NationStates Jolt Archive

Gun ban

A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.


Category: Gun Control


Decision: Tighten


Proposed by: KSSR

Description: Allow no guns for civilians of any member nation
Due to the amount of crime in the world

Approvals: 12 (WZ Forums, Lusapha, Errinundera, Kindjal, Rhodesia Newydd, Arenaea and Alesium, Bordoria, Jazeera and Koto, Ann of the Word, Erith Avlantia, Big H, Caraz)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 111 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon Nov 13 2006

Does this do anything?

Outlaw gambling

A resolution to legalize or outlaw gambling.


Category: Gambling


Legalize/Outlaw: Outlaw


Proposed by: NorthSouthLand

Description: Gambling is a horrid activity.

Gambling can help the government with taxes, but the people of this world are too stupid to notice that it is impossible to win at gambling.

Gambling should be outlawed.

If it is outlawed we would have less people going into debt, and more successful and wealthy people.

The world should be a successful place, so outlaw gambling.

Approvals: 7 (WZ Forums, Slaabovia, Chrilland, Altanea, Ann of the Word, Erith Avlantia, Big H)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 116 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed Nov 15 2006

Same as above.

Game reserves

A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.


Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: All Businesses


Proposed by: New Rio

Description: Many UN resolutions have been about the environment, saying we need to do this and we must do that. That is all well and good, but, we actually set very few tangible, touchable targets.

I propose that all UN members, by law, set up wildlife game reserves of a size relative to the size of the country, while still leaving enough room for people and industry to flourish.

These reserves will provide the wildlife a place to be where they will be safe forever, while the industry we rely on can continue

Approvals: 15 (New Rio, Rineu, Jazeera and Koto, Chrilland, Gortania, Kryndon, WZ Forums, Mitaxia, Ann of the Word, Spain and Surroundings, Bordoria, Erith Avlantia, Big H, Augusta Quiritia, Caraz)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 108 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed Nov 15 2006

Bloody Stupid

Nuclear Power Car Batteries

A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.


Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: Automobile Manufacturing


Proposed by: The Munchiken Shack

Description: Burning gases to make cars go creates coal emmissions.
We should use nuclear power batteries because they aren't bad for the environment and they hold much more energy.

Approvals: 9 (Mitaxia, Ann of the Word, John Hayden, Spain and Surroundings, Bordoria, Erith Avlantia, WZ Forums, Big H, Augusta Quiritia)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 114 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed Nov 15 2006

Hmm, perfect way for terrorists to destroy the universe

International Peace Corps

A resolution to slash worldwide military spending.


Category: Global Disarmament


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Community Property

Description: We, the People of these United Nations, seeking to promote peace among the Nations of the World, do hereby mandate the creation of an International Peace Corps.

I. Each Member Nation, as part of this Peace Corps, shall establish and maintain its own component thereof, hereafter to be referred to in this legislation as its National Peace Corps.

II. Each National Peace Corps shall be considered an independent entity, solely under the authority of its Member Nation.

III. Each National Peace Corps shall be funded from its Member Nation's military budget, with funding to be maintained at a level equal or greater than 50% of whatever funds the Member Nation in question may allocate to said military budget, calculated on a per annum basis.

IV. All military inductees and military personnel, whether standing or reserve, shall be entitled to transfer to their National Peace Corps on demand.

V. No member of a National Peace Corps may be involuntarily transferred into military or paramilitary service.

VI. No member of a National Peace Corps may be armed or employed in any way that could be construed as support for any Nation's war effort.

VII. National Peace Corps personnel shall only be employed in activities that promote World peace and harmony. Such activities include:

A. Providing medical care to persons at home or abroad.

B. Providing education to persons at home or abroad.

C. Engaging in cultural exchange activities, at home or abroad.

D. The establishment, improvement, and maintenance of non-military infrastructure, at home or abroad.

E. Any other non-violent activity that is conducive to World peace and harmony, at home or abroad.

This we do in the name of preserving and promote peace and harmony among all Nations.

Approvals: 13 (Mitaxia, Ann of the Word, Witchcliff, Sorgloss, Xarvinia-Wurttemburg, Bordoria, Erith Avlantia, The Dancing Vagabond, WZ Forums, Big H, Neo Atlantisz, The Derrak Quadrant, Kizil Orda)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 110 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed Nov 15 2006

NOT ANOTHER UN ARMY RESOLUTION!!!

