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Bill: POW Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kolonial Partei
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: May 2777
Description[?]:
| Don't let the world tell us how to treat POWs! |
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 must be treated well, according to internationally-accepted standards.
Proposed: Prisoners of war are treated according to the national laws of the captor power.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:49:09, June 23, 2009 CET | From |  Konstitutionelle Monarchie Partei | To | Debating the POW Reform |
| Message | I support this enthusiastically. Our prisoners of war, our laws. |
| Date | 23:52:53, June 23, 2009 CET | From | Kolonial Partei | To | Debating the POW Reform |
| Message | And nothing in this proposal says we will treat prisoners inhumanely. But we should not submit to international demands. |
| Date | 00:40:13, June 24, 2009 CET | From | Socialist Party of Greater Hulstria | To | Debating the POW Reform |
| Message | Never. We must treat all with the care we would want our loved ones in their camps to recieve. |
| Date | 00:52:39, June 24, 2009 CET | From | Kolonial Partei | To | Debating the POW Reform |
| Message | Do you expect other nations to treat ours as well, though? There's no guarantee that they will. |
| Date | 01:04:00, June 24, 2009 CET | From | Socialist Party of Greater Hulstria | To | Debating the POW Reform |
| Message | But by treating them with care the chances of them reciprocating will increase dramatically. |
| Date | 01:04:19, June 24, 2009 CET | From | Socialist Party of Greater Hulstria | To | Debating the POW Reform |
| Message | Why take that chance |
| Date | 02:17:24, June 24, 2009 CET | From | Kolonial Partei | To | Debating the POW Reform |
| Message | Not with criminal nations, like Deltaria. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 293 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 310 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 122 |
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