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Bill: Overthrowing Outmoded Treaties Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Freedom of Religion Party
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: October 2328
Description[?]:
| Keymon is currently the ONLY party bound by a treaty that limits national freedom to decide military policy. Not only is this treaty undemocratic, it is also ridiculous to be bound by a treaty that NO other nation is signatory to. |
Proposals
Article 1
Withdraw from the Keymon Military Abolition.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:34:34, December 11, 2006 CET | From | Keymon Lutherian Party | To | Debating the Overthrowing Outmoded Treaties Act |
| Message | Yes. This treaty makes no sense at all. In these violent times we need a strong military, not foolish and outdated treaties. |
| Date | 22:02:46, December 11, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Industrialists | To | Debating the Overthrowing Outmoded Treaties Act |
| Message | "Black October poses no actual threat to the government. Their only resource is their inability to cooperate with other parties, and this shall be their downfall." --Grand Duke Elect Wilson Simmons |
| Date | 22:08:15, December 11, 2006 CET | From | Octobrists | To | Debating the Overthrowing Outmoded Treaties Act |
| Message | Black October released a statement today contesting accusations by Wilson Simmons. The statement noted that Black October controls nearly 30% of the countryside, possesses numerous weapons, commands over a thousand freedom fighters, and has been offered and is soliciting aid from foreign governments. The statement concluded by demanding the resignation of Wilson Simmons. |
| Date | 18:42:02, December 12, 2006 CET | From | Octobrists | To | Debating the Overthrowing Outmoded Treaties Act |
| Message | Gunmen in a small black car opened fire with automatic on a crowd of Underdog Party legislators today as the Assembly started voting on the Overthrowing Outmoded Treaties Act. No casualties have been reported. Black October issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack, and called upon the Underdog Party to resign all of its seats in the Assembly. |
| Date | 23:14:40, December 12, 2006 CET | From | Freedom of Religion Party | To | Debating the Overthrowing Outmoded Treaties Act |
| Message | "Yet again, the Democratic Industrialists are found siding with terrorists. Black October clearly have weapons - we wonder why the allegedly 'democratic' Industirialist party are so keen to see guns ONLY in the hands of violent insurgents." --Bad Wolf, elected speaker for the Underdog Party. |
| Date | 02:19:12, December 15, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Industrialists | To | Debating the Overthrowing Outmoded Treaties Act |
| Message | "They have guns. Why let them have more?" --Wilson Simmons |
| Date | 03:29:41, December 15, 2006 CET | From | Freedom of Religion Party | To | Debating the Overthrowing Outmoded Treaties Act |
| Message | "Where is the logic in that? By binding us to all these outmoded laws, there is nothing stopping the ILLEGAL trade of weaponry - which is where the terrorists are being armed. Instead, the laws prevent the nation of Keymon from arming itself as protection against terror. It prevents the legal avenues of defense that should be available. Terrorists are not going to be disarmed by this treaty, because they are not obtaining their weapons through the conventional channels, anyway. We can understand why the Black October movement wishes this set of laws to remain as is - it gives them a strategic advantage in their terror war. What we can't understand - is why the Democratic Industrialists choose to side with a militant insurgency, rather than the legitimate political processes and the legitimate concerns of the Keymon populace." --Bad Wolf, elected speaker for the Underdog Party. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 47 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 73 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Bill descriptions must be in English, or at least include a full English translation. Bill titles may appear in a language that is appropriate to the nation and are not required to be translated into English. |
| Random quote: "Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." - Napoleon Bonaparte |