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Bill: Foreign Policy Reform (2419)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Imperial Vodka and Pimm's 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: May 2420
Description[?]:
| In the name of His Serene Majesty The Emperor, By the Grace of God, Defender of the Faith: This bill stops Johnny Foreigner taking advantage of our good nation and our good people through: - Limitation of aid; ties being necessary to ensure repayment of loans or political or economic favours. - Screening of missionaries; We must know the exact religious stance of missionaries that they not corrupt our subjects. Furthermore, we must ensure that they are not spies. - End of the 'national power' clause related to prisoners of war. The laws of foreign countries are strange and, crucially, foreign. What if they insist we must turn over all prisoners of war, thereby foregoing any intelligence advantage and returning to them capable soldiers? Therefore: prisoners of war shall be treated as prisoners ought. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: The government selectively screens which religions are permitted to send missionaries to the nation. Certain religions are approved and travel is unregulated.
Current: Foreign missionaries are welcomed and encouraged by the government.
Proposed: The government determines which missionaries are permitted to visit on a person by person basis.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards giving aid to foreign countries.
Old value:: The government gives high levels of aid to countries in need.
Current: The government gives moderate aid to countries in need.
Proposed: The government supplies "tied" aid to poorer nations in return for trading rights.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the treatment of prisoners of war.
Old value:: Prisoners of war are treated according to the national laws of the captor power.
Current: Prisoners of war must be treated well, according to internationally-accepted standards.
Proposed: Prisoners of war may be mistreated without legal sanction.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:00:48, June 26, 2007 CET | From | Luthori Christian Women's Association | To | Debating the Foreign Policy Reform (2419) |
| Message | My party is thoroughly opposed to this. Belinda Braithwaite (Leader of the LCWA) |
| Date | 20:34:29, June 26, 2007 CET | From | Secular Party | To | Debating the Foreign Policy Reform (2419) |
| Message | The LPP has once again shown its bigotry, warmongering, and un-Christian ideals. Once again it has shown it is a party without humanity. |
| Date | 21:06:42, June 26, 2007 CET | From | Luthori Christian Women's Association | To | Debating the Foreign Policy Reform (2419) |
| Message | The Linen & Pimms Party is a party on Pimms. Belinda Braithwaite (Leader of the LCWA) |
| Date | 21:36:40, June 26, 2007 CET | From | Imperial Vodka and Pimm's Party | To | Debating the Foreign Policy Reform (2419) |
| Message | We are certainly not, Miss Braithwaite, Pimm's is an alcoholic beverage and therefore illegal. The party is so named because of our founder, Theodore Augustus Anthony Wedgewood Sophomore Pimm. We would never involve ourselves in illegal activities, I can assure you! To be lectured on religion by Secularists, how very entertaining. |
| Date | 00:31:12, June 27, 2007 CET | From | Luthori Christian Women's Association | To | Debating the Foreign Policy Reform (2419) |
| Message | We stand corrected, and re-word our statement as follows: the Linen and Pimm's Party behaves like a party on Pimm's :-) Belinda Braithwaite (Leader of the LCWA) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 6 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 53 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 24 |
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