Repeal "Outlaw Pedophilia"

A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal


Resolution: #22


Proposed by: YMYMYMY

Description: UN Resolution #22: Outlaw Pedophilia (Category: Moral Decency; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: People should have the freedom to do as they please.

Approvals: 9 (Ann of the Word, John Hayden, Gruenberg, NewTexas, WZ Forums, Big H, Mexico and America, Futuristic America, Compulsoria)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 114 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed Nov 15 2006

How can someone justify this?

Repeal "UN taxation ban"

A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal


Resolution: #4


Proposed by: Waseem Ahmed

Description: UN Resolution #4: UN taxation ban (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The UNITED NATIONS,
in order to create a more perfect world, to fight poverty, for its charitable and peacekeeping missions shall be allowed to collect taxes from member nations.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Nov 16 2006

Thats it?

Thats it?I just noticed this one myself. It's not got a reason for the repeal, it's proposing new legislation. So it's illegal.

any how....

Military Ranks Standardization
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.


Category: International Security
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: The Duct Tape

Description: RECOGNIZING that in times to come global conflicts or catastrophes will necessitate the combination of multinational forces into a single, cohesive military.

DISTURBED by the lack of uniformity employed by the systems of different national militaries.

CERTAIN that for a successful global coalition to be effectively formed in times of crisis, a standardization of military ranks and rates within all member nations of the United Nations must be put into effect to allow for efficient integration of multinational forces in the event of a colossal threat to international security.

ESTABLISHING the following ranks and insignias for the members of the military of the members of the United Nations:

-Private (E-1): No insignia.
-Private First Class (E-2): One chevron.
-Lance Corporal (E-3): One chevron above one rocker.
-Corporal (E-4): Two chevrons.
-Sergeant (E-5): Three chevrons.
-Staff Sergeant (E-6): Three chevrons above one rocker.
-Gunnery Sergeant (E-7): Three chevrons above two rockers.
-First Sergeant (E-8): Three chevrons above three chevrons.
-Sergeant Major (E-9): Three chevrons above four rockers.
-Sublieutenant (O-1): One gold, vertical bar.
-Lieutenant (O-2): One silver, vertical bar.
-Captain (O-3): Two connected, vertical silver bars.
-Major (O-4): Gold oak leaf.
-Lieutenant Colonel (O-5): Silver oak leaf.
-Colonel (O-6): Silver eagle.
-Brigadier General (O-7): Single gold or silver star.
-Lieutenant General (O-8): Two linear gold or silver stars.
-Major General (O-9): Three linear gold or silver stars.
-General (O-10): Four linear gold or silver stars.
-Command General (O-11): Five gold or silver stars in a circular pattern.

IMPLEMENTING the above ranks to be put into effect in the military of all member nations and furthermore requiring that all insignia be worn visibly on all
uniforms.

ACKNOWLEDGING that the naval forces of certain nations have preexisting, traditional, or otherwise different rank structures, UN resolution “Military Ranks Standardization Act” grants that these Naval forces may maintain their current rate names.

Co-Authored by: The Great Duchy of DuchienessessAside from creating a UN army via the back door, why are these ranks any better than the myriad of ranks employed by nations elsewhere?

Still, I like the effort that has been put into the proposal. Author gets a gold star for effort.

NOT ANOTHER UN ARMY RESOLUTION!!!You're right, BR, it's not - and some of the best (legal) minds here in the U.N. have already judged it permissible under U.N. rules. As for my credentials, I've been writing U.N. resolutions for a year - in fact, I even have one on the books (although not under this national persona). Is that to say that I don't ever write illegal proposals, or ones some people consider stupid? Of course not. I make a habit of pushing the semantic limits as hard as I can, and so probably two-thirds of them end up being stricken; of the rest, thanks to my adopted persona of a radical Marxist state of the kind your average naive college leftist might establish, most of the rest get dunned as insane. Had you deemed this resolution among the latter (as I'm sure my harshest critics do), I would not be writing this response.

But you declared it illegal, and so I feel obligated - for the sake of people who read this thread to get an idea of the rules of the road - to correct your mistake.

This resolution does not establish a U.N. army; look at it again very carefully and you'll see that. It establishes for each country a National Peace Corps, under national control. The title, “International Peace Corps”, is just that - a title; nothing in this proposal establishes any kind of international organization to oversee these National Peace Corps, which - being non-military in nature - could never be considered a U.N. military anyway.

