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Bill: Public Domain Privatization Act (PDPA)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Hyperion Corporate Authority
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: June 4255
Description[?]:
| The Public Domain Privatization Act hereby privatizes several major industries and companies currently owned by the Subsidiary of Hawu Mumenhes. These industries include air travel, the defense industry (which has already been integrated into the Hyperion Corporation). |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on energy generation.
Old value:: All power stations are publicly owned.
Current: All power stations are publicly owned.
Proposed: Private and public power stations exist side-by-side.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: All radio stations are owned by the state.
Current: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Proposed: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: All television stations are owned by the state.
Current: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Proposed: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Internet regulations.
Old value:: The government runs its own internet with government approved content only and no connection to the rest of the world.
Current: The government allows anyone to use the internet but the police can run investigations concerning illegal activities conducted by using internet (child abuse, illegal filesharing, ...)
Proposed: The government allows anyone to use the internet but the police can run investigations concerning illegal activities conducted by using internet (child abuse, illegal filesharing, ...)
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Train Operating Companies (TOC).
Old value:: There is a single publicly owned TOC.
Current: The State owns and operates a national TOC, alongside private TOCs.
Proposed: Private companies operate regional TOC's. The national service is provided by a publicly owned, national TOC.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:58:40, August 10, 2017 CET | From |  Hyperion Corporate Authority | To | Debating the Public Domain Privatization Act (PDPA) |
| Message | Psy Scott: May I ask why you're opposed to this? |
| Date | 18:04:03, August 10, 2017 CET | From |  Ity ꜣḥwt xꜣdt | To | Debating the Public Domain Privatization Act (PDPA) |
| Message | Dontavius MeryMumenhes, Federationists Member from Aqak: Of course you can ask. I won't bother to answer until you answer my question in the Security Council Bill debate. |
| Date | 18:32:45, August 10, 2017 CET | From | Hyperion Corporate Authority | To | Debating the Public Domain Privatization Act (PDPA) |
| Message | Okay. The reason Hawu Mumenhes will never be the seatholder is due to Luthori sucking all the political air out of the races. My great grandfather worked to make Malivia the seatholder and we never came close. Why I say the people don't want to be the seatholder is becayser the people of Hawu Mumenhes are isolationists. They want o be left alone and don't like it when they have to stick their thumbs in other peoples pies, so to speak. Now, answer my question please. |
| Date | 19:06:04, August 10, 2017 CET | From | Esinsundu Anoox Remetch Smate (ENU) | To | Debating the Public Domain Privatization Act (PDPA) |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Hawu Mumenhes held the seat for quiet some time in the past. You cannot decide yourself that Hawu is an isolationist country because historically it was not. Perhaps your administration is unwilling or incapable of generating enough political and international clout to sway the votes in our favour. The security council seat is important in getting issues that our country and people hold dear heard. It also ensures that harmful policies are not enacted at an international scale. And, to answer your question our party believes that this bill doesn't do enough to deregulate and privatise the transit and entertainment industries. We see no reason for state interference in these industries. |
| Date | 19:16:00, August 10, 2017 CET | From | Ity ꜣḥwt xꜣdt | To | Debating the Public Domain Privatization Act (PDPA) |
| Message | Dontavius MeryMumenhes, Federationists Member from Aqak: Our reasons are the same as the Conservatives'. Because you are woefully ignorant of Hawu history and politics and demonstrate a stubborn disinterest in learning, the Federationists will oppose any effort by you or the Hyperion company to play any role in Hawu government. |
| Date | 19:52:54, August 10, 2017 CET | From | Hyperion Corporate Authority | To | Debating the Public Domain Privatization Act (PDPA) |
| Message | Well, I will like for you to know that a majority of the population is isolationist, as per many national polls. |
| Date | 20:30:17, August 10, 2017 CET | From | Ity ꜣḥwt xꜣdt | To | Debating the Public Domain Privatization Act (PDPA) |
