[Royal] Milwaukee Magazine Article

[King Txec]

I'm very pleased to share an article from Milwaukee Magazine. Talossa is featured prominently on the cover, and an excellent article, for which I was interviewed over the summer, is also included. I'm excited when we get positive press coverage and this is a day to celebrate!

Milwaukee Magazine Article

-Txec R

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

I'm very pleased to share an article from Milwaukee Magazine. Talossa is featured prominently on the cover, and an excellent article, for which I was interviewed over the summer, is also included. I'm excited when we get positive press coverage and this is a day to celebrate!

Milwaukee Magazine Article

-Txec R

This is huge!  Good work, Your Majesty!

[Ràed Al-Hasàn]

Nice I'm happy to hear this news

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

I note that the incident where Ben tried to reclaim his citizenship, then abruptly gave up when we asked for an indication that he'd learned anything from his experience, isn't mentioned :D

[MkeMia]

This is so cool! I'm a Milwaukee native and I hope to see more of Talossa in my city soon <3

[Joseph Morris]

Dang! I didn't know we had all this history! Now, for our next act: take over the Milwaukee city council and gain control of our territory!

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

Dang! I didn't know we had all this history!

I suggest this as beginning reading material

[Joseph Morris]

Thanks!

[Jason Drzewiecki]

Cool article.  I've shared with several who question my application for citizenship.

[GV]

Dang! I didn't know we had all this history!

I suggest this as beginning reading material

It was on about 23 March 2004 Ben Madison began falsely accusing Kane Dal Nava on Wittenberg of domestic abuse. 

This is the most important event in Talossan history since the start of the Cybercit Era and is left out of the page Miestra links here. 

[Mic’haglh Autófil, O.Be]

Dang! I didn't know we had all this history!

I suggest this as beginning reading material

It was on about 23 March 2004 Ben Madison began falsely accusing Kane Dal Nava on Wittenberg of domestic abuse. 

This is the most important event in Talossan history since the start of the Cybercit Era and is left out of the page Miestra links here. 

Sort of surprising, as it doesn't ever seem to have been mentioned there at all. Like, comparing against previous edits doesn't show it as having been deleted.

On a semi-related note, anyone who's never read through A Nation Sundered is missing out. Quite possibly the most interesting history book I've ever read.

[Xheralt Del’Encradeir]

Dang! I didn't know we had all this history!

I suggest this as beginning reading material

It was on about 23 March 2004 Ben Madison began falsely accusing Kane Dal Nava on Wittenberg of domestic abuse. 

This is the most important event in Talossan history since the start of the Cybercit Era and is left out of the page Miestra links here. 

Let's clarify something -- Kane Dal Nava was not accused of any specific legally actionable act of abuse against women within Talossa, save for the act of verbally insulting Queen Amy.  Which would be enough to get one expelled from real-world Kingdoms at the very least.  This occurred at a Talossan Independance Day celebration I hosted.  Being busy as host, I did not personally witness this event, but even before it happened I was getting vibes from KDN I didn't like, sort of the classic misogynist-jock mentality I'd seen so often in high school.  Something about how Queen Amy was insulted triggered suspicions in Ben's mind.

The Organic Law contains few provisions for removal of "bad" citizens, mostly out of fear they would be weaponized over petty disputes; as there was no Talossan (or American) law that would cover it, Ben, desperate to get that man out of his "baby", his creation, improvised.  Following up on his suspicions, researching it via public records, Ben found proof.  There was a history of such abuse, arrests, restraining orders, etc.  I don't think any formal criminal charges or incarceration resulted, Ben certainly would have said so if there had been, but the pattern was clear enough to him.  Innocent until proven guilty and all that, but the records don't lie and the pattern was there, and it had played out in real time. 

KDN was accused not of any specific crime, but of being an abuser and therefore lacking moral fitness to be a leader in Ben's Talossa, in addition to the personal and deadly insult he'd offered to Ben's wife (and his nominal Queen, let's not forget!).

Was Ben supposed to LIKE what had been said and done?  He did what any loving and faithful husband would do, tried to protect his family (which included Talossans, remember almost all of us were friends IRL, "Old Growthers" at that time) and somehow he's been villified for it, while the real catalyst, the one who denigrated a man's wife in front of him, is lionized.  That's never sat well with me.

I was personally one of the people whose accounts was summarily deleted during The Great Theft for the "crime" of being on Ben's side.  As one affected directly, yes, I regard it as such.  I've forgiven the webmaster for his role in that, had intermittent contact with him.  Now, decades have gone by, and maybe things have changed.  Having had zero contact with that man in the intervening decades (being in "the other" Talossa) I have no idea of he's improved himself or not.  I earnestly hope so.  I don't hate him, but I will never like him, and will not let his part, his responsibility, for the events of that Dec 26 so many decades ago be glossed over.

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

the personal and deadly insult he'd offered to Ben's wife (and his nominal Queen, let's not forget!).

Is this the "personal and deadly insult" you're referring to?

("You don't tell me what to do in my own
house," my wife said. "Well, they're going to lose anyway," Grubi replied
with a snarl. What an asshole!)

Or did KDN say something much, much worse that I'm not aware of?

somehow he's been villified for it

You're talking about KDN's "patterns of behaviour", so I assume you must know something about King Robert I's "patterns of behaviour" which go *far* beyond his feud with KDN. Believe me, he isn't "vilified' for that alone.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

One thing that's hard for a lot of us who immigrated later (I immigrated 19 years ago, shortly after all of this happened) is that former king Robert I lied a fairly significant amount about conflicts, later.  I think he would bend the truth with such vigor that he'd eventually convince even himself.

For example, he used to tell people for years that the new citizens of 2005 who joined the CLP were illegal immigrants, saying that at the time it was the law that you were only allowed to immigrate if you were approved by the Seneschal and Opposition Leader.  That just wasn't true -- the law just said that they had to be consulted, and they were always notified.  The Cort decided as such after a lawsuit.  But that kind of got elided over time, until eventually by 2008, Ben was just flatly asserting the contrary.