[Donna]

The Right Honourable Donald Avraham Lieberman (born July 20, 1959) is a Pofoite politician, lawyer and writer. He currently represents North-Central Arbitavia in Pofoland parliament for PUC-L. Lieberman formerly served as Chairman of the New Clausewitz Bar Association from 1997 until 2009, and from 1990 until 1996, served on Pofograd's City Council. Donald Lieberman first gained recognition in 1979 at the age of 20 when he authored the bestselling The Psychosis of Ideology: Group Psychology in Politics.



Considered a maverick centrist, Lieberman's positions have been known to range all over the political spectrum. For six years prior to becoming Chairman of the New Clausewitz Bar Association, Lieberman served on the Pofograd City Council representing the Liberty Avenue District while holding membership to the Concerned Patriotic Citizens Group, an allegedly far-right and populist lobby organization. In April 2009 Lieberman joined the PoFo Unity Coalition's Liberal faction and announced his candidacy to represent North-Central Arbitavia in parliament on April 7, 2009. On April 11, 2009, Donald Lieberman defeated Richard Wilson of the Conservative Alliance in a district composed evenly of middle and working class neighborhoods. Lieberman has since made several controversial initiatives independent from his party in an effort to isolate the Marxist-Leninist Socialism Now! in the upcoming government.

Early life

Donald Avraham Lieberman was born July 20, 1959 in Arbitavia to a family of Jewish refugees from Poland who had come to the country after the Second World War in 1946. The youngest of five children the couple raised on their wheat farm outside Arbitavia, as a child Lieberman excelled in mathematics and basketball. Upon attending law school at New Clausewitz University, Lieberman showed greater interest in political science than legal matters, and in 1979, published The Psychosis of Ideology: Group Psychology in Politics, an academic and historical take on political extremism and also an immediate bestseller. Lieberman instantly gained national fame for the book due to his young age. In 1982 Lieberman graduated from New Clausewitz University and began working with the Myers and Sons legal firm in downtown Pofograd as a litigatory attorney.

Political career

In 1990 Donald Lieberman ran for Pofograd City Council as an independent candidate representing the Liberty Avenue 7th District, a working class neighborhood that also hosts the city's vibrant LGBT community. Lieberman, who came out as a homosexual man in 1986, was considered a runner-up in the polls to two more popularized local gay rights activists, but after representing a gay man beaten by police in a high-profile lawsuit against the Pofograd Police Department, Lieberman secured a margin of victory over the other candidates on December 3, 1989 and began serving on the City Council January 1, 1990. Lieberman would continue to hold the office for six years until being defeated by an Anarcho-Syndicalist candidate in 1996. That same year Lieberman left Pofograd to work in New Clausewitz, and in 1997, became Chairman of the New Clausewitz Bar Association. In April 2009 Lieberman retired as NCBA Chairman and announced his candidacy for parliament under the PoFo Unity Coalition's Liberal wing. On April 11 Donald Lieberman defeated Conservative Richard Wilson for North-Central New Clausewitz.

Beliefs

Traditionally Lieberman has voiced his support for centre-left economic policies, left-wing social policies and right-wing foreign policy. He is a vocal opponent of Anarchist and Marxist-Leninist participation in the democratic process and has led independent initiatives in the past to get such parties banned from the electoral process. Lieberman has also expressed uncompromising opposition to Pofoland joining the WTO.

(Biography subject to updates)

[albionfagan]

WITM8

[Erebus]

Probably one of the more epic posts in the parliament, Herr. Lieberman.

[Donna]

C'mon fellow politics nerds.. polish those fantasy wiki bios.

[Ombrageux]

Dr. Mikael "Mike" Ombrageux is a Pofoese writer, academic and editor. He currently teaches History and International Political Economy at the New Clausewitz School of Social Sciences and is the founder and editor of the weekly magazine of commentary and current affairs, The New Wave. He is member and leading adviser to the Social Liberal Democrats.



Early Life

Mikael Ombrageux was born in 1972 in a Aix-en-Provence, in the south of France, to a French father and Pofoese mother. At the age of 3, he moved with his family to Maxcadia in western Pofo, both his parents becoming employed in the region's high-tech IT industries. The oldest of three, he was a shy child and indifferent towards sports. In high school, he was noted for being a bright, somewhat aggressive debater and did particularly well in Maths, History and English. He went on to study History and Politics at Cwasville State University, at which he excelled. He published his undergraduate dissertation on the 19th Century Pofoese explorer and war hero Boon S. Dock in the scholarly journal National History.

