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Bill: GE/5: Paramilitary Regulation
Details
Submitted by[?]: Grey Eminence
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 4787
Description[?]:
| After the recent promotion of the “Freedom Guards” as the paramilitary group of the Independent People’s Party, questions and concerns have been raised in the Department of Defence. Mostly involving why they are formed and how they are regulated. Firstly, to answer the why: political parties are forming paramilitaries to defend themselves and, in a worst case scenario, attack others to keep them safe. They also provide influence and a level of fear as a motivator for people to comply with and/or vote for them. Therefore this bill proposes firstly to disallow any paramilitary organizations linked to or organized by political parties represented in the Senate. The reasoning for this move is that it limits the possibility of violence between political groups and keeps people safe. It also removes violence from the table when it comes to political feuds. Secondly, on how they are regulated: currently, it is not solid on how’s paramilitaries are regulated. This bill plans to change that, so we can have a baseline standard for how this should work. Therefore this bill propose to place the registration and approval of paramilitary organizations under the Department of Defence, on a CASE-BY-CASE standard. The reasoning for the first part is that the DoD is in charge of the security and defence of the nation, as well as any military affairs. Paramilitaries involve military-grade equipment and are a possible threat to the nation, so the DoD will know best. Secondly, the case-by-case nature of the regulation is so that not everything will be turned away, but so that protected groups such as Native Likatonians can protect themselves, while people that wish to form these groups for malicious purposes cannot. OOC: please discuss this, I feel like it helps clear up the stuff that’s been going on and is a common-sense measure. Although with political parties being banned from having paramilitaries, imagine Air Likatonia with one. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:31:37, July 16, 2020 CET | From | Socialists People’s Party | To | Debating the GE/5: Paramilitary Regulation |
| Message | So if you are a Party in the senate can you have a paramilitary group? If not then why legalise it in the first place? |
| Date | 17:37:15, July 16, 2020 CET | From | Grey Eminence | To | Debating the GE/5: Paramilitary Regulation |
| Message | It is not allowed to have a paramilitary while being a party, and to answer your question it is for the people that need protection, or to organize groups to assist the police, military, or other government agencies as needed. Note that any preexisting paramilitaries will stay legal. OOC: For an example of government-backed but separate groups, look at Pakistan, they use paramilitaries for border security and the like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramilitary_forces_of_Pakistan |
| Date | 17:37:21, July 16, 2020 CET | From | Grey Eminence | To | Debating the GE/5: Paramilitary Regulation |
| Message | It is not allowed to have a paramilitary while being a party, and to answer your question it is for the people that need protection, or to organize groups to assist the police, military, or other government agencies as needed. Note that any preexisting paramilitaries will stay legal. OOC: For an example of government-backed but separate groups, look at Pakistan, they use paramilitaries for border security and the like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramilitary_forces_of_Pakistan |
| Date | 17:48:13, July 16, 2020 CET | From | Socialists People’s Party | To | Debating the GE/5: Paramilitary Regulation |
| Message | But you are allowed one because you have the ministry of Defence? |
| Date | 20:29:48, July 16, 2020 CET | From | Grey Eminence | To | Debating the GE/5: Paramilitary Regulation |
| Message | Provided yours passes you may keep yours, just as we may keep ours as it is already approved. That is why we're allowed to have one. If you read the bill you would see that we would be disqualified from having one because we are a political party, same as everyone else. |
| Date | 02:19:39, July 17, 2020 CET | From | Conservative Monarchist Alliance | To | Debating the GE/5: Paramilitary Regulation |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Private paramilitaries should play no role in Likatonia. They should all be banned and removed. Alfred Cecil Conservative Monarchist Alliance |
| Date | 18:57:23, July 17, 2020 CET | From | Grey Eminence | To | Debating the GE/5: Paramilitary Regulation |
| Message | To the CMA: this bill, although not outright banning private paramilitaries, does help keep them well-regulated. Would you support this? It does not seem likely that they will be banned any time soon, so this is likely the best you'll get. |
| Date | 02:22:37, July 18, 2020 CET | From | Conservative Monarchist Alliance | To | Debating the GE/5: Paramilitary Regulation |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We will accept the logic put forward by Grey Eminence. This legislation is far from ideal, but does still represent an improvement on the status quo. Alfred Cecil Conservative Monarchist Alliance |
| Date | 12:37:33, July 18, 2020 CET | From | Democratic Party of Likatonia | To | Debating the GE/5: Paramilitary Regulation |
| Message | Democrats are staunchly against paramilitaries and any compromise on this issue is NO for us |
| Date | 22:19:20, July 18, 2020 CET | From | Grey Eminence | To | Debating the GE/5: Paramilitary Regulation |
| Message | We would recommend any anti-paramilitary parties vote YES, as this will limit the number of them. It's simply better than having them be only vaguely regulated. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 84 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 10 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 6 |
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