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Bill: Declaration of Neutrality
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Constitutional 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: February 3660
Description[?]:
| We the representatives of the people of Beluzia declare in the passing of this bill, that Beluzia is to be neutral in future conflicts and forbid Beluzia from declaring war and limit Beluzia's military. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning biological and chemical weaponry.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
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 shall never develop, purchase or store biological or chemical weaponry.
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 weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first.
Current: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Proposed: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Current: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Proposed: Defence industries are banned.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the use of land mines by the army.
Old value:: The use of land mines is allowed but restricted.
Current: The use of land mines is prohibited.
Proposed: The use of land mines is prohibited.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve a term in the military.
Current: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Proposed: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change National military policy.
Old value:: The nation retains a full time, professional army, navy and air force.
Current: The nation retains a full time, professional army, navy and air force.
Proposed: The nation retains a part time, professional army, navy and air force as part of a reserve group.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of nuclear weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to nuclear weapons in retaliation to a nuclear, chemical or biological attack.
Current: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare.
Proposed: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change The policy with respect to nuclear weaponry.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to develop, produce and store nuclear arms.
Current: The nation shall never produce or store nuclear weaponry for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Proposed: The nation shall never develop, produce or store nuclear weaponry.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change Government's position on paramilitaries.
Old value:: Paramilitaries are not officially acknowledged but are allowed to exist.
Current: Paramilitaries are illegal and the recognized government may intervene freely to stop any possible activity.
Proposed: Paramilitaries are illegal and the recognized government may intervene freely to stop any possible activity.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the export of weapons to other nations.
Old value:: The government must approve all arms sales on a case by case basis.
Current: The government must approve all arms sales on a case by case basis.
Proposed: The government does not allow arms to be exported.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:32:44, April 30, 2014 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Declaration of Neutrality |
| Message | This bill would leave Beluzia under the thumb of foreign aggressive powers. It's clear the National Constitutional Party is a 5th Column in our midst. |
| Date | 17:37:02, April 30, 2014 CET | From | National Constitutional Party | To | Debating the Declaration of Neutrality |
| Message | You insult us with your paranoia. We are no such thing. |
| Date | 17:41:21, April 30, 2014 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Declaration of Neutrality |
| Message | The evidence of your willingness to cripple our ability to protect ourselves and Beluzian liberties and freedoms from foreign aggressors says otherwise. |
| Date | 17:41:47, April 30, 2014 CET | From | National Constitutional Party | To | Debating the Declaration of Neutrality |
| Message | You want to take away our freedom. |
| Date | 17:44:21, April 30, 2014 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Declaration of Neutrality |
| Message | We wish to save it from your foreign agressor partners. |
| Date | 17:46:11, April 30, 2014 CET | From | National Constitutional Party | To | Debating the Declaration of Neutrality |
| Message | Your party is blatantly fascist. YOU are the fifth column. |
| Date | 17:48:09, April 30, 2014 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Declaration of Neutrality |
| Message | We wish to sure up or defences against foreign powers, that is in complete opposition to what the definition of a fifth column actually is. |
| Date | 17:54:27, April 30, 2014 CET | From | National Constitutional Party | To | Debating the Declaration of Neutrality |
| Message | Bah! You are handing our country to the real enemy, the fascists. |
| Date | 19:20:32, April 30, 2014 CET | From | New Beluzian Movement | To | Debating the Declaration of Neutrality |
| Message | The very reason we have worked with the fascist menace in the past is because only they have acknowledge the threat from the imperial garbage on our doorsteps. This whimpering feebleness will expose us to huge military forces possessed by our neighbours. Until the empires are dead, we must preserve our own cultural fermentations from the exploitation of oppressors. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 151 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 483 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 116 |
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