Intelligence Service Officer and Resignation

Ombrageux wrote news articles for the New Clausewitz-based Echo and did odd jobs for two years before being accepted into the Pofo Intelligence Service in 1995. He served as an analyst in Foxatoria before undertaking field work in Beirut and Dar es Salaam. He resigned from his post in 1999 in protest over Pofoese arms sales to the factions in the Second Congo War. He rose to national prominence by publishing his account of Pofoese policies in the region, White Gain, Black Pain.

Academic Career

Ombrageux went on to acquire a Ph.D. in History from the New Clausewitz School of Social Sciences under the distinguished scholar of war and totalitarianism Karl S. Feuerhans. His thesis was published under the title A Rock and a Hard Place: Franco-Pofoese relations in the Second World War and won a National Book Prize.

He has been teaching at NCS3 since 2003. In 2004, he and a number of other intellectuals launched The New Wave, a left-leaning weekly of history, politics and current affairs featuring diverse and distinguished opinion and commentary. It has since become a hub for center-left and centrist thought, including unorthodox ideas which many have criticized as eugenics, social engineering or Utopian. A noted Sci Fi buff he occasionally writes reviews of novels, films and television series.

Since then Dr. Ombrageux has earned further scholarly acclaim for his latest work, Object/Subject: North-South Relations since 1941, a sprawling study economic and military relations between developed and underdeveloped countries from the end of colonialism to the recent spectacular growth of emerging economies.

Public Positions

Dr. Ombrageux is known for his positions on a wide range of issues. He is a critic of unbridled economic growth and consumer culture and an enthusiastic supporter of space exploration and technological and biomedical research. He vigorously opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq but has since called for national military service and increased defense spending to, as he puts it, "guarantee both our ability to act - and thus ensure our value an ally - and that we only fight when it is truly in the national interest." He is an ardent supporter of NATO and EU membership for Pofo.

He is currently writing a book on the impact of technology on international relations. He joined the SLD in 2004 and is said to be seeking to become an adviser to a prime ministerial candidate..

[Zyx]

The following article only represents the current Zyx. For the former Zyx, see Zyx (disambiguation)

Zyx (born November 12th, 197?) is the mayor of a large estate turned province, "Land of Zyx." Throughout his life, Zyx has been a Pofoese abolitionist, civil rights activist, religious leader, woman's suffragist, social-constructivist, scientist, feminist, editor, socialist, post-modernist, orator, environmentalist, author, diety, mayor, statesperson, liberal, philosopher, nobleperson, leftist, reformer and landowner. Sometimes called "The Embodiment of Kumatto," Zyx is one of the most prominent figures in Pofoese history.

He is a firm believer in the equality of all people and has been the only person in Pofoite history to have won the prestigious "Philosopher-King" award nine times.

Early Life

Zyx was born to his mother Zyx and his father Yakuro Melaki. His mother was the owner of the Zyx estate for being the first child of that family, his father was an artful orator in her family company.

Zyx' childhood is largely secret, but it's rumored that he had little inspiration for the "training of the kings" [1]. He performed 'reasonably well' [2] and was first unveiled to the public when he was 22, winning gold for Pofoland on its Olympics Marksmanship Team.

Criminal Record

Little documents exist on the scandalous ordeal where Zyx killed seven New Clausewitz students. There was an uproar over the matter, but Zyx' family managed to quell the complaints with monetary finances to media entities [3]. It is worth nothing that some applaud Zyx's rampage, saying that New Clausewitz University is like the Harvard or Oxford of Pofoland because of its overrepresentation in the Pofoland government.

It is rumored that Zyx has not respected the sexual age laws instituted in the older Pofoland government. Zyx denies these allegations, but Natasha Pedora (1988 - 2007), an especially vocal accusant, gained media attention through her biography, "The Kumatto Crimes." The biography has been taken off the market shortly after her sudden death.

Scholarship

In Pofoland, Zyx has received the best education, a comprehensive routine taught for hundreds of centuries since the first Zyx (in 1342.) Through his mastery, Zyx has published numerous articles on topics enumerable and plays an important part in the world intellectual culture, already having received a Nobel Prize in Physics and History, as well as being a nine-time recipient of the Philosopher-King award.

