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Bill: Wartime Sovereignty Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Buidheann Saorsa
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: October 2931
Description[?]:
| We as a nation have the right to abide by our own laws and policies when dealing with prisoners of war. We do not need any international governance on this matter, or any other matter for that matter. |
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 | 17:05:24, April 29, 2010 CET | From | Communist Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Wartime Sovereignty Act |
| Message | If we treat them bad, then we would be like them: how can we fight our enemy if we act like the enemy? |
| Date | 17:13:31, April 29, 2010 CET | From | Rerum Novarum Party | To | Debating the Wartime Sovereignty Act |
| Message | Who says we're treating them badly? |
| Date | 20:51:01, April 29, 2010 CET | From | Buidheann Saorsa | To | Debating the Wartime Sovereignty Act |
| Message | We would by no means be treating them badly. Darnussia is one of the highest regarded nations in the world for their sincerity and conscientiousness towards prisoner of war. However, we do not need other countries at our heels to tell us how to do something that we are already top grade at. |
| Date | 20:56:13, April 29, 2010 CET | From | Libertarian Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Wartime Sovereignty Act |
| Message | I am not sure this is completely clear. What exactly does " according to the national laws of the captor power" mean? It almost sounds to me like it means according to the laws of the nation the prisoners of war are from. If this is the case, then we are still being bound by foreign laws, international or not. |
| Date | 21:45:36, April 29, 2010 CET | From | Rerum Novarum Party | To | Debating the Wartime Sovereignty Act |
| Message | Captor = the nation who has captured Captee's nation = nation of the captured It's our rules, not theirs. |
| Date | 22:14:22, April 29, 2010 CET | From | Communist Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Wartime Sovereignty Act |
| Message | OOC: I think that is a typo on the makers part. After all, he is Belgian. His English isn't perfect. |
| Date | 06:16:38, April 30, 2010 CET | From | Rerum Novarum Party | To | Debating the Wartime Sovereignty Act |
| Message | OOC Assuming that Mr. Lievens wrote this article; he may have not. Let alone, his programming language is well enough to allow the system to work, I doubt he would have such trouble. Regardless, if the captee's nation's protocol is "Oh we give PoW's $1,000,000 and send them back home 1st class, we're not going to follow that; we're going to follow our own laws. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 79 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 131 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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