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The Whittier Doctrine:
Today, Brezhnekov announced that Pandora's Box will used to destroy any nuclear ICBM launched at any nation located either on earth or the moon whether the targeted nations are allies with Whittier or not.
Pandora's Box has been designed to automatically track for the launch of nuclear weapons and to automatically destroy them in flight.

The Whittier Conventions:





The Whittier Convention on the Execution of War and the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

Whittier drafts this treaty with the purpose of:
1. Preventing unnecessary suffering.
2. Encourage reciprocity.
3. Facilitate a quicker restoration of peace for all conflicts.
4. Foster high discipline and moral among national troops.
5. To distinguish between combatants and noncombatants.
6. To prevent people from going psycho when they leave the armed forces of Whittier, and going killing sprees.

All military attacks must have a military necessity. The commanders choosing the target must have a legitimate reason for attacking that target.
Commanders are directly responsible to the international community for preventing unnecessary suffering, and ensuring return fire is proportional.
Commanders and soldiers of all nations must avoid incidental injury and collataral damage and excessive suffering.
Units may not discriminate in treatment of civilians or POWs.
Any civilian who is passive is a noncombatant. Any civilian that picks up a weapon and starts firing it at troops becomes a combatant.

All nations engaged in war must have:
A responsible command structure.
Fixed recognizable signs (identifying them) that are recognizable at a distance.
All troops of nations signing this agreement are required to carry their weapons openly.
All signatories are bound to abide by all provisions of this agreement.

It is unlawful, even in time of war, for troops to fire on or otherwise attempt to kill, maim or injure the following people:
Diplomats
Diplomatic staff
Staff of relief and humanitarian aid agencies.
Medical personnel
Pastors, Rabbis and other religious figures.
Passive civilians
injured soldiers
Parachutists (distinguished from Paratroopers who are combatants)-these are soldiers evacuating a plane that has been shot down or fired upon.

Regarding the treatment of POW's all signatories shall be required to:
1. Provide humanitarian treatment.
2. Medical care.
3. Food, clothing, and protective shelter.
4. Ensure respect for the persons and property of the POW's. (IE not beating them up or stealing their wallets)
5. No POWs may be forced to engage in dangerous, humiliating or war related labor. (You can't force them to build trenches for your men or fix your tanks so you can kill more of their country men.)
6. Medical experimentation on POW's is banned.
7. Interrogation via truth serum is banned.
8. All forms of physical abuse are banned.
9. All POW's have the right to adequate facilities to maintain good hygeine (they must be allowed access to showers, toilets, and toothbrushing facilities.)
10. All POW's must be given enough food to maintain good health. (It is illegal to starve them.)

Before engaging in any attack, commanders of the offensive unit must take precautionary steps to evacuate civilians from the area. Those failing to do so, can be tried for war crimes. Special Ops or other operations necessary for speeding up the reestablishment of peace are exempted. But reasonable efforts to evacuate civilians must be taken.

The following are designated as safe zones and may not be attacked by troops of any nation signing this agreement.
1. Undefended towns, villages, or cities.
2. Buildings of religious, scientific, or artistic importance.
3. All historic monuments (you cannot attack the Alamo cause it is a historic monument)
4. Hospitals
5. Other places where the sick and injured are located.
6. Senior Centers.
7. Preschools.
If any one fires weapons from these buildings, they are no longer safe zones.
The only absolute safe zone is undefended villages, towns and cities.

The following are safe signs and no bearing them may be attacked:
The Red Cross
The Red Crescent
The Red Star of David
The Red Moon
The flag of Historicity (used to disignate historic monuments.)
Combatants in these areas shall be charged with the war crime of treachery.

All soldiers who are sniper skilled must shoot to kill. It is unlawful for them to shoot to maim. Snipers who use nonlethal weapons are exempted.
Any soldier who is not good enough to get a sharp shot shall not be prosecuted if his shot maims the enemy.
If injured soldiers continue to resist by force, they remain combatants.

All hollow round ammo is banned (cause they maim).
All dumdum and crossfiled ammo are banned.
Laser weapons are banned cause they cause unnecessary suffering.
Lasers used to shoot down missiles or sattelites are exempt.

