Luthori

[Ligbruderkrieg]

As Parliament debates; the Voice of the People takes a stand.
January 5696

As Members of Parliament are deliberating on the fate of the illiberal Crime Prevention and Protection Bill, a bold number of 43 Luthorians, from all sectors of society have signed an open letter at the intention of Darlington politicians, arguing for them to defeat the proposed Bill in either the Chamber of Representatives or the Senate. Their bold declaration in favor of human dignity and their unwavering commitment towards their liberty and that of others, something that is lacking in the current cabinet, make their effort even more splendid.

It is our greatest honor to have been chosen as the publisher of the letter and we, at the Guardian, take great pride in being the people’s foremost choice for the defence of their civil liberties. 

As the Second Harper government seems destined towards curtailing civil liberties in favor of authoritarian and a repressive police state, it is up to us, the people, to make our voice heard and to stop the Tories and their allies’ plan to subdue Luthorian democracy to their advantage. But, in this fight, we can’t be fighting alone. In fact, while we will be able to significantly pressure the government towards backing down from their project. At the end, a large part of the work, and frankly, most of it will be done at Darlington Palace, where MPs will have to choose between shameful submission to their respective parties or make a stand towards the preservation of civil liberties and be thanked by 149 million souls for this.

The Chamber of Representatives is a fundamental instrument in our parliamentary democracy and is acting as the bulwark against government overreach as His Majesty’s Government, as per with the constitutional precedents enacted by our forefathers who built the parliamentary system as we know it, is responsible towards Parliament, and more specifically, the lower house. It is therefore the responsibility of MPs in the Chamber of Representatives to make a stand towards clear opposition to this liberticide bill.

Of course, we are saying that without much influence on the actual vote of these MPs on the final day. Understandably, the Conservative Party and the Hosian Democrats are placing an huge amount of pressure towards their own MPs to stand by party line and vote in favour of the Home Secretary’s Crime Bill, and with the recent fusion of the Moderates inside the Conservative Party, the size of the Conservative Parliamentary Party and its influence within the Cabinet have become non-negligeable, and even toxic.

Now, the only hope towards the preservation of our liberties stands with the nominally allied, but extremely unhappy Liberal Party, they have been in a coalition with the right for decades, last time they’ve allied with the left was with Olivia Hall as PM. Right now, the Liberals have been mostly left out of important government roles, with only the Department of Foreign Affairs remaining under their control in the Four Great Offices of State. To the Liberals, haven’t you enough of being used as a convenient tool by the Tories and see your principles being trampled on every possible opportunity by this far-right government? We are aware of your hesitations, but the Tories’ aim is to completely dismantle and trounce on your ideals of small government and individual liberty.

This radical expansion of government goes against what the Liberals stand for. It goes against your electorate's will and goes against the will of the Luthorian people. We can’t convince you right here to just change vote and vote against your own government, but we aim to start a dialogue within your party, we are aware of the hesitation of many of your party MPs, they don’t like the Bill, they made themselves clear, even former Moderates have stated that they would “possibly” vote against it. Our aim is to change this “possibly” to a “surely”.

To finish this already long letter, we would like to call upon you, the Luthorian people, to protest this direct insult to your voice by descending to the streets and calling your MP to argue against voting in favour of this Bill.