What this proposal does is require nations to take 50% of the funds they've earmarked for defense and allocate that money for their new National Peace Corps, and to do so on a standing basis (which prevents a one-time increase in defense spending to avoid the resolution's consequences). The intention is to force a permanent cut in each Member nation's military.

Like a great many of my proposals, this is a response to other resolutions people have introduced or enacted; I often try to see what can be done to ameliorate the effects of a bad resolution. This particular gem is a response to OMGTKK's “Unconventional Arms Accord”, which would otherwise seem to make impossible disarmament measures illegal; I'm exploring possible workarounds involving forced general (and permanent) reductions in spending; this will affect the debate over the UAA, due to the claim by some of us that its passage would render illegal any and all disarmament measures.

Paradoxically, its legality makes life a little easier for UAA proponents; it will be easier for them to pass the UAA and make it stick if disarmament legislation is still possible. If it turns out that the UAA permanently forecloses on all future disarmament efforts, then its supporters will have a much tougher fight on their hands.

We recommend you take greater care in reviewing resolutions; many of the ones that you deem illegal and stupid are neither. To put them in the same basket as the usual careless and moronic trash we lampoon here shows a lack of insight and experience on the part of the critic.

Repeal "Public Domain"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal
Resolution: #60
Proposed by: Cruscant

Description: UN Resolution #60: Public Domain (Category: Free Trade; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: its a regection immposed by the government about the rights of people over his o her own creation. State should not invade that esphere of rights.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Nov 16 2006
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Aside from creating a UN army via the back door, why are these ranks any better than the myriad of ranks employed by nations elsewhere?

Still, I like the effort that has been put into the proposal. Author gets a gold star for effort.

Under the proposal, that would make him a brigadier general. ;)

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No, it's a sneaky, under-handed, back doorish way for you to gut nation's military funding, thereby making us less able to defend ourselves.

Commodore Cidolfas Kramer
Military Advisor to the Grand Poobah of The Rogue Nation of Flibbleites

Aside from creating a UN army via the back door, why are these ranks any better than the myriad of ranks employed by nations elsewhere?
I don't know about the UN Army bit, but it's a Category (or at least Strength) violation, as well as Branding (Co-Authored by: The Great Duchy of Duchienessess - no pre-titles, please). It certainly doesn't do anything that would "improve world security by boosting police and military budgets," unless by standardizing insignia you improve the chances of assassins, thereby increasing 'job openings' in upper levels of military staff.

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Dixietopia

Description: Crime in the world today is as rampant and pervasive as ever. Vast international networks of criminals such as drug cartels, black market arms dealing, human trafficking, sex slavery rings, and multi-national mafia organizations exist all around the globe and despite efforts from the nations of the world it appears that this epidemic will not be stopped. The reason for this is simple; a criminal can commit a crime in one nation and then simply enter another to avoid prosecution. In order to combat this growing plague of transgressions the following steps are to be taken by all member nations.

1. An independent investigative agency (International Police OR INTERPOL) is to be created, with a branch in all member nations. The primary responsibility of INTERPOL will be the investigation and apprehension of international criminals and the extradition of said criminals to the country in which they committed the most crimes in.
2. INTERPOL shall be funded by a combination of private donations, government sponsorship, and general funding by the United Nations security fund.
3. INTERPOL agents are to be inducted entirely on a volunteer basis and are to come from the military, security, or law enforcement communities.
4. In order for INTERPOL to legally arrest and detain a suspect a warrant must be issued for that suspect by two judges of both the country the criminal will be extradited to and the country that he is currently residing in. This is to prevent the issuance of “false warrants” the purpose of which is to force the return of any individual to his country of origin to face punishment for political dissidence or any other non-criminal offences perceived by the extraditing nation.
5. If any member nation disagrees with the arrest and detainment of an individual deemed by INTERPOL to be a suspected criminal then the disagreeing nation can lodge a formal complaint with INTERPOL and a investigative hearing, headed by a panel of neutral judges will determine the fate of the detainee.
6. INTERPOL agents shall, in all circumstances, abide by the law enforcement guidelines of the country they are operating in and under no possible condition interfere with domestic, non- international crime.
7. All INTERPOL agents shall be allowed to posses firearms while on duty.
8. INTERPOL agents are to be divided into three distinct classes.
A. Investigative Agents- The standard agents of INTERPOL whose responsibility includes investigation of crimes, apprehension of suspects, and other normal law enforcement duties.
B. Special Agents- These agents are to be charged with the execution of warrants deemed to be high risk by INTERPOL. Special agents will have access to military grade small arms and protective equipment and are to receive extra training in S.W.A.T tactics.
C. Internal Agents- The primary responsibility of the internal branch will be to make doubly sure that all INTERPOL operations and personnel are in all aspects of the law, both legal and authorized. Should any member of INTERPOL be found to be involved in any criminal activity that agent will be removed form his post and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

