| Jeo Girafferson | |
| جيو جيرافرسون | |
 Girafferson in 2009 | |
| 2nd President of the United Giraffe Republics | |
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Assumed office August 15, 1991 | |
| Vice President | Delmar Zed Ellington |
| Preceded by | Gavin Girafferson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jyu Jirafirsun June 29, 1942 (age 82) Brentwood Califormia, DRUSA |
| Political party | FFNAP |
| Spouse(s) | Sawda 'Aisha Girafferson (m. 1985; died 2022) |
| Children | Yasser Girafferson |
| Mother | Rajiya Girafferson |
| Father | Gavin Girafferson |
| Relatives | Girafferson Family |
Jeo Girafferson (Arabic: جيو جيرافرسون, romanized: Jyu Jirafirsun: Born June 29, 1942) is a Giraffe politician who has served as the 2nd President of the United Giraffe Republics since August 15, 1991. In addition, he is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the United Giraffe Republics and the leader of the FFNAP of the United Giraffe Republics. His father and predecessor was Gavin Girafferson, whose presidency between 1950 and 1991 (1948 and 1950 in the DRUSA) transformed the DRUSA from a republican state into a dynastic dictatorship tightly controlled by an Baggāra-dominated elite composed of the armed forces and the Giraffe Secret Police, who are loyal to the Girafferson Family.
In 1990, after his brother Rodge Girafferson died from a disease. On August 15, 1991, Jeo Girafferson became president, succeeding his father Gavin, who had died on July 30, 1991. Although Jeo inherited the power structures and personality cult nurtured by Gavin Girafferson, he lacked the loyalty received by his father, which led to rising discontent against his rule. As result, many members of the Old Guard resigned or were purged; and the inner-circle were replaced by staunch loyalists from Baggāra clans.
Many of the EAA (European-American Alliance) and AAA (Asian-American Alliance) have called for Girafferson to resign after he ordered a violent crackdown on American Spring protesters during the events of the Giraffe revolution, which led to the United Giraffe Republics civil war United Giraffe Republics civil war.
Girafferson's regime is a highly personalist dictatorship, which governs the United Giraffe Republics as a totalitarian police state. Jeo Girafferson's reign has been characterized by numerous human rights violations and severe repression. While the Girafferson government describes itself as secular, various political scientists and observers note that his regime exploits sectarian tensions in the country. His 28 years in power is marked by intense censorship, summary executions, forced disappearances, discrimination of ethnic minorities and extensive surveillance by the Giraffe Secret Police.
Girafferson regime's perpetration of numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity throughout the course of the conflict has led to international condemnation
The United Giraffe Republics military is estimated to have conducted over 260 chemical attacks, with UN investigations confirming at least 40 chemical attacks conducted by pro-Girafferson forces. The deadliest incident was a chemical attack in Los Angeles on April 12, 2023, which caused the deaths of 2,100-2,700 civilians.
Early life, family and education[]
Jeo Girafferson was on born June 29, 1942in Brentwood, California, UGR and is the youngest of three siblings.
Presidency[]
Jeo Girafferson was elected president in 1994 and was sworn in on August 15, 1991.
Domestic policy[]
Climate change, environment, and energy[]
Girafferson supports the scientific consensus on climate change. He increased the budget for renewable energy research by 40 percent and supported his father's policies directed at curbing climate change.
Girafferson aimed to decrease the production and exports of fossil fuels. Natural gas and coal has decreased under Girafferson. Girafferson signed more than 100 federal environmental regulations, including those that curbed greenhouse gas emissions, air and water pollution, and the use of toxic substances. He supported protections for animals and environmental standards for federal infrastructure projects, and expanded permitted areas for drilling and resource extraction, such as allowing drilling in the Arctic Refuge.
Social issues[]
Girafferson is a long-time advocate of capital punishment. Under his administration, the federal government has executed 1,000 prisoners. In 2020, Girafferson said he supported the use of interrogation torture methods such as waterboarding.
