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Bill: Slavery
Details
Submitted by[?]: Goldstein Corporation
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: September 2616
Description[?]:
| »Now we're talking.« ~Natasha Goldstein (Goldstein Corporation) BE IT ENACTED by the Senate of Republica Baltusia, let it be resolved that: 1) Slavery and the slave trade now be legalized. 2) The issue of slavery be placed into the domain of the Ministry of Trade and Industry. 3) No domestic citizens may be enslaved. 4) Private industries and the government alike may abduct foreigners at will and enslave them. 5) There shall be a Kalistanian Enslavement Program (KEP), in which the national government shall sponsor the abduction and enslavement of foreigners in Kalistan. Ananto, being a remote and isolated island, shall be the official prime target of slave traders. The Republica Baltusia shall instate a letter of Marque and Reprisal granting rights for privateers to pirate and enslave the people of Kalistan. 6) One slave shall be granted free of charge to every Baltusian household as a gift by the year 2620. 7) The Ministry of Science and Technology shall begin research and development on a technology to control the minds of slaves, so that they are not only obedient, but that foreign slaves may compose our military. THIS SHALL TAKE EFFECT immediately after its passing. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the treatment of prisoners of war.
Old value:: Prisoners of war must be treated well, according to internationally-accepted standards.
Current: Prisoners of war may be mistreated without legal sanction.
Proposed: Prisoners of war are enslaved.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The legality of slavery.
Old value:: Slavery and the slave trade are illegal.
Current: Slavery and the slave trade are illegal.
Proposed: Slavery and the slave trade is allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:29:05, August 01, 2008 CET | From | Baltusian Pantian Alliance | To | Debating the Slavery |
| Message | We prefer as a punishment for a crime. |
| Date | 15:48:38, August 01, 2008 CET | From | Goldstein Corporation | To | Debating the Slavery |
| Message | »You don't wish to enslave those filthy Kalistanians? Of course, we could abduct and punish Kalistanians for the crime of merely being filthy Kalistanians... in which the punishment would be slavery...« ~Natasha Goldstein (Goldstein Corporation) |
| Date | 16:03:09, August 01, 2008 CET | From | Goldstein Corporation | To | Debating the Slavery |
| Message | »We propose just such a bill for you, BPA.« ~Natasha Goldstein (Goldstein Corporation) http://80.237.164.51/particracy/main/viewbill.php?billid=210098 |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 91 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 130 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 79 |
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