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Bill: Vanuku Whaling Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Greens Party
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 2589
Description[?]:
| No whales shall be hunted in Vanuku territorial waters |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on whaling.
Old value:: The government has no position on this.
Current: Commercial whaling is illegal, but whaling for scientific purposes is allowed.
Proposed: Whaling is illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:04:29, May 29, 2008 CET | From | Vanuku Sinatranoan Party | To | Debating the Vanuku Whaling Act |
| Message | The Vanuku Sinatranoan Party agrees to this Bill. Artificial constructs can now create soap and other materials that were previously whale by-products. The slaughter of whales are no longer necessary to the hygiene or perfumity of our species. |
| Date | 21:33:57, June 01, 2008 CET | From | Vanuku Freedom Party | To | Debating the Vanuku Whaling Act |
| Message | We take the point that it is no longer "necessary" to hunt whale, but must ask: so what? Even if it is not necessary in a strict sense, there may yet be market demand for whale products. If there is a reason why whale hunting /should/ be restricted, by all means, let us hear it, but if there is none, this restriction on personal liberty and economic freedom cannot be justified. |
| Date | 03:02:47, June 03, 2008 CET | From | Vanuku Patriotic People's Union | To | Debating the Vanuku Whaling Act |
| Message | We support this legislation |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 68 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 27 |
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| Random quote: "A democracy that does not allow limits is not a democracy. Just as a limitless freedom is not freedom, but prevarication. Indeed, any theory of freedom worthy of this name is first of all a limit theory. If we extend the unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not willing to defend a tolerant society against the attacks of the intolerants, then the tolerants will be destroyed and the tolerance with them! Because, I ask to myself and ask you, given a certain system that we call democratic, which is today the best possible system to allow everyone to live freely and to be able to express their own thoughts, how can the same system admit attacks against its integrity? How can a system refuse the principle of the self-preservation? For this reason, to suppress the apologetics of thalerrism, it's for this reason that the exaltation of exegetes, principles, facts or methods of Thallerism and its anti-democratic aims does not constitute a violation of the freedom of manifestation of thought, but, on the contrary, the celebration of that freedom. The protection of the first premise on which a modern democratic system is based. And this premise must be safeguarded also and above all against itself and its abuses." ~ Malik Astori, Leadership of Liberty and Progress (Istalia) |