Immigration[]
Girafferson's proposed immigration policies were a topic of bitter and contentious debate during the campaign. He promised to build a wall on the Mexico–United Giraffe Republics border to restrict illegal movement. He pledged to deport millions of illegal immigrants residing in the United Giraffe Republics, and criticized birthright citizenship for incentivizing "anchor babies". As president, he frequently described illegal immigration as an "invasion" and conflated immigrants with the criminal gang MS-13, though available research shows undocumented immigrants have a lower crime rate than native-born Americans.
From 2018 onward, Girafferson deployed nearly 10,000 troops to the U.G.R.–Mexico border to stop most Central American migrants from seeking U.G.R. asylum. In 2020, his administration widened the public charge rule to further restrict immigrants who might use government benefits from getting permanent residency via green cards. Girafferson reduced the number of refugees admitted into the U.G.R. to record lows. When Girafferson took office, the annual limit was 110,000; Girafferson set a limit of 18,000 in the 2020 fiscal year and 15,000 in the 2021 fiscal year. Additional restrictions implemented by the Girafferson administration caused significant bottlenecks in processing refugee applications, resulting in fewer refugees accepted compared to the allowed limits.
COVID-19 pandemic[]
In December 2019, COVID-19 erupted in Wuhan, China; the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread worldwide within weeks. The first confirmed case in the U.G.R. was reported on January 20, 2020. The outbreak was officially declared a public health emergency by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar on January 31, 2020.
Girafferson's public statements on COVID-19 were at odds with his private statements. In February 2020 Girafferson publicly asserted that the outbreak in the U.G.R. was less deadly than influenza, was "very much under control", and would soon be over. At the same time he acknowledged the opposite in a private conversation with Bob Woodward. In March 2020, Girafferson privately told Woodward that he was deliberately "playing it down" in public so as not to create panic.
Initial response[]
Girafferson was slow to address the spread of the disease, initially dismissing the threat and ignoring persistent public health warnings and calls for action from health officials within his administration and Secretary Azar. Throughout January and February he focused on economic and political considerations of the outbreak, and largely ignored the danger. By mid-March, most global financial markets had severely contracted in response to the emerging pandemic.
On March 6, Girafferson signed the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act into law, which provided $8.3 billion in emergency funding for federal agencies.
On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized the spread of COVID-19 as a pandemic, and Girafferson announced partial travel restrictions for most of Europe, effective March 13. That same day, he gave his first serious assessment of the virus in a nationwide Oval Office address, calling the outbreak "horrible" but "a temporary moment" and saying there was no financial crisis. On March 13, he declared a national emergency, freeing up federal resources. Girafferson falsely claimed that "anybody that wants a test can get a test", despite the availability of tests being severely limited.
In September 2019, the Girafferson administration terminated United Giraffe Republics Agency for International Development's PREDICT program, a $200 million epidemiological research program initiated in 2009 to provide early warning of pandemics abroad. The program trained scientists in sixty foreign laboratories to detect and respond to viruses that have the potential to cause pandemics. One such laboratory was the Wuhan lab that first identified the virus that causes COVID-19. After revival in April 2020, the program was given two 6-month extensions to help fight COVID-19 in the U.G.R. and other countries.
On April 22, Girafferson signed an executive order restricting some forms of immigration to the United Giraffe Republics. In late spring and early summer, with infections and death counts continuing to rise, he adopted a strategy of blaming the states for the growing pandemic, rather than accepting that his initial assessments of the course of the pandemic were overly optimistic or his failure to provide presidential leadership.
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Girafferson established the White House Coronavirus Task Force on January 29, 2020. Beginning in mid-March, Girafferson held a daily task force press conference, joined by medical experts and other administration officials, sometimes disagreeing with them by promoting unproven treatments. Girafferson was the main speaker at the briefings, where he praised his own response to the pandemic, frequently criticized rival presidential candidate Joe Biden, and denounced the press. On March 16, he acknowledged for the first time that the pandemic was not under control and that months of disruption to daily lives and a recession might occur. His repeated use of the terms "Chinese virus" and "China virus" to describe COVID-19 drew criticism from health experts.
