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Bill: National Anthem Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Ducal Delegation
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill asks for an amendement to the Constitution. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 2214
Description[?]:
| His Grace's 9-year old grandson has written a poem and keeps demanding that it be made the country's national anthem. Percy Waterman (Personal Secretary to the Grand Duke of Hikirena) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The lyrics of the national anthem.
Old value:: To dream of freedom in this world Our banners flaying proudly are unfurled Even if we stand alone we must never hide For in our hearts there is a sense of pride (chorus) For my Country and Nation (x2) I believe in the Aldegar I believe in my country It's where I belong, it's where I'll stay (chorus) For my Country and Nation (x2) Don't give up the fight for what is good and right like phoenix from the ashes the new dawn will arise.
Current:
| Aldegarian (Tajik): Эй Алдегор, эй марзи пур гавҳар, Эй хокат сарчашмаи ҳунар. Дур аз ту андешаи бадон, Поянда монӣ ту ҷовидон. Эй, душман ар ту санги хораи ман оҳанам, Ҷони ман фидои хоки поки меҳанам. Меҳри ту чун шуд пешаам, Дур аз ту нест андешаам, Дар роҳи ту кай арзише дорад ин ҷони мо Поянда бод хоки Алдегор мо. Ej Aldegor ej marzi pur gahar Ej xokat sarcašmai hunar Dur az tu andešai badon Pojanda monī tu çovidon. Ej, duşman ar tu sangi xorai man ohanam, Çoni man fidoi xoki poki mehanam. Mehri tu cun šud pešaam, Dur az tu nest andešaam, Dar rohi tu kaj arziše dorad in çoni mo Pojanda bod xoki Aldegor mo. Luthorian (English): O Aldegar! O jewel-studded land! Your soil, springhead of artistry sublime! May those who harbor you ill, banished be! May you remain everlastingly strong! If the foe is granite hard, I am clad in iron: Willingly I offer my life for the pure soil of my land. Ever since your love became my lodestar From you have never strayed afar my thoughts. To further your glory, we care naught for our lives: Eternal be the soil of our land. |
Proposed:
| Triumphant and victorious, Our Aldegar is glorious! Courageous and valorous, Our Aldegar is fabulous! Oh Aldegar, sweet Aldegar, I do not know where on the map you are. My love for you is just so much, To me foreign shores are all just muck! Prospective monarchs please watch your heads, For you are not safe in your beds! We republicans wont shed a tear, When you are no longer here! Fascists please take your pick, Of one of Aldegars lovely cliffs. Sign your wills and take a jump, Well all rejoice as we hear the thump! Religious nutters: go drown yourselves! Communists: be chased by hounds! For Aldegar is moderate, And youre always too intolerant. We will not bow on bended knee, To those who will not let us be free. Foreign aggressors: this you must learn, Or upon our fires your bums shall burn! Traitors from Hikirena beware Buffalo horns we do bear! Perfidious Tukralians be careful Our swords and spears theyre deadly lethal! With nuclear weapons we guard ourselves, And with our spies we poison our enemys wells. But we keep no bio-nasties, Because the effects are just too long-lasting. Oh Motherland, oh Fatherland! Oh Aldegar youre my land! Oh praise be to Aldegar, Where all good things and people are! Tra-la-la Aldegar! Land where all the freshest strawberries grow, But if Mordusian raiders should thieve them, With wasps and moths we shall peeve them! Oh! Ba! Di! Do! Aldegar! All government political appointments shall we bar, For all must be fair in Aldegar, Because Aldegar is where we are! We have libraries in Aldegar, So all can read no matter who they are. But hate-speakers are not allowed, Instead we have them disembowelled! Our women have equal rights, And have a role in all our fights. For they battle in our armies, And know our nuclear passkeys. Theres an Aldegar thats up in space, Searching planets for food of which to give us a taste, For Aldegars food must be beyond compare, And when its not we just leave the stupid spacemen stranded up up up there! No smoking in the pubs of Aldegar, Of cigarettes or stale cigar. But theres always euthanasia, If Aldegars not your saviour. Vile merchants from Baltusia, Of