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Bill: Purification Rundown II
Details
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill asks for an amendement to the Constitution. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2332
Description[?]:
| "No self-interest can be so great as to demand the slaughter of mankind. He who would demand it, he who would not by every rational means avert it, is insane." LRH |
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 purchase, produce, or store biological or chemical weaponry, for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
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 reserves the right to use chemical or biological weapons in warfare for any reason.
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 national motto.
Old value:: The truly great country is one which doesn't require a motto
Current:
| 福擴山海 Ure-Lamu Nga'rin Miwan El Reino Será Alegredada Bydded y Genedl yn Llawen May Joy Spread Throughout the Land |
Proposed: “Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.” LRH
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of nuclear weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in warfare for any reason.
Current: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first.
Proposed: The nation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons if victory is not feasibile by other means.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:27:04, December 19, 2006 CET | From | Fascist Zealotry League | To | Debating the Purification Rundown II |
| Message | Yes, why not make the Republic an easy target for our enemies once again? Now is not the time for such sweeping reforms. P.S. We would actually support a motto change. The current one is a joke and whoever was responsible for it should be ashamed of themselves! |
| Date | 17:21:46, December 19, 2006 CET | From | Dranland Pro-Life Party | To | Debating the Purification Rundown II |
| Message | The motto's been in force for over 100 years without complaints, so why complain now? |
| Date | 17:26:36, December 19, 2006 CET | From | Fascist Zealotry League | To | Debating the Purification Rundown II |
| Message | Why not? Tis the season.... |
| Date | 17:37:02, December 19, 2006 CET | From | vendeta national party | To | Debating the Purification Rundown II |
| Message | this law can be weaken our country. |
| Date | 20:01:26, December 19, 2006 CET | From | Order of Valtiel | To | Debating the Purification Rundown II |
| Message | OOC: I thought that Scientology teaches that insanity doesn't exist... |
| Date | 10:39:34, December 20, 2006 CET | From | New Theta | To | Debating the Purification Rundown II |
| Message | OOC: Not at all. But only that the -definition- of insanity can only ever be subjective. (Simply because no one can, or should, define normality/sanity - everyone is different afterall). Hubbard used the term within his own definition which was generally based on whether one's actions injure or harm more people than would help. But again, such definitions are purely subjective. Psychiatry defines sanity and insanity quite specifically, however, categorising numerous "disorders" based on personality and behavioural traits it considers abnormal or unacceptable in society. There's an interesting analysis of psychiatric labelling and the insanity (no pun intended) of definining normality/abnormality, using Psychiatry's "ADHD" as an example, at http://groups.msn.com/psychbusters/diagnosticcriteria.msnw |
| Date | 21:52:26, December 20, 2006 CET | From | Fascist Zealotry League | To | Debating the Purification Rundown II |
| Message | What a load of waffle! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 273 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 310 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 17 |
| Random fact: It is not allowed to call more than 5 elections in 5 game years in a nation. The default sanction for a player persisting in the early election tactic will be a seat reset. |
| Random quote: "No one today can afford to be innocent, or indulge himself in ignorance of contemporary governments, politics and social orders. The national polities of the modern world maintain their existence by deliberately fostered craving and fear: monstrous protection rackets. The 'free world' has become economically dependent on a fantastic system of stimulation of greed which cannot be fulfilled, sexual desire which cannot be satiated and hatred which has no outlet except against oneself, the persons one is supposed to love, or the revolutionary aspirations of pitiful, poverty-stricken marginal societies like Cuba or Vietnam. The conditions of the Cold War have turned all modern societies - communist included - into vicious distorters of man's true potential." - Gary Snyder |