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Bill: Defense Industries Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: AM Populist Social Democrats
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: May 2337
Description[?]:
| Whereas, Likatonia is now tragically dependent on other nations' arms sales to obtain weapons, even conventional weapons, We hereby propose that for the security of Likatonia and its citizens, we reinstate the old policies of having public and private defense contractors, and additionally, make provisions for Civil Defense. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Civil defence is the government's policy on providing shelters to be used in the event of attacks on major cities, mainly nuclear attacks and bombing.
Old value:: The government makes no provision for civil defence.
Current: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Proposed: No new buildings may be constructed unless they feature provisions for civil defence.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: Defence industries are banned.
Current: The state owns all defence industries.
Proposed: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:01:37, December 29, 2006 CET | From |  Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Defense Industries Act |
| Message | We feel that weapons do not prevent war, merely encourage it. As long as we remain not threatening, and no-confrontational, then we are not part of the problem. |
| Date | 21:23:00, December 29, 2006 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Defense Industries Act |
| Message | There is a reason that pacifism derives from the root of pacify. Having nearly no defense forces us to be more than non-confrontational, but to basically obey other nations' commands, if given. It is thus a threat to our sovereignty. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 51 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 85 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 63 |
| Random fact: Particracy has been running since 2005. Dorvik was Particracy's first nation, the Dorvik Social Democrats the first party and the International Greens the first Party Organisation. |
| Random quote: "The trouble with communism is the communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians" - Henry Louis Mencken |