INTERPOL is an absolutely necessary solution to the growing epidemic of
Pan-continental crime and all member nations who are in possession of both sound and legal governments should immediate lobby and vote for the passage of this resolution on the UN floor. Would this count as a UN Police force?

not really flib. Interpol is more like a branch of the FBI in a way. That inpector zennigotta from lupin the 3rd anime was from interpol and he was just a cop not an army man. i guess its up to the mobs on this one. besides i though the un just chouldn't have an army

From the UN proposal rules:

Army, Police, SWAT, etc

The UN doesn't get an army. Nor does it get to form The World Police. This is pretty clear: don't do it.

And that Interpol proposal sure as hell looks like a world police to me.

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Community Property

Description: We, the People of these United Nations, believing that people everywhere deserve lives free of unwarranted government intrusion, do hereby recognize as fundamental the Right to Privacy.

I. No Member Nation, nor any of its constituent governments, shall intrude upon the Privacy of any person without a Warrant, save for the sake of preserving life, health, or property.

II. No Member Nation, nor any of its constituent governments, shall deprive any person within its jurisdiction of the Right to Privacy without due process of law.

III. This prohibition shall not apply in any case where it would interfere with or duplicate the effects of prior legislation enacted by this body, for so long as such legislation should remain in force.

Approvals: 13 (Dunellen, Gobbo Power, Scoopy, Sedgistan, Wolololia, Witchcliff, Ellenburg, WZ Forums, Big H, Gryfin, Kytheros, Fat sackville, Errinundera)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 110 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Nov 16 2006

Yes, this proposal doesn't duplicate other UN texts...except where it does, like Resolution #10, "Stop Privacy Intrusion." Next time, do a little research.


A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Rathnadeepa

Description:
the world needs a clear and precise justice system to bring their gov officials and other heads in a top on the agenda in front of justice for their misdeeds.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Nov 17 2006

"in a top on the agenda"? I must have been absent the day in school they taught what the hell that means. Aside from that, it's a run-on sentence and doesn't really do anything.


A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.


Category: Free Trade
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: NoMuslimIran

Description: The Republic of NoMuslimIran´s Economy is Fragile and by Free trade the Economy will get stronger and the The Republic of NoMuslimIran will get better

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Nov 17 2006

Aside from the obvious branding violations, it's basically "Free trade is good because it helps us." maybe I should propose "Give Ice Hockey Players all your money" because it's good for us.

or a proposal to require industrializing third world nations to have tariffs on imported manufactured goods.

Tariffs are a matter of national concern. Im no free trader by any means, but I have to side with the NatSov argument when it comes to trade concerns, thats a matter for the nations to decide.

Yes, this proposal doesn't duplicate other UN texts...except where it does, like Resolution #10, "Stop Privacy Intrusion." Next time, do a little research.
A striking recommendation.
III. This prohibition shall not apply in any case where it would interfere with or duplicate the effects of prior legislation enacted by this body, for so long as such legislation should remain in force.

A striking recommendation.

Therefore, it voids the entire proposal. I checked "Stop privacy intrustion" and it says, quite plainly, "No illegal searches without serious evidence of a crime." This one says mostly the same thing, so therefore, it doesn't really do anything.

I am well aware that people have been trying to repeal "Stop privacy intrusion" for some time now, but until it's repealed, proposals like this one do no good.

Therefore, it voids the entire proposal. I checked "Stop privacy intrustion" and it says, quite plainly, "No illegal searches without serious evidence of a crime." This one says mostly the same thing, so therefore, it doesn't really do anything.

I am well aware that people have been trying to repeal "Stop privacy intrusion" for some time now, but until it's repealed, proposals like this one do no good.
Ok, shut up. Nowhere in SPI (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=7029598&postcount=11) are those words used: it should be fairly apparent that there is more to Privacy than privacy of communications.

