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Bill: Respect for Prisioners Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Traditional Alliance
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: December 3955
Description[?]:
| A nation is defined by how it treats its prisoners. As we have seen in recent months the LPA has no hesitation in torturing its political enemies. We do not expect that passing this bill will stop their abuse - only removing them from office will do that. However passing this bill would send a strong message to the LPA and the world that we, the other parties of Lodamun, do not accept this. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the treatment of prisoners of war.
Old value:: Prisoners of war may be mistreated without legal sanction.
Current: Prisoners of war must be treated well, according to internationally-accepted standards.
Proposed: Prisoners of war must be treated well, according to internationally-accepted standards.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The use of torture for obtaining information.
Old value:: Suspects can only be tortured under grave emergencies where the information is vital.
Current: Torture is never allowed.
Proposed: Torture is never allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:01:47, December 18, 2015 CET | From | Liberal Progressive Alliance | To | Debating the Respect for Prisioners Act |
| Message | M. Speaker, Is the TA deaf??? We have said countless times that we are strongly opposed to torture and have never administered any kind of physical torture upon John Smith. Of course we will be supporting this bill, despite the countless amount of lies the TA have said about us. Terry Hawthorne Prime Minister |
| Date | 17:48:10, December 19, 2015 CET | From | Pro Lodamunese Unitarian Party | To | Debating the Respect for Prisioners Act |
| Message | If this bill passes the courts verdict must change as it will be illegal for the death penalty to be administered Will can't reach a consensus on how to vote, we will vote later. Stephen Lodamun PLUP President |
| Date | 17:50:05, December 19, 2015 CET | From | Pro Lodamunese Unitarian Party | To | Debating the Respect for Prisioners Act |
| Message | (OOC: Im doing all this on my phone so if you see any typos, ever, then it was because of autocorrect) |
| Date | 22:19:27, December 19, 2015 CET | From | Court of Shades | To | Debating the Respect for Prisioners Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Even if this bill passed, I suspect the verdict would of remained the same. Mr Smith was simply not tortured or mistreated. Jane Black CoS Acting Leader |
| Date | 04:00:25, December 20, 2015 CET | From | Pro Lodamunese Unitarian Party | To | Debating the Respect for Prisioners Act |
| Message | Excuse my earlier statement I didn't throughly look at the proposals in this bill. We have decided to vote no to the bill, on the basis that it should be an option, a last resort mind you, to torture to get what we need from a prisoner. Stephen Lodamun PLUP President |
| Date | 01:56:08, December 21, 2015 CET | From | Traditional Alliance | To | Debating the Respect for Prisioners Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Given the LPA is no longer in power we do not feel that this bill is necessary. We will be voting against it. Andrew d'Arcy TA Leader |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 73 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 467 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 59 |
| Random fact: The people in your nation don't like inactive parties. When you often abstain from voting for a bill, they will dislike your party and your visibility to the electorate will decrease significantly. Low visibility will means you are likely to lose seats. So keep in mind: voting Yes or No is always better than Abstaining. |
| Random quote: "I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." - Charles de Gaulle |