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Bill: POW Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Republican 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: December 2392
Description[?]:
| Prisoners of War, must be treated and respected with international law. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the treatment of prisoners of war.
Old value:: Prisoners of war are enslaved.
Current: Prisoners of war must be treated well, according to internationally-accepted standards.
Proposed: Prisoners of war must be treated well, according to internationally-accepted standards.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:40:10, April 20, 2007 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the POW Reform |
| Message | Thank you; somebody finally developed a brain! |
| Date | 23:43:32, April 20, 2007 CET | From | Marxist Peoples Party | To | Debating the POW Reform |
| Message | Since this is a point of honor for my allie the imperialist party I have to vote no |
| Date | 00:23:38, April 21, 2007 CET | From | Imperialist Party | To | Debating the POW Reform |
| Message | This is an attack on our national sovereignty. Under our constitution, non-citizens do not have any special rights. Furthermore, under our prison system, prisoners are put to work. It is utterly ridiculous and hypocritical that we would treat foreign enemy invaders better than our own domestic prisoners. |
| Date | 00:25:41, April 21, 2007 CET | From | Republican Party | To | Debating the POW Reform |
| Message | That will be changed also. |
| Date | 20:09:22, April 21, 2007 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the POW Reform |
| Message | @IP: maybe not 'special' rights, but perhaps equal ones? |
| Date | 21:27:18, April 21, 2007 CET | From | Imperialist Party | To | Debating the POW Reform |
| Message | I would also point out that this reform is being made while we are at war. I suspect the Republican Party of Hutori sympathies - for they are weakening our institutional ability to punish the enemy by their gutting of our laws, and destroying our financial capacity with tax cuts, when that money is needed for war. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 249 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 290 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 62 |
| Random fact: In cases where a party has no seat, the default presumption should be that the party is able to contribute to debates in the legislature due to one of its members winning a seat at a by-election. However, players may collectively improvise arrangements of their own to provide a satisfying explanation for how parties with no seats in the legislature can speak and vote there. |
| Random quote: "Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them so what good are they?" - Ammon Hennacy |