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Bill: Foreign Relations Act 3611
Details
Submitted by[?]: Ukuvuka kwamaButho
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: April 3611
Description[?]:
| It is time to open ourselves to the world! We have long been oppressed but the foreigner, and many fear and distrust the foreigner for precisely those reasons. But is our fear not as oppressive as foreign domination? By retreating into our shells, afraid of looking at the sunlight, we are being oppressed, without the need for jackboots and whips and bullets, but by our own mental straitjacket. We can only truly free ourselves from oppression by going out into the world, proud of our culture and heritage, mindful of our history, and confident in our future, as equal partners at the table of nations. We are a nation on the path of increasing greatness, and we have nothing to hide, nothing to be ashamed of. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning diplomatic immunity.
Old value:: The government grants no diplomatic immunity and foreign diplomats are subject to arrest and prosecution and civil action under all laws of the host nation.
Current: Diplomats are exempt from prosecution for criminal acts but not from civil lawsuits, but may still be expelled because of criminal acts.
Proposed: Diplomats are exempt from prosecution for criminal acts but not from civil lawsuits, but may still be expelled because of criminal acts.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Travel by nationals to foreign nations
Old value:: The nation does not issue passports to any nationals, except on specific authorisation of the Foreign Minister.
Current: The nation issues passports to nationals after a cursory security check.
Proposed: The nation issues passports to nationals after a cursory security check.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:22:19, January 22, 2014 CET | From | Umbimbi Kazwelonke | To | Debating the Foreign Relations Act 3611 |
| Message | We can be friendly with foreigners without giving them carte blanche to come into our country and break our laws! If a foreigner wants to come to Ibutho, whether as a diplomat or anything else, then he has to obey the law of the land. And here in Ibutho, the law of the land is the law of Chief Mlungisi! If this law was in place, then we would never have been able to punish the Aldegarian Ambassador for his impertinence (OOC: see http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2572&start=60#p70138 ) Article 2 is highly dangerous. The last thing we want is enemies of the nation going abroad and stirring up trouble for us there. We have already had enough trouble with Prince Zonke fleeing to Rutania to make a massive embarrassment of himself, his family and his country. No more Prince Zonkes, please! Dumisani Shabangu Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Date | 03:29:00, January 22, 2014 CET | From | Ukuvuka kwamaButho | To | Debating the Foreign Relations Act 3611 |
| Message | OOC: If you don't like the bill, why did you vote yes? |
| Date | 03:03:22, January 23, 2014 CET | From | Umbimbi Kazwelonke | To | Debating the Foreign Relations Act 3611 |
| Message | OOC: Oops!! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |
| no |
Total Seats: 100 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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