Anyway, although this will no doubt elicit a eye-rolling rebuke from James_xenoland:
Save our Children
Category: International Security
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Parkview 12

Description: Concerned that people are going on shooting rages, I propose that in all member nations we allow teachers who feel comfortable to carry guns to school after extensive training. Right now there is no opposition to the intruders until the police arrive anywhere from 9-20 min. We could pay for this by boosting police and military budgets.
Save Our Children
I find the logic of "guns are dangerous, so let's put more of them in schools" odd (to say nothing of the fact that anyone "who feel[s] comfortable" carrying weapons is permitted to do so). Plus strength violation.

International Plant and Animal Day:
Category: Free Trade
Strength: Mild

This bill is to encourage the free trade of plants and animals between nations. During January 1, as part of the national new years day holidays, you will proclaim your national animal and plant to the world. As part of this patriotic holiday, you will have the right to sell such plants and animals to countries throughout the world. There will be an international national plant and animal convention which is open to all countries on a voluntary basis. Show your plant and animal.

Wrong thread. Go away.

Ok, shut up. Nowhere in SPI (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=7029598&postcount=11) are those words used: it should be fairly apparent that there is more to Privacy than privacy of communications.

I checked. The wording is not identical, but the message is clear.

we propose that legislation is passed by each UN member that all personal communication, including, but not limited to: face-to-face conversations, mail, telephone, radio, LAN and Internet shall NOT be intercepted by the government, unless there is serious evidence of a planned or committed crime.

Translation: no government interference in communcation without a warrant.

I. No Member Nation, nor any of its constituent governments, shall intrude upon the Privacy of any person without a Warrant, save for the sake of preserving life, health, or property.

Translation: no government interference without a warrant. Only difference is that it's more generalized. Frankly, most intrusion would be done via high-tech means anyway, such as wiretapping, and that's already covered. I think the only difference with this is that it means the government can't install cameras in your house or send surveillance teams to your house without a warrant. And frankly, I would imagine that any government that's not aversed to being that in-your-face about privacy would be at all squeamish about wiretapping.

That's why I don't think this proposal is necessary. And why, if it's not a duplication, it's damn close.

What part of "shut up" did you not get? Anyway, if you want to rant about CP's proposal, there's about 1000 other threads on the forum dedicated to such pursuits.

The Fast Track Execution Syle
Category: Social Justice
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Historic specks

Description: Where-as we have hundreds of people sitting on death row in our many nations because of simple ailments.
We believe Section 1. That all those peoples sitting on death row should not be able to stay execution based on any sickness or physical ailment.
Section 2. All those given the death sentence they will only be allowed to appeal the judgement a maximum of three times before being executed.
Section 3. We will go to a national execution style of the 1800. All those that are to die on death row will be hanged until dead. The noose will be the main way of executing those on death row for there crimes. This is not only humane but cost effective.
This is the best way to save our nations money and keep our prisons from over flowing.
Contradicts Fair Sentencing Act, and RL reference. Also a category violation: good example of why you need to read the descriptor for the category, not just its name.

What part of "shut up" did you not get? Anyway, if you want to rant about CP's proposal, there's about 1000 other threads on the forum dedicated to such pursuits.

I fail to see where you're allowed to tell me to shut up and expect to be obeyed. You can't boss me or anyone else around. I don't care if you want an apology or me to bow down to your oppressive what-not. Your word is not law.

Category: Global Disarmament


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Jamaalea

Description: nuclear weapons are out of control! we must disarm and distroy these wmds immediatelyIllegal, contradicts "Nuclear Armaments." Besides the author wouldn't like our method of disarming and "distroy"ing them anyway.

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: LaBeause

Description: As the world become a more dangerous place, UN member nations must act swiftly in the interests of peace. This means, of course, building lots of new weapons. Only by massively increasing military budgets world-wide will we be able to restore peace and global security.Hello plagurism of Max Barry.

Hello plagurism of Max Barry.

I suppose it was only a matter of time. At least he didn't title it "Fight the Axis of Evil."

I suppose it was only a matter of time. At least he didn't title it "Fight the Axis of Evil."

It's not the first time, and, in fact previous times it was titled "Fight the Axis of Evil," or Repeal "Repeal 'Fight the avis of Evil,'" etc.

