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Bill: Freedom of Service Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal 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: February 2180
Description[?]:
| The Freedom of Service Act makes serving in the armed forces optional. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: All adults upon completion of schooling can be required in times of war to serve a term in the military.
Current: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve a term in the military.
Proposed: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:38:58, February 01, 2006 CET | From |  Liberal Party | To | Debating the Freedom of Service Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this legislation. Perhaps you have heard the phrase "any job worth doing is worth doing well." For a conscript, this cliche is wholly innaccurate. In a conscript army no job is worth doing well, and, indeed, few jobs are done well. How often has anyone here done something well when they had objections to performing the task at all? Placing, basically, teenagers on the front lines in conflicts is a good way to secure massive amounts of casualties, but little else. Complacency, lack of discipline, and apathy inherent in a conscript army will lead to death and defeat, whereas the maintenance and funding of a strong, committed volunteer-recruit army will lead to victory. Furthermore, there is the moral argument against conscription. Is this not a nation in which liberty and freedom are two of our defining values? In defence of those liberties, is it justified to abandon them by forcing our youth into combat zones? I think not. Finally, our army is already strong. We have a chemical, biological, and nuclear arsenal at our disposal, and I have no doubt that, should our nation fall in danger, the men and women of the Cildanian Republic would fight for their freedom and their country. I yield. |
| Date | 08:35:19, February 01, 2006 CET | From | One Cildania Party | To | Debating the Freedom of Service Act |
| Message | I will support this bill. |
| Date | 09:42:43, February 01, 2006 CET | From | Cildanian Communist Party | To | Debating the Freedom of Service Act |
| Message | i wont |
| Date | 22:15:49, February 01, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Party | To | Debating the Freedom of Service Act |
| Message | Is there any argument which could sway the honourable representative of the Communist Party? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 191 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 161 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 73 |
| Random fact: Dorvik is a nation based on Germanic and old Prussian cultures, it is located on the far north of Artania, making it an almost arctic nation. |
| Random quote: "Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State." - Edward Abbey |