Ma'at Kheru: Commend NewTexas

[Cormac]

Commend NewTexas
A resolution to recognize outstanding contribution by a nation or region.

Category: Commendation | Nominee: NewTexas | Proposed by: Emad

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Description: Applauding the objective of this council to recognize outstanding contribution by individual nations and regions to the international community;

Determined to ensure that NewTexas is recognized among those the council has seen fit to befit this honor before now;

Briefly noting this council has already seen fit to recognize the region of Texas, which achieved the great feats noted by this council as a direct result of the work undertaken by it's founder NewTexas, who essentially forged a community which has lasted almost ten years with Texas sitting at its helm;

Cognizant that Texas, was one of the earliest defender nations to emerge in the first days of raiding, and in partnership with The Bruce one of the first known defender treaty organizations was formed as a result, which successfully defended against the early raiding group known as "The Farkers" and has continued as a diplomatic treaty ever since now known as the Triumvirate and including The Heartland;

Noting that in the early years, Texas was heavily active on the field of furthering international relations, responsible for having hosted "The Texas Rodeo" and the "Texas Golf League" as but two examples of events arranged, organized and hosted by the Founder Delegate all for the purposes of promoting interaction and joviality within the international community it had begun to develop relations with;

Aware that the region of Texas has been appluaded for its creation of the NSSuite which includes the NSDossier, a tool for collating the statistics of the NationStates world on the behalf of- member nations, but considering it an affront not to recognize now the participation of NewTexas in it's development purely because it has been recognized on a regional scale;

Believing that the level of commitment NewTexas provides to the region it governs in respect of both promoting participation in the international community, actively and diligently representing the region of Texas within the World Assembly body, the commitment it provides to its own regional government itself, and the consistency it has provided in these respects for going on ten years, is indeed worthy of being noted as exceptional;

Further believing that for this esteemed Council to continue to overlook the nation of NewTexas as a deserving candidate would only serve to diminish the good work done until now;

Hereby Commends NewTexas
Co-authored by The Gatekeeper Ministry of Abacathea

[Cormac]

This is a tough one.

On the one hand, NewTexas probably does deserve a Commendation. I'm iffy on commending people for defending, but NewTexas has done other things and wasn't just any defender -- he was one of the earliest defenders and helped shape defending. He's made a significant historical contribution to NationStates and deserves to have that contribution recognized.

On the other hand, this resolution really isn't well written. It contains a lot of fluff and smacks of lack of research, it probably doesn't include a fraction of the significant contributions NewTexas has made to the game, and the run-on sentences that are most of these clauses give me a headache. Both NewTexas and the Security Council deserve a resolution that is better written and more thoroughly researched than this proposal. I recommend that we vote against.

And I vote Against.

[Severisen Montresor]

I agree with you. He probably deserves it, but needs to be better written.

Against.

[Abacathea]

Wasn't so much a lack of research as an attempt to keep things separate from Commend Texas. Hence it's a tad watered down. I'm actually not sure if the typographical errors are mine or Emad's and I'm not inclined to check. But I'd really hate to see this fail, thus i have to vote for.

[Vaculatestar]

As much as I like NewTexas if we are going to commend him we shouldn't do it in such a half ass manner.

I am going to regretfully vote against this.

[Bob Moran]

Against