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Bill: Foreign Embassies
Details
Submitted by[?]: Moderate Beluzians
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: August 2172
Description[?]:
| In an effort to further communication and peace.... Foriegn governments will pay for the land that houses their embassies like any other entity. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
The government's policy regarding foreign embassies.
Old value:: Foreign countries may establish an embassy after obtaining approval from the Foreign Office.
Current: Foreign countries may establish an embassy after obtaining approval from the Foreign Office.
Proposed: Any other country may establish an embassy on national soil.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:44:58, January 14, 2006 CET | From | Secular Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Foreign Embassies |
| Message | Do they pay us for this? |
| Date | 07:46:54, January 14, 2006 CET | From | Secular Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Foreign Embassies |
| Message | Who's land is being expropiated illegally (there is a law against eminent domain) to have foreign nation's set up shop here with no monetary recompense to the lands owners? |
| Date | 07:49:12, January 14, 2006 CET | From | Secular Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Foreign Embassies |
| Message | And if you want to ensure "peace" then the most efficent way to achieve that is a strong military possessing a full nuclear arsenal, and the self-assurance to use them fully when it is in your nation's rational self-interest. |
| Date | 08:02:46, January 14, 2006 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Foreign Embassies |
| Message | I ridgedly oppose this sacrifice of Beluzian soil to the foriegn menace. You may want to give them a staging point for their terrorist attrocities without our ability to recourse. The People however oppose such measures. |
| Date | 18:14:40, January 14, 2006 CET | From | Moderate Beluzians | To | Debating the Foreign Embassies |
| Message | We assumed people would realize that foreign countries can't just take our nation's land. But appearently not, so I changed the bill. How does promoting descruction lead to peace? |
| Date | 21:22:52, January 14, 2006 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Foreign Embassies |
| Message | Because people get pretty peaceful after you kill em? |
| Date | 07:12:21, January 15, 2006 CET | From | Secular Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Foreign Embassies |
| Message | The threat of a quick and devastating retalliation would keep most foreign aggressor's at bay. And for the one's that it doesn't we would be able to bring them to their knees quickly and painlessly to our side. The side of Justice. |
| Date | 12:42:42, January 15, 2006 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Foreign Embassies |
| Message | The Godless menace can only understand justice when it kicks them in its ass! Thats why the Peoples Populists spend so much of their time breaking up the meetings of traitors with bullhorn and bludgeon! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 16 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 84 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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