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Bill: POW's
Details
Submitted by[?]: Elite Sinn Fein
Status[?]: passed
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 2344
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the treatment of prisoners of war.
Old value:: Prisoners of war are immediately returned to their own government.
Current: Prisoners of war may be mistreated without legal sanction.
Proposed: Prisoners of war must be treated well, according to internationally-accepted standards.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:36:40, January 13, 2007 CET | From | Paraplu party | To | Debating the POW's |
| Message | i see your point. why capture them if we're just gonna return them? |
| Date | 03:23:52, January 13, 2007 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the POW's |
| Message | Why, you ask? 1. POWs will be more compliant if they know they're going to go home instead of being treated like common criminals. 2. Foreign soldiers are no more guilty of a crime than our military men and women and, quite frankly, we'd rather have our side returned than locked up overseas. 3. It makes us look better not only in the eyes of the rest of the world but also in the eyes of the enemy's public. 4. It costs some 30 000 aureus to maintain a POW in decent coniditions per year. Instead of the 1.5 billion aureus it would take to maintain just 50 000 POWs (OOC: The Soviet Union had 5 million during WW2, its only possible to maintain large numbers if you treat them poorly), we could easily send them home for about a hundredth of that. 5. Even if the government decides to return the POWs to the field of battle, they must expend some resources to do so. Instead of the situation where we use up all our resources taking care of their soldiers (perhaps only to have them escape with good morale and full bellies) and the enemy uses nothing, both sides use the same resources in dealing with the POWs. 6. Having a large number of resentful, trained and deadly people within our national borders is a bad idea. Particularly if they decide to escape. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 60 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 40 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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