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Bill: Rutainian Special Forces bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: UNSC (ONI)
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: September 3717
Description[?]:
| Creation of Special Forces units within the Army for the purpose of guerrilla warfare that would be exempt from all current and future bans on land mines or incendiary devices. However, they would not be allowed to operate within Rutainian held territory, except for the purpose of forcing and invading army out of Rutainian held land.Training would be conducted by both the Army and Intelligence Agency. The ministry of Defense shall be responsible for arming and setting standards for the unit based on mental and physical attributes, and it, along with the Intelligence Agency and the President shall determine operations where the Special forces are used, as all three may require their services. If the Parliament deems that the Special Forces should be disbanded by a 4/5ths vote in favor, the Special Forces shall be disbanded until the Parliament reactivates them by a simple majority. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:13:52, August 20, 2014 CET | From | UNSC (ONI) | To | Debating the Rutainian Special Forces bill |
| Message | OOC: If I made a mistake somewhere in this bill, it wasn't intentional, I haven't had much experience with the game. |
| Date | 03:30:23, August 21, 2014 CET | From | The Steel and the Gray | To | Debating the Rutainian Special Forces bill |
| Message | Madam Speaker -- I like the idea crafted here, and I would like to offer these friendly amendments to this bill: 1) The Special Forces Unit will operate under the sole joint discretion of the President and the Minster of Defence. 2) The Special Forces Unit will be no smaller than 100,000 and no larger than 150,000 people strong. 3) The training and cost of the Special Forces Unit shall be managed by the Ministry of Defence. 4) The Special Forces Unit will be granted access to military equipment at the discretion of the Ministry of Defence. 5) The Special Forces Unit can be dissolved at any time by a unanimous vote of the parliament. Adm. HF Reich Minster of Defence |
| Date | 20:43:08, August 21, 2014 CET | From | UNSC (ONI) | To | Debating the Rutainian Special Forces bill |
| Message | Madam Speaker The UNSC is willing to change the bill and has done so, thanks to some of the improvements brought forward by Adm. Reich. |
| Date | 01:40:45, August 22, 2014 CET | From | The Steel and the Gray | To | Debating the Rutainian Special Forces bill |
| Message | Madam Speaker -- I appreciate the UNSC's willingness to amend this bill, and I support it fully. Adm. HF Reich Minister of Defence |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 376 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 35 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 144 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "If you're not turned on to politics, politics will turn on you." - Ralph Nader |