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Lady Diane Acheson called "unnecessarily Nationalist" for Artanian Critique:
Pushback demonstrates liberals still somehow exist in Kalistan
Sulari, Duchy of Ananto
March 7, 5717


The new VP at BoS gets libled by Liberal Critics

Editorial
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Lady Diane Acheson, Marquess of Salón Blanco, Courtesy Countess of Dana, and also, Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions at the nation's most capitalist of all institutions, the private investment bank known as the Bank of Suldanor, hasn't been at her job for a full month before she was savaged by liberals in the little-read rag known as Economica, an independent Liberal broadsheet which spends much of its time committing sedition by calling for democracy and suggesting that the monarchy has outlived its purpose.

We don't usually dignify Economica's "news" if you want to call it that, with attention, let alone comment, however something in yesterday's issue needs responding to. The Editor of Economica, a Liberal hack known as Samuel Edward Middlefirth, slammed Lady Acheson for a number of things, calling her corrupt, a dupe of the Empress in control of one of the largest financial institutions, blah blah blah. But the thing that caught our attention was that Mr. Middlefirth called her "unnecessarily nationalist" and took issue with Lady Acheson's apparent "anti-Artanian bigotry."

To support this claim, Mr. Middlefirth laid out a screed of quotations that he claimed were spoken by Lady Acheson. Where he obtained these quotes is not mentioned in the article, nor is the sources who told Mr. Middlefirth these quotes.

According to Middlefirth, Lady Acheson said "Artanians are disgusting. They do not go to the dentist at all." Another quote attributed to her was "I would never invest in Artania. I'd rather throw my money down the toilet. At least then I would get some joy out of watching it disappear." Middlefirth claimed that she wrote in 5714, and more, had it published in the newspaper (we were unable to track down a copy of said newspaper) that Lady Acheson said that if Artania went bankrupt, they might have to start eating their kids, thus saving us all the trouble of bailing them out in 25 years as they went extinct. These and other, more vile charges were leveled at Lady Acheson.

I am certainly no fan of Artania. But these claims that Middlefirth levels against Lady Acheson are scandalous. There are laws against the publication of falsehoods in Kalistan, and there is no doubt that Mr. Middlefirth will very soon be named as a defendant in a defamation suit. But libel aside, Mr. Middlefirth was trying to accomplish something far more sinister with this article. Superficially, his target was her character, which, as far as we can tell is absolutely unimpeachable. Whether her reputed claims about Artania have any merit or not, Middlefirth attempted a clear-cut character assassination attempt with this insane editorial. And as a member of the legitimate free press, I have an obligation to call it out for what it is. Because this sort of yellow journalism actually makes us all look bad.

But it also possible that the attacks on Lady Acheson by Mr. Middlefifth are just typical liberal attacks against not only a very successful investment banker, but also a member of Kalistani nobility. The target may not be Lady Acheson at all, but the institution of the nobility. Acheson is clearly a House Ananto favorite: that is obvious, because they don't just put their enormous influence behind any idiot, evidenced by no member of House Ananto ever speaking to Economica even on background in the magazine's 12 year history. Acheson herself was well known to Her Imperial Majesty, as her father was a long time financial advisor for Miramar. It is possible that Lady Acheson is one of these behind the scenes people who actually make things happen in this country who are rarely ever recognized for their efforts but without whom, the monarchy and the entire system itself would fall apart.

Perhaps that was Mr. Middlefirth's real goal with this hit piece. Suing him to death will not do much: It is known that his largest asset, his newspaper Economica barely makes any profit, and his salary is listed as "periodic" on the company's website. But by assassinating the character of an Imperial Favorite, Middlefifth can strike a blow against legitimate Kalistani institutions. And in doing so, in undermining this one Noble, on grounds that she is corrupt and bigotted, he can then call the entire system that put her in that position into question.

It's bad enough that Mr. Middlefirth took this opportunity to drag a very successful, well liked and well connected Marquess in the press. His 130,000 readers no doubt agree with him. This points at a much larger problem: There are still a large number of liberals in Kalistan who will not be satisfied until the monarchy ends, and liberal democratic republicanism becomes the regime of our nation. Lady Acheson, though her life is money and finance, and she no doubt lobbies the National Assembly for liberalized international capital flows, will not be liberal enough for these people, because she is a member of the Aristocracy and a friend of House Ananto. But again, she's not the real target of this smear campaign. The Imperial system is.

