NationStates Jolt Archive

How can you vote for this current resolution? How can you vote yes for this atrocity! This resolution severly limits the rights of your citizens yet WORSE! It limits the rights of you leaders!

This resolution forces you to create agencies. This resolution forces you to make Black Market trade your number one priority. But even worse than this it forces you to INCREASE military spending. It forces you to even have a military.

This resolution is basically saying
You HAVE to moniter small arms trades in your country
You HAVE to make Black Market Trade a number 1 priority
You HAVE to create agencies to miniter this
and last but nor least
You HAVE to increase military budget

I know i am voting no. I hope you make the same logical decision. READ and REREAD if you have to just pay carefull attention to every word.

Oh dear,

I voted yes,

We are all doom'd,

Oh no,

Oh shock,

And,

Oh horror,

What is a free thinking person who already decided on their vote to do ?

Nothing, because you said what, and did not say how.

Maybe, just a suggestion, you should have some base for your claim ?

Waving ones hands in the air does not an argument make I thought ...

Respectfully yours,

- The Rep of Komokom, RMoS.
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This resolution is basically saying
You HAVE to moniter small arms trades in your country
You HAVE to make Black Market Trade a number 1 priority
You HAVE to create agencies to miniter this
and last but nor least
You HAVE to increase military budget

rec-om-mend tr.v. 1. To commend to the attention of another as reputable, worthy or desirable. 2. To make attractive or acceptable. 3. To counsel or advise (a particular course of action).

And, to be perfectly honest, the budget thing is just game mechanics. Any proposal will do something to your NS budget stats.

But even worse than this it forces you to INCREASE military spending. It forces you to even have a military.

Actually the point was that it increases police, not military spending. The odd thing is that it's just included in the resolution category. And even so, in the actual mechanics of the resolution, your nation may not be able to feasibly increase police spending, that's why paragraph 5 suggests an international framework to ASSIST nations to take these actions, including monetary and personnel support.

It also supports imperialism. We need to form a manifesto to defeat this decision!

It also supports imperialism. We need to form a manifesto to defeat this decision!

That was unwarranted, unfounded, and nonsensical. It promotes controlling crime. What kind of person are you anyway?

"President Herschel, we have to decide whether or not to vote yes on the small arms resolution."
"I vote no."
"Why?"
"Because small people have the same rights as anyone else? Why take away their limbs?"
"No, arms as Black Market trading."
"Ahh, but wouldn't white midgets need arms too?"

"President Herschel, we have to decide whether or not to vote yes on the small arms resolution."
"I vote no."
"Why?"
"Because small people have the same rights as anyone else? Why take away their limbs?"
"No, arms as Black Market trading."
"Ahh, but wouldn't white midgets need arms too?"

ROTFL!

And yet ... it is as if this same story is being told in the hearts of many nations today.

-10kMichael

It's a good reso..
Compliments to the writer (galdago)

Ase

That was unwarranted, unfounded, and nonsensical. It promotes controlling crime. What kind of person are you anyway?

Wouldn't it be smarter to ask what I meant? The bill severely limits the opportunities for small nations to protect themselves, while larger nations can do as they please. Wait for tomorrow, and I'll highlight problems in the bill.

It is rather easy to find problems in the resolution at vote: for all its long, impressive structure, it does not actually say anything. It is a resolution to suggest and to recommend actions. I will not vote for such a superficial waste of time.

You know, I'm getting kind of tired of the old 'this doesn't actually do anything' argument. It's a cheap shot that's been wheeled out against every other proposal, good or bad, and it's an excuse for not actually presenting any arguments.

I simply refuse the suggestion, recommendation, or demand that I should want to burden my taxpayers any further with another bloated government agency for the ludicrous notion that small arms manufactured for and by the people of Fleurychuksylvania are causing some kind of problem in a land far, far away.

It promotes controlling crime.

Well, think about this, why is selling guns a crime? Isn't it just another way of making money? basically this is calling attention to a crime that isn't even a crime in many nations. Maybe people should be able to do what they want to make money. It would increase jobs AND civil liberties. Then, we could spend more time tracking down teh real criminals, the ones who abuse the use of these guns.