On 28 February this delegate made a speech outlining why I think Romania is likely to be a member of the Axis of Evil. I now quote the pertinent portion of that speech in full.
There are some good grounds for this action: the delegate from Romania's motion to close debate on a resolution which, it should be patently obvious to all, is utterly useless without some kind of amendment, comes immediately to mind. This seems to indicate a wish that the resolution be passed in its useless form, to be a nonaction quickly forgotten. But this is only the latest in a series.
Mr. ZONEACE has asserted of late that his apparent disregard of the rule that countries may not veto their own annihilation is the result of ignorance of the rules. After seventeen pages, I find this most unlikely; further, in speaking on MUNSCM 003 and proposing his recent motion he demonstrated that he does, indeed, know the rules. What is more, during caucus he said this:
I am going to have to agree with mathcam on this one. To give the power of Veto to 2 evil countries seems a bit, well insane and unbalanced.
This post clearly entertains the concept of one evil veto country, and indicates awareness of the inherent flaw in the existence of two -- or, possibly, knowledge to the effect that the countries with power of veto have more power than the rest of us are aware. Either he has contradicted himself, or he has knowledge that Romania should not possess.
The delegate from Romania, as mentioned above, spoke on MUNSCM 003. The entire thrust of his speech was that "I just don't see any of the Big 5 being members of the axis of evil", and on the strength of his not seeing, we should obliterate almost the whole point of the resolution! If his arguments had carried the day, we would be inspecting a random country, likelier than not a "Big 5" nonmember, in blind trust that all of the "Big 5" are good -- and at the same time keeping our MABM away from the same countries in which blind trust is supposedly being placed. And then he immediately stepped down. After dropping this bombshell, the delegate from Romania did not even allow us the chance for points of information from him. Was he concerned that points of information would trip up his facade of being helpful to the United Nations? I think so.
Don't get me wrong; it is entirely possible that all three members of the Axis of Evil are temporary members rather than one of them being permanent. But the other way around is equally possible, and all our eggs should not be in either basket. The delegate from Romania's attempts to wangle our eggs not only into one basket but the more potentially catastrophic of the two, and his extreme vehemence on the subject, I find most worrying. Equally worrying, almost as soon as I pointed out that the current resolution puts his country in no immediate danger, he moved to close debate on it lest it be improved.
This delegate would like to further note that he asked Romania point-blank to respond to the above speech and was met with:
I am through fighting this hopeless cause. No matter what i sau, you will find some fault with it. All i can say is that while destroying romania will increase future attempts to find axis members (my death will make it 3/14). So do what you will, i obviously can not change the opinion of some of you no matter what i do.
the delgate from romania steps down.
More recently Romania has insisted that the Philippines
must
be in league with Osama bin Hussein al-Khatami Jong-il by virtue of having put forward a resolution directed at Romania. Mr. ZONEACE is of course entitled to his opinion that the Philippines is so in league, and that his resolution indicates the same; but it passes credulity that he should expect the entire council to assume that such a resolution is a blatant and unequivocal sign of guilt. Surely, Mr. ZONEACE, by precisely the same logic, you must be scum, for you have been demanding we nuke the Philippines?
Two things further should be noted. First, that Romania has made a partial response to one of the points mentioned above, namely that his insistence on there not being any permanent Axis members was predicated on the mathematical certainty that there cannot be two.
Second, this delegate did not think much of the "pretending to be the Philippines" argument. It seems unlikely that scum would try to pass itself off as another, innocent, nation, both because they could not possibly hope to remain unnoticed by the nation they were impersonating and because no doubt many delegates identify the delegates primarily by their name tags and only secondarily and for formal speech their countries of origin. I know I do.
This delegate admits to a slight perplexity, however, as to how any delegate could get its country of origin confused with another, and why that other should spring to the delegate's mind. It may be that Romania made an honest mistake -- but that mistake consisted of mentally switching himself with his scum fellow. This is, admittedly, entirely speculative and should not be used as grounds for annihilation; but if Romania
is
annihilated and turns up scum, the Philippines may bear another look.
The delegate from Benin now stands for points of information and especially encourages the Romanian delegate to clear up whatever he can.
I think it's pretty clear that TSS's awesomeness did alter the roles each of us recieved, and thus he's obviously pro-town. -- Save The Dragons