The article is just the latest in a number of attacks against the Monarchy over the years. We don't even have to go into the violence of fascists pretending to be liberals wrecked on this nation: The fact that even very smart people confused fascists for liberals should tell you all you need to know about liberals. We only need to look to last year, when a poll showed 30 percent of the population in support of some form of constitutional limitation on Imperial Authority. One in Three! That number is obscene when you think of what they are actually asking for.

They would like the Empress to be a figure head. They would like the people to rule. They would like to create a system that could be captured by selfish self serving economic interests who bend the society and the economy toward individuals benefit at public expense. These people who support the notion that we ought to sum up the entirety of our social obligations as "voting every four years" would tear apart the single solitary source of our national concensus--A unified, singular absolutist hereditary monarchy, which puts political fighting over limited public resources out of the picture, and provides a single unified voice on national and foreign policy. A system, I may add, which frees us of the burden of government to allow us to pursue the kind of life we want.

Kalistan under our Imperial System allows each and everyone of us to be a more fully actualized human being. When we as a society decided to eliminate need, we freed our people from the slavery of being forced to work to eat. We freed the working class of relentless exploitation at the hands of those who wrote their pay checks and who were the sole decision makers when it came time to pocket profits and lay workers off, or share the prosperity of the company. Our Imperial System is the only thing stopping neo-serfdom from returning to Kalistan.

Undermining that Imperial regime in Kalistan would throw tens of millions of workers to the mercy of the greedy masters of yesterday's plantation economy: the same sort of economy, I will add that still is the most common form across the liberal capitalist world, where labor is forced to negotiate as individuals and compete for limited wages, while owners, and worse yet, the liberal Investment Class still makes money by moving money around and not otherwise lifting a finger. This is the world liberals are aching to impose upon Kalistan as well. This is the dystopia Middlefirth and his liberal cronies at Economica would have us all live in, so they could say we were "free". Free indeed. Free to accept exploitation or die of stavation.

I do not think Lady Acheson made these comments about Artania. She is reported to actually greatly dislike Artania, and for good reason no doubt. I can imagine some of her reasons: In many Artanian nations, they have liberal capitalist economies and liberal democratic governments. That's the biggest reason to not like, and in fact, fear Artania, in my own opinion. We need look no further than the difference between income earned and share of income to see how liberal economies handle economic inequality in their nations. In fact, they encourage it. We need look no further than the absolute nightmare scenarios we see in multi party SMD election systems. With 16 Parties, how can anyone possibly discern any difference between them? In fact, in most cases most of their names are just variations of the names of other Parties in the system. The goal is difference in quantity, not quality.

But 30% of the population supporting constitutionalism, and the freedom Mr. Middlefirth abuses by writing such scurrilous attacks against an honorable and successful investment banker, a Bretherenist and a staunch supporter of the Empress, House Ananto and the Institutional Party demonstrates to me that we have far too many liberals in Kalistan. While we have freedom of consciousness, I kind of think this option, to be a liberal, shouldn't be one that anyone is proud of adopting. It's like supporting having intercourse with farm animals. I am sure that some people do think that this is a perfectly acceptable thing to do, but its not something you should really brag about, because it marks you as a degenerate.

Perhaps Mr. Middlefirth ought to go live with his liberal friends in Artania, since he apparently admires them so much. As for myself, I will always defend an upstanding and honorable Lady like Lady Acheson, who has risen to the heights of her profession before turning 30, a profession, by the way, which is the hallmark of liberal economies across the globe: Finance Capital. She's a person Kalistanis should strive to emulate, not tear down. Because tearing her down tears down our nation. It attacks our nation at its foundation stones. And it should never go without answer from those of us who, like myself, happen to hold strong national and institutional sentiments.

Besides that: Criticism is one thing. Outright lies and libel in the press are quite another thing entirely. One is legal, the other is not.

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