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Bill: Defence of the Nation Bill - 4232
Details
Submitted by[?]: Patriotic Party of Baltusia
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: November 4232
Description[?]:
| Members of Congress, Give that this House has decided to vote against a key element of the Human Wave initiative - namely, to double the size of our armed forces through national service - and nuclear weapon development is not on the table right now, I believe we must look at other ways to boost security and defences. To this end I am looking to introduce a policy to issue military grade, semi-automatic weapons to our police, so they can act as a fully trained reserve force to the military, if and when needed, particularly if our country is invaded. Furthermore, we believe to offset a conventional aerial attack or - if the unspeakable happens - a nuclear attack, we should look to boost our civil defences, which are currently competent but do not provide full cover for our citizens. Geoffrey Palmerston Defence Secretary Pascal Kindler Home Secretary |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Civil defence is the government's policy on providing shelters to be used in the event of attacks on major cities, mainly nuclear attacks and bombing.
Old value:: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Current: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Proposed: Every public building is required to feature provisions for civil defence and at least 50% of spaces must be allocated to private citizens.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The weapons used by police forces.
Old value:: Police officers may only carry standard firearms apart from specially trained firearms units.
Current: Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons.
Proposed: Police officers carry military-grade equipment.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:57:22, June 26, 2017 CET | From | Secularist, Socialist Party of Baltusia | To | Debating the Defence of the Nation Bill - 4232 |
| Message | Members of Congress, I would ask the Patriotic Party when they will give up the failing human wave experiment as it is clearly being rejected by the house. The role of the military is to protect and as we are not in conflict right now and nor is potential conflict on the horizon the need to bolster our military is non-existent. Lily Hardy (Minority Speaker of the House) |
| Date | 10:42:49, June 27, 2017 CET | From | Patriotic Party of Baltusia | To | Debating the Defence of the Nation Bill - 4232 |
| Message | Madame Hardy, I would recommend you read the recent Congressional archives. We accept that Human Wave has been rejected by this house and have proposed this bill as an alternative way of bolstering our forces. Let me be quite clear as to why I propose this: as defence secretary my role is to build a sufficiently sized military that can not only protect our national interests but also help secure peace around Terra, in conjunction with our allies on the Security Council. In addition, I need to equip us with a relevant conventional force to offset the need for a nuclear deterrent. This is not about being overly militaristic, political point scoring - or even to create a tighter grip on our own people - this is about ensuring our armed forces can fulfil their role and responsibilities within the world. Thank you Geoffrey Palmerston Defence Secretary |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 211 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 310 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 79 |
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