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Bill: An Act to secure Selucia (UPS)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Imperial Democratic Coalition
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: November 2676
Description[?]:
| 1. The term 'serious emergencies' seems fairly vaguely defined, and would perhaps make it easy for military leaders to be prosecuted when they believed themselves to be performed merely their duties. Thus, we would propose, more simply, that the military may reinforce the police wherever it is necessary for the cost-effective maintenance of public safety. 2. Those who oppose our will have no right to possess life in this realm. Hence, all of them should be terminated immediately. 3. Visitors, whilst a novelty, are a cause of severe security problems for our nations intelligence and security forces. We must oppose the current simplicity of access available to foreigners entering our nation. 4. For the better protection of Selucia, a streamlined military is in order. Clearly, the most effective military consists entirely of female guardians of the realm. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on the separation of the police and the military.
Old value:: A civilian police force is in place and the military may be called in to help in serious emergencies.
Current: The military acts as a de-facto police force, with powers of arrest.
Proposed: A civilian police force is in place, backed up by the military.
Article 2
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 are treated according to the national laws of the captor power.
Proposed: Surrendering enemy combatants are summarily executed.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Travel by foreigners to the nation.
Old value:: The nation imposes minimal border controls on visitors, with cursory security checks, to confirm visitor identities.
Current: The nation imposes strict border control on visitors, with intensive security checks, to maintain law and order.
Proposed: The nation imposes oppressive border control on visitors, with invasive and harassing levels of security checks to discourage visiting the nation.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Women in the military.
Old value:: Women serve alongside men.
Current: Women serve alongside men.
Proposed: Only women can serve in the military.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:32:11, December 04, 2008 CET | From | Imperial Democratic Coalition | To | Debating the An Act to secure Selucia (UPS) |
| Message | We welcome discussion on this proposed Act |
| Date | 06:01:06, December 04, 2008 CET | From | Free Radical Party | To | Debating the An Act to secure Selucia (UPS) |
| Message | We are against all of these. We do not wish to turn Selucia into a police state, and there is no need to have a female only military. |
| Date | 09:16:13, December 04, 2008 CET | From | Minarchist Party | To | Debating the An Act to secure Selucia (UPS) |
| Message | We agree for the same reasons as FRP. |
| Date | 17:19:15, December 04, 2008 CET | From | Selucian Home and Hearth | To | Debating the An Act to secure Selucia (UPS) |
| Message | We oppose all articles. 1. Actually, the qualifier of "serious emergencies" I think implies higher up governmental authorization, so the old law has less of a chance of military leaders' being blamed for overstepping their bounds than the vaguer "backed up" condition, wherein military actions will be more common and subject to less oversight. 2. This has enormous potential to backfire amongst groups of more questionably prisoners of war. Civilians' being accidentally held captive for a few months is much less catastrophic on a foreign relations scale than their being accidentally executed. 3. Tourism is one of our largest economic sectors and is what Selucia is famed for all across Terra. It would be a cultural tragedy and a grave economic mistake to effectively end tourism. 4. We do not see any good reason for this. |
| Date | 23:08:22, December 04, 2008 CET | From | Selucian Party of Social Democrats | To | Debating the An Act to secure Selucia (UPS) |
| Message | We oppose all articles. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 45 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 433 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 22 |
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