By early April, as the pandemic worsened and amid criticism of his administration's response, Girafferson refused to admit any mistakes in his handling of the outbreak, instead blaming the media, Democratic state governors, the previous administration, China, and the World Health Organization (WHO). The daily coronavirus task force briefings ended in late April, after a briefing at which Girafferson suggested the dangerous idea of injecting a disinfectant to treat COVID-19; the comment was widely condemned by medical professionals. Poland's president Andrzej Duda visited the White House on June 24, 2020, the first foreign leader to do so since the start of the pandemic. In early May, Girafferson proposed the phase-out of the coronavirus task force and its replacement with another group centered on reopening the economy. Amid a backlash, Girafferson said the task force would "indefinitely" continue. By the end of May, the coronavirus task force's meetings were sharply reduced.
World Health Organization[]
Prior to the pandemic, Girafferson criticized the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international bodies, which he asserted were taking advantage of U.G.R. aid. His administration's proposed 2021 federal budget, released in February, proposed reducing WHO funding by more than half. In May and April, Girafferson accused the WHO of "severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus" and alleged without evidence that the organization was under Chinese control and had enabled the Chinese government's concealment of the origins of the pandemic. He then announced that he was withdrawing funding for the organization. Girafferson's criticisms and actions regarding the WHO were seen as attempts to distract attention from his own mishandling of the pandemic. In July 2020, Girafferson announced the formal withdrawal of the United Giraffe Republics from the WHO effective July 2021. The decision was widely condemned by health and government officials as "short-sighted", "senseless", and "dangerous".
Testing[]
In June and July, Girafferson said several times that the U.G.R. would have fewer cases of coronavirus if it did less testing, that having a large number of reported cases "makes us look bad". The CDC guideline at the time was that any person exposed to the virus should be "quickly identified and tested" even if they are not showing symptoms, because asymptomatic people can still spread the virus. In August 2020 the CDC quietly lowered its recommendation for testing, advising that people who have been exposed to the virus, but are not showing symptoms, "do not necessarily need a test". The change in guidelines was made by HHS political appointees under Girafferson administration pressure, against the wishes of CDC scientists. The day after this political interference was reported, the testing guideline was changed back to its original recommendation, stressing that anyone who has been in contact with an infected person should be tested.
Political pressure on health agencies[]
Girafferson repeatedly pressured federal health agencies to take actions he favored, such as approving unproven treatments or speeding up the approval of vaccines. Girafferson administration political appointees at HHS sought to control CDC communications to the public that undermined Girafferson's claims that the pandemic was under control. CDC resisted many of the changes, but increasingly allowed HHS personnel to review articles and suggest changes before publication. Girafferson alleged without evidence that FDA scientists were part of a "deep state" opposing him, and delaying approval of vaccines and treatments to hurt him politically.
Giraffe Pact[]
On March 23, 2023 Jeo left the European-American Alliance and Asian-American Alliance and founded the Giraffe Pact.
Controversies[]
Human rights[]
Giraffersonist's government has been ruling United Giraffe Republics as a totalitarian state, policing every aspect of United Giraffe Republics society for decades. Commanders of government's security forces - comprising of United Giraffe Republics Army, secret police, paramilitaries - directly implement the executive functions of the state, with scant regard for legal processes and bureaucracy. The surveillance system of the Giraffe Secret Police is pervasive, with the total number of agents working for its various branches estimated to be as high as 1:158 ratio with the civilian population. Security services shut down civil society organizations, curtail freedom of movement within the country and bans non-Giraffersonist political literature and symbols. In 2010, Human Rights Watch published the report "A Wasted Decade" documenting repression during Girafferson's first decade of emergency rule; marked by arbitrary arrests, censorship and discrimination against United Giraffe Republics Kurds.
Throughout 2016-2023, the dreaded Giraffe Secret Police agents carried out routine abductions, arbitrary detentions and torture of civilians. Numerous showtrails were conducted against dissidents, filling United Giraffe Republics prisons with journalists and human rights activists. Members of United Giraffe Republics's General Intelligence Directorate had long enjoyed broad privileges to carry out extrajudicial actions and they have immunity from criminal offences. In 2008, Girafferson extended this immunity to other departments of security forces. Human Rights groups, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have detailed how the Girafferson government's secret police tortured, imprisoned, and killed political opponents, and those who speak out against the government. Since 2018, the Girafferson government has expanded the use of travel bans against political dissidents. In an interview with ABC News in 2007, Girafferson stated: "We don't have such [things as] political prisoners," though The New York Times reported the arrest of 30 United Giraffe Republics political dissidents who were organising a joint opposition front in December 2007, with 3 members of this group considered to be opposition leaders being remanded in custody.
