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Bill: Raising Public Awareness of Endangered and Exotic Animals
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberty 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: January 2465
Description[?]:
"By allowing our citizens, with some regulation, to own their own endangered and exotic animals they can learn to appreciate their beauty and why, as a nation, Zardugal needs to treat then responsibly and with respect. This measure will also open up a pet business, creating the incentive of profit and jobs to keep protecting these animals and breeding more of them." ~ Quotation from a letter from Mr. Ben Russel, Belgae Vet and Liberty Party voter |
Proposals
Article 1
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, but the trade in, and the ownership of, endangered animals is strictly regulated by the government to prevent their extinction in the wild.
Article 2
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, but the trade in exotic animals is regulated by the government.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 13:02:15, October 01, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Raising Public Awareness of Endangered and Exotic Animals |
Message | "Directory Members, Mr. Russel has convinced me that this would be in the animals best interests through this letter he addressed to the Presidential Office, I hope he's convinced you as well." ~President Rowan Payne |
Date | 13:44:36, October 01, 2007 CET | From | National Authoritarian Movement | To | Debating the Raising Public Awareness of Endangered and Exotic Animals |
Message | "Most of the animals we talk about live under conditions citizens aren't able to provide. Furthermore, some of these animals are a possible threat to others." |
Date | 19:39:06, October 01, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Army Left Movement | To | Debating the Raising Public Awareness of Endangered and Exotic Animals |
Message | "Regular citizen basicaly can't provide decent living conditions for this animals" F.Bertin - Communist Party of UPZ |
Date | 10:13:57, October 02, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Raising Public Awareness of Endangered and Exotic Animals |
Message | "Once again, the Authoritarians and the Communists show their firm belief our population is irresponsible and lazy. I guess that's fair enough though, people who are themselves irresponsible enough to believe in ideologies that have failed time and time again and lazy enough to not see in the proposed law that the State would heavily regulate the trade and conditions pertaining to these animals." ~President Rowan Payne |
Date | 10:52:15, October 02, 2007 CET | From | National Authoritarian Movement | To | Debating the Raising Public Awareness of Endangered and Exotic Animals |
Message | "People do not always react responsable for several reasons. Your ideology expects anybody to be responsable in every decision. That's simply not reality. Therefore we must set up a situation, which can deal with wrong decisions and protect others - people and in this case animals - from harm. That's not because we don't believe in the good intentions of our people" |
Date | 12:03:02, October 02, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Raising Public Awareness of Endangered and Exotic Animals |
Message | "You don't trust our citizens with the keeping of animals with special needs even though we'd regulate it." President Rowan Payne |
Date | 00:37:16, October 03, 2007 CET | From | Libertad Party | To | Debating the Raising Public Awareness of Endangered and Exotic Animals |
Message | "This bill poses a risk to all endangered animals in the country. In a zoo, or zoological study area, which is enclosed and protects the animals from things that may harm them while repopulating. Many private residences simply cannot provide them the resources needed for a healthy survival." -Donovan Christoph |
Date | 10:19:35, October 03, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Raising Public Awareness of Endangered and Exotic Animals |
Message | "Obviously, these animals will be expensive to keep, and so will the conditions you'll need to make in order to pass regulation. Citizens will have to really love these animals before they spend thousands of dollars on it. Obviously, they won't be neglected." ~President Rowan Payne |
Date | 12:59:17, October 03, 2007 CET | From | National Authoritarian Movement | To | Debating the Raising Public Awareness of Endangered and Exotic Animals |
Message | "There is only a regulation on trade, no regulation on keeping exotic/endangered animals. So the Liberty argument doesn't count in my eyes." |
Date | 02:02:21, October 05, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Raising Public Awareness of Endangered and Exotic Animals |
Message | "Everyone may keep endangered animals, but the trade in, and the ownership of.... No need for exotic animals, because they're just that, exotic. For example, a Spider Money requires about the same equipment and know-how as a cat does, they're a popular pet but are considered exotic due to their origin." ~Protector-General Rowan Payne |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||
yes | Total Seats: 288 | |||
no | Total Seats: 34 | |||
abstain |
Total Seats: 79 |
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