Post by Michael Dervin OCS on Nov 18, 2008 12:28:22 GMT -4
On the 14th of November 2008, From the National Arena of Directrus, Mr. Justice Michael Dervin OCS, addresses the masses of citizens assembled in the packed arena, on the first date of this Tour of Ocia
[/center]Below is his speech:
My Fellow Ocians and Citizens of Directrus,
Today, as we gather in this arena, we are not only gathering to hear my speak on the future of Ocia and what I will do over the next six months if you should decide to elect me as President of the Ocian Federation, but we gather as one community of citizens of Ocia from all corners of the world, to say in one loud voice to the world, that we, the citizens of Ocia care about our future, we care about our continued development, we care about our economy and we care about continuing down the road of peace and prosperity & this is why, you in your thousands have gathered to support the only person who can make this possible, the man who cares about your cares and not his own, the man who puts you first and your issues on the top of every priority list. This Man is the man who addresses you today, this Man is Michael Dervin and with your vote, I can make your issues the forefront of my next term as President and build the Ocia of the future as you have dreamed it to be!
Some of you here today may be students, being that Directrus is the University City of Ocia, the home of the disastrous University Programme founded by Matt Kovac, which is yet another project he started and bungled up on and in doing so failed you the students of Ocia. However, despair not, dear students, for your vote in the elections, I will completely reform the University and have already introduced a provisional plan to the Council of State about my proposal which awaits some final approval, which is should have by the time I enter Office for a Second term as your President. This Plan involves, the complete removal and scrapping of the University of Directrus and instead replacing it with the University of Ocia, a web based learning platform, which many real life Universities use, to engage in Correspondence Courses, this new system will instead move away from the disastrous Kovac Plan of education and instead focus on methods which work, for real life situations, all we are doing is applying them to Ocia. I have started to work on this website, but in order for it to reach its full potential, I need your vote, in order to make this new system a reality, I need your vote, for the very best for education in Ocia, a vote for Dervin will ensure education is now the new priority, rather than a aggressive army for vendettas as under the Kovac Plan. Education is the key to a sustainable Ocia of the future, don’t risk your future in voting for someone else, vote Dervin, for a secure future!
Further Educational reforms, which I propose to bring in is the retention of Free Fees for ALL Ocian students and to extend this programme to cover non-nationals, so people from outside Ocia may come here to study for free in our state of the art, world leading University, once it has undergone my reforms as I have proposed. I am aware of the problem of lecturers and course directors saying they are starting a course and you sign up with great anticipation only to see that this so called course never materialised, this is why under the Dervin Plan for 09, I am proposing to place hefty fines on those who advertise they are starting a course but never start the course, this way we will discourage this growing trend of non-start courses and will mean only courses which actually will be starting will be advertised. On the other hand, I am also proposing to introduce a lecturer’s Grant, which will be determined by the Minister of the Interior & Finance, and will be payable to all lecturer who start and finish a course, this will encourage not only citizens of Ocia to start a course but those from beyond our borders to share their knowledge among the Ocian population, this, I hope will benefit Ocia long into the future, in knowing that non-start course will be a thing of the past and lecturers will be encouraged to finish the course which they start, by apt financial grants. On the subject of Grants, the Grants made payable to students for partaking in a course will be reformed to be paid AFTER the student has finished the course, encouraging students to stick with and finish a course to the very end. I have already overseen the 100% increase in grants to student taking courses in the University, in the next six months, I will oversee a further 50% increase of grants to students, so there will be even more of a reason to take up a course in Ocia and expand your knowledge, to the benefit to the Ocian community.
For those non-students, I have not forgotten about you, this is why, as your next president, I wish to oversee the continuing development of our capital, in line with the Provincial Development Initiative, which is under threat from my opponents who have already threatened to scrap a number of vital plans for development under this plan, because they are afraid of the hard work and toil it will involve. However, I am not and with your vote, I will work and toil until I am on my death bed from the exhaustion to make this plan a reality and to benefit YOU the people of Ocia, which is a living testament to my determination to put you, the citizen first and myself second. My opponents have branded my plans as unworkable and without a back bone, will today I tell you, the only thing which we the people of Ocia see as unworkable and without a back bone is your promises, proposals and manifestos, your plans are destined to fail along with your elections campaigns, for Directrus believes in change, it believes in the PDI and together Directrus and I will accomplish any task which is laid out before us! For nothing is impossible when you believe and I believe in you Directrus and hope that you believe in me and show it on December 1st, when you cast that all important vote in which the development of your province and your future so desperately depends on, do not fail your province, do not allow your prosperous future to be stripped away from you, Vote Dervin and vote for a better tomorrow!
My fellow Ocians, today we stand united with one goal, the goal for a better future, a better Ocia for Our Children and a better Ocia for us today, this goal we started to achieve 6 months ago, we are not finished yet, we have a lot done and a hell of a lot more to do, do let the Ocia of your dreams die, Vote Dervin and lets carry on down the road of success!
Vote Dervin, A Lot Done…More to Do!
Thank You!