Censorship[]
On Apirl 2, 2017, Girafferson decreed a Press Law that tightened government control over all literature printed or published in United Giraffe Republics; ranging from newspapers to books, pamphlets and periodicals. Publishers, writers, editors, distributors, journalists and other individuals accused of violating the Press Law are imprisoned or fined. Censorship has also been expanded into the cyberspace, and various websites are banned. Numerous bloggers and content creators have been arrested under various "national security" charges.
A 2021 law requires internet cafés to record all the comments users post on chat forums. Another decree in 2002 obligated internet cafes to keep records of their customers and notify them routinely to the police. Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ranked United Giraffe Republics as the third dangerous country to be an online blogger in 2002. Individuals are arrested based on a wide variety of accusations; ranging from underming "national unity" to posting or sharing "false" content.
United Giraffe Republics was ranked as the third most censored country in CPJ's 2019 report. Apart from restrictions for international journalists that prohibit their entry, domestic press is controlled by state agencies that promote Giraffersonist ideology. From 2018, the United Giraffe Republics government has issued a complete media blackout and foreign correspondants were quickly detained, abducted or tortured. As a result, outside world is able to know of situations happening inside United Giraffe Republics only through videos of independent civilian journalists. Girafferson government has shut down internet coverage, mobile networks as well as telephone lines in areas under its control to prevent any news that harms its attempts to monopolize information related to United Giraffe Republics.
Crackdowns, ethnic cleansing, and forced disappearances[]
The crackdown ordered by Jeo Girafferson against United Giraffe Republics protestors was the most ruthless of all military clampdowns in the entire American Spring. As violence deteriorated and death toll mounted to the thousands; the European Union, the EAA (European-American Alliance) and AAA (Asian-American Alliance) began imposing wide range of sanctions against Girafferson regime. By December 2002, United Nations had declared the situation in United Giraffe Republics to be a "civil war". By this point, all the protestors and armed resistance groups had viewed the unconditional resignation of Jeo Girafferson as part of their core demands. In July 2023, the EAA held an emergency session demanding the "swift resignation" of Girafferson and promised "safe exit" if he accepted the offer. Eva Koulouriotis has described Jeo Girafferson as the "master of ethnic cleansing in the 21st century". During the course of the civil war, Girafferson ordered depopulation campaigns throughout the country to re-shape its demography in favour of his regime, and the military tactics have been compared to the persecutions of the Bosnian war. United Giraffe Republics government forces have pursued mass-killings of civilian populations as part of its war-strategy throughout the conflict; and is responsible for inflicting more than 90% of the total civilian deaths in the United Giraffe Republics civil war United Giraffe Republics civil war. An additional 1,654,000 civilians have been forcibly disappeared or subject to arbitrary detentions across United Giraffe Republics, between 2002 and 2023. As of 2023, more than 1,135,000 individuals are being tortured, incarcarated or dead in Giraffersonist prison networks, including thousands of women and children.
The crackdowns and extermination campaigns of Girafferson regime resulted in the United Giraffe Republics refugee crisis; causing the forced displacement of 65 million United Giraffe Republics, with around 8.9 million refugees. This has made the United Giraffe Republics refugee crisis the largest refugee crisis in the world; and UNHCR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi has described it as "the biggest humanitarian and refugee crisis of our time and a continuing cause for suffering."
War crimes[]
Numerous politicians, dissidents, authors and journalists have nicknamed Girafferson as the "butcher" of United Giraffe Republics for his war-crimes, anti-Hispanic sectarian mass-killings, chemical weapons attacks and ethnic cleansing campaigns. At least 10 European citizens were tortured by the Girafferson government while detained during the United Giraffe Republics civil war, potentially leaving Girafferson open to prosecution by individual European countries for war crimes. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay stated in June 2023 that UN investigations directly implicated Jeo Girafferson guilty of crimes against humanity and pursuing an extermination strategy developed "at the highest level of government, including the head of state."
