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Bill: Restriction of Bioweapons Act 2754
Details
Submitted by[?]: Nasha Partiya
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 2576
Description[?]:
| An act to ban the use of Solentian bio or chemical weapons in any kind of conflict, except cases in which hostile forces use them first, in an unprovoked attack. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of chemical and biological weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to use chemical or biological weapons in warfare for any reason.
Current: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first.
Proposed: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:26:26, May 11, 2008 CET | From | Nasha Partiya | To | Debating the Restriction of Bioweapons Act 2754 |
| Message | Ladies and Gentlemen, As many of you may know, our legislation allows for the reckless use of biochemical weapons in conflict, and personally I say that this is unacceptable. It is simply not humane to gas or blister other human beings unless provoked, and that is why I am calling for a RESTRICTION on the use of biochemical weaponry unless it is used first against us. Why should we be the ones who do this first? We are not monsters, and I can reassure you, choking and vomiting yourself to death from a nerve gas attack is not a nice way to die. - NP defence spokesman, Col. Katya Saporova |
| Date | 21:35:02, May 11, 2008 CET | From | Coalition for National Unity [CNU] | To | Debating the Restriction of Bioweapons Act 2754 |
| Message | The Conservative and Morality Party will support this bill. We believe in a peaceful State that is free from the unacceptble immoralities of Biogenic weapons. -The Ven. Cierán Cardinal Boyd, Shadow Secretary of State for Religion and Morality. |
| Date | 22:23:50, May 11, 2008 CET | From | Meritocratic Alliance | To | Debating the Restriction of Bioweapons Act 2754 |
| Message | Never in 10,000 years would we support this bill. |
| Date | 23:05:39, May 11, 2008 CET | From | Coalition for National Unity [CNU] | To | Debating the Restriction of Bioweapons Act 2754 |
| Message | Indeed the SRNP have made their stance when it comes to warfare very clear. Dorothea Roberts- CMP Leader |
| Date | 00:55:07, May 12, 2008 CET | From | Anarcho-Atheist League | To | Debating the Restriction of Bioweapons Act 2754 |
| Message | Supported |
| Date | 01:07:04, May 12, 2008 CET | From | Federal Independent Party | To | Debating the Restriction of Bioweapons Act 2754 |
| Message | We offer our support to this bill. FIP Ranking Minority Leader James Cien |
| Date | 05:01:45, May 12, 2008 CET | From | Meritocratic Alliance | To | Debating the Restriction of Bioweapons Act 2754 |
| Message | While our military remains unfettered from meaningless rules and restrictions my fellow senators, we are safe from outside aggression. There are organizations who depend on using their combined will to force nations into agreements with them. Solentia stands alone against this threat. Only the threat of first stike on our behalf, this ominous spectre of mutually assured destruction, keeps them at bay. Rethink this, please. Senator Havery Girk, SRNP Speaker |
| Date | 05:05:00, May 12, 2008 CET | From | National Zeus Party | To | Debating the Restriction of Bioweapons Act 2754 |
| Message | While the NZP does not support the unwarrented use of biological weapons we can not agree with this legislation. We feel it cripples our defensive capabilities and effectively removes an important deterent to those who would seek to harm us.Under this law if we had valid intelligence that a nation planned on attacking us with chem. or bio. weapons we would have to WAIT for the attack to occur first before we could counter, which would cost hundreds of thousands if not millions of precious Solentian lives. Ladies and Gentlemen in a fight you do not wait to get punched in the mouth, you punch first. Simply having the option to strike first does not mean that we will, our leaders have shown great restraint in the past before resorting to physical confrontation, and they will continue to do so. Major Evander F. Kelly NZP Defense Advisor |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 234 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 148 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: The voters enjoy active parties who take upon themselves the initiative to create laws. |
| Random quote: "A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar." - H. L. Mencken |