Wealth

Zyx wealth is hard to tally. His recent alignment with the communists and their heavy taxation have made access to his wealth portfolio unattainable. Though, it's worth noting that, before the revolution, the Zyx family was the wealthiest family in Pofoland and Zyx had been ranked as the 23rd richest person on Earth.

Politics

Zyx had financed an unpopular party for the Senate known as "The Logician Party" (TLP.) The party politics have had mixed reviews. Despite the excellent performance of children, whom the bulk of the policy is measured on, many have categorized TLP "fascist," or "worse than the Nazis" [4] (See Mazhi's "TLP--Against Nature.")

Still, many regard TLP and the "Land of Zyx," the only province with a substantial TLP constitutency, as "a good set of doctrines with great results" [5], and actively pursued Zyx's run for the Senate before he openly supported SN.

Religion

Zyx worships a deity known as "Kumatto" under the "Land of Zyx'" provincial religion of Kumattoism. Zyx plays an important role in this religion, being considered the heir to the title of channeling "Kumatto," "Zyx."

Current Roles

Zyx now writes articles and wanders around Pofoland bickering for the inception of a Senate. His family, formerly being a part of the houses of nobility, have lost their political clout due to the recent revolution. Zyx's main role in this government is to keep an eye on the uprising that stripped his family's long held privilege [6]. He also seeks to attain more reparations for his family than, what he considers measly, the recognition of his family estate as a province.

[Nets]

Zyx, I enjoyed that.

[Zyx]

Industrialist, Nets, when will you post your biography?

You are an industrialist, correct?

By the way, I do disagree with no longer being called "Highness Zyx." Oi, how this revolution harmed me.

[OOC]At first, I went to Frederick Douglass' page and that's where the long list of recognition is from. As to the scandals and getting away with it, that's from my memory of a news report in my youth of the privileges of the Kennedy family. An interesting mix, no? I also gave out the pedophile thing, just cause. [/OOC]

[Infidelis]

Samuel E. Crowley is a Pofoite Politician and political activist. With humble beginnings originating in Pofoland's Cascadia, a Northwest Region of Pofoland, Crolwey has experienced an unlikely rise to political promise. His works start out as a city employee, working to aid community members in organizing to combat neighborhood crime. With heavy focuses on neighborhood disorganization, Crowley helped lower some of the city's highest criminally active areas by helping generate interest in neighbors in community infrastructure, reaching out to truant youths and working as a vigilant advocate for the community interests at city hall sessions. This high and often times boisterous level of activity earned him a place in city council and eventually Pofoland Parliament Member (Social Liberal Democrats).



Early Life
Crowley is an only child born January 16, 1952, to mother, Belinda and father, Shane. Belinda Crowley was a natural-born Pofoite who humbly made her living as a janitor. Father, Shane, was an Irish-transplant. His strong sense of duty and yearning to prove his allegiance and benevolence for Pofoland caused him to join the Pofoland Army in 1947. Shortly after Samuel's first birthday, his father died in Army trainings involving live fire scenarios.

Early on in life, Crowley found a fond interest in sports, namely American Football. After his graduation in 1970 Crowley was granted a full-ride Football scholarship to Arbitavia State University where he double-majored in Criminal Justice and Sociology and played middle linebacker for 2 seasons, making the starting lineup his sophomore year. After blowing out his left knee mid-way through camp his Junior year, Crowley enjoyed one last year of his scholarship, before having to work odd jobs and take out loans his senior year.

During this time Crowley had noticed the disparity in money and time, directly affecting his study habits. It was then, mixed with other anecdotes, that he became interested in politics, joining College SLD's, a party that sought and still seeks free undergrad education.

While earning his Masters in Sociology at U of Foxatoria, Crowley had become a permanent fixture in many parties on campus. This found Crowley in some legal problems in his first year of post-graduate school, involving charges ranging from disorderly conduct to minor assault. None of the charges, luckily for Crowley, were ever pursued.

Political Career
Having been elected to City Council in his home city of Cascadia in 1992, Crowley had enjoyed 10 years in city politics. Throughout a duration of this time, he had championed such works as putting forth an initiative for the city's organized recycling project, working with schools and other city resources to extend sexual education and resource throughout for the city's youth, and a grant to expand transit transportation and bicycling as alternative means of transportation.

A tarnished image plagued Crowley as he had a controversial sexual affair with an intern Barbara Breedlust. Though Crowley was single at the time, the controversy surrounds on whether or not Breedlust was of age of consent or not. This controversy caused Crowley to go into political purgatory for some years until reports cleared his wrong-doing.

