2017 McClark Western Union Speech

President of the United Provinces Simon McClark delivered a major speech in Delphi, Acadia on October 5th outlined his agenda for the Western Union and called for further WU integration and unity.

Speech
(12:43 PM. Crowd of around 30,000 penguins massively cheering UPR at Liberation Square, where the monument to Revolutionary War heroes is located. McClark is delivering a speech, and President Brant of Acadia is standing by watching his speech)

McClark: Thank you very much. Thank you.

McClark: Today, we mark the day of the Battle of Delphi in Acadia on October 5th, 1999. It is a major day in the Acadian calendar and so many lives have been lost to secure Acadians the freedoms which they have and cherish today. It is necessary that we pay tribute to all the men and women who so bravely fought and died in the Revolution to secure their sons and daughters secure, joyful and free lives.

(moment of silence takes place for the victims during which the entire crowd and McClark are silent)

McClark: Acadia never will and must never forget.

(the crowd and President Brant raise their heads up)

McClark: Today is a major turning point in the war for Acadian independence. The battle has been successful and the island of Acadia stunned the entire world by demonstrating its courage in the face of a major threat, the world's greatest superpower, and also the greatest oppressor. Today we pay homage to everybody who fought to liberate this great, beautiful nation from tyranny of massive scales unlike the world has ever seen before.

(crowd cheers for McClark and briefly starts chanting McClark's name)

McClark: It has been 18 years since the Acadian revolution, and Acadia is one of the most progressive, most democratic, free and wealthiest nation on the entire continent. With the help of the Western Union, Acadia has moved forward and has established itself as a great role model for many other smaller nations. Acadia may be small in land size, but Acadia is big in the heart of many Snowinn citizens.

(massive cheer from the crowd)

McClark: It is imperative that we ensure Acadia never suffers the tragedy that it had to endure in the 1990s. Puffish rule in the country was a great travesty and the Acadian people had suffered greatly under the rule of the colonial regime. Today, Acadia stands out as a world power. With the help of your buddies in the Western Union, you, Acadians, have become a truly great and economically powerful country and all Snowinn people deeply, deeply admire you.

(the crowd applauds)

McClark: The Western Union is growing, and it must continue to grow for Acadia and everybody on the continent to be secure. We do not seek to trample your sovereignty - quite the contrary, we seek to protect it from menacing and daunting foreign and domestic evils, and we seek to protect the beauty, charm and glory that Acadia is so deeply known for. We want to bring nations closer together and to deter any threats to our countries. We want a Union of closely cooperating nations who nobody can do harm to and whose citizens can live in peace, harmony and liberty without being told what to do or what to think by any oppressive regime.

(applause from the crowd)

McClark: The Western Union cannot remain as it is now. Western Union citizenship has been rejected months ago, and the idea of creating a united Western Union army has also been rejected. Member states must act now to protect their sovereignty and to protect the Union we so cherish and which brought all the nations so closer together, nations which were so different from one another years ago that they would never communicate with each other and never talk to each other or visit each other's nations. Patriotism is the cure for prejudice and by uniting the nations of the Western Union through patriotism we can bring for an end to wars, famine and poverty.

(the crowd cheers and chants UPR and President Brant, smiling in the back, is also chanting UPR)

McClark: Thank you.

McClark: The Union must get closer together and must unite in support for the Western Union Charter, for the Western Union Army, for Western Union Citizenship, and for an initiative to open borders between the countries and secure the rights of all citizens within the Union. All citizens must have the right to have the same glorious and nutritious food on their table and all citizens must have a right to live in a warm, secure home. All citizens must have the right to say whatever they wish to say without being persecuted for having the so-called "wrong beliefs" and all citizens must have a right to work and live in other member states of the Western Union.

(roaring applause from the crowd and a sound applause from President Brant)

McClark: I have spoken to President Brant and he has agreed with me that peace in Antarctica is the only way and that the only way we can get it is through uniting the very fragile Western Union through brand new initiatives and bring the member states even closer together. The Western Union must be further reformed into an even more democratic institution and it should become an even stronger organization. The penguins of the countries can no longer wait and can no longer tolerate warmongering nations threatening their liberty and happiness.

(cheers from the crowd)

McClark: Nationalism is a relic of the past. Patriotism is where it is at. Nationalism seeks to make their nation stronger while undermining the strength and well-being of other nations. Patriotism seeks to make their nation stronger but not at the expense of other nations and it seeks to strengthen the people and their rights - but most importantly - patriotism represents love and nationalism represents hate that should have been abandoned ages ago. The Western Union must progress on and it cannot be stopped by nationalism which seeks to dismantle the Union itself - the Union must continue to integrate its member states and it must become an even more powerful organization in order for its people's rights to remain secure and for its people to live in harmony.

(the crowd and President Brant clap, although not too loudly)

McClark: We cannot allow us to be held back. This is the perfect time, my fellow Acadians - this is the perfect time for the economic growth and prosperity of the Western Union, its member states and its citizens. This is the perfect time to further integrate our Union and to further progress on bringing an end to the war, famine, poverty and misery of the wars that took place during the last few years, whether in Frosia or in Penland, or in Puffalia or in Nexon. No more war.

(the crowd cheers)

McClark: In order to permanently remove war from history, the Western Union must give up on poisonous nationalism and poisonous ideologies that seeks to dismantle the Western Union and make penguins unhappy again. Make penguins unhappy again is their slogan, and we cannot let the enemy win. Hate cannot and must not win, and I will not allow for such ideologies to win. I call on the smart, brave Acadian people to join me in this quest for an ever-more united and more united union. Acadia is a core member of the Western Union, and without Acadia, the Union is nothing. Acadia greatly benefits from the Western Union, and the Western Union and its other fellow member states helped make Acadia a very powerful country through cooperation, both economic and military, and through trade agreements, pacts and other treaties. Come and join us, Mister President and the fellow Acadian people, come and join us in uniting the Union and making lives better for every day citizens. Come and join us in purging evil from Earth once and for all!

(a roaring applause from the crowd and from President Brant Esser)

McClark: Thank you very much, and may Acadia and its people forever be blessed!