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Bill: Wartime Military Act.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal-Progressive Union
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: February 2111
Description[?]:
| This bill requires in times of war, citizens who have finished school, may be called into service. This will be used only in extreme situations and will never be invoked during peacetime. Citizens called into service can be placed into a combat unit, or a non-combat unit. Those placed in combat units either volunteer for combat or if the situation is extreme such as the collapse of our forces. 2) The benefits they will receive include monetary bonuses, free higher education, loans for homes, cars, advanced training in computer technology etc.. The government will ensure the well being of these soldiers once they have completed their miltary service. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Current: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve either a term in the military or a lesser paid term of civilian national service, at their option.
Proposed: All adults upon completion of schooling can be required in times of war to serve a term in the military.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:08:36, September 13, 2005 CET | From |  Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Wartime Military Act. |
| Message | This is allows for the choice to serve in a combat or non-combat national service role. |
| Date | 18:10:22, September 13, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Wartime Military Act. |
| Message | We strongly support this idea. |
| Date | 20:35:52, September 13, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Wartime Military Act. |
| Message | We agree with the basic principle, especially compared with the other proposal choices, but would rather instigate a position of those who are drafted, and not volunteering, to be placed into the defensive positions rather than offensive (unless we are directly invaded and it is a counter attack across our own territory). |
| Date | 22:44:51, September 13, 2005 CET | From | Left Communist Party | To | Debating the Wartime Military Act. |
| Message | Huh! Two liberal parties voting for a freedom-inhibiting proposal! We shall say no. |
| Date | 12:50:35, September 14, 2005 CET | From | United Socialist Movement | To | Debating the Wartime Military Act. |
| Message | We're against - we totally reject any moves to FORCE people into the militray to fight for imperialism. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 204 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 170 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 26 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything." - Mikuláš Gogolský, former Deltarian writer |