Landmines:
It is illegal to use landmines indiscriminately.
Landmines cannot be used to take advantage of a nation which complying with provisions of this treaty and other laws of war.
All mine fields must be marked with signs. The government deploying mines shall be legally required to keep a map of where every single mine is located and shall have on file a plan for removal of the mines.
This shall not apply in Demilitarized Zones.

The following shall be considered safety signs. No person or vehicles carrying them may be attacked by signatory:
The Red Cross
The Red Crescent
The Red Star of David
The Red Lion
The Red Dragon
The blue and white shield (used to denote historic sights)

The use of chemical weapons is prohibited.
The use biological weapons is prohibited.
The retaliatory use of nuclear weapons against nations with populations less than 20 million is banned.
The use of nuclear weapons is banned except in extreme circumstances.
The retaliatory use of nuclear weapons must be approved in writing by the President of the nation launching the nukes.


The use of treachery in the theater of war (booby trapping your injured buddy to kill people of the opposing nationality, or hiding behind the white flag of surrender then opening fire when the enemy gets right up to you) is banned.
The use of booby traps designed to maim, harm civilians, or sacrifice injured soldiers is banned.

The only defense allowed for war crimes is a provable alibi.
Those who obey orders from superiors to open fire on civilians or in any other way violate this treaty, shall be tried for war crimes.
All persons convicted of war crimes shall lose the protections of this treaty.
All civilians, including medical personell and religious figures, who take up arms and begin attacking soldiers with said weapons, may legally be treated as combatants cause by picking up the weapon they forfeited their noncombatant status.

The citizens of nations which have not signed this treaty shall not be protected from the abuses signed by this treaty.
This treaty shall go into effect upon ratification by ten signatory nations.

Laser weapons are banned cause they cause unnecessary suffering.

How so? If anything, I believe a laser weapon would be more humane than conventional weapons as the heat cauterises the wound and prevents infection, and no particles are lodged in the body.

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Laser weapons are banned cause they cause unnecessary suffering.

How so? If anything, I believe a laser weapon would be more humane than conventional weapons as the heat cauterises the wound and prevents infection, and no particles are lodged in the body.
Supposedly cause they burn holes right through people which is considered worse. This provision is actually found in the geneva conventions.

The Commonwealth of McQuaide would be honored to be the first nation to sign onto this treaty.

*Signed*

*Tag*

Oh well, I disagree with basically every single one of those.

Laser weapons are banned cause they cause unnecessary suffering.

How so? If anything, I believe a laser weapon would be more humane than conventional weapons as the heat cauterises the wound and prevents infection, and no particles are lodged in the body.
Supposedly cause they burn holes right through people which is considered worse. This provision is actually found in the geneva conventions.

OOC: I think the Geneva Convention ban on laser weapons actually refers to modern-day laser weapons, which are capable only of blinding people. If and when light-based weapons are deployed capable of destroying flesh, I'd expect the conventions would be ammended to reflect that.

The Commonwealth of McQuaide would be honored to be the first nation to sign onto this treaty.

*Signed*
You are welcome to sign on but several other nations have already signed the treaty.

Signatory nations:
Whittier
Crookfur
LowerEgypt
WestMoon
The SouthPacific
Upper Egypt
Mousteria
The NWO Alliance (now defunct)
The Anti Terror Army
Vizion
IDF
McQuaide
Daily

We ask if in war where we are retaliating as members of pact if friendly missiles will be shot down.

A COE member cautiously pokes Lord Dao, informing him of the Whittier Convention.
Yorinaga lets out a small chuckle.
"File that under 'presumptuous and ineffective', General."
The Elder, eager to get out of the presence of the Demon, almost flees out of the room with the briefing.

I think possibly McQuaide is right.

We ask if in war where we are retaliating as members of pact if friendly missiles will be shot down.
Nuclear missiles?

As a member of the Whittier Pact we will sign this.

