User talk:Terrafirmapartyvan

Citadel Government Speculation
Please note, in regards to your recent edits to the Citadel and Citadel Council pages, that assuming anything based solely on the fact that there appear to be elections on the Citadel is speculation. Just because there is one turian seen running for office does not therefor imply that the Citadel is run by a "representative democracy, not unlike the governments of the United States and Europe during the 20th and early 21st Century.", or that "it can be assumed it is a representative democracy, as candidates run in elections on political platforms, not unlike democracies today." Just because there is a legislature and elections to said legislature, this does not imply democratic government. Many totalitarian states have legislatures and elections. Nazi Germany had the Reichstag, North Korea has the Supreme People's Assembly, the Soviet Union had the Congress of People's Deputies, Cuba has the National Assembly of People's Power, and on and on. These countries have/had elections where candidates ran on platforms. They are most definitely not representative democracies. And in the first representative democracy, Athens, there were no candidates and no platforms, but they most definitely were a representative democracy. So again, please don't read too much into one little fact. When it comes to speculation, there is no such thing as a safe assumption. SpartHawg948 04:00, March 2, 2010 (UTC)