Political Positions
After a 6-year hiatus from politics, Crowley tried his hand at National Parliament. Winning handily in his district, Crowley has pledged to help bring about a left of centre policy to Parliament, including the possibility of nationalization of central banks, a progressive tax code and Keynesian fiscal policy. Socially, Crowley is a strong advocate of firearms rights, LGBT rights, a fairer opportunity in the workforce and schooling for minority classes, and strong environmentally-green policy.

Lastly, although opposed to largely anti-democratic parties such as People of Pofo and Revolutionary Front, Crowley has already cast his first vote against banning such parties from Parliament.

Currently, SLD is in discussions with PoFo Unity Coalition and Pan-National League. Crowley has expressed great support with dealing with PUC and an apprehension with a coalition with PNL. These talked started after two SLD members defected after an attempt from both sides to build a coalition with Socialism Now! went down in flames.

[Suska]

omglmfao i laughed my ass off, thats is one hell of a picture infidelis, fuckn saved
*wipes tears away*
nice one mate, your a helluva handsome fella

[Infidelis]

:lol: omglmfao i laughed my ass off, thats is one hell of a picture infidelis, fuckn saved
*wipes tears away*
nice one mate, your a helluva handsome fella

That's actually former Portland Mayor, the wonderfully eccentric, Bud Clark.

Here's a classic photo of him:


(Whoop! Whoop!)

[Arbiter Azariah]

Awesome bios, you guys. I might as well give this a try. Here goes...

Mark Aloysius Arbiter (born September 12, 1957) is a Pofoite teacher, editor and politician. As of recent, he has secured a seat in the inaugural Pofoland Parliament, representing the Division of Calabria in southern urban area of a city now known as Arbitavia. He is best known for chairing Pofoites for Democracy, a pro-parliamentary democracy activist group. In this position, he united pro-democracy agitators of various types to apply pressure on the autocratic government to allow parliamentary representation. After the success of this campaign, Arbiter became a founding member of the Pofo Unity Coalition, and is presently the party's national secretary.



Early life

Mark Aloysius Arbiter was born September 12, 1957 in southern Arbitavia, the area he later came to represent in parliament. Born to Irish-Pofoite parents, he was raised as the second of their seven children. He attended St Ignatius Loyala College, a low-fee Catholic high school in the area. He had an natural affinity for history, and moreso, English. This, combined with a desire to help others, brought him to study Education at the University of Arbitavia, graduating in 1978. He taught in local high schools for a number of years. He married in 1981, and went on to have four children.

Activism
In 1988, Arbiter become an organiser for the Pofoland Education Union, eventually becoming the union's secretary in 1993. In this position, he lobbied hard for wage increases and better working conditions for state school teachers. During this period, Arbiter became a board member at the Catholic Worker Association. He worked in conciliatory role, and was a senior columnist for their monthly publication Caritas.

Dissatisfied with the lack of public representation in the contemporary government structure, Arbiter created Pofoites for Democracy, an activist group that had the establishment of a multi-party democracy as its main objective. Courtesy of his political, religious and industrial contacts, the organisation grew in size and became a formidable force. After a series of campaigns, protests and strikes, the organisation was successful, with the country's autocrat allowing free elections.

Following this success, Arbiter was the co-founder of what was to become the one country's major political parties, the Pofo Unity Coalition. He supported the party's factional system, becoming a convener for the party's moderate faction. Following this, he contested an election for the Division of Calabria in south Arbitavia, achieving a solid victory of his PNL opponent, Matthew Jenkins.

Public Positions
Mark Arbiter has been described as a variety of things, everything from communitarian to conservative to Christian Democrat. Arbiter's economic beliefs match a Keynesian orthodoxy, and holds common ground with the centre-left on issues such as education, health, economics and worker's rights. Socially, Arbiter tends towards conservatism. However, his adherence to the Consistent Life Ethic inspires a mix of rightist positions on abortion and euthanasia with leftist positions on captial punishment and pre-emptive war.

[Dr House]

Too lazy. All I've come up with so far is that my name is Aleksei Tomás House-Avellanet and I'm a Puerto Rican businessman with a PhD in economics from LSE.

[Cheesecake_Marmalade]

Awesome idea, Donald.

