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Bill: Fishing Limitation Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Jakanian Liberal Socialists
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 2137
Description[?]:
| Recognising that irresponsable practises will lead to the loss of a vital industry in United Jakania, as well as permanently damage our coastal ecosystems, this bill seeks to route out irresponsable and damaging organisations by limiting the quantities of fish that may be caught in the waters surrounding United Jakania to a level allowing stocks to gradually repopulate themselves. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Commercial fishing regulation.
Old value:: There are no limits on the amount of fish that may be caught.
Current: There are no limits on the amount of fish that may be caught.
Proposed: The government establishes fishing quotas.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:01:45, November 06, 2005 CET | From |  Nudist Party of United Jakania | To | Debating the Fishing Limitation Bill |
| Message | The NP would support this act. We believe in ecology to the extent that properly maintaining our natural resources makes Jakania's future a brighter and better one. |
| Date | 21:00:16, November 06, 2005 CET | From | Jakanian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Fishing Limitation Bill |
| Message | We had this bill before. The Tories are in strong opposition to any quotas of any kind. |
| Date | 21:36:17, November 06, 2005 CET | From | Ogden Sinclair Party | To | Debating the Fishing Limitation Bill |
| Message | Support, we must not over fish our seas |
| Date | 04:22:57, November 07, 2005 CET | From |  Islamic Nationalist Front | To | Debating the Fishing Limitation Bill |
| Message | OOC: You know, I actually agree since I don't think our oceans could be easily privatized. If there are no private property rights established, the government should take a more active role in ensuring individuals do not abuse a public resource. However, if we have to regulate it, I'd much prefer a tax scheme than quotas. |
| Date | 15:48:13, November 07, 2005 CET | From | Jakanian Liberal Socialists | To | Debating the Fishing Limitation Bill |
| Message | (I'm confuuused, did you change your position OSP?) |
| Date | 17:36:45, November 07, 2005 CET | From | Ogden Sinclair Party | To | Debating the Fishing Limitation Bill |
| Message | OOC: oops sorry, I meant yes |
| Date | 17:38:10, November 07, 2005 CET | From | Islamic Nationalist Front | To | Debating the Fishing Limitation Bill |
| Message | OOC: Ha! If this passes with hsi support, party at my HQ. |
| Date | 17:43:01, November 07, 2005 CET | From | Islamic Nationalist Front | To | Debating the Fishing Limitation Bill |
| Message | OOC: I meant if it fails to pass. But nevermind; OSP changed his vote :( |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 98 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 114 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 38 |
| Random fact: Submitting a bill without any proposals in it will not attract or detract voters. It will not raise your visibility or change your political position. |
| Random quote: "A democracy that does not allow limits is not a democracy. Just as a limitless freedom is not freedom, but prevarication. Indeed, any theory of freedom worthy of this name is first of all a limit theory. If we extend the unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not willing to defend a tolerant society against the attacks of the intolerants, then the tolerants will be destroyed and the tolerance with them! Because, I ask to myself and ask you, given a certain system that we call democratic, which is today the best possible system to allow everyone to live freely and to be able to express their own thoughts, how can the same system admit attacks against its integrity? How can a system refuse the principle of the self-preservation? For this reason, to suppress the apologetics of thalerrism, it's for this reason that the exaltation of exegetes, principles, facts or methods of Thallerism and its anti-democratic aims does not constitute a violation of the freedom of manifestation of thought, but, on the contrary, the celebration of that freedom. The protection of the first premise on which a modern democratic system is based. And this premise must be safeguarded also and above all against itself and its abuses." ~ Malik Astori, Leadership of Liberty and Progress (Istalia) |