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Bill: MC 09-2779
Details
Submitted by[?]: Meritocratic Alliance
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 2780
Description[?]:
| Military bill |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the use of land mines by the army.
Old value:: The Government leaves this to the army to decide upon.
Current: The use of land mines is allowed.
Proposed: The use of land mines is allowed.
Article 2
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: A civilian police force is in place, backed up by the military.
Proposed: The military acts as a de-facto police force, with powers of arrest.
Article 3
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: Prisoners of war are enslaved.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:49:37, June 30, 2009 CET | From | Republican Party | To | Debating the MC 09-2779 |
| Message | I am not in favor of Articles 2 & 3. The Republican Party will release another proposal later tonight or sometime this week that is relatively close to this bill. So we, encourage, all parties to vote "no" on this legislation and wait for the upcoming, comprehensive legislation that will be proposed by Republicans. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 163 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 262 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Players must never be asked for their Particracy password. This includes Moderation; a genuine Moderator will never ask for your password. |
| Random quote: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - Dwight D. Eisenhower |