Charlie "Cheesecake" Marmalade (May 20, 1962) is a native born pofoite with controlling ownership of a small chain of bars in and around the Pofograd and New Clausewitz areas. He retired at the age of 38 and became interested in politics, especially with the influx of Muslims and Pakistanis that hit Pofoland after increasing tensions in the region. He is best known for his work with the Pan-National League, a pragmatic right wing party that is staunchly anti-immigration, of which he is a founding member.


Pictured here with his beau, Amy Marmalade

Early life & family

Charlie was an only child born to working class parents, Don and Serena Marmalade. His father was a factory worker and was crucial to the United Workers Strike of '59, the first and last general strike in Pofoland's history. Don and Serena decided that such a politically charged climate was detrimental to the upbringing of a young boy, so in '63 they moved to Foxville, a rural town in Foxatoria. Charlie attended SF Primary and SF High school, but was generally uninterested in schooling.

He dropped out of SF High and moved to New Clausewitz with his highschool flame, Amy Pofovich. They married and he started working at a local bar until taking out a loan and purchasing it from the owner. From there he opened up three more bars around New Clausewitz and two in Pofograd. His wife gave birth to twin daughters, Mary Anne and Koryn, in 1995 and he officially retired in 2000.

Political Aspirations and the National Correspondence

Charlie had always had an interest in politics, but was disillusioned by the lack of representation within the autocratic government within Pofoland. When news started spreading of Mark Arbiter's Pofoites for Democracy, Charlie attempted looking for a political party to represent him. Dissatisfied with the multicultural agenda of the centrist parties, he decided to get in contact with a prominent New Clausewitz paleoconservative intellectual, Dave.

The two amassed a mailing list and exchanged correspondence, eventually forming the Pan-National League in 2005. In 2006, Charlie became interested in political writing and began a newsletter. This newsletter, the National Correspondence eventually turned into a major publication and in 2009 it had 5 million subscribers, 10 writers, and was distributed in New Clausewitz, Pofograd, and Arbitavia.

When Pofoland's first elections took place in 2009, Charlie won handily over his SLD opponent, Arthur Matthews, by accusing Arthur of being a crypto-American imperialist. He pledged to halt immigration from Pakistan, Iran, and the United States and to maintain the relatively homogeneous population that Pofoland enjoyed.

Controversy

Charlie was criticized during his run for Parliament for a few newsletters that he had written for the National Correspondence that supported theories of race realism, especially as a possible explanation for the unfortunate circumstances of the African nations, and of the criminal, lower class blacks of America. Alberta Eves, a PNN commentator, says, "All race realism is based on is the ridiculous notion that black people are somehow all one race. Show me the gene that makes blacks dumb and I'll eat my socks."

Charlie explained in one of his columns that he was only embracing race realism as a possible explanation, not the explanation. "To say that I have much knowledge about studies into Africans and their possible genetic traits is... a stretch to say the least." When asked if he would like to retract his statements, he said, "you can't retract what has already been said. Any apology I offer would be empty and meaningless, and I think the voters recognize that."

[Oxymoron]

Lt. Erik Visilyuk

Early life

Erik Visilyuk was born Dec 15, 1972 in Brooklyn, New Pofo City to Jewish immigrants from the now former Soviet Union. He did not excell at school but was fond of reading and learning all there was about history, war and politics. At the age of 8 he was already well versed in Sun Tzu along with "The Prince" from the time he could pick up a stick he knew he would be a soldier.

Military career:
Dropping out of HS he joined the Paratroopers, and soon saw action in Desert storm where he was decorated for multiple acts of bravery and actions above and beyond the call of duty. He rapidly rose in Rank and was enrolled in the famous PianoRed War academy where he attained the rank of Lt. After some still clasified operations he retired from the military.

Political career

Mr. Visilyuk was approached by members of the newly formed PNL party, to join their ranks and upon his retirement from the military. At first he was hesitant but finally relented when he figured he still owed his country service and that the PNL had the best ideas on the future of PoFoland.

[Attica]

Jack Robinson, from New Clausewitz.

The rest will follow tomorrow.

