The future of Ladonia will, as it has been since the birth of the nation in 1996, be the war with the Swedes. This year a new trial will take place. Probably Ladonia has become strong enough to survive such threats. Ladonia is governed by the cabinet: the queen, the president and the ministers. As this is about 50 persons one can say that Ladonia is some kind of oligarchy. It has not been possible for any political parties to get political influence. And you cannot speak of Ladonia in terms of right and left. Freedom is the main issue. One could suspect that this is a heritage from German philosophy and Rousseau but it is hardly correct as the idea of freedom is not ideologized by the cabinet. Could one call the political profile empirical? I suppose much of what is going on in the political discussions is too filled with irony. Our minister of sophistry, Horatius made the statement about the election that it should rather be electing a pepsodent and not a president. I don’t think it was just a simple joke. And then the love for idleness; our minister of idleness has been very successfull with spreading the right to this – and that is very unusual in other countries and in political systems. The president is a part of this system and cannot act in any important questions without the blessings of the cabinet. The production in Ladonia is above all creating and distribution of information.
It is open for our citizens to candidate for this election. The exact time for the election is not decided but will probably take place in two or three months. Candidates have to send their names and their program to the state secretary: lars.vilks@swipnet.se
THE OPTIMATS
A new political party was formed on the glorious day of 12/11 -96 The party will put forward its proposal for a Ladonian Constitution for a vote among the honourable citizens of Ladonia. The proposal for a constitution can be found in the Party Program.
PARTY PROGRAM
I. Constitution
1. Chief of State:
1.1. A First Consul is elected in popular elections for a period of 5 years. The First Consul put forward a Second and Third Consul, who are individually elected or rejected by the Senate.
1.2.The First Consul makes all proposals to the Senate, after taking advice from the Second and Third Consul.
1.3. The First Consul makes all decisions concerning matters of foreign policy, military defense and security
2. Parliament: a Senate 2.1. Which makes all decisions on the imperial proposals.
2.2. All voting in the Senate is made by e-mail.
3. Members of the Senate:
3.1. Hereditary Members of Life: All Barons and Counts and their equals
3.2. Appointed Members for life: 100 Senators for life, appointed by the First Consul.
4. The old Constitution
4.1 The Queen and her family
shall be dethroned and exiled to the Island of St Helena, Ladonia wil be
declared a democratic Republic. 4.2. The parliament should be
abolished.
4.3. The new president should become the new First
Consul.
4.4. The Optimates nominate Lord Nikos Leocardic, Baron of
Trans-Arx as President!
5. Stateministers
5.1 The First Consul
appoint as many Stateministers as as he need to administrate
Ladonia.
5.2. The stateminister takes precedence before the common
ministers.
II. Economic Democracy
1. The people shall own all
factories and farms
2. Poverty is forbidden
III. Social
politic
1. No one should starve in Ladonia
2. Everyone should have
the right to make whatever he or she wants
IV. Internet
1.
INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE
2. We should declare war on People's
Republic of China and Burma (what ever they call themselves as they
oppress their people and want to and really censure Internet.
Second
edition of Party Program, accepted by the second Party Congress, in exile
in Umeċ 1 January 2000.
The party-leader: Lord Nikos Leocardic, Baron
of Trans-Arx says that he expects all the best of the Ladonian citizens to
vote for this good party - THE OPTIMATS/OPTIMATERNA!
Ave et
salve
Christer
Edling
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Aut inveniam
viam aut faciam
"I'll either find a way or make
one"
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christer.edling@mailbox.swipnet.se
"Do
not give in to hate. That leads to the dark side."
The second candidate is Chris Loutradis, now president
of the party Lpl. He says:
”Ladonians,
I would like to make some
very important annoucements concerning the Future of Lpl and our
Country's.
Firstly:
I would like to thank from the bottom of my heat
the publiser of Herald who talked to me concerning the newspaper .However
i have sent him a annoucement for the newspaper and he hasnt published yet
and i am asking WHY?
Secondly:
After a great discussion wirh my
friends in the party we have decided that Ladonia deserves Better for this
reason I announce to you that i am A candinate for the presidency .Many
things Must change.21st is here and we have to be the leaders we deserve
better .Lets make the difference lets change the country lets change the
society.Lets work for a democratic society lets work for the
future.
Yours In truly in freedom,
Chris Loutradis.
President of
Lpl”
http://www.erotikmassan.com/bodylanguage
He describes the show in this way:
The basic idea with the exhibition is to show the feelings occurring between two people in a meeting that goes on to a relationship. I wanted to catch, in short glimpse of heaven and hell, the different moments and experienced feelings in a meeting between two individuals, but showing this without the revealing expression of the face. This is the reason why I choose to call this "Bodylanguage".
These pictures are not erotic in the sense that it is the goal. It is a series of pictures to be looked upon as a whole. They are showing a meeting between two persons and the relationship their meeting form. So of course there's eroticism, but that's not the whole point of it. There is frustrated waiting, boredom, hope, expectations, happiness, joy, passion, doubt, anger, hate and all those feelings people have and acquire for each other over the time. This is a universal story, it can be any two persons, and that's why I used several different models.
