[Proposal] Charter of the Lazarene Regional Guard Amendment

[New Rogernomics]

On a procedural note, it would be easier to follow along if each change was documented in the post announcing the change, rather than just editing OP.

Regarding the substance of the current draft: I think it's okay-ish, though as I've said many times before, my worry here is opening up Lazarus in a way that defenders or raiders could seek incentive to storm in.

(5) The Regional Guard operational commander will be not be permitted to propose military operations that promote a regional military alignment.

This part is in practice not enforceable. What sort of operation promotes an alignment? Does simply chasing once promote defenderism? Does a single tag run promote raiderism? What if in one month there are 4 "raid-type" operations but only 1 "defense-type" operation simply because of happenstance of availability? Really, this isn't something that can be written into law that can be reasonably interpreted.

A better approach may be to write that the RG command structure shall strive to not unduly favor any ideology. That's still not enforceable, but it doesn't try to be, and gives an implicit mandate that can serve as context for judicial interpretation.

Having the Delegate (who, in this system, is not political) have the final say rather than any political official (Cabinet) is a neat way of avoiding the chance of having outside ideologues politicize the choice of operations. I'm still not sure the RG really needs to engage in anything else than it already can, but this is at least shaping up into something I could maybe support.

I've been hearing privately and publicly, the various ways that people want the military policy of Lazarus to be.

So my initial draft did not fly with everyone, some of whom either want full on R/D or are heavily opposed to any kind of R/D. 

So it isn't as flexible as my first one was. 

I did try to say that both Tubbius, and even myself wouldn't ever authorize an operation that could bring the region into disrepute, which was the whole point of having the effective veto of the Delegate on any operation. 

That part about military options though, was added, because some folks were getting the false impression that this amendment would undermine the neutrality parts that are mentioned earlier in the existing act. It does not restrict anyone advocating for raider or defender policy, as it only caters for the situation where the commanding officer declares the Guard a "raider" or "defender" org and and flies in face of regional neutrality by doing so - and that is why it is enforceable. 

The existing legislation already states the equivalent of " unduly favor any ideology" as well, though to some this isn't clear enough:

(1) The Lazarene Regional Guard will be the sole military force of Lazarus, neutral in alignment.

It seems from what I am hearing is that enough seem to be supportive of allowing us to participate in the military options of allies, which would imply allowing Lazarus to join raids of Osiris, or defense operations of TSP, if those regions were okay with that. So that's what the current amendment intends to allow.