| Message | Dontavius MeryMumenhes, Federationists Member from Aqak: Yes, I know that. I also know that foreign policy is only important to a tiny percentage of Hawu voters. I also know that opinion polls do not ask voters which Security Council candidates they prefer. If you had any respect for the men and women of Hawu Mumenhes, you would take a few minutes to READ Hawu historical and political records so that you can learn some of these things before rashly and rudely coming here to try to use Hawu's vote to help your moribund Security Council campaign in your home country. What you are doing is harmful to Hawu interests at home and abroad, and by trying to use Hawu power to prop up not only a foreign country but also a foreign private corporation is tantamount to treason. I am sincerely asking you to rethink your reckless agenda and update yourself on Hawu history. Because if you don't, we as Federationists will see to it that you and your company are prosecuted with the full force of Hawu law for your treasonous acts. |
| Date | 20:46:04, August 10, 2017 CET | From | Hyperion Corporate Authority | To | Debating the Public Domain Privatization Act (PDPA) |
| Message | Psy: Why are you so stuck on Malivia? Why not acknowledge the fact that the state we support for seat C wishes to remove the SC ban on slavery? What do you have against Malivia, friend? Are you so stuck in the past that you cannot comprehend the fact that times change? Why do you focus all your energy on this specific item instead on the fact that Hawu Mumenhes hasn't had a stable democratic government in years? How much of your time these last few years has been used to oppose me instead of propose law? Howuch of your time has been used simple to rage against me and my corporation and my family instead of help build Hawu Mumenhes into an actual, functioning nation again? |
| Date | 21:15:09, August 10, 2017 CET | From | Ity ꜣḥwt xꜣdt | To | Debating the Public Domain Privatization Act (PDPA) |
| Message | Dontavius MeryMumenhes, Federationists Member from Aqak: Raging against you does help maintain Hawu as a great nation because it increases the likelihood that you will slow your reckless behavior or leave Hawu Mumenhes. It is ignorant foreigners and political neophytes like YOU who threaten functioning government in Hawu Mumenhes because you care more about your pet projects than you care about facts and histories of the actual countries you settle in. Hw Mnhs's world class civil service has been able to maintain Hw as an enviable economic and military power despite the merry-go-round of reckless political actors like yourself precisely because members of my party and the Conservatives cared enough to study the history and political culture of our country and its place in the world BEFORE asking the people to trust us with the reins of government and BEFORE attempting to institute radical policy changes; that study allow us to lay a sturdy foundation for the Hawu nation that has shown itself to be impervious even the likes of your staggering incompetence. Your contempt for Hawu's past demonstrates precisely why you are so woefully ill-equipped to play any constructive role in Hawu's present and future. As to Malivia, it's a nation of mostly wonderful people. Members of my party and the Conservatives know them very well because WE BUILT THEIR COUNTRY AND LIBERATED THEM FROM COLONIALISM. I wouldn't be surprised if your silly Hyperion company project has kept your head so deep in the ground that you didn't even know that little fact about your home country. So we have nothing against Malivia except the fact that it isn't Hw Mnhs. And if there's a choice between our country and anyone else's, WE'LL CHOOSE HAWU MUMENHES EVERY TIME! As to Seat C, yes we are well aware of the Rildanor Ambassador's reprehensible actions regarding Resolution 3 in part because, as founding members of the World Congress Security Council, Hawu ambassadors (who were members of my party by the way) played leading roles in drafting and passing the Security Council's foundational Resolutions, maintain strong ties with current leaders of the Security Council, and in fact work as professionals within the World Congress General Secretary's office. In fact, it wouldn't go to far to say that members of the Federationist party indeed CONTROL the General Secretary's office and the entire Secretariat itself. So yes, I and other members of the Federationist party are well aware of the Rildanor delegation's agenda and opposition efforts against that agenda around the world. Because my party has an actual diplomatic corp that does the WORK of diplomacy and defending Hawu interests rather than the WORDS of passing reckless and meaningless Security Council nominations while the World Congress itself inches closer to the brink of collapse. So do not misunderstand me -- it is not this bill that I focus all my energy on. I and my party focus all our energy on defending the interests of Hawu men and women. Not only have you demonstrated no capacity to defend those interests, but you have shown yourself to be disinterested and indeed openly hostile to those interests. So we as Federationists will rage and rage and rage again until you and your little company are behind bars and liquidated respectively. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 450 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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