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Bill: Civil Defence Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Luthori Green 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: December 2095
Description[?]:
| The threat of WMD attack, although small, still exists. Many nations have enacted legislation allowing the construction and use of WMDs. Although many within the Commonwealth of Luthori condemn such use, and are against our nation using such weapons, it is still necessary to protect the nations citizens from others, who would use such deplorable, savage, and barbaric weapons. Although similar legislation is currently before the congress in another bill, it does not require the shelters to be open to the public, so only those in government, their families, major contributors and their families are required to be protected. What is the point of government if their is no one left to protect. Must we govern over rebellious cinders. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Civil defence is the government's policy on providing shelters to be used in the event of attacks on major cities, mainly nuclear attacks and bombing.
Old value:: The government makes no provision for civil defence.
Current: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Proposed: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:36:51, August 13, 2005 CET | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Civil Defence Act |
| Message | I can agree with this. |
| Date | 10:03:31, August 13, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Civil Defence Act |
| Message | This would be far too expensive. The surplus left over after my proposal to reinforce public buildings would be used to strengthen our military and police forces to prevent any attack. |
| Date | 19:46:42, August 13, 2005 CET | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Civil Defence Act |
| Message | you complain about expense? after you try to restart our nuclear weapons program? |
| Date | 20:16:28, August 13, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Civil Defence Act |
| Message | Yes: I complain about spending too much on civil defence _because_ I want to restart our nuclear weapons programme and increase the defence and police budgets. |
| Date | 00:28:09, August 14, 2005 CET | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Civil Defence Act |
| Message | We will support this bill. |
| Date | 10:05:59, August 14, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Civil Defence Act |
| Message | In the absence of enough support for my Defence of the Realm Bill I will vote yes. Our military increases can come out of next year's budget. |
| Date | 08:54:45, August 15, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Civil Defence Act |
| Message | I've changed my mind: if you fools want to disarm you should accept the consequences instead of hiding in bunkers! |
| Date | 09:06:13, August 15, 2005 CET | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Civil Defence Act |
| Message | yes, we will face the consequences: increased international respect, increased trust between us and our neighbors, more healthy business relationships as merchants need not fear war. those are consequences we can live with, i think. |
| Date | 10:07:07, August 15, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Civil Defence Act |
| Message | DUP, you make it sound as if everyone in the world is out to get us. As far as I can tell from the forums, and the NFP can correct me if I'm wrong (your more active in the forums then me), we have no enemies, we have not participated in a war, except as neutral third parties, and the closest we can come to a threat is a country nearby supporting aggressive reunification with another country on the other side of the map. We're involved in at least one international treaty, many of our parties are involved in international party organisations, and the NFP has been involved in many efforts to foster peace in the world. We don't need to fear other nations, they like us, they are our friends. This proposal is a "just in case" measure. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 683 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 9 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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