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Bill: Leading By Example Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Civil Liberty Persecution Complex 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: January 2442
Description[?]:
| There are several archaic concepts concerning murder of one another that need to be rectified immediately. From wasting money on the death penalty to encouraging hunting and building chemical/biological weapons? Preposterous. |
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 shall never purchase, produce, or store biological or chemical weaponry, for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Proposed: The nation shall never develop, purchase or store biological or chemical weaponry.
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 shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Proposed: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy with respect to the death penalty.
Old value:: The death penalty is not applied, except for terrorism, treason and crimes against mankind.
Current: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Proposed: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The official national sport.
Old value:: Red-tailed Hawk Hunting
Current: Football
Proposed: Poker
Article 5
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 reserves the right to nuclear weapons in retaliation to a nuclear, chemical or biological attack.
Proposed: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare.
Article 6
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 shall never produce or store nuclear weaponry for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Proposed: The nation shall never develop, produce or store nuclear weaponry.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:39:44, August 04, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the Leading By Example Bill |
| Message | WMDs are a detterent. Decommissioning them will only encourage agression against us, and to do so while Deltaria is attempting to assert its power again is very dangerous. The reason we shoot Red-talied Hawks is because it is Pontesi national animal. Not shooting them can only encourage the Pontesians to invade, given they will use any pretext to steal our land. Do you want us to be occupied. The death penalty is a difficult issue. We should allow religious doctrine to decide it. |
| Date | 03:56:18, August 05, 2007 CET | From | Civil Liberty Persecution Complex Party | To | Debating the Leading By Example Bill |
| Message | Dangerous? Maybe. This is why the bill isn't the "arm to the teeth" bill but rather the lead by example bill. Run the risk. Your objection to changing the national animal has no basis in... well sanity. No, we should allow that all human beings are created equal to decide that. Murder is murder. |
| Date | 11:41:09, August 05, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the Leading By Example Bill |
| Message | Your ignoring the point; disarming makes us a target for belligerent regimes. It has a simple premise; the more hawks we shoot, the less we are like pontesi. And since nobody wants to be like Pontesi, we sshould encourage people to shoot them. Murder is only murder if the Torah says so. |
| Date | 18:09:42, August 05, 2007 CET | From | Moderate Voice of Reason Party | To | Debating the Leading By Example Bill |
| Message | This bill, though admirable in intent, is inadvisable Certainly in the hostile climate of the present world we cannot afford being without the strong deterrent that is a nuclear defense? While we wish that that every nation in the world could exist in harmony and that all disputes could be settled through frank and earnest debate, the world is not such a place. And though we hope that we will never see the day when such weapons are ever used in warfare again, we cannot dare leave ourselves open to be held hostage by hostile nations that do have an arsenal of such weapons. The Moderate Voice of Reason party is for sustainable quotas on Red-tailed Hawk Hunting to ensure that future generations get to take part in our great national sport. As for the death penalty, we are squarely against it. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind and what not. |
| Date | 15:51:24, August 07, 2007 CET | From | Civil Liberty Persecution Complex Party | To | Debating the Leading By Example Bill |
| Message | "It has a simple premise; the more hawks we shoot, the less we are like pontesi. And since nobody wants to be like Pontesi, we sshould encourage people to shoot them." And the less nuclear weaponds we have the less we look like Pontesi. |
| Date | 16:02:22, August 07, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the Leading By Example Bill |
| Message | Yep, but the more we have the less likely we are to be invaded by Pontesi. |
| Date | 18:16:02, August 10, 2007 CET | From | Pharaoh's People's Party | To | Debating the Leading By Example Bill |
| Message | We should not make such grandiose gaurantees as are in this law; our security may be at stake. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 61 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 14 |
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