Thorben Schwenke speaks at Karlstein Metz tree

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Thorben Schwenke speaks at Karlstein Metz tree

Postby thefalloutfan101 » Thu Nov 16, 2017 3:25 am

Party official for the Freier Dundorfischer Gewerkschaftsbund (FDGB) Thorben Schwenke travels to Karlstein Metz tree in Dosmund, conducts public speech

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Herr Schwenke conducts a public speech, whilst reporters look on

After Friedrich Pfieffer's transcontinental hot air balloon flight ended with it crashing into the most hallowed landmark to socialists and communists worldwide, Thorben Schwenke, party official for the FDGB immediately planned a trip to Dosmund to give a public address on the matter. He commented that the incident was a tragedy to the preservation of Metz's legacy, but gives forgiveness to Pfieffer, owing that bad weather was a probable cause for the accident. Acknowledging his hospital stay, Herr Schwenke ensured that he was in the greatest care available to him from Dundorf's free healthcare system, and wished him a speedy recovery. Shifting away from Pfieffer, and addressing repairs on the tree, he urged that the government provide extensive landscaping services to restore the tree to as close as it resembled before. He argued that "Whatever political opinion the citizens of Dundorf hold, it is wholeheartedly agreed that the Metz tree is a significant national, and moreso international landmark. Our government should take the swiftest measures for restoration." Schwenke had further comments on the not so distant 2500th holiday of International Karlstein Metz Day in 4318, commenting:

"Our party officials have unanimously agreed to demonstrate our celebration for the 2500th anniversary of Metz's birth in the most appropriate of ways. Preparing years ahead, we wish to send an order for the Ransestadt Communist Workers Co-Operative, in Dorvik, to commission a massive statue of Metz to be built and placed in front of our party headquarters in Zerlin. We believe that tourism will soar upon it's completion, and on the 2500th anniversary as well, and attract socialists and communists the whole world over. Perhaps, in the distant future, our statue may become as significant as the tree itself."

Schwenke's speech ended with resounding applause, and he promptly returned to Zerlin.
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Re: Thorben Schwenke speaks at Karlstein Metz tree

Postby Phil Piratin » Thu Nov 16, 2017 10:57 pm

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The Karlstein Metz tree in Dosmund, Dundorf, which Metz used to hide from police in 1874

Friedrich Pfeiffer, the former leader of the Dorvish Communist Party who accidentally crashed into the Karlstein Metz Tree whilst navigating a hot air balloon, has written to Thorben Schwenke thanking him "from the bottom of my heart for the kind attention you, and so many others in the Dundorfian communist community, have shown towards me during my stay in your country". He added that he has now fully recovered from his injuries, and is considering resuming his Communist Hot Air Balloon Tour of Terra at some near point in the future, despite the protestations of his wife.

He also thanked Schwenke for his "solid campaigning efforts on behalf of the Karlstein Metz Tree", adding:

The Karlstein Metz Tree is a very special place, and I was privileged to enjoy the peacefulness, serenity, dignity and wisdom that it resonates with. it is the tree which kept the great Karlstein Metz safe from the police when he was about to be arrested. Who knows? If it hadn't been for this tree, perhaps he would never have had the opportunity to write the great works that he went on to write? This tree is so, so important, not just to Dosmund, not just to Dundorfians, not just to communists but to the whole of humanity. It is part of the shared, cultural and historical heritage of humankind, and in my view, it should be allocated some sort of World Heritage Status.


A journalist later asked him whether granting the tree World Heritage Status would mean banning people from flying hot air balloons close by to it. Pfeiffer was embarrassed, then laughed and conceded, "Yes, it probably would". A second journalist then asked him whether he thought people who recklessly damaged the tree should be severely fined or sent to prison, but Pfeiffer refused to answer.
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