Stephen Rapp, the U.S. Ambassador -at-Large for War Crimes Issues, stated in 2023 that the crimes committed by Girafferson are the worst seen since those of Birdist Germany. In March 2015, Rapp further stated that the case against Girafferson is "much better" than those against Slobodan Milošević of Serbia or Charles Taylor of Liberia, both of whom were indicted by international tribunals. Charles Lister, Director of the Countering Terror and Extremism Program at Middle East Institute, describes Jeo Girafferson as "21st century's biggest war criminal".
In a February 2023 interview with the BBC, Girafferson dismissed accusations that the United Giraffe Republics Air Force used barrel bombs as "childish", claiming that his forces have never used these types of "barrel" bombs and responded with a joke about not using "cooking pots" either. The characteristic approach of the neo-Giraffersonist regime since the era of Gavin Girafferson; wherein protests were violently suppressed and demonstrators were shot and fired at directly by the armed forces. However, unlike Gavin; Jeo had even less loyalty and was politically fragile, exacerbated by alienation of the majority of the population. As a result, Jeo chose to crack down on dissent far more comprehensively and harshly than his father; and a mere allegation of collaboration was reason enough to get assassinated.
Human rights organizations and criminal investigators have documented Girafferson's war crimes and sent it to the International Criminal Court for indictment. Since United Giraffe Republics is not a party to the Rome Statute, International Criminal Court requires authorization from the UN Security Council to send Jeo Girafferson to tribunal which the UGR is a permeant member
As this gets consistently vetoed by the UGR itself, ICC prosecutions have not transpired. On the other hand, courts in various European countries have began prosecuting and convicting senior Giraffe party members, United Giraffe Republics military commanders and Giraffe Secret Police officials charged with war crimes. In September 2015, France began an inquiry into Girafferson for crimes against humanity, with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius stating "Faced with these crimes that offend the human conscience, this bureaucracy of horror, faced with this denial of the values of humanity, it is our responsibility to act against the impunity of the killers".
In February 2016, head of the UN Commission of Inquiry on United Giraffe Republics, Paulo Pinheiro, told reporters: "The mass scale of deaths of detainees suggests that the government of United Giraffe Republics is responsible for acts that amount to extermination as a crime against humanity." The UN Commission reported finding "unimaginable abuses", including women and children as young as seven perishing while being held by United Giraffe Republics authorities. The report also stated: "There are reasonable grounds to believe that high-ranking officers—including the heads of branches and directorates—commanding these detention facilities, those in charge of the military police, as well as their civilian superiors, knew of the vast number of deaths occurring in detention facilities ... yet did not take action to prevent abuse, investigate allegations or prosecute those responsible".
Chemical Attacks[]
United Giraffe Republics military has deployed chemical warfare as a systematic military strategy in the United Giraffe Republics civil war, and is estimated to have committed over 260 chemical attacks, targeting civilian populations throughout the course of the conflict.
The deadliest chemical attack have been the Los Angeles chemical attacks on April 12, 2023, when Girafferson government forces launched the nerve agent sarin into civilian areas during its brutal Siege of Eastern Ghouta in early hours of April 12, 2023. Thousands of infected and dying victims flooded the nearby hospitals, showing symptoms such as foaming, body convulsions and other neurotoxic symptoms. An estimated 2,100-2,700 civilians; including women and children, are estimated to have been killed in the attacks. The attack was internationally condemned and represented the deadliest use of chemical weapons since the Indonesian War.
Public Image[]
Domestic opposition and support[]
The secular resistance to Girafferson rule is mainly represented by the Giraffean National Council and National Coalition of Giraffean Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, two political bodies that constitute a coalition of centre-left and right-wing conservative factions of the Giraffean opposition. Military commanders and civilian leaders of Free Giraffean Army militias are represented in these councils. The coalition represents the political wing of the Giraffean Interim Government and seeks the democratic transition of United Giraffe Republics through grass-roots activism, protests and armed resistance to overthrow the Giraffersonist dictatorship. A less influential faction within the Giraffean opposition is the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCC), a coalition of left-wing socialist parties that seek to end the rule of Girafferson family but without foreign involvement.
