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Bill: Aotearoan Rights Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Aotearoan Resistance League
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill proposes the withdrawal from a treaty. It will require half of the legislature to vote in favor[?]. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2260
Description[?]:
| This bill expresses our desires as a race, and our need to maintain a strong and vibrant culture while under the boot of white domination. We will not compromise our values, and we are willing to fight for our beliefs. Our religion (which celebrates the whakapapa and the mauri life force) must be practiced openly and recognized as the original faith of Barmenistan. |
Proposals
Article 1
Withdraw from the Barmenistan Free Trade Agreement.
Article 2
Withdraw from the South Ocean Treaty Organisation ( SOTO ).
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 0
Current: 35
Proposed: 30
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change National, cultural and historic sites and monuments.
Old value:: The state encourages and funds private efforts towards the protection of cultural and historical heritage.
Current: The state actively protects scenery, localities, cultural, and historical sites; it maintains an agency to preserve them untouched if public interest so requires.
Proposed: The state actively protects scenery, localities, cultural, and historical sites; it maintains an agency to preserve them untouched if public interest so requires.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: Strategic crops are produced on State owned farms. All other produce is left to the Private sector.
Current: The government subsidises agriculture based on market demand for the crop being grown.
Proposed: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning forest protection.
Old value:: Forest protection is left to local governments.
Current: Forests have strictly enforced protection. Felling is limited to fire breaks.
Proposed: Forests are protected. Logging is allowed by licence only.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve a term of civilian national service.
Current: All adults upon completion of schooling can be required in times of war to serve a term in the military.
Proposed: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change Guarantee of minimum income.
Old value:: There shall be no direct cash payments to individuals to guarantee a minimum income.
Current: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a very basic subsistence income by the government.
Proposed: All adults not supported by another person shall be guaranteed a reasonable, though not high, standard of living by the government.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on minimum wage regulation.
Old value:: There is no provision for a minimum wage.
Current: There shall be a minimum wage at a level that a single full time worker on it can adequately subsist.
Proposed: There shall be a minimum wage at a level considered a "living wage," well above the poverty line for a full time worker.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Current: Any religion may set up a school, with no regulations.
Proposed: Only recognised religions may set up religious schools, with no regulations.
Article 11
Proposal[?] to change Policy concerning racial segregation in educational institutions.
Old value:: Segregation is illegal in all educational institutions.
Current: Segregation is illegal in all educational institutions.
Proposed: Segregation policy is set by local governments.
Article 12
Proposal[?] to change Weapons allowed to private citizens.
Old value:: Only certain types of weapons may be owned by the general public, but these may be carried anywhere except as determined by the property owner.
Current: Only certain types of weapons may be owned by the general public, and there are further restrictions on places where they may be carried.
Proposed: Citizens may own any type of weapon. They may be carried anywhere except as determined by the property owner.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:10:52, July 25, 2006 CET | From | Barmenistan Communist Party | To | Debating the Aotearoan Rights Bill |
| Message | You should re-propose these items individually. The CP supports several of them, but not Articles 6,7,10,11 or 12. |
| Date | 15:35:44, July 25, 2006 CET | From | Aotearoan Resistance League | To | Debating the Aotearoan Rights Bill |
| Message | Do our people not deserve the right to defend themselves, or to attend their own schools free of white propaganda? |
| Date | 15:48:41, July 25, 2006 CET | From | Barmenistan Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Aotearoan Rights Bill |
| Message | Illegal bill |
| Date | 16:20:07, July 25, 2006 CET | From | Aotearoan Resistance League | To | Debating the Aotearoan Rights Bill |
| Message | The two extra proposals are treaty withdrawals, which do not count against the quota. |
| Date | 12:39:45, July 26, 2006 CET | From | New Democratic Initiative of Barmenistan | To | Debating the Aotearoan Rights Bill |
| Message | This'll hurt the country more than it'll do it good. |
| Date | 16:44:16, July 26, 2006 CET | From | Barmenistan Communist Party | To | Debating the Aotearoan Rights Bill |
| Message | The Communist Party will abstain from voting. This bill has good proposals and bad ones, and we don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater. We urge the ARL to re-propose these items individually. |
| Date | 16:55:52, July 26, 2006 CET | From | Barmenistan Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Aotearoan Rights Bill |
| Message | No, it's an illegal bill because taxes are decided by Finance. |
| Date | 18:14:53, July 26, 2006 CET | From | Krsyiji Mrjogadé Prta | To | Debating the Aotearoan Rights Bill |
| Message | Abstain. Concur with BCP. |
| Date | 19:47:03, July 26, 2006 CET | From | Aotearoan Resistance League | To | Debating the Aotearoan Rights Bill |
| Message | "No, it's an illegal bill because taxes are decided by Finance." We don't follow your bourgeois racist laws. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 397 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 353 |
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