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Bill: The Genocide Weapons Disbandment Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Refuge Pressure 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: September 2323
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning biological and chemical weaponry.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Current: The nation shall never develop, purchase or store biological or chemical weaponry.
Proposed: The nation shall never develop, purchase or store biological or chemical weaponry.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of chemical and biological weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first.
Current: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Proposed: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of nuclear weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to nuclear weapons in retaliation to a nuclear, chemical or biological attack.
Current: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare.
Proposed: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The policy with respect to nuclear weaponry.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to develop, produce and store nuclear arms.
Current: The nation shall never develop, produce or store nuclear weaponry.
Proposed: The nation shall never develop, produce or store nuclear weaponry.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:35:45, December 02, 2006 CET | From |  Gao-Showa Imperial Party | To | Debating the The Genocide Weapons Disbandment Bill |
| Message | these are not weapons for genocide they are weapons we need to protect ourselves from our enemies. |
| Date | 15:48:46, December 03, 2006 CET | From | Refuge Pressure Party | To | Debating the The Genocide Weapons Disbandment Bill |
| Message | These weapons are designed to be non-discriminatory. When used they kill everyone and everything. They are not weapons to attack another nation's military, but weapons to attack other nation's civilians. That is genocide, that is mass-muder, that is a war crime. |
| Date | 16:28:04, December 03, 2006 CET | From | Gao-Showa Imperial Party | To | Debating the The Genocide Weapons Disbandment Bill |
| Message | that is why we will only use them if our enemies do so first. We will respond in kind to their atatcks and not use them otherwise. If we have them the attack will not come for no government wishes the death of it's own people. |
| Date | 18:01:51, December 03, 2006 CET | From | Refuge Pressure Party | To | Debating the The Genocide Weapons Disbandment Bill |
| Message | "They did it first" is not an excuse for mass-murder and genocide. The people of such an attacking country would not have been behind the decision to use WMD's, what right have we have to kill innocent lives because of the actions of their despot government. And to think that nuclear capabilities is a detterant is just bizzare. Any government leader that is ready to use WMD against us has already cast aside any notion of civility and care for human life, they would not fear the deaths of their own civilians. What would deter them is the knowledge that our respnse would be a military move against him personally, and for that we need to rely on our armed forces and not a nuke or a germ bomb. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 338 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 412 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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