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Bill: Expansion of Military Capacity Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Unity Alliance
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 2501
Description[?]:
| "If you seek peace, prepare for war". A (possibly misquoted) phrase that accurately sums up the NUA's beliefs regarding the military. Envious foreigners are constantly on the lookout for signs of weakness in the defences of our nation and if they find one it will be a matter of months before we are defeated by the foreign hordes and our once green and pleasant lands are defaced by the jackboots of a billion fascist barbarians intent on the plunder of our beautiful cities and utter destruction of our nation, its people and its history. Given the grave consequences for a lapse in our defences and their current dilapidated state, the NUA proposes that we grant additional powers and resources to the military and engage in a full-scale purge of undesirables who may join a barbarian force rather than fight to the death for the country that gave them the life that they so ungratefully squander. |
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:: Local authorities are responsible for building and maintaining shelters.
Current: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Proposed: No new buildings may be constructed unless they feature provisions for civil defence.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Curfew policy (curfew time to be determined in the bill description).
Old value:: The national government may impose curfews, but only if a state of emergency has been declared.
Current: The national government may impose curfews, but only if a state of emergency has been declared.
Proposed: No-one may use streets or public property beyond the curfew time.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Military stance on homosexuality.
Old value:: Homosexuality is allowed in the military.
Current: Homosexuality is allowed in the military.
Proposed: Homosexuality is not tolerated in the military. The military actively seeks to remove homosexuals from it.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Discrimination in the military on grounds of race/religion.
Old value:: Any adult citizen can serve in the military, discrimination for racial or religious reasons is prohibited.
Current: Any adult citizen can serve in the military, discrimination for racial or religious reasons is prohibited.
Proposed: Candidates must be of a certain race/religion to have any place in the military.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on the separation of the police and the military.
Old value:: A civilian police force is in place and the military is not allowed to play any part in it.
Current: A civilian police force is in place and the military may be called in to help in serious emergencies.
Proposed: The military acts as a de-facto police force, with powers of arrest.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Current: All adults upon completion of schooling can be required in times of war to serve a term in the military.
Proposed: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve a term in the military.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning parental qualifications.
Old value:: The government does not hold qualifications for new parents.
Current: The government does not hold qualifications for new parents.
Proposed: The state raises all children in state institutions.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on population control.
Old value:: The government does not engage in population control.
Current: The government does not engage in population control.
Proposed: The government actively promotes population growth.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the export of weapons to other nations.
Old value:: The government allows all arms to be exported freely.
Current: The government must approve all arms sales on a case by case basis.
Proposed: The government does not allow arms to be exported.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change Women in the military.
Old value:: Women serve alongside men.
Current: Women serve alongside men.
Proposed: Women have no place in the military.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:10:51, December 13, 2007 CET | From |  Freedom Party | To | Debating the Expansion of Military Capacity Act |
| Message | We fail to see how limiting the military to white males will allow for its expansion. We also vehemently oppose any form of military draft, especially in times of peace, and we oppose any curfews. In short, no! |
| Date | 17:14:39, December 13, 2007 CET | From | National Unity Alliance | To | Debating the Expansion of Military Capacity Act |
| Message | Correction white heterosexual males who follow [national religion]*. None of those godless communists and heathens in my military. This is, unfortunately, a limited pool from which to recruit our entire armed forces, especially when we factor in the new role as law enforcement officials, so measures will need to be taken to keep it up to strength. Unfortunately for would be pacifists, this means a mandatory term of national service. Our ideas may seem crazy from where you're sitting but they actually have a lot of thought put into them. *Is their an agreed religion that is historically involved in our nation? If not I will have to select one (probably Christianity) to justify my fascism. |
| Date | 17:24:12, December 13, 2007 CET | From | National Unity Alliance | To | Debating the Expansion of Military Capacity Act |
| Message | We apologise for the punctuation failure in the first sentence, we hope you can forgive us. |
| Date | 20:48:06, December 13, 2007 CET | From | Anarcho-Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Expansion of Military Capacity Act |
| Message | You'll have to do a bit more than that to justify your fascism. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 161 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 515 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 23 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope." - Niccolo Machiavelli |