We ask if in war where we are retaliating as members of pact if friendly missiles will be shot down.
Nuclear missiles?
yeah, lets say I'm nukes and I retaliate, will my missiles be fired at

A COE member cautiously pokes Lord Dao, informing him of the Whittier Convention.
Yorinaga lets out a small chuckle.
"File that under 'presumptuous and ineffective', General."
The Elder, eager to get out of the presence of the Demon, almost flees out of the room with the briefing.
Hence the reason for the necessity of the Bombay wall.

The TBA defence aliance will gladly sign this treaty but before we sign we wish to ask one question Said banning of lassers dose that inclued Phase Lances and Phase Rifles/ Side arms?

The Commonwealth of McQuaide's Parliament has accepted this agreement, and has authorized the Prime Minister to sign the treaty.

OOC: Oh, surely such a big and powerful nation with so many allies isn't actually, you know, scared of me? :P

We ask if in war where we are retaliating as members of pact if friendly missiles will be shot down.
Nuclear missiles?
yeah, lets say I'm nukes and I retaliate, will my missiles be fired at
Assuming the missiles get through Pandora's box and the systems of any other nation that volunteers to help enforce this policy, nuclear retaliation would be justified. But the purpose of the policy is to make it so you would not have to retaliate with nuclear weapons.
If the aggressor nation continues to try to fire nukes, then that constitutes an act of war on Whittier and Whittier would seek a coalition to annihilate the aggressor or at least destroy their nuclear capability.

The TBA defence aliance will gladly sign this treaty but before we sign we wish to ask one question Said banning of lassers dose that inclued Phase Lances and Phase Rifles/ Side arms?
You would have to explain those systems.

We read this Convention when it was first set-up and little has changed in our own interpretation of it's powers. It only has power over it's own signitories, which is fair enough.

However we find it odd that you would forget these rules when not fighting among yourselves as this line would suggest:

The citizens of nations which have not signed this treaty shall not be protected from the abuses signed by this treaty.
So when at war with non-signitories you are not required to follow this convention? In which case why have a convention in the first place?

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OOC: Oh, surely such a big and powerful nation with so many allies isn't actually, you know, scared of me? :P
OOC: Not really, just feeling Coldwar standoffish. But not with all that bitterness that came with the rl cold war. Just a friendly rivalry.

IC: Whittier boasts that its sports teams are better than the sports teams in NL.
And our entertainment industry makes better movies and better songs.

The TBA defence aliance will gladly sign this treaty but before we sign we wish to ask one question Said banning of lassers dose that inclued Phase Lances and Phase Rifles/ Side arms?
Whose is in this alliance? And will they ratify it individually?

The TBA defence aliance will gladly sign this treaty but before we sign we wish to ask one question Said banning of lassers dose that inclued Phase Lances and Phase Rifles/ Side arms?
You would have to explain those systems.

They are types of phased laser that have both a stun setting and a kill setting the kill setting Vaperrises the target

The TBA defence aliance will gladly sign this treaty but before we sign we wish to ask one question Said banning of lassers dose that inclued Phase Lances and Phase Rifles/ Side arms?
Whose is in this alliance? And will they ratify it individually?

I speak for the Allied nation in Danland i dont know about ther other nations in the Aliance

The folowing is the curent Standings of the TBA Defence aliance:

Aliance name: TBA Defence Aliance
Camand Center located in: Dailey
Minister of Defence: Jonathan Antensen I
Minister of The Reginal Airforce: General MaKaVeLi
Minister of Diplomatic Relations: Jonathan Antesen II
Minister of Foreign Courts: President J.L.
Minister of Foreign Aid:________________
Minister of Civil Courts:______________
Minister of Civil Defence:_____________
Minister of Federal Courts:_____________
Minister of Melitary Courts:_____________
Minister of The Regional Naval Comand:___________
Minister of Trade:__________________
Minister of Imegration:_________________
Minister of Transportasion:______________

Allies in Danland:The Rogue Nation of ForumAdminHaters, The Oppressed Peoples of Jieganastan, The Holy Empire of Dailey, The Rogue Nation of Illuminati Hassassins
Allies in Foreign Lands: Roach-Busters, Doomingsland, The Dictatorship of Mr_jay, The Armed Republic of Public Defenders,

We read this Convention when it was first set-up and little has changed in our own interpretation of it's powers. It only has power over it's own signitories, which is fair enough.

