SUMMARY
The Certified Asgardians ("Asgardians") having concerns and grievances with the operation of the interim government of Asgardia ("Asgardia") hereby submit for consideration by the Head of Nation of Asgardia, Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli ("Head of Nation"), this petition of grievances and demands to ensure the ...
SUMMARY
The Certified Asgardians ("Asgardians") having concerns and grievances with the operation of the interim government of Asgardia ("Asgardia") hereby submit for consideration by the Head of Nation of Asgardia, Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli ("Head of Nation"), this petition of grievances and demands to ensure the stability of Asgardia, the functioning of Asgardia, and the sucess of the establishment of Asgardia as a formal nation and member of the international community.
GRIEVANCES
Asgardians recognize the official forum of Asgardia ("Forum") as fundamentally special. The Forum is the only location where Asgardians may associate and regard the right to freely associate on it as paramount to our ability to exercise our rights to speech, to assembly, and to petition our government in accordance with international law. The Forum's moderation and administrative staff under the direction of the Lead Community Administrator ("Forum Team"), have designated the Forum as like any privately-owned forum, with the right to speech revokable at any time without due process, public record, or public accountability and have dismissed and discouraged discussion on the topic.
Asgardians recognize the Head of Nation's requests for feedback from Asgardians regarding his Decrees and proposed documents and have acted in good faith to provide this feedback to the Head of Nation. The Forum Team has unduly restricted Asgardians ability to discuss the Head of Nation's Decrees and proposals and there is growing concern among Asgardians the Forum Team has not faithfully executed their duties to relay feedback to the Head of Nation.
Asgardians recognize the need for transparency and public accountability in Asgardia, both in its interim government and future formal government, in order for Asgardia to function in accordance with the Decrees of the Head of Nation. Requests for clarification, deadlines and timelines of Asgardia's public activities, publication of policies, publication of existing offices of Asgardia, publication of existing public office holders of Asgardia, and means to relay formal complaints, petitions, and other ordinary business between Asgardians and our government have been unanswered by the Forum Team.
Asgardians are concerned that Asgardia has become dysfunctional due to unwillingness or inability of the Forum Team to faithfully execute their duties and that furthermore the Forum Team may have intentionally withheld information from the Head of Nation and exceeded the authority granted to them by the Head of Nation.
FURTHERMORE, Asgardians are concerned that the Head of Nation has not received the requested feedback regarding his Decrees including concerns that provisions and proposals of Decrees N3, N4, and N5 may conflict with international law and jeopardize the Head of Nation's ability to negotiate Asgardia's recognition by the United Nations. Asgardians recognize that we are essential for Asgardia to be recognized as a legitimate and sovereign nation by the international community and that our approval of the Constitution, the Declaration of Unity, and of Asgardia are the means by which Asgardia can be in turn recognized by the international community as the first space nation.
THEREFORE, the undersigned Asgardians declare that we no longer have confidence in Asgardia to operate as our government.
DEMANDS
We, the undersigned Asgardians, demand from our Head of Nation:
A statement acknowledging and addressing our concerns.
Direction, dismissal, and appointment, as necessary, to and of Asgardia's officials and the Forum Team in order to ensure Asgardia's ability to function as a government.
The publication of all existing offices of Asgardia, the names of all public officials of Asgardia, and the means by which Asgardians may conduct ordinary business with Asgardia and its ministries.
Recognition of the Forum as a location where Asgardians may freely associate and speak with each other and to establish transparent, publicly accountable due processes by which individual Asgardians may have this right revoked for specified periods of time in accordance with international law.
Recognition of Asgardians as essential for Asgardia to be recognized as a real and functioning nation by the international community.
Further consideration of Decrees N3, N4, and N5 and publication of any necessary revisions to make the Constitution, Declaration of Unity, and the processes by which these and other founding legal documents are ratified and enacted into law in full compliance with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations in order to ensure that Asgardia is able to succeed in gaining recognition from the international community.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SIGNING
In order to sign this petition, please reply to this thread in the following format:
"/s/ [Full legal name (middle optional)], Certified Asgardian"
Your legal name is necessary as this is a public petition and democracy is a matter of public record.
Asgardia needs to be able to verify your identity to verify your electronic signature (that is what /s/ means). Fellow Asgardians and international observers also need to be able to verify your identity to ensure a democratic process has been executed fairly.
PLEASE USE THIS THREAD ONLY FOR SIGNING
SUBMISSION INFORMATION & SIGNATURE DEADLINE
This petition will be open for signing for a period of 30 days, until May 3rd, 2017 11:59 PM Pacific Time. Once the deadline is expired, this thread will be printed in its entirety and sent by certified mail to the service address of Asgardia listed on the Impressum page.
PLEASE DISCUSS IN THE FOLLOWING LINKED THREAD:
https://asgardia.space/en/forum/forum/general-discussion-14/topic/discussion-thread-for-petition-4697
Counter-petitions welcome, please make a separate thread and reserve this one for signatures.