It's not the first time, and, in fact previous times it was titled "Fight the Axis of Evil," or Repeal "Repeal 'Fight the avis of Evil,'" etc.

That last one's my favorite. Of course, I wonder how many people propose things titled "Fight the Axis of Evil" that have nothing to do with the original resolution.

I fail to see where you're allowed to tell me to shut up and expect to be obeyed. You can't boss me or anyone else around. I don't care if you want an apology or me to bow down to your oppressive what-not. Your word is not law.I think I shall copy that for future usage....;)

Anyhow....
Nuclear arm disabling
A resolution to slash worldwide military spending.


Category: Global Disarmament
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Jamaalea

Description: nuclear weapons are out of control! we must disarm and distroy these wmds immediately

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Nov 17 2006Conflicts with existing legislation.The Fast Track Execution Syle
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.


Category: Social Justice
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Historic specks

Description: Where-as we have hundreds of people sitting on death row in our many nations because of simple ailments.
We believe Section 1. That all those peoples sitting on death row should not be able to stay execution based on any sickness or physical ailment.
Section 2. All those given the death sentence they will only be allowed to appeal the judgement a maximum of three times before being executed.
Section 3. We will go to a national execution style of the 1800. All those that are to die on death row will be hanged until dead. The noose will be the main way of executing those on death row for there crimes. This is not only humane but cost effective.
This is the best way to save our nations money and keep our prisons from over flowing.

Approvals: 2 (Rykkland, Chrilland)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 121 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Nov 17 2006This seems silly to me.
1) Not everyone has death penalties.
2) Not everyone has appeal systems, or courts for that matter
3) Who the heck considers hanging humane?

<Drums fingers on table in irritation>

Look, as Gruenberg, Fris, Kenny, and Hotrodia will attest, the use of “severability” clauses sticks in my throat as much (or more) than it does the next guy's. But my repeated efforts to assert the illegality of such clauses (most recently, on the basis of the “house of cards” rule) have been dunned by the mods, to the point where I've seriously ticked the world off.

So, like it or not, clauses like that are legal, and I'd be an blinking fool if I didn't go ahead and use them, like it or not.

As Gruenberg, Fris, Hack, et al. know, I just went through the wringer trying to write a privacy statute circumventing UNR #10 without the use of that phrase - and failed. Oh, I came close - but with a 3500 character limit, I couldn't even use the simple workaround Gruenberg offered me as a fig leaf (and for which I offer belated thanks). If you or anybody else thinks I'm willing to rewrite that proposal again (that was the third major draft) and go through another massive TG approval campaign to face more semantic deconstruction and another possible (likely?!?) deletion, well, you've got another think coming.

I have my pride, and I hate that clause like nobody's business. But my pride has its limits. I'm not about to cut off my nose to spite my face.I think the only difference with this is that it means the government can't install cameras in your house or send surveillance teams to your house without a warrant.Your organic cigar is waiting at the Strangers' Bar.

If you (or anybody else) wants to debate the proposal, take it to another thread, please.

Animal Attack Act

A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.


Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: Uranium Mining


Proposed by: TehOwnage

Description: This act entitles the right for governments to train animals taken from the forests to fight in the nation's armies.

Of coarse, to make this a success, the animals have to be mutated by Uranium, so the government would have to take control of the Uranium mines, but hey, so what? This will keep nation's safe and take care of those pesky alligators
Category violation, but funny as hell anyway.

But animals being mutated by uranium is so passe.

We need to have urianium mutated by animals?

(Perhaps a daily issue? "Scientists panic as National Animal's manure turns valuable uranium into inert lead!")

I love how this proposal suggests that the government wouldn't have control of a uranium mine.

--snip--
Don't post proposals other people have already posted - check the last few posts to make sure you're not just repeating them.

Don't post proposals other people have already posted - check the last few posts to make sure you're not just repeating them.You don't know when I started typing my post, all you know is when I submitted it.

Making a post whilst juggling multiple work-related duties means it can take a little longer than normal to go through the whole routine.

Not sure how I missed this one earlier.