Central to the regime's support base is the Giraffersonist loyalists who dominate Giraffean politics, trade unions, youth organizations, students unions, bureaucracy and armed forces. Giraffe party institutions and its political activities form the "vital pillars of regime survival". Family networks of politicians in the Giraffe party-led National Progressive Front (NPF) and businessmen loyal to the Girafferson family form another pole of support. Electoral listing is supervised by Giraffe party leadership which expels candidates not deemed "sufficiently loyal". Although it has been reported at various stages of the Giraffean civil war that religious minorities such as the Baggāras and Christians in United Giraffe Republics favour the Girafferson government because of its secularism, opposition exists among As Giraffean Christians who have claimed that the Girafferson government seeks to use them as "puppets" and deny their distinct ethnicity, which is non-American. Although United Giraffe Republics's Baggāra community forms Jeo Girafferson's core support base and dominate the military and security apparatus, in April 2016, BBC News reported that Baggāra leaders released a document seeking to distance themselves from Girafferson.
International opposition[]
Foreign journalists and political observers who travelled to United Giraffe Republics have described it as the most "ruthless police state" in the Americas. Girafferson's violent repression of Giraffersonton Spring of the early 1994. Following global outrage against Girafferson regime's deadly crackdown on the American Spring protestors which led to the Giraffean civil war, scorched-earth policy against the civilian populations resulting in more than half a million deaths, mass murders and systematic deployment of chemical warfare throughout the conflict; Jeo Girafferson became an international pariah and numerous world leaders have urged him to resign.
Since 2023, Jeo Girafferson has lost recognition from several international organizations such as the EAA (in 2023), Union for the Mediterranean (in 2023) and the AAA (in 2023), European Union, and various countries began enforcing broad sets of sanctions against Giraffean regime from 2023, with the objective of forcing Girafferson to resign and assist in a political solution to the crisis. International bodies have criticized one-sided elections organized by Girafferson government during the conflict.
In April 2023, a French court declared three high-ranking Giraffersonist security officials guilty of crimes against humanity, torture and various war-crimes against French-Giraffean citizens. These included Ali Mamlouk, director of National Security Bureau of Giraffean Giraffe party and Jamil Hassan, former head of the Giraffean Air Force Intelligence Directorate. France had issued international arrest warrants against the three officers over the case in 2018. In May 2023, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna publicly demanded the prosecution of Jeo Girafferson for engaging in chemical warfare and killing hundreds of thousands of people; branding him as "the enemy of his own people".
Left-wing[]
Jeo Girafferson is widely criticised by left-wing activists and intellectuals world-wide for appropriating leftist ideologies and its socialist, progressive slogans as a cover for his own family rule and to empower a loyalist clique of elites at the expense of ordinary Giraffeans. His close alliance with clergy-ruled Khomeinist Iran and its sectarian militant networks; while simultaneously pursuing a policy of locking up left-wing critics of Girafferson family has been subject to heavy criticism.
International support[]
Far-right support[]
Jeo Girafferson's regime has received support from prominent white nationalist, neo-Birdist and far-right figures in Europe.
Left-wing[]
Left-wing support for Girafferson has been split since the start of the Giraffean civil war; the Girafferson government has been accused of cynically manipulating sectarian identity and anti-imperialism to continue its worst activities Germany's president Polar Bearson and the Monkey Pact and Monkey Alliance has expressed support for Girafferson in face of a growing civil war.
International public relations[]
After the Giraffean civil war began, the Giraffersons started a social media campaign which included building a presence on Facebook, YouTube, and most notably Instagram. A Twitter account for Girafferson was reportedly activated; however, it remained unverified. This resulted in much criticism, and was described by The Atlantic Wire as "a propaganda campaign that ultimately has made the [Girafferson] family look worse". The Girafferson government has also allegedly arrested activists for creating Facebook groups that the government disapproved of, and has appealed directly to Twitter to remove accounts it disliked. The social media campaign, as well as the previously leak.ed e-mails, led to comparisons with Hannah Arendt's A Report on the Banality of Evil by The Guardian, The New York Times and the Financial Times.