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Bill: The Bloc Manifesto, Part Two: Defense
Details
Submitted by[?]: Bloc Am Chazak, Am Yedui, Am Libre
Status[?]: passed
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: August 3481
Description[?]:
| The Land of Beiteynu was the birthplace of the Yedhui people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books. After many wars and exiles from the land, the people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their religion and peoplehood. We must defend the nation at all costs. To do anything less, is to steal from man his right to life. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning biological and chemical weaponry.
Old value:: The nation shall never purchase, produce, or store biological or chemical weaponry, for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Current: The nation shall never purchase, produce, or store biological or chemical weaponry, for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Proposed: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of chemical and biological weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Current: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Proposed: The nation reserves the right to use chemical or biological weapons in warfare for any reason.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of nuclear weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare.
Current: The nation reserves the right to nuclear weapons in retaliation to a nuclear, chemical or biological attack.
Proposed: The nation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in warfare for any reason.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The policy with respect to nuclear weaponry.
Old value:: The nation shall never produce or store nuclear weaponry for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Current: The nation shall never produce or store nuclear weaponry for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Proposed: The nation reserves the right to develop, produce and store nuclear arms.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:02:04, March 18, 2013 CET | From | Algemeyner Manarkistishen Arbeter Bund | To | Debating the The Bloc Manifesto, Part Two: Defense |
| Message | We strongly disagree. We have committed ourselves to doing away with war for good. We have a strong conventional military, with mandatory service for all citizens, male and female alike. All citizens are required to learn how to march and shoot, and local militias can be called up when necessary. Most citizens own firearms that they keep locked up so that, in the event of invasion, we can give them clearance to take them out and turn every household into an armed fortress. Every local government is effectively a military command center, according to our legislation. By no means could you say that we are not prepared. This is enough. We don't need to stoop to using weapons that constitute grave atrocities against civilians. Our own long history of persecution has taught us that human dignity comes first. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes | Total Seats: 20 | |
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow official national flags of real-life nations or flags which are very prominent and recognisable (eg. the flags of the European Union, the United Nations, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or the Confederate States of America). |
| Random quote: "We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails." - Friedrich August Hayek |