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Bill: Animal Freedom Reforms
Details
Submitted by[?]: Zardugal Anarchist Party
Status[?]: passed
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: August 2442
Description[?]:
| "John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?" – Emma Goldman |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the ownership of domestic animals as pets.
Old value:: People must register domestic animals with the local government.
Current: People must register domestic animals with the local government.
Proposed: There are no laws regarding domestic animal ownership.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of endangered animals.
Old value:: Only zoos or zoological institutions are allowed to keep endangered animals; all other forms of keeping or trading in endangered animals are forbidden.
Current: Keeping endangered animals, or trading therein, is forbidden.
Proposed: Everyone may keep endangered animals, without any restrictions whatsoever.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of exotic animals.
Old value:: Only zoos or zoological institutions are allowed to keep exotic animals.
Current: Only zoos or zoological institutions are allowed to keep exotic animals.
Proposed: Everyone may keep exotic animals, the trade in exotic animals is unregulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:10:28, August 12, 2007 CET | From |  Progressive Liberals | To | Debating the Animal Freedom Reforms |
| Message | So you wouldn't care if your neighbour had a pet lion in the backyard then? Regulation isn't always bad you know. "This crazy party makes me feel conservative" - Mark Phillips |
| Date | 05:55:34, August 12, 2007 CET | From | Zardugal Anarchist Party | To | Debating the Animal Freedom Reforms |
| Message | This bill is strongly related to our self protection act, which if passed would allow you to treat the lion with a serving of bullet. |
| Date | 17:49:57, August 12, 2007 CET | From | Progressive Liberals | To | Debating the Animal Freedom Reforms |
| Message | Oh well that fixes that. Alternative: Don't allow lions in backyards and don't allow people to shoot at things they don't like. Maybe I'm going insane but I think that would work better. |
| Date | 10:08:43, August 14, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Animal Freedom Reforms |
| Message | Nope, you were right the first time. Insane. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 339 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 62 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: It is the collective responsibility of the players in a nation to ensure all currently binding RP laws are clearly outlined in an OOC reference bill in the "Bills under debate" section of the nation page. Confusion should not be created by displaying only some of the current RP laws or displaying RP laws which are no longer current. |
| Random quote: "In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy." - Brian Mulroney |