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Bill: Proper Punishment of Criminals and Aliens Act, 2422
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: July 2423
Description[?]:
| That serious criminals (rapists, bank robbers, terrorists) where they are not sentenced to death under the most recent Death Penalty Act be confined to slavery for a set term of years. That prisoners of war be slave labourers until such time as a peace treaty is signed. Provision is to be made for the humane treatment of slaves where physical hardship or corporal punishment not part of their sentence. War criminals are to be treated humanely where no provision or order is made otherwise in law. |
Proposals
Article 1
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 are enslaved.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The legality of slavery.
Old value:: Slavery and the slave trade are illegal.
Current: Slavery and the slave trade are illegal.
Proposed: The slave trade is illegal, but slavery is legal as a punishment.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:43:02, July 03, 2007 CET | From | Luthori Christian Women's Association | To | Debating the Proper Punishment of Criminals and Aliens Act, 2422 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, This is barbarian and un-Christian. I yield the floor. Belinda Braithwate (Viceroy & Leader of the LCWA) |
| Date | 22:06:55, July 03, 2007 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Proper Punishment of Criminals and Aliens Act, 2422 |
| Message | * The Reverend John Bunyan rises, a King James Bible in his hand, open at the book of Leviticus. Mr speaker, I wonder if the Most Excellent Viceroy would be kind enough to enlighten us as to when the laws of Moses regarding the keeping and treatment of slaves were repealed, and on whose authority this was done? I yield the floor. |
| Date | 22:21:47, July 03, 2007 CET | From | Secular Party | To | Debating the Proper Punishment of Criminals and Aliens Act, 2422 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the honorable representative of the Bible and Crown defenders would be kind enough to enlighten us as to when slavery became a mark of a civilized country. Perhaps the representatives fromt he Bible and Crown Defenders are happy being a bunch of barbarian fools? I yield the floor. |
| Date | 23:26:33, July 03, 2007 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Proper Punishment of Criminals and Aliens Act, 2422 |
| Message | * The Revd Captain Hugh Evans CF, jumps to his feet, edging forward and pointing accusingly. * If they don't like our Christian Civilisation the Secularists know where they can go! Mr Speaker! * He adds before returning to his seat. |
| Date | 00:32:42, July 04, 2007 CET | From | Secular Party | To | Debating the Proper Punishment of Criminals and Aliens Act, 2422 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, *pauses* I guess that is a yes. I yield the floor. *snickers erupt from the Secular Party members* |
| Date | 02:00:39, July 04, 2007 CET | From | Luthori Christian Women's Association | To | Debating the Proper Punishment of Criminals and Aliens Act, 2422 |
| Message | "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." - Matthew 7:12 "For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord's freedman; similarly, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ's slave. You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men." - 1 Corinthian 7:22-23 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." - Galatians 3:28 |
| Date | 14:21:28, July 04, 2007 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Proper Punishment of Criminals and Aliens Act, 2422 |
| Message | * The Revd John Bunyan is introduced by the speaker of the Diet, he stands, holding a King James Bible open at the Gospel according to Matthew: Mr Speaker, Jesus made it clear that he had not come to abolish the Law of Moses or the Prophets, but to fulfill them (Matthew 5:17-20 http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_teachings_of_jesus/on_the_law_of_moses/mt05_17.html). These Laws make it clear that slavery is part of God's plan ( Exodus 21:2-21, Deuteronomy 15:16-17 http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/slavery/ex21_02a.html). I suggest the hon members opposite take some time to study the scriptures before quoting small parts of them out of context, and yield the floor. |
| Date | 17:21:07, July 04, 2007 CET | From | Luthori Christian Women's Association | To | Debating the Proper Punishment of Criminals and Aliens Act, 2422 |
| Message | "...What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.' For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.' " - Mark 7:20-23 I invite the Pharisees of the BCD to review their support for the re-introduction of slavery in modern-day Luthori, and ask themselves whether some of the negative motives listed in the scripture above might apply to them. Belinda Braithwaite (Viceroy & Leader of the LCWA) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 48 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 52 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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