A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution
Category: Repeal
Resolution: #175
Proposed by: Community Property

Description: UN Resolution #175: Individual Working Freedoms (Category: Advancement of Industry; Area of Effect: Labor Deregulation) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: United Nations Resolution #175, “Individual Working Freedoms”, prohibits the establishment by Member nations of legislation supporting the establishment of closed shops as well as limits on the length of a work week. Such legislation is important to those states that wish to further the establishment of unions. While the repeal of United Nations Resolution #149, “The Right to Form Unions”, is indicative of this body's desire to permit Member nations the power to limit the power of unions or ban the altogether, it is also clear that this should in no way seen as opposition by this body to unionization.

Consequently, this body elects to repeal this legislation. Therefore...

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We the People of these United Nations, for the sake of restoring to Member nations the full range of policy options in addressing the desire of workers to engage in collective bargaining, do hereby declare United Nations Resolution #175, “Individual Working Freedoms”, to be null and void.

Approvals: 16 (Gobbo Power, Naughty Slave Girls, Freemen Lands, NewTexas, TaoTai, WZ Forums, Big H, Errinundera, Quintaros, Compulsoria, Chrilland, OmniUltra PharmaCorp, Trokos, Futuristic America, SocialistUtopia, Wireisdead)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 108 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Nov 16 2006

Refers to non-existant UN legislation. I don't know if it's illegal, but it certainly is silly.

Refers to non-existant UN legislation. I don't know if it's illegal, but it certainly is silly.
Just part of his ongoing crusade to snipe at his opponents through legislation. But I think it is illegal, because "the repeal" is so far only forum-based - and referring to forum activities is MetaGaming.

Just part of his ongoing crusade to snipe at his opponents through legislation. But I think it is illegal, because "the repeal" is so far only forum-based - and referring to forum activities is MetaGaming.

That would make how many of CP's recently submitted legislations illegal? 3? 4, maybe?

Category: Moral Decency


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: The Exiles of Britain

Description: For every crime that is commited an innocent is punished. The criminal either gets away and enjoys his prize or gets caught and does some community service. So I propose that we, the UN, bring in an anti-crime law that punishes criminals by the "eye for an eye" method.

For example you kill, you die. If you steal you lose all of your possesions if you rape you suffer an equally bad punishment. This will stop crime dead in its tracks.

I) Bring in the "eye for an eye" method of punishing criminals in all UN nations.

II) Publically humiliate all criminalsIllegal, contradicts Fair Sentencing Act.

Category: Gun Control


Decision: Relax


Proposed by: The Exiles of Britain

Description: In this golden era of humanity the people of our glorious nations are supposed to be the freest they have ever been. Instead they are attacked in their own homes by gangs of yobs all high on this, that and the other.

For this reason I have written this resolution and we should do the following to give our people the freedom their ancestors and descendants have and will die for:

I) Give the people of all UN nations the right to kill on the spot burglars, squatters and break inners.

II) Give them the right to own lethal weapons (including guns, swords, heavy artillery and bio chemical canisters).

III) Punish by immediate execution anybody who commits a crime with their legal weapon.

Rule Britannia not ruled by Brussels
Noble and Honourable Leader and Prime Minister of the Motherlands Lord Collettus, Servant of HRH Elizabeth the second, Patriot and Defender of the Motherlands, Honoured and Liberator of the Shores of Freedom. Order of the Feather - Grand Cross. I think that that last part's branding, whatever it is, it doesn't belong in a proposal.

<text>No, it's a sneaky, under-handed, back doorish way for you to gut nation's military funding, thereby making us less able to defend ourselves.And your point?Refers to non-existant UN legislation. I don't know if it's illegal, but it certainly is silly.Written in anticipation of the passage of the repeal of “The Right to Form Unions”, which I expect will pass. As for illegality, until informed otherwise by the mods, I maintain that a resolution can say most anything in its preamble/argument (aside from obscenity/branding/abject silliness) without rendering the repeal illegal. So absent amendment or new legislation, repeals are just about always legal.

That's the problem with repeals; writing a resolution is difficult, whereas writing a repeal is a snap.... I think it is illegal, because "the repeal" is so far only forum-based - and referring to forum activities is MetaGaming.I don't buy it. Discussions in the United Nations forum are equivalent to committee hearings and general debate in advance of quorum; further, the repeal has been formally submitted, so it's absurd to claim that the rules require us to pretend that it hasn't, that we've never heard of it, and that it doesn't exist.Just part of his ongoing crusade to snipe at his opponents through legislation.You might not like my legislative strategy, but do I need your approval to pursue it? I don't care much for your legislative strategy (to hog-tie this body and thereby render it impotent), but that hardly means that I can proclaim it illegal.That would make how many of CP's recently submitted legislations illegal? 3? 4, maybe?Not that anyone is counting, mind you. I know my adversaries would love to see me ejected, but that's par for the course in barbed-wire politics.

