OOC: Not fully caught up yet, but putting this out before doing HW and stuff.
Also @ Nuke, /I/ got everything I wanted from those agreements. Hehe.
To Jacksonia
From Joseph Johnston
Excellent, everything is going according to plan. Well, the plan was for me to cancel it before you did but...
ahem
From Florida
We understand your decision and will cooperate as needed to cut the necessary bonds to prevent disruption of business, especially if your Pacific Concord trade agreements are wiped out too fast for adjustment.
To Peru
From Joseph Johnston
CC: The PADA, The World
The problem with crypto-proletarian parties is that they indirectly support totalitarian proletarianism with their policies. The Progressives funded the growth of massive, well organized and well armed labor unions.
Therefore, /I/ have banned openly Proletarist parties from formation, as wells parties that are mere copies of the Progressive Party. Other than that, any liberal party is permitted to join, as long as they don't follow the Progressive Platform of Proletarist Cooperation with the UPRA and Scandinavia; Formation of Large, Political, Well Armed and Dangerous Labor Unions; Disruption of Vital Trade via Isolationism and Sectionalism; as well as other obviously dangerous and foolhardy policies only nations like Ecuador or Progressive Florida have implemented. The fact that politicians seem to find this impossible to consider when writing a liberal platform proves that the current liberal roster still dream of reviving such a dangerous and revolutionary platform is beyond me. The fact that they join the moderates instead gives me hope that a post-Johnston era can be more stable and more respectable.
The execution of traitors is nothing to be frightened of. Treason can be punished by death. I do not wish death upon any other human being - other than openly Proletarian Scumbags like Ferguson, for they have renounced their humanity - but the jury and the judge of the treason court speaks with their own authority. Won't you agree that individuals that revoke national policy have committed treason? They could have shipped it to Jacksonia and Aztlan, then to Japan for all I care and I give no damns. No. They have ruined Florida's credibility by shipping it directly from our ports, lying about my express approval, and falsifying and forging documents. They have committed the highest crime, and Jury willing, they may receive the highest punishment: Live Imprisonment.
As I've stated earlier, I am not running for reelection. I have saved Florida from Proletarianism, secured it from Treason by both the left and the right, and reduced two parties of Extremism into two of Moderation. I have made myself a visage to fear in order for all to unite under all that is good. I might have destroyed my legacy: but what is one man's life in the history of a nation?
Neff, my dear secretary of state and quite vocal leader of the United Front, is my chosen successor. Do not let my words tarnish his achievements, but if they may give him credence, hear them out. He has worked hard in securing Florida's growing importance in this world and although he often disapproves of my methods, mostly agrees with the need to fight both against proletarist revolution and excessively greedy money grubbing corporates (mostly? more like sometimes *sigh*). After eight years of my steel-fisted rule, I hope his gentle grasp will be quite rejuvinating for the Grand Republic of Florida - if he is capable to be elected, that is!