Take your time to explore the picture in the order they follow in the Exhibition and recognize the different feelings that the silent but oh so expressive and ever-present bodylanguage pronounce. This is the Artministers first publicly known exhibition. His more recent background involving professional contact with multimedia is probably the reason till why he choose to expose his exhibition on-line. Fredrik is also a closet-author with none published material (so far) and have for instance been working as a carbuilder, chauffeur, technical illustrator, technical editor and freelance writer. His vast interest in art spans over many areas where photo is but one technique.
”Dear nation!
One issue that could definitely arrest interest from media is the ongoing Swedish harassment of the royal family. As you all know, the Ladonian style of education is through natural imprinting, keeping ourselves far away from conformistic institutions like schools. My family is practicing this beleif of how true learning is taking place. So far this has been silently accepted by the local Swedish authorities, that still thinks that Far Ladonia is a part of Sweden. But because of a recent interest from local media and repeated criticism from the Swedish department of education, the local school board suddenly decided to take a decision regarding our Ladonian way of educating our children. Since "school is compulsory" in Sweden, they think they have a say about how the Ladonian royal family is carrying out such education. February the second they hastily came up with a desicion to not give their permission, wich they are forced to do according to Swedish shool law (SFS 1985:1100, 10 kap 4 §). This means that they now can enjoin our children to go to shool (the Swedish school closest to us). If we do not obey this they can eventually impose a fine of SEK 200 per child and week and parent. But the local school board in our kommun is quite reasonable. They are abiding a desicion of the county court before they take any further steps. Naturally we have appealed against their decision with both legal and scientific proof for our case. But we don't indulge in any expectations that the county court will listen to reason. Recent cases have proven their incompetence. So we will probably end up in the court of appeal some time during spring. Thus another eon has begun last February 2 - the eon of the royal educational war.
The war is not just about our own specific situation.We take it further and makes it a war of human rights. Isn't it a human right of the parents to ensure education and teaching in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions? Since I quoted the European Convention it is not just a human right, it is also protected by European law. Nevertheless, Swedish authorities pretends that those kinds of binding documents don't exist. So the royal Ladonian family is bound to go to war to ensure that those human rights are protected. Ladonians all over the world should have the right to naturally imprint their children the Ladonian way! In Sweden as in some other countries social service authorities soetimes thinks they have the right to interfere with families that don't conform with the rest of society. If this should be the case for us, we will go into exil in England, where families with similar educational beliefs are left alone to prosper.
WAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL!
Gunnar, Jarl of Far Ladonia”
(For those who doesn’t know ”Far Ladonia”, i.e. the Ladonian colony south of Stockholm.
”During a documentary work in a smithy in Oskarshamn, I found, to my greatest astonishment, a soap that immediately drew my attention. It was called ’Ladon 2’. Obviously it was popular among the blacksmiths.”
Being the historian he is, count Torby has thought a lot about this soap and its origin. It seems clear that we here have another clue to Ladonia before the independance. Probably soap made by seaweed from the Ladonian shore. Count Torby does not give any specific date for the soap but one could guess that this is at least 50 years old – and that is a sensation as hardly anything is known about Ladonia in the 1950s. Ladonians at that time made soap and one can suppose that they also cleaned themselves with some of it. A cleanly people with industrial ambitions.
A word from our Minister of Health
Now, Wotan's Tower reminds me of dreams sometimes recorded in young men dreaming they have giant erect phalloses (Note, in Greek it is more fallooo:s than pha´llos, as we pronounce in the Victorian manner, erraneously swallowing this charged word as quickly as possible - compare
Our Presiden's Waaaaaaaaaaaaal to a coquettish sounding va´l - va'l, va'l....Waaaaaaaaaaaal !! - get the difference?). Well, this Giant Phaloo:s made it's last stand in an orgie of fray and rythmical thrusts from theQueen of All Oceans, our beloved Mare Ladonia, like all oceans forgetful of her moods from one day to another and violent in her desire for thrusting power, with proudly rising dancing waves, noontime glittering in Apollonic Ladonian Sun - Oh Great Desire, Be Praised, Be Praised, Time will be Born from your Last Thrust, the thrust of Release...
And the first moment of Time is Silence - born out of Male Sadness. Like the remnants of Wotan's Tower spread all along the wide path of King Ladon's dying Giant Wave, every phalloo:s must die in its very moment of ecstasy, and enter Silence, where all strong men become tender as their Land of Silence slowly transforms to The Land of Oblivion.
And such is the Ocean too, His Companion, His Consort, one day a gale, the next she remembers nothing and is smooth and silent like a mirror, and now in wintertime a mirror embracing immobile rocks from below and merging with slate colour skies which are supported by no sharp horizion demarcation line at all, only the rocks and the shoulder of our mountain have definite form.
But not entirely silent - in Ladonia the silence is broken by hammering - you can hear it from afar, and as you get closer it rings more energetically and you can see through the fringe of our naked woodlands how out there at the waterfront a New Wotan's Tover is rising again, already quite proudly, from the berth of the old one. This is the Master expressing Masculine Mystery in its very essence - how Exstasy brings Contemplation, and Stillness brings Action - in this Most Eternal of All Eternal Cycles, the Eternal Phallic Cycle.
HAIL FALLOO:S !!
Emanuel von Bock,
Minister of Health