However we find it odd that you would forget these rules when not fighting among yourselves as this line would suggest:

The citizens of nations which have not signed this treaty shall not be protected from the abuses signed by this treaty.
So when at war with non-signitories you are not required to follow this convention? In which case why have a convention in the first place?

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If they don't sign the treaty, it means they don't want to be protected by it.

The TBA defence aliance will gladly sign this treaty but before we sign we wish to ask one question Said banning of lassers dose that inclued Phase Lances and Phase Rifles/ Side arms?
You would have to explain those systems.

They are types of phased laser that have both a stun setting and a kill setting the kill setting Vaperrises the target
Does it cause unnecessary pain and suffering?

The TBA defence aliance will gladly sign this treaty but before we sign we wish to ask one question Said banning of lassers dose that inclued Phase Lances and Phase Rifles/ Side arms?
Whose is in this alliance? And will they ratify it individually?

I speak for the Allied nation in Danland i dont know about ther other nations in the Aliance

The folowing is the curent Standings of the TBA Defence aliance:

Aliance name: TBA Defence Aliance
Camand Center located in: Dailey
Minister of Defence: Jonathan Antensen I
Minister of The Reginal Airforce: General MaKaVeLi
Minister of Diplomatic Relations: Jonathan Antesen II
Minister of Foreign Courts: President J.L.
Minister of Foreign Aid:________________
Minister of Civil Courts:______________
Minister of Civil Defence:_____________
Minister of Federal Courts:_____________
Minister of Melitary Courts:_____________
Minister of The Regional Naval Comand:___________
Minister of Trade:__________________
Minister of Imegration:_________________
Minister of Transportasion:______________

Allies in Danland:The Rogue Nation of ForumAdminHaters, The Oppressed Peoples of Jieganastan, The Holy Empire of Dailey, The Rogue Nation of Illuminati Hassassins
Allies in Foreign Lands: Roach-Busters, Doomingsland, The Dictatorship of Mr_jay, The Armed Republic of Public Defenders,
I can include your nation, but I would need you to approach these individual nations and ask them to sign on.

The TBA defence aliance will gladly sign this treaty but before we sign we wish to ask one question Said banning of lassers dose that inclued Phase Lances and Phase Rifles/ Side arms?
You would have to explain those systems.

They are types of phased laser that have both a stun setting and a kill setting the kill setting Vaperrises the target
Does it cause unnecessary pain and suffering?

no death is instant the target would only feel pain for a 200th of a second

The TBA defence aliance will gladly sign this treaty but before we sign we wish to ask one question Said banning of lassers dose that inclued Phase Lances and Phase Rifles/ Side arms?
Whose is in this alliance? And will they ratify it individually?

I speak for the Allied nation in Danland i dont know about ther other nations in the Aliance

The folowing is the curent Standings of the TBA Defence aliance:

Aliance name: TBA Defence Aliance
Camand Center located in: Dailey
Minister of Defence: Jonathan Antensen I
Minister of The Reginal Airforce: General MaKaVeLi
Minister of Diplomatic Relations: Jonathan Antesen II
Minister of Foreign Courts: President J.L.
Minister of Foreign Aid:________________
Minister of Civil Courts:______________
Minister of Civil Defence:_____________
Minister of Federal Courts:_____________
Minister of Melitary Courts:_____________
Minister of The Regional Naval Comand:___________
Minister of Trade:__________________
Minister of Imegration:_________________
Minister of Transportasion:______________

Allies in Danland:The Rogue Nation of ForumAdminHaters, The Oppressed Peoples of Jieganastan, The Holy Empire of Dailey, The Rogue Nation of Illuminati Hassassins
Allies in Foreign Lands: Roach-Busters, Doomingsland, The Dictatorship of Mr_jay, The Armed Republic of Public Defenders,
I can include your nation, but I would need you to approach these individual nations and ask them to sign on.

