WHEREAS abuse of trust isn't only against minors, but can be against anyone under authority, such as a college student graded by a teacher, or an elderly person helped by an orderly, and
WHEREAS RZ8 is a good bill that just doesn't go far enough,

WHERE BE IT ENACTED by the King, Senäts and Cosă in Ziu assembled that section 7.3.1.1 in El Lexhatx A.7.3.1 which currently reads as:

7.3.1.1. "Sexual violence" shall include abuse of trust, where a Talossan citizen over the age of 18 initiates sexual conduct (physically or by means of words or images) with any person under the age of 18; and the citizen over 18 is in a position of supervision, authority or tutelage over said person under 18.

Be changed to:

7.3.1.1. "Sexual violence" shall include abuse of trust, where a Talossan citizen over the age of 18 initiates sexual conduct (physically or by means of words or images) with any person over which they area position of supervision, authority or tutelage, unless proper prior consent is given and that person is 18 of older.

Proposed by Marti-Pair Furxheir, Senator of Ataturk.

When the ballots were sent Sunday morning, all of the ballots to Gmail bounced back.

This was a new to me: the previous day, I had emailed gmail just the previous day from the same server.

In short, Gmail decided to block the IP of the server where the database is hosted, but it appears to be a whole block, so it might not even be just the server, it could be someone with similar IPs spamming Gmail.

The SoS and I made multiple attempts, nothing. And Gmail has no blocked email support, so all we can do is switch processor.

What we need, is a transactional email service. I used a few in my years, but here is the kicker: all of them cost money. And it's paid out of my pocket.

The cheapest, by far, is Amazon SeS, and it's the one I use daily.

So, I created an account, and tested it. It worked!

I requested on Sunday access to the production server. In short, to be able to actually send the emails.

It takes up to 24 hours and with the recent cuts, they do take their 24 hours!

So, I got a reply, and they said they needed me to validate which email actually sends the emails, not just the domain, because it's a new account. I never hear of that. So, I complied. But it starts a new 24 hours.

They replies this morning, at 4h00am, explaining that they reviewed the account and need to confirm it is a club, and not an actual secessionist movement. That Talossa was legal. I explained it was, and hopefully, within 24 hours, it will be active and the ballots will be sent.

If not, a solution is to pick a transactional email company, but they charge MONTHLY, only SES as far as I know, it mostly free.

Most of those which used to offer 5000 emails per month for free, now only offer 500 which isn't enough.

170 citizens, ballot confirmations, voting reminders... and after 500 it's often something liek $20 per month. I don't have $240 per month for a temporary gmail problem.

I don't mind paying for Ses, it might cost me something like $5 year long. It's nothing.

But not $240.

So, as soon as Amazon approves the account, ballots will be sent.

This was impossible to predict. My server has been running for years, and so far, wasn't blocked in Gmail.

We've had for 8 Cosa in a row a Senator, Sevastain Pincatsch, representing us.

That senator, admitted to have used a fake name on his application. I made a post announcing my candidacy to replace him in the Ataturk thread, saying how it was unacceptable to have an unknown person representing us.

But I have to add more information.

In the last Clark, our fake Senator voted CONTRA on all bills. RZ23, the Due Process Reversion Amendment, in the Senäts, he was the only Contra vote.

In the 5th Clark, he voted contra on RZ19, but PER on our friend Art's memorial.

In the 4th Clark, he voted contra on RZ18

In the 3th Clark, he voted per to the nomination to the UC. Ok, find. It was unanimous with one abstain

In the 2th Clark, he voted Contra on everything, with an Abstain on RZ16

In the 1st Clark, on the 12 bills, all were Contra except for one Per and one Abstain.

The Per was an immigration bill, and abstain on abolishing the Wargames bureau.

We had 24 bills in the 55th Cosa.

He voted PER on exactly THREE votes, and abstain three times.

That means he gave 18 Contra.


In most cases, he was the only contra in the Senate, and on THREE BILLS he was the ONLY contra!

