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Bill: Defence Initiative
Details
Submitted by[?]: AM Meria Separatist Alliance
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 2277
Description[?]:
| "Certain changes must be mande to our defence policy given that we are curnetlysurrounded by war. Should the war in Rilandor spread we must be asready as possible to fight." -- Michael Makaveilli |
Proposals
Article 1
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 2
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Current: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Proposed: All adults upon completion of schooling can be required in times of war to serve a term in the military.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:18:47, August 30, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Intellectual Party | To | Debating the Defence Initiative |
| Message | We do not support and we do not understand what the first proposal has to do with the current climate of war. |
| Date | 14:39:21, August 30, 2006 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Defence Initiative |
| Message | Once again - the Axis Mundi Revolution leadership finds itself in lockstep with the leadership of our allies in the Liberal Intellectual Party: How is discrimination based on gender... in any way related to the political situation in Rildanor? |
| Date | 19:29:18, August 30, 2006 CET | From |  Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Defence Initiative |
| Message | In our opinion, open homosexuality should be encouraged in the military. It will scare the heck out of our enemies. There is also no real benefit to forcing national service on poeple. Let them choose to serve... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 126 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 375 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow real-life brand names (eg. Coca Cola, McDonalds, Microsoft). However, in the case of military equipment brand names it is permitted to use simple number-letter combinations (eg. T-90 and F-22) borrowed from real life, and also simple generic names, like those of animals (eg. Leopard and Jaguar). |
| Random quote: "Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war." - Tony Blair |