I will bring up the subject in our next Ministries meating i will TG the resalts of the the meating to you As soon as they are over

The TBA defence aliance will gladly sign this treaty but before we sign we wish to ask one question Said banning of lassers dose that inclued Phase Lances and Phase Rifles/ Side arms?
You would have to explain those systems.

They are types of phased laser that have both a stun setting and a kill setting the kill setting Vaperrises the target
Does it cause unnecessary pain and suffering?

no death is instant the target would only feel pain for a 200th of a second

then they are legal.

The TBA defence aliance will gladly sign this treaty but before we sign we wish to ask one question Said banning of lassers dose that inclued Phase Lances and Phase Rifles/ Side arms?
Whose is in this alliance? And will they ratify it individually?

I speak for the Allied nation in Danland i dont know about ther other nations in the Aliance

The folowing is the curent Standings of the TBA Defence aliance:

Aliance name: TBA Defence Aliance
Camand Center located in: Dailey
Minister of Defence: Jonathan Antensen I
Minister of The Reginal Airforce: General MaKaVeLi
Minister of Diplomatic Relations: Jonathan Antesen II
Minister of Foreign Courts: President J.L.
Minister of Foreign Aid:________________
Minister of Civil Courts:______________
Minister of Civil Defence:_____________
Minister of Federal Courts:_____________
Minister of Melitary Courts:_____________
Minister of The Regional Naval Comand:___________
Minister of Trade:__________________
Minister of Imegration:_________________
Minister of Transportasion:______________

Allies in Danland:The Rogue Nation of ForumAdminHaters, The Oppressed Peoples of Jieganastan, The Holy Empire of Dailey, The Rogue Nation of Illuminati Hassassins
Allies in Foreign Lands: Roach-Busters, Doomingsland, The Dictatorship of Mr_jay, The Armed Republic of Public Defenders,
I can include your nation, but I would need you to approach these individual nations and ask them to sign on.

I will bring up the subject in our next Ministries meating i will TG the resalts of the the meating to you As soon as they are over
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The TBA defence aliance will gladly sign this treaty but before we sign we wish to ask one question Said banning of lassers dose that inclued Phase Lances and Phase Rifles/ Side arms?
You would have to explain those systems.

They are types of phased laser that have both a stun setting and a kill setting the kill setting Vaperrises the target
Does it cause unnecessary pain and suffering?

no death is instant the target would only feel pain for a 200th of a second

then they are legal.
ok My nation will sign then

Ah... so opposed to having a convention in order to prove your nation is more moral during war then others whom don't sign it, it's actually more about allowing all signitories to go to war with one another in a orderly fashion.

You see, I don't have a problem with nations signing such agreements, afterall it's makes sense and one the whole it does well to assure that prisoners are treated well. But to not enforce it completely makes it a little pointless; afterall your unlikely to go to war with other signitories of the Whittier Convention who are friendly towards you... so it means all members don't actually have to do anything towards being more moral in war, seeing as they will be most likely to be involved in wars versus non-members.

Iuthia generally follows much of these rules by default seeing as we are, one the whole, a civil nation despite what some may think about us. We don't stop following our morals should others torture our people. Not that we are suggesting Whittier Convention signitories torture none-signitory nations people, we wouldn't know.

But by not enforcing this it would seem that it is possible for your members to have too sets of morals, one dealing with members and one for outsiders...

As such we can't really see the point of such Convention.

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Ah... so opposed to having a convention in order to prove your nation is more moral during war then others whom don't sign it, it's actually more about allowing all signitories to go to war with one another in a orderly fashion.

You see, I don't have a problem with nations signing such agreements, afterall it's makes sense and one the whole it does well to assure that prisoners are treated well. But to not enforce it completely makes it a little pointless; afterall your unlikely to go to war with other signitories of the Whittier Convention who are friendly towards you... so it means all members don't actually have to do anything towards being more moral in war, seeing as they will be most likely to be involved in wars versus non-members.

Iuthia generally follows much of these rules by default seeing as we are, one the whole, a civil nation despite what some may think about us. We don't stop following our morals should others torture our people. Not that we are suggesting Whittier Convention signitories torture none-signitory nations people, we wouldn't know.

