There is:
III.1. The Citizen-Sergeant shall delineate rank and responsibility within the Militia.
Yes, he can say Bustos is a toilet scrubber and he has to scrub toilets. This is as valid as the current interpretation, but I could see from the beginning that under the operations promoted by people now "leading" the militia it meant
traditional military hierarchy. That's fine, but I think as a revolutionary value of equality and all that, maybe we shouldn't make a "toilet scrubber" title and force them to toilet scrub, if you know what I mean. That law also gives him the ability to abolish ranks and remove responsibilities, any elected Citizen-Sergeant can do that, if that's acceptable then maybe we should do that next time.
I'm not sure what you're talking about here. The ranks in the Militia are explicitly provided for, and have been determined in a manner so as to be congruent with the ideas of the glorious revolution: we are all soldiers in the army, none of us commissioned officers. We generally discuss militia matters informally, and explain what we're doing and why.
None of what you described requires ranks, we generally discuss militia matters informally and people justify them regardless of ranks, that is a good approach, very like what I proposed as a "Syndicalized" or "ad hoc" militia. If people can see the merit in those proposals I will certainly support or write an amendment.
The actual discussion started about an instance of delegation. If you think delegation is fine, then it doesn't matter if the person delegated to is an NCO or not: the Citizen-Sergeant can delegate running a particular operation to them.
I think the Delegation under the current law is fine, I said so. I dislike the ranks and the sometimes autocracy on deciding the operations. Yes the current law gives the Citizen-sergeant the power to decide those things, I just think sometimes we, the militia, do operations for the slightest of reasons. Maybe the above mentioned discussion should be mandatory even if only within the militia in IRC. Maybe even a simple vote within IRC would totally satisfy me and make me say I'm proud for the "work" we're doing. (I've said I'm proud before, didn't I?)
On the other hand no we don't have a law making disobeying a crime. Why should we? We have decided to move away from that sort of thing. Bustos got called out for his refusal to move, this started a discussion, and ultimately Bustos agreed the instruction was legitimate and moved. At no point did anyone do something illegal.
ipsis verbis, I just took this opportunity to discuss underlying matters brought up from Bustos' discussion. How highjacker of me, sorry.
Okay, how would you define what's an operation by the Taijitu Citizens' Militia then?
I think it should arise on need, as it has been for many of them, organized on the spot and executed by those in favor. Those against may bring the operation in question to, what in our current system would most likely fit, the Ecclesia. In a way, we've been doing that, again there's no need for ranks or "orders", it's just more interpretive of free will if it's organized in a more participative way. Participative Democracy ftw.
Kinda like this:
This discussion is no longer fruitful. I believe the Militia should form itself organically whenever it is necessary by participation, whoever wants to participate is free to do so and it may have a SIMPLE ad hoc organization, without the need or attempt to establish military governance. Calling it a Citizens' Militia doesn't make it so.
This happened in the past:
(...)We shall organize ourselves into a militia until our current Delegate Oz officially recognizes this military operation under the Taijituan Army. We shall declare this intention in Taijitu's RMB, a list of those who join the militia will be updated here and transmitted to officials in Osiris.
I sign this declaration of intentions, I join the militia Taijituans for Freedom and Democracy with [INSERT NATION NAME], I will change my flag to the militia flag, move my WA nation to the region Osiris and there endorse Cormac.
PS: Ranks and required membership status, I mean, a citizen doesn't have to be in "our" militia to participate, and as a principle maybe we shouldn't also block anyone that isn't a citizen either, like a foreign dignitary or a random friend from another region wanting to participate on a militia operation with us. Make it more Participatory is what I mean.
