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Bill: WMD Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Revolucia Partio de Koburo
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: October 2493
Description[?]:
| "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." |
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 develop, purchase or store biological or chemical weaponry.
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 shall never use chemical or biological weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first.
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 The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: Defence industries are privately owned but subsidised by the state.
Current: The state owns all defence industries.
Proposed: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:44:37, November 29, 2007 CET | From |  National Party | To | Debating the WMD Reform Act |
| Message | "Actually, defence spending hasn't changed" |
| Date | 19:50:38, November 29, 2007 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the WMD Reform Act |
| Message | ooc: it's an Eisenhower quote... |
| Date | 20:04:57, November 29, 2007 CET | From | Coburan Reform Party | To | Debating the WMD Reform Act |
| Message | Nixon! Nixon! Nixon! Nixon! |
| Date | 20:13:19, November 29, 2007 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the WMD Reform Act |
| Message | was a cunt |
| Date | 00:36:17, November 30, 2007 CET | From | Coburan Conservative Party | To | Debating the WMD Reform Act |
| Message | at the same time as being a hero |
| Date | 01:08:08, November 30, 2007 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the WMD Reform Act |
| Message | nah, he was just a big massive cunt of epic proportions |
| Date | 17:24:22, November 30, 2007 CET | From | National Party | To | Debating the WMD Reform Act |
| Message | Odd to use Eisenhower quote though, seeing as how he perfected nuclear diplomacy. |
| Date | 17:27:25, November 30, 2007 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the WMD Reform Act |
| Message | It was the random quote at the bottom. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 289 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 211 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: When your party holds the foreign affairs department, you can create new treaties. However, before writing anything new, it is a good idea to search for existing treaties which already accomplish what you desire. |
| Random quote: "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book." - Ronald Reagan |