But by not enforcing this it would seem that it is possible for your members to have too sets of morals, one dealing with members and one for outsiders...

As such we can't really see the point of such Convention.

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Torture is already is illegal in Whittier.
But our treatment of foriegn POW's is more humane than most nations. As they treated according to Whittier's laws and we do extend WC provisions to them regardless of whether their governments signed them or not.
Even terrorists are treated the same as any other POWs.
The wartime policies of the other signatories toward nonsigs is up to their national laws but these are the national laws of Whittier.
Soldiers who violate these laws are subject to severe punishment.

For purposes of the convention, genocide is defined as:


the intentional and systematic destruction, wholly or in part, by a government of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.

If you're planning on arbitrarily shooting down nuke-armed missiles launched by anyone and everyone, how, pray tell, are you planning to tell your intended targets apart from conventional warheads, or other, similar systems, like certain types of spacecraft?

Of course, you're big and powerful enough that don't have to worry about someone retaliating against you for accidentily blowing their first manned rocket out of the sky, do you? Not unless they're suicidal.

What exactly is this 'Pandora's Box' system, anyway, and how does it work?

If you're planning on arbitrarily shooting down nuke-armed missiles launched by anyone and everyone, how, pray tell, are you planning to tell your intended targets apart from conventional warheads, or other, similar systems, like certain types of spacecraft?

Of course, you're big and powerful enough that don't have to worry about someone retaliating against you for accidentily blowing their first manned rocket out of the sky, do you? Not unless they're suicidal.

What exactly is this 'Pandora's Box' system, anyway, and how does it work?
The system uses a laser to scan the rocket and warhead if any.
If there are people inside, the sat. will know it cause biological organisms have a unique signature scan.
The same with nuclear weaponry.
Using the scanner, Pandora's Box can identify whether an object is a spacecraft or a nuke. You should remember that nuclear weapons aren't going to be carrying people on them. (Unless they're suicidal.)
If we did accidently blow up someone's manned rocket, there are protocols in place that include paying compensation to the nation that lost the rocket, and to the families of any pilots killed.

Pandora's Box was originally designed to stop nuclear weapons from the South Pacific and other WHittier enemies from hitting Whittier. It was designed to both protect the Whittier mainland and to be an offensive weapon.
As time went on and more and more nations established freindly relations with Whittier, the policy was changed so that PB would only be used for defensive purposes and would protect all nations from nuclear attack. Not just those who are Whittier allies, but it will protect Whittier's enemies from nuclear attack also.

OOC:
Ah, so it has a technobabble scanner.

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v245/vetobob/PandorasBoxsystemdiagram.gif

A simplified diagram of Pandora's Box. As you can see, we have war sattelites surrounding the earth, hence we see everything.

OOC:
Pic doesn't work.

And I was reffering to your ability to descern the contents of a rocket with a 'laser'. If you have a plausible way of pulling that off, I'd like to hear it.

OOC: Kanuckistan, I have a system which I claim for taking down ICBM's and other missiles aimed at my nation as well (post-modern technology) so it's not really too much of a problem unless they cliamed to take out everyones ICBM's even if they are not aimed at him...

OOC: Kanuckistan, I have a system which I claim for taking down ICBM's and other missiles aimed at my nation as well (post-modern technology) so it's not really too much of a problem unless they cliamed to take out everyones ICBM's even if they are not aimed at him...

OOC:
But that is exactly what he is claiming.

From the top of the first post in this thread;


The Whittier Doctrine:
Today, Brezhnekov announced that Pandora's Box will used to destroy any nuclear ICBM launched at any nation located either on earth or the moon whether the targeted nations are allies with Whittier or not.
Pandora's Box has been designed to automatically track for the launch of nuclear weapons and to automatically destroy them in flight.

The Whittier Doctrine:
Today, Brezhnekov announced that Pandora's Box will used to destroy any nuclear ICBM launched at any nation located either on earth or the moon whether the targeted nations are allies with Whittier or not.
Pandora's Box has been designed to automatically track for the launch of nuclear weapons and to automatically destroy them in flight.


OOC: Well, I'm not acknowledging it Kanuckistan... :P