Onderkelkia wrote:Fatdul wrote:
I ask who were members of the Council and who were expelled because the Council did not consist of all citizens. Entry to the Emerald Council appears to have been fairly restricted, actually.
Indeed, I'm aware that it did not consist of all citizens and had a restrictive entry process, but those who were ejected - including Griffin, NES and Cerebella - were council members. I don't myself have the exact list of all members of the council at the time of the purge (as I was not a member of the council or Lazarus at all, whereas NES or Griffin may have more details), but my understanding is that those ejected were 30% of the membership.
Following further irritating research, I've found some relevant information.
First, a roster of the Emerald Council last edited August 10, 2013:
August 10 2013 Emerald Council Roster wrote:
- Feux
- Drop Your Pants
- Stujenske
- Viktoria Gryfynn
- Heronlord
- North East Somerset
- Spectacor
- C. I. Cerebella
- Apollo
- Gauntleted Fist
- Aperi
- Funkadelia
- New Rogernomics
- Milograd
(Note: the original list was in bullet form, changed it to numbered list for convenience).
Feux' announcement of expulsions and his resignation is dated September 16th, so the roster needs to be checked for changes in the intervening period.
There is a Removed Council Members topic I've found... which ends November 18th 2012. Useless.
After digging through the applications for a while, I stumbled across the old Emerald Council voting archive by searching on one of the applicants' names. It's apparent that Libetarian Republics, Harmoneia, Sovreignry, Antonacia, and EvilBob were admitted between August 10 and September 16th. It's also apparent that expulsions were usually voted on here. For example, Kingborough's removal vote July 28 - August 4 2013.
Let us assume that there were no removals not voted on in this archive between August 10th and September 16th.
The corrected roster is therefore:
September 16 Emerald Council Roster (?) wrote:
- Feux
- Drop Your Pants
- Stujenske
- Viktoria Gryfynn
- Heronlord
- North East Somerset
- Spectacor
- C. I. Cerebella
- Apollo
- Gauntleted Fist
- Aperi
- Funkadelia
- New Rogernomics
- Milograd
- Libetarian Republics
- Harmoneia
- Sovreignry
- Antonacia
- EvilBob
I was unable to find a vote or announcement of a vote on the September 16th removals, perhaps someone with better masking can do that. For the time being, let us refer to the NSNE story on the subject:
LAZARUS ADMINISTRATION REMOVES IMPERIALISTS FROM LAZARUS wrote:The members of The New Inquisition’s Executive Government who were banned and ejected are the Kaiserin, Queen Viktoria Gryffyn, Heir Apparent, Charles Cerebella and The New Inquisition’s Prince, North East Somerset. Also removed from Lazarus is Apollo Anumia, ex-founder of Ainur.
Viktoria Gryfynn, C. I. Cerebella, North East Somerset, and Apollo were all Emerald Council members, according to the above research.
Dividing 4 by 19 we find that they formed 21% of the Emerald Council. A disturbingly high percentage, from my liberal perspective, to be expelled. Not quite 25% however, and much less than 30%.
This doesn't constitute proof that the action was legal, by the by, but it does seem to disprove your argument for why it wasn't. To actually positively describe the vote as legal, I would need to see it, and would like a bit more certainty as to the roster at the time of the vote.
I hope this is helpful.