all your fingers youll be a loser! We know all about your dodgy wares, Well boot you out but wont pay your fares. Endralonian knights who refuse to fight our bears - Stick your hands up in the air! Do you think well really care, When youre chained up naked in their lairs? Aldurian pirates who steal our ships, Run, run, run! Your bows well hit! Our men are fit, our dogs are barking, And at weekends we all go go-karting! Ikradonian lawyers throw off your wigs, We know youre really all just pigs! But Aldegars sons shall not be tricked, By foreigners whose trials well make sure are fixed! We dont sell arms to anyone, Sales must be approved thats all bar one, That a minister we wanted hung, Suddenly found exploding up his bum! Condoms flow from all our lavatories, And designer babies from our best laboratories! Clonings cool we know the way, And religions rather had its day... Immigrants are welcome here, But not too many or well raise our spears! We know how hatreds really rotten, But in Aldegar thats all forgotten. Hunters put your guns away, The endangered ones are here to stay! Now to give you something else to do, Youll live with lions in the zoo! Terrorists hurl your bombs asunder, For we tell you: youll surely blunder! Oaths youve sworn and lives youve slaughtered, Wont help you when youre drawn and quartered! Capitalists may have their say, But cant have our leaders in their pay. And if their greed does go too far, Therell be a body in a car The sea-blue skies of Aldegar, Are filled with cooing budgerigar! And if you try to cheat your tax, Theyll swoop and peck your ears for wax! Advertisers we will be fair, But with what you say oh please, take care! For if we find that youve been fibbing, Into your pants well have you widdling! Ecologists are okay by us, So long as they dont cause a fuss. But if they give us all a turn, Through a blender their tongues shall churn! If you own a car and like to speed, Watch that kid! Oh, do take heed, Because under Aldegaran law, We can make your bones and toenails sore! Schools are good for our great nation. Education! Education! But if before sixteen you try to leave, From our gibbets you will surely bleed! Progressive and tolerant, Modern and moderate, Forever democratic and free for evermore, Come to Aldegar Its in the law! |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:11:04, April 09, 2006 CET | From | Progressive Conservatives | To | Debating the National Anthem Act |
| Message | It's too long to read; can the Ducal Delegation write a summary for this please? |
| Date | 10:56:42, April 10, 2006 CET | From |  Ducal Delegation | To | Debating the National Anthem Act |
| Message | It's all about what a lovely, tolerant, liberal, gentle and happy country we are, and how much we love foreign nations and all different kinds of people, no matter who they are. Percy Waterman (Personal Secretary to the Grand Duke of Hikirena) |
| Date | 23:40:45, April 10, 2006 CET | From | Fenner Brockway Socialist Party | To | Debating the National Anthem Act |
| Message | Some of this is quite good, and funny, but other bits we can't support. We must therefore oppose it. Thanks anyway to the Duke's nephew for his efforts. |
| Date | 00:57:48, April 11, 2006 CET | From | Ducal Delegation | To | Debating the National Anthem Act |
| Message | I have been instructed to inform all of Aldegar's Grand Councillors that if they do not vote for this Bill, their children and/or other young relatives will not be invited to His Grace's grandson's 10th birthday party later in the year. Percy Waterman (Personal Secretary to the Grand Duke of Hikirena) |
| Date | 01:36:40, April 11, 2006 CET | From | Progressive Conservatives | To | Debating the National Anthem Act |
| Message | Okay, so all the stuff about what a lovely, tolerant, liberal, gentle, and happy country we are is excellent... but what's up with all the hate? The anti-communism, anti-religious lines contradict the supposed tolerance of our nation. If we can edit out those lines, then this can be a very good anthem. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 164 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 169 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 42 |
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