talossa are to be counted on to stand strong against needless violence, 

THEREFORE the government of the Kingdom of Talossa calls upon all its citizens to observe a period of mourning extending through the 15th of December 2012, for the victims of elementary school shooting in Connecticut. We offer our thoughts and prayers for the innocent lives lost, and to those who survive them. 

Done with the deepest sympathy for our friends and neighbors in Connecticut on this, the fourteenth day of December in the year 2012, being the thirty-third year of the independence of Talossa and the sixth of the reign of our Sovereign John.

Çesli da Chilseu
Seneschal

PD: Michael Pope Citizenship

The Office of the Prime Minister
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L'Óifisch del Seneschal

The Row Your Boat Ashore Dictate
WHEREAS no score and fourteen years ago, came forth to this nation a new personality, conceived in Talossanity and dedicated to the proposition that Talossans are created cooler, and

WHEREAS, then we were engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that Talossanity or any Talossan so conceived and so dedicated could long endure, and

WHEREAS that's about as far as I can take this strange allusion to the Gettysburg Address, when you would think I would have been mucking with quotes from "Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore" and mixing in some "Hallelujiah"s with the "Whereas"s, but hey, even I don't know how my mind works sometimes, and apparently between writing the title and the first "Whereas" I forgot what I was doing, and

WHEREAS the point is that the Talossanity within this personality so conceived did indeed long endure, through renunciation in the face of tyrrany, through life as a different part of the Talossan culture, and then through a number of years away, concentrating on important non-Talossan (seems like an oxymoron, I know) matters, and

WHEREAS this personality has requested of my office the restoration of his lapsed citizenship, restoring to him on the records what was never apart from him in fact, so now

THEREFORE, I, Ma la Mha, Seneschal del Regipäts Talossan, with all duly vested authority and stuff, do hereby and forthwith declare the following Prime Dictate, beseeching his Majesty the King to grant royal assent with all due celerity that it might become law:

• His having fulfilled the requirements of law, the Talossan citizenship of Michael Pope is hereby restored in full, and is dated, as is custom, tradition, and right, to its original date of 21 May 1998.
• In accordance with the wishes and request of the said citizen Pope, the Secretary of State is instructed to transfer the provincial assignment of S:reu Pope from Maritiimi-Maxhestic to Fiova.

Done under my hand and seal, as from Kenwood House, on this the 29th day of August in the year 2012, in the 6th year of the reign of our gracious sovereign John, and the 33rd year of the independence of the Kingdom of Talossa.

Hallelujiah, and prima capiam pocula!

Baron Hooligan
Seneschal

PD: The Keeping Your Loved Ones Close Act

The Office of the Prime Minister

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L'Óifisch dal Seneschal

Prime Dictate: The Keeping Your Loved Ones Close Act

I, Erschéveþ Cjantscheir, Seneschal del Regipäts Talossan, with all duly vested authority and stuff, do hereby and forthwith declare the following Prime Dictate, beseeching his Majesty the King to grant royal assent with all due celerity that it might become law:
WHEREAS the current Law allows close relations to choose to be assigned to the province of a close relative
WHEREAS the current Law does not allow those who chose to be with a close relation to move province, should the latter be re-assigned

WHEREAS this is the case of Sir Tamorán dal Navâ, UrN who will be reassigned to Fiova when that province is created and his Son, Zacríeu Ianescu, who does not currently by law have any option to obtain the same provincial reassignment as his father;

WHEREAS it’s an "unofficial" policy of Talossa to keep family members together in the same province should they chose to be

WHEREAS Talossa encourages families sticking together

WHEREAS the law needs to be amended to take this change in account

THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED THAT:
Section 1: The following subsection shall be inserted into Section 2 of the 35 RZ23 – The People to the Provinces Improvement Act:

b) If any Talossan citizen is re-assigned, by any means, to another province, his/her close relative(s) may move his/her provincial assignment to the province which his/her Talossan relative has be re-assigned to. But nobody may make such a move more than once in his/her lifetime, except by the special permission of the Ziu.

Section 2: The following subsection shall be inserted into Section 3 of the 35 RZ23 – The People to the Provinces Improvement Act:

b) A dandelion, whose Talossan parent has be re-assigned, by any means, to another province, shall be automatically re-assigned to the same province as his/her Talossan parent. If both his/her parents are citizens, and they are re-assigned to different provinces, the dandelion will be re-assigned to the province of his mother.

Done under my hand and seal, as from Kenwood House, this the 16th day of May in the Year of Our Lord, 2012, in the 6th year of the reign of our gracious sovereign King John, and of the independence of Talossa the 33rd.

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Litz Cjantscheir MC, ChRTB
Seneschal