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Bill: Military
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pro Freedom 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: December 2228
Description[?]:
| Changes to the military |
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 nation's defence industry.
Old value:: The state owns all defence industries.
Current: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Proposed: Defence industries are privately owned but subsidised by the state.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Military stance on homosexuality.
Old value:: Homosexuality is allowed in the military.
Current: Homosexuality is allowed in the military.
Proposed: Open homosexuality is not tolerated in the military. The military has a "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The use of torture for obtaining information.
Old value:: Torture is never allowed.
Current: Torture is never allowed.
Proposed: It is at the discretion of the police officer to torture suspects for information.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the export of weapons to other nations.
Old value:: The government must approve all arms sales on a case by case basis.
Current: The government must approve all arms sales on a case by case basis.
Proposed: The government does not allow arms to be exported.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Women in the military.
Old value:: Women serve alongside men.
Current: Women serve alongside men.
Proposed: Women serve in segregated units.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:40:44, May 16, 2006 CET | From |  Communist Party of Saridan | To | Debating the Military |
| Message | Holy fucking shit, are you serious? |
| Date | 14:30:46, May 17, 2006 CET | From | Anti-Revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Military |
| Message | We'll back. PFP, would you consider backing a NWP motion to remove women from the front line altogether? |
| Date | 02:31:35, May 18, 2006 CET | From | For the Division of Cheesecake Party | To | Debating the Military |
| Message | ....wow....people are actually supporting this?! |
| Date | 02:33:52, May 18, 2006 CET | From | Communist Party of Saridan | To | Debating the Military |
| Message | Remove women from the front line? OOC: Excuse me, but haven't you looked at the history of the Soviet Union? Women fought alongside men for revolution in 1917, and in 1941, women fought with men on the front lines against the fascists. Many women distinguished themselves in air combat. IC: To remove women from the military is to take away their power. |
| Date | 13:46:53, May 18, 2006 CET | From | Anti-Revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Military |
| Message | ooc: thats a trifle dishonest, women fought on the front line in the USSR in the Great Patriotic War, but not in actual formations, only in certain circumstances. It certainly was never official policy of the Red Army to have women in the front line. Also, women did not serve in the front line in the Russian Civil War, the Revolution of 1917 was hardly an armed struggle. After WW2 the USSR, the USA and Israel all tried to incorporate women into the front line, and all three nations eventually dropped the scheme, because it didn't work. IC: The military is not there to empower women or to bring about equality. Women should never serve in the front line, and only pacifists and fags would beg to differ. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 260 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 275 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 117 |
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