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Bill: Nukes
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Conservative 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: August 2209
Description[?]:
| Currently, we only use nukes in response to a chemical, bio, or other nuclear attack. This is not very smart. Here is a metaphor depicting this: We should only stab someone if they cut off our arm first. Does not make much sense, does it? |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of nuclear weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to nuclear weapons in retaliation to a nuclear, chemical or biological attack.
Current: The nation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in warfare for any reason.
Proposed: The nation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in warfare for any reason.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:44:56, March 30, 2006 CET | From |  Free Conservative Party | To | Debating the Nukes |
| Message | Let us not wait until our arm is cut off to retaliate. |
| Date | 17:57:58, March 31, 2006 CET | From | Jelbék Zemojad Lofrkad Prta | To | Debating the Nukes |
| Message | Nuclear weaponry is so vastly destructive and dangerous that it is not a viable weapon to use in a traditional war, whether or not the Free Republic is the aggressor. Nuclear weaponry is perhaps a necessary evil, but only as a deterrent. It should remains so. The DLP opposes this bill. |
| Date | 20:14:51, March 31, 2006 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Nukes |
| Message | The Citizens Party agrees with the DLP on this issue. We should never use nuclear weapons for ANY reason we feel like. |
| Date | 21:09:55, March 31, 2006 CET | From | Free Conservative Party | To | Debating the Nukes |
| Message | I plan to keep Nukes as a DETERANT, but if we can only use them after they do, that is less intimadating. |
| Date | 21:10:13, March 31, 2006 CET | From | Free Conservative Party | To | Debating the Nukes |
| Message | I'd like to keep our arms. |
| Date | 21:36:24, March 31, 2006 CET | From | Jelbék Zemojad Lofrkad Prta | To | Debating the Nukes |
| Message | No, we may not use them in an agressive fashion. How are they to be a deterrent if this bill is passed? For example, if the Free Republic were to go to war with a nuclear power, and launch nuclear weapons at them, this is NOT using nuclear weapons as a deterrent. |
| Date | 07:41:40, April 01, 2006 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Nukes |
| Message | It is the current policy which aims for deterrance. This is the most reasonable approach. We cannot support this bill. |
| Date | 15:54:21, April 01, 2006 CET | From | Jelbék Zemojad Lofrkad Prta | To | Debating the Nukes |
| Message | The DLP agrees with the Citizens Party. What are the plans for this bill? It has been in debate now for over a year? |
| Date | 01:34:31, April 02, 2006 CET | From | Free Conservative Party | To | Debating the Nukes |
| Message | This policy simply dishes out more deterance. |
| Date | 01:34:46, April 02, 2006 CET | From | Free Conservative Party | To | Debating the Nukes |
| Message | Sorry about debate time. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 7 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 339 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow real-life fictional references (eg. Gandalf, Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker). |
| Random quote: "While we may not always agree it is my hope that we may always be civil." - Jonathan Clarke, former Hutorian politician |