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Bill: Jelbania for Jelbanians Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Bloc Militaire pour Restauration
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: June 2512
Description[?]:
| To preserve Jelbania as a place for Jelbanians |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning granting nationality (national of this state without implication of having citizenship rights).
Old value:: Anyone receives nationality but immigrants must pass a test to gain nationality.
Current: Only those born in this country or to nationals receive nationality.
Proposed: Only those born to nationals become nationals.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The national refugee policy.
Old value:: All refugees are welcome, regardless of their reason, and given aid in integrating them into the country.
Current: All refugees are welcome but no financial aid is given to them.
Proposed: Only refugees that are victims of extreme circumstances are welcome; they are given integration-aid.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Travel by foreigners to the nation.
Old value:: The nation imposes minimal border controls on visitors, with cursory security checks, to confirm visitor identities.
Current: The nation imposes minimal border controls on visitors, with cursory security checks, to confirm visitor identities.
Proposed: The nation imposes strict border control on visitors, with intensive security checks, to maintain law and order.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:00:20, January 04, 2008 CET | From |  Socialist Jelbanian Party-D.L.J.-D.L.F | To | Debating the Jelbania for Jelbanians Act |
| Message | we strongly oppose |
| Date | 21:29:29, January 04, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary Constit'nal United Front | To | Debating the Jelbania for Jelbanians Act |
| Message | Strongly support. Finally a border security bill that doesn't sympathize with rapists and murderers. |
| Date | 21:39:45, January 04, 2008 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Jelbania for Jelbanians Act |
| Message | We vehemently oppose the philosophy behind this bill. Jelbania is not just for "Jelbanians" but also for those that immigrate here in pursuit of freedom and opportunity, for refugees fleeing turmoil, and anyone in Terra who wishes to experience our culture, landscape, and way of life. We've supported article 1 in the past (and still do) but we do not support 2 and 3. |
| Date | 23:40:11, January 04, 2008 CET | From | Démocrates de la Gauche | To | Debating the Jelbania for Jelbanians Act |
| Message | No wonder no one except the FMDP does buisness with the CUF. Naming immigrants as rapists and murderers. |
| Date | 02:04:28, January 05, 2008 CET | From | Anarchistes pour une Société Libre | To | Debating the Jelbania for Jelbanians Act |
| Message | The PBN will support this bill if Article Two is changed to give aid to victims of extreme circumstance. |
| Date | 02:33:38, January 05, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary Constit'nal United Front | To | Debating the Jelbania for Jelbanians Act |
| Message | Do not misconstrue what we are saying DG. "All refugees are welcome, regardless of their reason" implies that if some dictator decides to empty his prisons onto our fair shores, our immigration office has no choice but to accept them, even if they have a history of violent crime. There is no reason why we can't accept political prisoners, sure. But what about foreign criminals? Shall we accept them as well? |
| Date | 02:42:49, January 05, 2008 CET | From | Démocrates de la Gauche | To | Debating the Jelbania for Jelbanians Act |
| Message | Those people coming into the country will be investigated and though we allow everyone to come. We will investigate people's backgrounds. That will not too easily happen and the system will not fail as easily as you would like it to. |
| Date | 08:38:24, January 05, 2008 CET | From | Anarchistes pour une Société Libre | To | Debating the Jelbania for Jelbanians Act |
| Message | Put this up for vote already, this will pass if FMDP is with us. |
| Date | 09:51:58, January 05, 2008 CET | From | Socialist Jelbanian Party-D.L.J.-D.L.F | To | Debating the Jelbania for Jelbanians Act |
| Message | Let's go PBN, "Arise ye workers from your slumbers Arise ye prisoners of want For reason in revolt now thunders And at last ends the age of cant." Perhaps the CUF will sing with you, now that you reveal your real intentions. We prefer sing the international with real leftist parties. |
| Date | 22:51:44, January 05, 2008 CET | From | Anarchistes pour une Société Libre | To | Debating the Jelbania for Jelbanians Act |
| Message | We aren't internationalist. I don't think we can make that any clearer. Maybe if we put "National" in our name? Oh wait... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 188 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 231 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 82 |
| Random fact: Players who deliberately attempt to present a misleading picture of the nation's current RP laws will be subject to sanction. |
| Random quote: "To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton |