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Bill: Chemical and Biological Weapons Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Our Future 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: September 4022
Description[?]:
| The nation shall never use chemical or biological weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of chemical and biological weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to use chemical or biological weapons in warfare for any reason.
Current: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Proposed: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:10:32, May 01, 2016 CET | From | Anarchist Workers' Union | To | Debating the Chemical and Biological Weapons Bill |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We support this bill. Bernard Warren, Chair, DSPL |
| Date | 19:25:52, May 01, 2016 CET | From | Our Future Party | To | Debating the Chemical and Biological Weapons Bill |
| Message | Mr. Speaker I give thanks to Bernard Warren for giving the support for the bill. Chair, Our Future Party |
| Date | 21:02:45, May 01, 2016 CET | From | Our Future Party | To | Debating the Chemical and Biological Weapons Bill |
| Message | Mr. Speaker We shall proceed with the vote then Chair, Our Future Party |
| Date | 07:09:46, May 02, 2016 CET | From | Our Future Party | To | Debating the Chemical and Biological Weapons Bill |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, To all parties that voted no, why is that? What level are we for researching such accursed weapons that inflict harm on people that did not use these weapons in the first place? Who do we think we are? We are not gods, nor are we devils, and we humans have a great capacity for compassion. But I understand we have faults, and that fault is being capable of violence. This bill marks the first step towards peaceful intentions to other countries around the world. And we cannot have any obstruction at all for the goal. Our Future Party, The Chair |
| Date | 07:12:21, May 02, 2016 CET | From | Our Future Party | To | Debating the Chemical and Biological Weapons Bill |
| Message | Mr Speaker, I also call on other parties who abstained to be principled, and be assertive towards the bill that will be the prototype for further peace, as a part of a positive human nature. The Chair, Our Future Party |
| Date | 08:05:01, May 02, 2016 CET | From | Grand Nationalist Fraction | To | Debating the Chemical and Biological Weapons Bill |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I hardly believe this bill marks a step towards peaceful intentions. The proposal says that our nation can use these weapons as retaliation. If I read between the lines it means that we can use these weapons if one nation chooses to use them. It doesn't say that we have to aggressed, the weapons do not necessarily have to be used against our nation. This proposal seems doubtful to me. It doesn't bring us closer to a peaceful future, it only gives people a false feeling of peaceful intentions. My party and I prefer the law as it stands. Kim Andries Minister of Defence |
| Date | 15:40:47, May 02, 2016 CET | From | Our Future Party | To | Debating the Chemical and Biological Weapons Bill |
| Message | Mr Speaker, To Kim Andries, so what do you propose?, maintaining the law that can harm the environment and make more damage than already intended when attacking the enemy? Chair, Our Future Party |
| Date | 22:11:19, May 02, 2016 CET | From |  Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the Chemical and Biological Weapons Bill |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I will admit that I do not believe that the current law is ideal, however the proposed change is ridiculous. It is one thing to be principled and say that you do not want chemical or biological weapons being used at all, but it is another thing entirely to say that you would want our country to use them after another country uses them on our people. If there is a war in which such weapons are used against our people, we have already failed, as our people have already been harmed far too much. To go on, then, to use these weapons against other people will do no justice; harming other sons and daughters will not magically cause ours to be reborn. I will be making my own proposed change to the law, based on reason and ethical principles. -- Joshua Fertig, Chairman of the GNRG, President of 2GDR Lodamun |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 70 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 363 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 166 |
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