Jack Robinson, a hot-headed fast moving liberal democrat, grew up in a working class neighbourhood of Brocklyn, New Clausewitz. The only child of a single father, who served in the Brocklyn Metropolitan Fire Dept, Robinson attended Brocklyn's only exam-entry senior high school, Stonewall Secondary. Following a healthy career at senior high with the Military Cadets (becoming leading officer in his final year) and the Rugby team (Vice Captain in final year), Robinson attained entry into the prestigious Josiah Bartlett University, a private Catholic college, on an academic scholarship. His time at Jo-B was short, however. After major disagreements with staff which resulted in violent confrontation involving at least 14 staff and pupils, Robinson took leave from university to work with Seculaid International, a Secular Aid agency working in South East Asia and Latin America. After a year working with Seculaid Int, Robinson rose to be Chief of the South East Asian operation, ensuring necessary development initiatives would run smoothly into countries such as Thailand and Cambodia. In his second year as operations chief for the South East Asian operation, Robinson and 9 other Seculaid Int employees were arrested in Burma by the military junta government for alleged crimes involving plotting to work with groups subverting the military rule of the country. Spectacularly, Robinson and 7 of the Seculaid Int workers were able to free themselves from captivity after a rebel attack in the city of Rangoon 3 months after his arrest. His swift exit from Burma back to Pofoland was greeted with massive media attention and overnight Robinson was thrown into the splotlight. He decided to return to his studies at the age of 26 and studied law at the Brocklyn Law Institute, a prestigious school where entry is only offered on test scores. After completing his Law Degree, Robinson looked to politics and stood for Brocklyn City Council. After 3 years in Council Robinson felt it was time to move on to bigger and better things and stood against long-term SLD sitting member Gregory Chipfed for the seat of Upper Marcee, in Brocklyn's North West. With a fresh campaign for change, Robinson took the preselection battle against Chipfed and went on to secure Upper Marcee against the Socialism Now candidate, Antonio Cartalucio, 59% to 41%. After gaining Upper Marcee, Robinson looked to strengthen the liberal democratic base in Brocklyn and other boroughs of New Clausewitz and helped new fresh faces enter the party and take positions around the city. Robinson is known for his rock-star type lifestyle, mixing with local film stars and musicians in clubs and can often be seen in NC's art galleries and museums. An avid drinker, Robinson is rumoured to have have one of the best collections of Scotch Whiskey in NC and regularly hosts charity events and dinner parties at his Central Brocklyn residence. He is known for his fiery temper and quick decision making and he has sometimes been known to stand by one comment with 100% force and then suddenly change his position only hours later. For this, he has not made the best of friends with the old guard of the SLD, as he is sometimes seen as unruly and untrustworthy. However, Robinson maintains that he is a loyal supporter of the SLD and the party leadership, even if there can sometimes be differences.

Beliefs and Activity.

Robinson is a social liberal and fiscal centrist. He would throw a bottle at you however if you called him anything resembling a libertarian. He believes firmly in the separation of church and state and the positive role that the state can play in offering the equality of opportunity to all its individual citizens. To this degree, Robinson often supports motions that give more money to new and better ways of educating the nation's children and he has been quoted as saying "Education is the foundation of our society. We must not only preserve its quality, we must constantly improve it to ensure success of individuals and the nation in this globalised world." Many of the charities he hosts dinners for give money to secular aid agencies overseas as well as scholastic endeavors for underprivileged children in New Clausewitz. He continues his sporting career playing weekend Rugby for the amateur Brocklyn Dodgers Rugby Club and is also a member of the Army Reserve, holding the rank of Sgt. These extra commitments occasionally take him away from his work as representative for Upper Marcee, but his popularity remains high in the district.

[Okonkwo]

Professor Okonkwo Diallo (born July 29, 1972) is a PoFoite politician, professor for art and philosophy in the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar and writer. He has been member of the Social Liberal Democrats since 1991, heading their Social Liberal Youth Association from 1995 to 2000 and quickly rising in the ranks of the SLD afterwards. His writings include dissertations on artistic subjects such as Impressionism, Van Gogh, Picasso, philosophical writings such as the well-known The Meaning of Stoic Philosophy in the 21st Century.


Monsieur Diallo explaining his philosophical stance
in a Parisian brasserie

Nowadays, Professor Diallo is considered part of the moderate faction of the Social Liberal Democrats. He has been known to be willing to compromise and favour coalitions with other moderate parties, while constantly opposing and speaking out against any kind of political extremism.

[Clausewitz]

Even when you know you've already spent too much time on something, you just have to keep going...

The Rt Hon. Michael von Clausewitz (b. Jul 6, 1965) is a Pofoese politician and jurist. He is likely to represent in Parliament the East Riding of Maxhattan, located in Maxhattan, one of the boroughs of New Clausewitz. He is the present leader of the Liberal wing of the PoFo Unity Coalition, and the author of the Provisional Constitution of Pofoland.

