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Bill: Military REform Act 2369
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federal Social Democratic Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2370
Description[?]:
| Military spending eats up tax money, it costs the country huge amounts of money, that is not spend correctly. Speninding money on nuclear weapons, for instance, is a waste. Recognising this, we propose: |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning biological and chemical weaponry.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Current: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Proposed: The nation shall never purchase, produce, or store biological or chemical weaponry, for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of chemical and biological weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to use chemical or biological weapons in warfare for any reason.
Current: The nation reserves the right to use chemical or biological weapons in warfare for any reason.
Proposed: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of nuclear weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in warfare for any reason.
Current: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare.
Proposed: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The policy with respect to nuclear weaponry.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to develop, produce and store nuclear arms.
Current: The nation reserves the right to develop, produce and store nuclear arms.
Proposed: The nation shall never produce or store nuclear weaponry for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:19:21, March 05, 2007 CET | From | Militant Libertarian Front | To | Debating the Military REform Act 2369 |
| Message | The Military is the one of the means by which the government carries out its legitimate function: defending individual rights. |
| Date | 22:19:43, March 05, 2007 CET | From | Militant Libertarian Front | To | Debating the Military REform Act 2369 |
| Message | it should have every option available to do this. |
| Date | 03:58:37, March 06, 2007 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Military REform Act 2369 |
| Message | Against every single one of them. I agree with MLF. The military is the most critical need of a small government because it defends us from foreign invaders who could impose a larger government. It thus should be able to have no regulations in its defense of us. |
| Date | 13:36:53, March 06, 2007 CET | From | Federal Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Military REform Act 2369 |
| Message | We are not against defending ourselves, but these are not the wepons to do it with. Let's see 1. If neighbours attack us, our nations are small, using WMD's against them will harm us as much. 2. Foreign invaders who want to impose big government,first of all, this is ludicrus, second, they will want to invade us. If your aim is invasion, you do not use WMD's as this makes the country unusable, and therefor not good for invasion. Therefor WMDs is also not a deterent. We are all for a strong, convetional force, but not, I say again, NOT these unethical, expensive weapons. Finally, having these weapons makes our neighbours uneasy, as our current MLF government is seeming more and more to be rogue, and nobody like WMD's in the hands of rogue's. But I am not supoirsed by the oposition of the MLF government and it's ICP cronies, it is all part of the Libertarian-Anarchist hipocracy - we don't want to steal for the individual to help the poor, but we WILL steal form the individual to buy expensive weapons we will never use!!!!! |
| Date | 01:05:40, March 07, 2007 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Military REform Act 2369 |
| Message | Our taxes are low, but I don't want us to not exhaust all our options when it's wartime. |
| Date | 12:07:50, March 07, 2007 CET | From | Militant Libertarian Front | To | Debating the Military REform Act 2369 |
| Message | rubbish...the role of government is to defend individual rights. I concede we don't yet have a voluntarily funded state but when we do it will need to be able to defend its citizens. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 71 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 529 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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