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Bill: Announcement 2579
Details
Submitted by[?]: 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō)
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 2580
Description[?]:
| *Live SNN broadcast* We interrupt your regularly scheduled programing (Kafuri culture) to bring you this breaking news. Otaru Komei, the founder of the DSP now ISP has been brought out of stasis to deliver what is being called a 'shocking revelation'. We now go to our cameras at the Kasmenai city center. Otaru Komei[/u]: "Most of you know who I am, and hell I'm sure you're all surprised to see me still alive given my age, however I'm not here to talk about that. I was recently brought out of stasis by what I can only describe as a panicked and chaotic party leadership to give them advice on some situation they told me was happening. Let me start off by saying how completely and totally stupid the following idea was, and that I am highly disappointed that the leadership of this party even considered this. Now all of you know last week that apparently four nuclear tipped 'bunker buster' warheads were launched at some unnamed Unionist military targets in Hutori in retaliation against the chemical attack against Sekowan soldiers and Hutorian civilians. Well that's not the whole truth, yes their were four missiles fired, and yes telemetry does show they did hit, however these missiles were not nuclear, a shock to you all I'm sure. Now let me explain what happened. The party leaders in all their wisdom, and that is sarcasm, decided to lie and say that we launched nukes to try to bring the war to an end quickly by making people realize how quickly and how far this war could escalate. However, there idiotic plan has backfired, and now I essentially have to bail them out. I have to say though, that apart from my party, I am severely disappointed at how inefficient this government has gotten. I mean how the hell do you not even know that the smallest nuclear weapons our country has ever made are ten kilotons (15 kt) bigger then the supposed ones used?!" |
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Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:59:18, May 21, 2008 CET | From |  帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Announcement 2579 |
| Message | OOC: I was hoping not to have to reveal this until after the war, but since it does'nt look like it's done what I intended, I'm doing it now. |
| Date | 16:14:39, May 21, 2008 CET | From |  Imperial Pluralism Party | To | Debating the Announcement 2579 |
| Message | How cinematic. However, we have evidence from our correspondents in Hutori that, if the bombs were not nuclear, as they likely were, they were at least loaded with a significant amount of radioactive substances, which would count as chemical weapons. During the ISP's first announcement of nuclear weapons use, it was said, "none the less they will produce a small amount of radioactive fallout within a seven mile radius." Indeed, agents in Greater Kenai have detected the radiation at moderate levels in an eight mile radius. If the radiation were undetected, then the Unionists would have easily known that the bombs were not, in fact, nuclear. Packing what must have been enough radioactive materials to contaminate something like 200 square miles is still chemical weaponry, something outlawed in Sekowo. "The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare." We want the whole truth, not some life-saving last minute convenience. |
| Date | 16:17:52, May 21, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Announcement 2579 |
| Message | OOC: There's a reason I never said where they hit. There was never suppose dot be any radiation found, it was supposed ot be a big conspiracy, but the war's not ending, and frankly I'm getting bored with it. |
| Date | 17:31:31, May 21, 2008 CET | From | Anti-Federalists of Free Sekowo | To | Debating the Announcement 2579 |
| Message | OOC: Where in blue blazes do we find out what size our nukes are? If we're being accused of ignorance, I, at least, would like to have the ability to not be accused of such in the future. |
| Date | 00:19:31, May 22, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Announcement 2579 |
| Message | OOC: Well since our nuclear weapons program has always been about using them only when absolutely necessary, they would be in the megaton range, however we never really have worked out everything. |
| Date | 04:02:37, May 22, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Announcement 2579 |
| Message | [[Wars are almost never quick and easy, particularly when Israel's not involved. = Anyway, the problem with the current situation is that everyone took you at face value, and corraborated your statement. Now you're stuck with it.]] |
| Date | 04:18:12, May 22, 2008 CET | From | Sekowan Communist Party | To | Debating the Announcement 2579 |
| Message | No retconning yourself out of it, you violated federal law by launching nukes and shall be taken to task by a jury consisting of the Cabinet of the Federal Commonwealth of Sekowo. |
| Date | 04:43:49, May 22, 2008 CET | From | Anti-Federalists of Free Sekowo | To | Debating the Announcement 2579 |
| Message | Under the supervision of the Minister of Justice, if I'm not mistaken. |
| Date | 07:31:47, May 22, 2008 CET | From | Imperial Pluralism Party | To | Debating the Announcement 2579 |
| Message | We forgot to appoint the presiding judges of the high courts in the Lex Iurisdictionis. Later legislation should clarify that issue. The minister of justice has a special role in the military system, but is equal to the other cabinet members as a judge in the administrative system. The violation of procedural law involving nuclear deployment would certainly fall under the latter category. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 132 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 319 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 140 |
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