The East Riding of Maxhattan is one of the nation's wealthiest constituencies, includes much of the most expensive real estate in Pofoland, and often generates the most money in campaign contributions of the nation's constituencies for the SLDs, PUC, and CA.



Early life

Q. Have you ever been embarrassed that you grew up, went to college, and represent a constituency in a city named after your family?
A. Nope.

Michael von Clausewitz is a scion of the Clausewitz family, related distantly to the Prussian military theorist. His ancestor, Heinrich von Clausewitz, was a minor figure in the 1848 revolution in Germany, and emigrated to Pofoland during the Bismarckian counterrevolution. There, the Clausewitz family found prosperity; Heinrich's son, the industrial magnate Johannes Dietrich von Clausewitz, founded the company PoFo Oil, and became fantastically wealthy and influential in nineteenth-century PoFo politics, and probably contributed to the appearance of all the damn Communists on PoFo today. Although the company was dismantled in anti-trust action, and the family's wealth eroded by time, Ixabert, and the occasional left-wing revolution, the Clausewitz family continued to hold a major stake in one of the company's descendants, PoFonMobil.

Michael lived comfortably in New Clausewitz, attending CWAS Arbiter Academy and New Clausewitz University, graduating with a B.A. in Economics in 1987 and a J.D. from New Clausewitz Law in 1991, clerking with the respected law and economics theorist Richard Netsner. Clausewitz served as legal counsel for PoFonMobil for six years before joining the Myers and Sons offices in New Clausewitz, where he gained a reputation as a determined if brutal negotiator, and a fiery and passionate attorney at trial. In 2007, Clausewitz became a member of the law faculty at New Clausewitz.

Political activitives

Q. What do you think your biggest challenges in government will be?
A. What, other than being a stubborn bisexual atheist centrist bourgeois oil-man lawyer in a Parliament full of commies and fascists?

Clausewitz was not politically active for most of his legal career. As a lawyer, he worked pro bono in Pofograd slums for a year before joining PoFonMobil and gained a modest regional profile in the business press for a few high profile cases as a defense attorney for Pofoland businesses as a litigator for Myers and Sons. Not a member of Pofoites for Democracy, he was not involved in the early stages of the pro-democracy movement in Pofoland, but expressed strong support for the PoFo Unity Coalition early in its life.

As the political climate developed, however, Clausewitz became increasingly engaged with the Unity Coalition, cheering fundraisers for the Coalition in New Clausewitz and making vehement presentations on behalf of the Party and in favor of centrist, pragmatic government. As a member of the New Clausewitz Law faculty, Clausewitz presented a bare, provisional constitution for the nascent popular government of PoFo that soon developed wide support and raised him to a national profile, but unfortunately damned Pofoland to majority governments.

Responding to divisions in the Unity Coalition over social policy, while recognizing firm support in the party for its economic platform, Clausewitz worked with the Coalition leadership to divide the party into two wings able to more independently determine social policy. With the support of the PUC leadership, Clausewitz became head of the Liberal wing of the PUC, and took a leave of absence from New Clausewitz Law.

Personal life

Clausewitz: FUCKITY FUCK McFUCK, YOU FUCKING FUCK!
as recorded by a court stenographer at a deposition following an altercation at a New Clausewitz bar.

The second oldest in a family of four, Michael's older sister Helena (b. 1959) now serves as a senior executive in PoFonMobil. Clausewitz's younger brother James (b. 1966) followed in Michael's footsteps and currently works as a lawyer at Myers and Sons. The youngest, Samuel (b. 1968), has renounced his family and works with the SN party as an organizer. Michael's parents, Thomas and Marie, each died of cancer in 1997, two weeks apart. The bulk of the family's inheritance passed to Michael's older sister Helena, and Samuel had been disinherited.

Coming from a staunch evangelical German Lutheran family, Michael reputedly became an atheist while attending New Clausewitz University. In interviews Clausewitz generally declines to answer probing questions on the matter publicly other than to say that he has cordial respect for religion. Nevertheless, he irregularly attends Evangelical Lutheran Church of PoFo services in New Clausewitz and Pofograd, mainly with his more religious family members.

