Coup d'Etat in Neualtenburg

Just try it on an SL wide scale... or not... please...

Because the city chose to terminate negotiations, I've taken the first available opportunity to remove all of the objects in the city that I could find that were owned by me. I also made the mistake of accidentally deleting some structures that were not owned by me but were shared with a group, of which I'm still an officer. I didn't realize my mistake until I was 75% through the wall.

Anyways, in essence I've just removed my bridge, a few roads, and part of the wall. You can pop those back up with your reverse-engineered simulacra in no time at all.

After this we'll work on restoring the forum and getting your website and sim name changed and we'll almost be settled up.

Boy did I get schooled in human nature.

This is precisely why Socialism/Communism will never work. If N'burg had Capitalist foundations, this could not have happened.

Still, I am sorry to hear that the nation was seized by a fascist oligarchy.

I also made the mistake of accidentally deleting some structures that were not owned by me but were shared with a group, of which I'm still an officer. I didn't realize my mistake until I was 75% through the wall.

I posted this in the N'burg forums but I'm not sure how long it will last, given that the rogue moderators are deleting all threads.
Posted here for those in the city who want to know more than what the coup leaders will let them know.

Since any possible negotiations were terminated unilaterally by Rogue Government officials acting without the input of The People --including myself who is co-founder of the City of Neualtenburg --I have left the sim currently known as Neualtenburg.

I have vacated my lands and removed all my personal property. I have left anything I was contracted and paid for by The City.

The "Projekt" will now be looking for a new location on the main grid.

As soon as the forum mess with agents of the City who are acting beyond their authority on the PROJEKT forums clears up. I will be outlining details of future plans.

As ever outside input is always welcome by me.

Posted by me on 14th December, 2003, in response to a thread entitled 'Self-Government Now! Please note that this was written a long time ago, and does not refer to any current citizens or projects of Second Life, and is not quoted with that intention.':-

Having migrated here from a site which had its own government, I felt that one of the attractions of SL is that it doesn't have one.

You might think that the present system is not good, but believe me, from the perspective of a totalitarian and authoritarian administration, it is a breath of fresh air. I have been active on the internet since 1997, and I have seen more times than I can count, proof of the adage that 'absolute power corrupts absolutely'. In every case where an individual or group has been given power the result has been corruption.

I would rather have this kind of benevolent dictatorship where the dictator is the owner of the site, and thus has an interest in its financial well being than an attempt at self-government which would, even if it took years to do so, almost inevitably end up in a self-righteous clique of power-hungry individuals who would make life miserable for everybody else.

Funny, for me, I thought that was the entire purpose of N'burg. Coups, and conspiracy, and supression of a free press, oh my!

Quite true. Which is why my next Projekt will instead be an experiment in communal living in an artist's collective on the maingrid. It will based on my own experimentations with forming an artist's guild.

Rather than a "Government", I will now be devoting my time with something I personally feel is needed in SL. A simple and true cooperative.

That sounds like a better idea, Kendra.

coco

Ironic that the debate now has evolved into my being painted a villain by the PTB for standing up for those exact values in the current "Projekt" forum coup and respect for Ulrika's IP rights.

Good luck with your cooperative; that has much greater likelihood of success.

I, for one, am glad it's over. A decision has been made and Ulrika has claimed all her things. All is well in N'burg.

...............The name of the sim and website will have to change.

~Ulrika~

So let me see if I have this right. Ulrika is trapped in a bunker with some one named Von Braun and a Luger. The bunker is currently surrounded by commies. That sound right?

And I want a mini-Ulrika.

Quite true. Which is why my next Projekt will instead be an experiment in communal living in an artist's collective on the maingrid. It will based on my own experimentations with forming an artist's guild.

Rather than a "Government", I will now be devoting my time with something I personally feel is needed in SL. A simple and true cooperative.

I'm actually suprised at how well this SL-government experiment has worked. It is mirroring RL amazingly close! Takeovers, slander, propoganda, officials overstepping their powers, censorship, revolution, corruption. It's all here. Just like reading the RL morning paper!

Can /you/ listen to "Singing In The Rain" anymore without cringing? I sure can't.