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Bill: Traxian Imperial Proposals 1
Details
Submitted by[?]: Traxian Imperial Party
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: April 2167
Description[?]:
Due to our shift in politics we propose this for our military. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Military stance on homosexuality.
Old value:: Homosexuality is allowed in the military.
Current: Homosexuality is allowed in the military.
Proposed: Open homosexuality is not tolerated in the military. The military has a "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on the separation of the police and the military.
Old value:: A civilian police force is in place and the military may be called in to help in serious emergencies.
Current: A civilian police force is in place and the military may be called in to help in serious emergencies.
Proposed: The military acts as a de-facto police force, with powers of arrest.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the treatment of prisoners of war.
Old value:: Prisoners of war are treated according to the national laws of the captor power.
Current: Prisoners of war must be treated well, according to internationally-accepted standards.
Proposed: Surrendering enemy combatants are summarily executed.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Women in the military.
Old value:: Women serve alongside men.
Current: Women serve alongside men.
Proposed: Women serve in segregated units.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 02:03:18, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Post-Revolutionary Pragmatic Party | To | Debating the Traxian Imperial Proposals 1 |
Message | We disagree. There is no reason at all why homosexuality should not be tolerated in our military. |
Date | 02:08:17, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Post-Revolutionary Pragmatic Party | To | Debating the Traxian Imperial Proposals 1 |
Message | Furthermore, our military should not be used against out own citizens - except where the police is insufficiently capable of handling civil unrest. There's also no real reason to segregate on the basis of gender. As long as a person can adhere to certain standards, what does their gender - or sexual orientation - matter? |
Date | 02:30:49, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Traxian Imperial Party | To | Debating the Traxian Imperial Proposals 1 |
Message | When an enemy army sees men coming towards them knowing they are the other side of the 0V rail they will not be fleeing but laughing. Women are good fighters but the genders can affect eachothers combat abilties so should be segregated for most effective use. The military is doing nothing may as well control crime. |
Date | 07:27:57, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Totalitarian Party | To | Debating the Traxian Imperial Proposals 1 |
Message | Article one: Foreign enemies facing our troops surely realise every man and woman in our army must meet our military's strict requirements before being sent to battle. Our soldiers are the best in the world. If they do laugh, then they are under-estimating our military's efficiency, and they will be destroyed for it. Article two:The military cannot play babysitter to our nation's citizens. The police are capable of handling crime in our nation. Article three: Enemy soldiers are of far more use alive than dead. Article four: Our soldiers are well-trained. They will not err in combat merely because they have a pretty girl fighting by their side. Also, each soldier enters battle wearing a gas-mask that obscures the face. Determining the gender of the soldier next to you is a task that would take more time than can be spared during combat. This bill is an insult to our great military. |
Date | 09:36:57, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Traxian Imperial Party | To | Debating the Traxian Imperial Proposals 1 |
Message | By doing this though we may stop the destruction of our state at the hands of subversives. Any good moral for the enemy id bad moral for us, and if people fight against us they die. Simple. Effective message. Soldiers always make mistakes we just think that should be avoided at all costs. |
Date | 09:37:31, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Traxian Imperial Party | To | Debating the Traxian Imperial Proposals 1 |
Message | We are not daying ban homosexuals in the military just keep that knowledge private. |
Date | 13:21:18, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Totalitarian Party | To | Debating the Traxian Imperial Proposals 1 |
Message | We need the military policing our streets to stop those who plot against our state? The military fights external threats. We have ways of dealing with treasonous scum that do not involve the military. A charge by a Gaduri legion that may or may not contain homosexuals will not help the morale of any enemy force. Our soldiers make mistakes far less often than those of other nations, and I sincerely doubt one of ours will seriously compromise a mission by noticing that the soldier next to him happens to have a vagina. Our nation's defence budget does not just pay for shiny guns. It funds the rigorous training each of our soldiers must endure. Any who fail are ejected from the military. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||
yes |
Total Seats: 230 | |||
no | Total Seats: 193 | |||
abstain | Total Seats: 18 |
Random fact: Once approved, players should copy Cultural Protocols into a bill in the debate section of their nation page, under the title of "OOC: Cultural Protocols". This bill should include links to the passed Cultural Protocol bill and the Moderation approval. |
Random quote: "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." - Marcus Aurelius |