Although reserved about his religious views, Michael von Clausewitz has been notoriously public about his private life. Responding to criticism by an editorialist of The Worker's Daily that accused him of claiming bisexuality in order to attract liberal SLD voters, Michael von Clausewitz sent to and demanded that the paper publish an "Exhaustive List of All The Sexual Partners That I Can Remember," with the note attached, "Call them and ask them how long it was."

Clausewitz has occasionally penned works of fiction, roman a clef, and thinly veiled short works of autobiography for The New Clausewitzer, a Pofoland literary magazine. Universally panned by critics for crude language, sexuality, poor taste, and all around intoxication, Clausewitz's drunken scribblings have nevertheless been acclaimed by certain Arab-Canadian commentators as "Better than Brokeback Mountain." A screenplay written some years ago by Clausewitz and leaked to the literary press occasionally surfaces, depicting a homosexual relationship between American actors Paul Giamatti and Philip Seymour Hoffman; so far, no reviewer or agent has approached the script, with the few commentators willing to speak of it universally calling it "bizarre." Responding to a reporter's question on his lackluster literary career, Clausewitz smiled and responded, "No one has ever gone to law school and left as a good writer. Look at John Grisham."

43 and never married, Clausewitz has had several run-ins with the law, usually while intoxicated. The most serious encounter occurred in 1998, when he was arrested for assaulting a patron of a New Clausewitz bar; opinions vary as to the cause of the disagreement and course of the argument. Although the criminal case was dismissed on a technicality, the civil case was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. A video circulated on BitTorrent shortly after the presentation of the Provisional Constitution allegedly depicting Clausewitz in flagrante delicto with a well-bosomed female, though the man might also have been Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Asked by a reporter, Clausewitz replied, "I'm sure it was Rasmussen."

A heavy drinker, a heavy smoker and (widely alleged) user of illicit drugs, Clausewitz is frequently asked the question "How can someone who leads a party that takes a strong line on smoking smoke so much?" Clausewitz smiles widely, as though the reporter is in on a private little joke, then offers the reporter a cigarette.

Political views

Q. What drew you to the PUC?
A. When I read the PUC platform for the first time, I was so in love with it that I became sexually aroused.

Clausewitz's political views are widely moderate. Once on record as socially conservative, Clausewitz claims that his political views developed to become more liberal. On divisive social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage, Clausewitz has been accommodating. He has said, "I am a staunch liberal, in the broad sense. I believe in representative, multiparty government, and in the formative stages of popular government in this nation we cannot allow partisanship to undermine that essential foundation for responsible lawmaking."

Clausewitz takes a strong position on negotiations with the extremist blocs in Parliament, in particular RF/SN. He enunciated an aggressive negotiating position against RF/SN for the purposes of forming a government parsing the SN platform into "Thirteen Unacceptables." Asked later by centrist lawmakers if he regretted the sternness of his position, Clausewitz replied, "Yes."

Nevertheless, Clausewitz has affirmed strong and unequivocating support for the PUC economic and foreign policy platform, which reflects a balanced, internationalist approach and a mixed economy that combines personal with national responsibility. He believes in regulated capitalism and a mixed economy and, generally, that the prosperity of the nation should drive political decision-making rather than divisive social policies.

Criticism
Main article: Criticism of Michael von Clausewitz

Unattributed Falxist/left-SLD/SN/RF editorialist: I'm not especially fond of the man.

A controversial figure, Clausewitz has been criticized on the right, on the left, in public, in private, by opponents foreign and domestic, on matters foreign, domestic, economic, social, and personal. The original complaint against Clausewitz was the use of the aristocratic "von," a construction not used by Clausewitz's family since leaving Germany over 150 years ago.

Although the Provisional Constitution received broad support, Clausewitz has proven divisive as a leader of the PUC, alternating between a lion of centrism and a meddler in SLD politics. Widely despised by SN members and left-wing SLDs for the strong line taken on coalition negotiations, Clausewitz has, however, maintained cordial relationships and respect for mainline SLDs such as Mikael Ombrageux, Okonkwo Diallo, Samuel Crowley, and [Paradigm, whoever his character is].

Other criticisms have leveled at him from the right, as injecting liberal policy into the platform. Substantial criticism has been leveled at him personally for his family relationships to PoFonMobil, his colorful personal life and background.

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A former sailor and native pofoite, discharged dishonourably from the pofoite navy for insubordination, escaping treason charges narrowly. In political exile in Switzerland until the RF was formed.

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Criticism

Sweet, I knew that would catch on.

Clausewitz, your article made me lol.