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Bill: Trade cessation with Solentia Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Telamon Royalist Party
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: September 2303
Description[?]:
| WHEREAS this august body, in January of 2302, did formally request from the Government of the Solentian Republic the handover of the criminals responsible for the Olympic Tragedy, and WHEREAS a period of a full year has passed in which the Government of the Solentian Republic has not responded in any way, be it directly or by introducing a bill in their Legislative Body to begin these proceedings, and WHEREAS this continued silence constitutes a calculated offense to the families of those who lost their lives on August 31, 2300, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT we, the Congress of the Telamon Commonwealth, do hereby terminate all trade activities with the aforementioned Solentian Republic, instituting a penalty of no less than the forfeiture of any and all goods and/or financial instruments found to be involved in a financial transaction between a citizen or resident of the Telamon Commonwealth and a citizen or resident of the Solentian Republic, these conditions to be normalized upon the issuance by the Solentian Government of a response to the Telamonian request of January 2302, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, should the silence issuing from the government of the Solentian Republic continue for a period of two (2) years beyond the passing of this Act, that the Telamon Commonwealth shall be hereby empowered to witness such silence to be a de facto declaration of support of the terrorist activites of 31 August, 2300, and to respond accordingly. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:28:07, October 23, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Royalist Party | To | Debating the Trade cessation with Solentia Act |
| Message | They've had a year. They haven't responded. They haven't BEGUN to respond. This is far more time than it is reasonable to assume they would need to do SOMETHING. We have to put weight behind our requests. We owe it, no only to each and every man, woman, and child who was in Olympic Stadium on that fateful night, but to every nation that sent representatives to the Games. |
| Date | 23:13:48, October 23, 2006 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the Trade cessation with Solentia Act |
| Message | "BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, should the silence issuing from the government of the Solentian Republic continue for a period of two (2) years beyond the passing of this Act, that the Telamon Commonwealth shall be hereby empowered to witness such silence to be a de facto declaration of support of the terrorist activites of 31 August, 2300, and to respond accordingly." So long as that portion remains in the bill, I cannot vote for it. I fear that 'and according response' may include war, something which I do not feel is justified by third party responsibility. I caution all members of this house before voting on this proposal, that, these are the same circumstances under which the United States invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. Moreover, these are the same circumstances under which the Austro-Hungarian Empire invaded the Kingdom of Serbia (though the Crown Prince may be a little different that the Olympics). |
| Date | 02:53:37, October 24, 2006 CET | From |  Inner Party Nuncirist Congress | To | Debating the Trade cessation with Solentia Act |
| Message | In 2 years new elections will be held and our party shall be swept into power! |
| Date | 06:41:52, October 24, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Royalist Party | To | Debating the Trade cessation with Solentia Act |
| Message | "I formally swear that, so long as the decision is mine to make, that the Telamon Commonwealth will not declare a war on the Solentian Republic, or any other nation, without the passing of a bill formally giving my office the right to conduct one. This bill is NOT such a formal declaration. This WILL NOT lead to war. We may table a war bill at a later date, if the Solentians force us to do so, but we will NOT conduct a war based on this bill. This simply gives us the right to ask Congress for permission to use such further diplomatic constraints as are necessary to elicit a response from the Solentians, and that we will conduct those constraints, should they prove necessary, from an assumption that the Solentian Government supported the attack until we receive a statement to the contrary." President Melissa Calderon |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 135 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 166 |
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