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Bill: Demobilization Act of 3225
Details
Submitted by[?]: Verde Nationalist Party
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: March 3225
Description[?]:
| To gradually stand down the peacetime armed forces to a level commiserate with global and regional threat levels, while integrating workers into the depleted labor pool and funding into the economy. This act would enable the following changes to Lodamunian Defense Policy: Military service no longer compulsory for all able-bodied adult citizens. Subsidies for private defense contractors ended. Creation of a civilian police force to remove military responsibility from domestic law enforcement. End official recognition of paramilitary units funded and armed by individual political parties. Establish a retaliatory policy in regard to the use of nuclear weapons. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: Defence industries are privately owned but subsidised by the state.
Current: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Proposed: Defence industries are privately owned and not subsidised.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on the separation of the police and the military.
Old value:: The military acts as a de-facto police force, with powers of arrest.
Current: A civilian police force is in place and the military may be called in to help in serious emergencies.
Proposed: A civilian police force is in place and the military may be called in to help in serious emergencies.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve a term in the military.
Current: All adults upon completion of schooling can be required in times of war to serve a term in the military.
Proposed: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of nuclear weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in warfare for any reason.
Current: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare.
Proposed: The nation reserves the right to nuclear weapons in retaliation to a nuclear, chemical or biological attack.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government's position on paramilitaries.
Old value:: Paramilitaries are allowed as part of each political party.
Current: Paramilitaries are illegal and the recognized government may intervene freely to stop any possible activity.
Proposed: Paramilitaries are not officially acknowledged but are allowed to exist.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:54:29, December 07, 2011 CET | From | Verde Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Demobilization Act of 3225 |
| Message | The Verde Nationalist Party believes that it the current 'war footing' of our national military force is a detriment to building and growing the economy. Our professional work force is stymied by high school or college graduates who are forced to serve in the armed forces after graduation, before being permitted to enter into the private sector. Our budget is also being drained by the large spending and subsidy payments to big defense contractors, and a disturbing level of influence wrought by local paramilitary enforcers representing the major political parties. All while Lodamun enjoys unprecidented levels of peace in the region. We also feel that it is in our best interests to establish a less aggressive policy in regards to the potential use of nuclear weapons during wartime. The Lodatien way is not of military conquest and destruction, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons should be strictly of a defensive nature. Our nuclear weapons policy should reflect that as well. Finally, in order to facilitate our downsizing of the wartime military force, the VNP advocates creating a civilian police force, specifically trained to deal with law enforcement. Military policy of overwhelming might with advanced arms and armament has always been an excessive means to enforce local statutes and bylaws, and in socially and politically charged situations such as rallies and meetings, the blunt force of military intervention has repeatedly proven only to exascerbate an already heated circumstance. The establishment of a civilian police force, specially trained to handle such situations, would not only relieve our great military of the burden of domestic law enforcement, but would also help to alleviate social and political strife in our cities and towns. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |
| no | Total Seats: 100 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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