From what I'm reading, people are getting wrongly caught up in the wrong argument. We do not view Sam as an imminent threat to regional security. That is not why anybody should vote to recall him from the CSS.

The thing we should be considering is this:

(03-01-2016, 09:11 PM)Belschaft Wrote: I think it needs to be recognized that people may act in a certain manner during a high stress constitutional crisis, a manner that is not typical of how they would act normally.

If the "certain manner" Sam acted was to end up participating in a coup, after the High Court ruled against the Cabinet, after it was clear the Cabinet's actions were illegal, does that temperament and misjudgment disqualify him from sitting on the CSS?

I think the answer is yes. It's true that very few in NSGP have spotless records-- but even fewer have participated in a coup. Regardless of your sympathies for either the Coalition or for the Transitional Government, it is indisputable that the former followed the laws to fight against the coup, while the latter got rid of the laws that made their actions illegal (and the people who were supposed to enforce them). That is a genuine problem, when the CSS has theoretically great powers if it chooses to exercise them. The CSS comes into play during high stress crises, so we really should not be having people sit on the CSS if they don't handle high stress crises well.