RZ1, RZ5, RZ10, he was the only member of the Ziu to vote against them.


RZ1 is a rewording of the Ministry of Stuff section to make it more modern

Rz5 allows the chancery to step in if a province makes its own senate election, but fails to do so. It's not rocket science, and a Cort Injunction is needed!

RZ10: simplifies the Minister of Finance articles, and was made by the minister of finance.


Now, it's 100% ok to be against bills.

But is he representing Ataturk when he votes against almost everything?

Is he helping us?

It's time to get a Senator who actually reviews the bills and votes on their merit.

It's time for me to get back to the Senate.

So, I became a citizen in 2001.

The Senator for Ataturk was Wes Erni, who wasn't really reachable by most citizens, but the Senate, requires a certain level of experience in Talossa, either 6 months as SoS or 2 years as a citizen.

The SoS was Daviu Focteir, also from Ataturk, and he didn't want to be in the Senate. In fact, the only people who wanted to be in the Senate in Ataturk, couldn't.

But Daviu was busy with school, and I had this new thing, the Talossa Database system, which sought to automate the Clark.

So, he let me be SoS for 6 months (spoilers, he never really returned as SoS),  so that:

1 ) I could work on the Database
2 ) He could focus on his studies
3 ) I could replace Wes Erni as senator.

This all came down with the 3th Clark of the 29th Cosa.

Wes resigned, and I stepped up.

Over the next 21 Clarks, I was the Senator of Ataturk, and I worked hard to get Ataturk to organize. I called citizens, I was the most active posted in the Ataturk board on Wittenberg. Well, I was also the most active Citizen on Wittenberg, but that's another story.

Then, the Halloween crisis occurred. I didn't leave with the Republic, despite history books saying otherwise. I stayed in the Kingdom, for about 15 days during which the King attacked me daily.

I ended up needing to leave, and I was replaced by Marcus Cantalour, in the Senate.

Still, I kept the database, and even when I was told to put it offline, I kept it up. And today, it is back online.

I have met Daviu in person. I have met former King Ben and former Queen Amy. I have met Tomas Gariceir who stayed at my house for 2 nights. I have met Ieremiac'h Ventrutx. In fact, he worked for my company for what, over 10 years?

I have spoken on the phone to over 50 Talossans over the years.

Most Talossans can easily reach me. I haven't been active much lately due to personal issues which I can tell other people from Ataturk, but which are mostly over.

Most of you probably heard of me, either for what I did good, like the database, like being the longest serving Secretary of State, or being the former Resident Worker. Or you heard me for being one of your horrible Republicans (like I said above, it's more complex and I am willing to talk about it).

Or maybe you remember my monthly magazine six years ago? https://zespenat.ca/ which I ran almost alone for 4 issues?

Even those in the Kingdom in the 18 months or so that I was in the Republic might remember that as the Republic's foreign Affair minister, I was the first official to try to negotiate a peace treaty... with the guy who eventually became our King.

When I came back, I was happy to see that our Ataturk Senator was active.

I was happy that he wasn't just a politician: he helped with the website, and seems like a nice guy.

We connected. I helped him, he helped me. We even connected on Linked in! He was the only Talossan I didn't know in a work capacity I accepted there.

Nice guy.

I decided, I am not as active as I was, I won't run against him.

But it was a lie.

Who is Svastian Pinatsch? We learned that the name he gave is not his real name! ( I don't mean his Talossan name, that's fine, I mean the original name he put. Even his Linked In name is fake)

Now, should people be Talossans if they don't give their real name? That's debatable.

But should they be Senators if we don't know who they are?

Absolutely freaking not.

Now, I don't want power. I was offered to Prime Minister a few times, and I don't want it.

I don't care for it. All I want, is to work on my pet projects, like the database system, and make sure the citizens of Ataturk are well represented. By someone they actually know.

In the upcoming election, vote for the Candidate whom you know his name. Vote for me, vote so that you know who your Senator is.

Because this is the debate.

I am not running for power, for a party, I am running for the right for Ataturk Citizens to know who their senator really is.