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Bill: Military Preparedness II
Details
Submitted by[?]: Tuesday Is Coming
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: February 2097
Description[?]:
| Split from the previous bill by popular demand. This bill will do the second part of that bill, everything related to biological or chemical weapons. http://82.238.75.178:8085/particracy/main/viewbill.php?billid=13977 |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning biological and chemical weaponry.
Old value:: The nation shall never purchase, produce, or store biological or chemical weaponry, for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Current: The nation shall never develop, purchase or store biological or chemical weaponry.
Proposed: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of chemical and biological weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Current: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Proposed: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:41:26, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Military Preparedness II |
| Message | Opposed. |
| Date | 17:08:02, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Military Preparedness II |
| Message | Thank you for splitting the bill despite the early vow not to. This is one of the most important and controversial issues in Lodamun's history. There are now only ten CBW-armed states in the world. There is no conceivable threat to Lodamun from chemical or biological weapons. To arm ourselves with them, at a time when other states are disarming themselves of these barabaric weapons, is an act of madness that would turn Lodamun into a rogue state. (The number of CBW states is already well down since the last time this issue became a controversy in Lodamun.) Chemical and biological weapons have no deterrent value. A state armed with nuclear weapons already possesses any deterrent value given by WMDs. Chemical weapons add nothing to any deterrent. They do, however, have a provocative value that is likely to set other states against us. We would be setting back years of patient diplomacy by both the Adam Smith Party and the CNT and People's Coalition foreign ministers designed to prove that Lodamun is a peace-loving state. Chemical and biological weapons arsenals also pose an environmental threat to our own people. It is not possible to easily contain them in labs. Weapons-grade biological agents can escape from labs, contaminating the environment and harming human health. There is no reason to commit this monstrous act of arming ourselves with useless but dangerous weaponry. |
| Date | 17:37:31, August 16, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Military Preparedness II |
| Message | If we re-arm, the CNT/AFL will join Green Advantage's battle for foreign pressure, Lodamun will not, under any circumstances be a CBW nation. |
| Date | 18:50:35, August 16, 2005 CET | From |  National People's Gang | To | Debating the Military Preparedness II |
| Message | A truly obscene bill. Well done. |
| Date | 21:49:12, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Military Preparedness II |
| Message | Halabja is a nice city In all the time full of beauty Spring has covered everywhere there Rainbow in the sky joined as a fear Colourful birds are always sing Branches of a tree were smoothly swinging Babies in their cots had fallen asleep Their spiritual were highly in deep Such as butterfly, skin colourful In early morning flying in cool Hills, mountains shining around Reflection of the sun left no bound Drops of rain had fallen down Voices of rivers very well known Well decorated the sky and the ground Hardly you can see a spot in brown Ground was green, mixed with flowers The sky dressed up in every hour Suddenly darkness shut our eyes Smokes of gases spread in the sky Blue became red, green dried up Lights out, the sky locked up Stars got blind, the sky paralysed Thousands of people had to die This was disaster of humanity In 16th of March no security Year 1988 was soon past We never forget, hailed by bombard That was Iraqi military struck civilians By chemical weapons, and a cocktail of mustard gas Had a tremendous effect set us on fire Freedom and unity indeed our desire Neuropsychiatrist is a human tragedy In every house and in the city Infertility and congenital malformations Blindness and cancers spread among population Holy Spirit, in the energy is shown Come to build, inspire, in a nation Dana Kadir Copyright ©26/06/2000 Dana Kadir ???? Sydney/Australia |
| Date | 23:38:33, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Royal Conservative Party | To | Debating the Military Preparedness II |
| Message | Having reconsidered this, I have decided that checial and biological weapons are not effective means of defence (nuclear weapons are). As such I feel I can no longer can support the creation of weapons which are not necessary for our defence. |
| Date | 01:25:45, August 17, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Military Preparedness II |
| Message | Understood, as that is the general consensus here since the 80s. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 111 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 339 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Party organizations are eligible for deletion if they are over 50 in-game years old, do not have at least 1 active member or are historically significant and possess historically significant information. |
| Random quote: "There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle." - Alexis de Tocqueville |