As for illegality, until informed otherwise by the mods, I maintain that a resolution can say most anything in its preamble/argument (aside from obscenity/branding/abject silliness) without rendering the repeal illegal. That's not quite true, first example I can think of is a House of cards violation. But, it is rather difficult to become illegal in a preamble, which I always see as more rhetoric, or explaination rather than resolution writing.That's the problem with repeals; writing a resolution is difficult, whereas writing a repeal is a snap.That's true. Repeals are just preamble with no need to create.I don't buy it. Discussions in the United Nations forum are equivalent to committee hearings and general debate in advance of quorum; further, the repeal has been formally submitted, so it's absurd to claim that the rules require us to pretend that it hasn't, that we've never heard of it, and that it doesn't exist.See, this is an example of HOC violation. If the repeal does not pass, your proposal fails.You might not like my legislative strategy, but do I need your approval to pursue it?Absolutely not, you do what you want. I'd hope you would listen to the positive contributions though.Not that anyone is counting, mind you. I know my adversaries would love to see me ejected, but that's par for the course in barbed-wire politics.Calm down, and have a hug.

I don't buy it. Discussions in the United Nations forum are equivalent to committee hearings and general debate in advance of quorum; further, the repeal has been formally submitted, so it's absurd to claim that the rules require us to pretend that it hasn't, that we've never heard of it, and that it doesn't exist.
Sorry, I have to disagree with this one. The only legislation that exists in the eyes of the UN are the resolutions that have already passed, including repeals that have been struck out. Even failed resolutions don't count, as they never make it into the Official Register (the Past Resolutions list).

Proposals in the submissions list are visible for 3-4 days, then either get passed (rare), sit in queue for a few days (even rarer), or disappear from the face of the NSUN forever (quite common). The UN General Assembly minutes (i.e. the UN forum) are considered chatter, are not part of the Official Record of the UN, and as such cannot be referred to in any proposal, lest it be considered 'metagaming'.
“The Right to Form Unions”, which I expect will pass.
Once it does, you may mention it. Until then, no can do.

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Trokos

Description: Realising that there are a great deal of warring nations in the world, and thousands of lives are being lost.

Affirming that thus far mutual assured destruction has kept the peace between two hostile superpowers.

Determining that the only logical answer to war is to give every nation nuclear warheads.

Knowing that the passing of this resolution will mean an end to world war.

1. The UN would create a temporary organisation to give an amount of nuclear warheads proportional to the population of the nation on a world scale. Each nation would be given at least one warhead.

2. The organisation would then be dissolved.Illegal, contradicts Nuclear Armaments.

Sorry, I have to disagree with this one. The only legislation that exists in the eyes of the UN are the resolutions that have already passed, including repeals that have been struck out. Even failed resolutions don't count, as they never make it into the Official Register (the Past Resolutions list).Odd, but noted for future reference. That's not in the stickied rules, is it?

You might not like my legislative strategy, but do I need your approval to pursue it? I don't care much for your legislative strategy (to hog-tie this body and thereby render it impotent), but that hardly means that I can proclaim it illegal.
Oh, I'm not proclaiming it illegal because I don't like it. I'm saying it's illegal because it's illegal.

I know my adversaries would love to see me ejected, but that's par for the course in barbed-wire politics.
Given how many of "the Antarctican clique" operate UN puppets, the ejection of a single nation is meaningless.

Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: Automobile Manufacturing


Proposed by: Wallonnia

Description: Hello everyone,

Wouldn`t it be good if there was a European Nations Army?
An army that would be based on humanitarian and defensive ideas.
Think of it, if attacked countries in the world needs to be protected or needs to be rebuild, the European Nations Army would come.
The European Nations Army would be admired.

Even if these countries aren´t in war; if they have been touched by a natural disaster, they still need help !!.
If the army doesn´t help the country, it´s government would have to do it by itself.

thanks for reading and vote for it and you´d show a bit of interest for the world and for the nature.

President of WallonniaLet's see, branding, miscategorization, attempts to create an army. Yup, looks like an illegal proposal to me.

Odd, but noted for future reference. That's not in the stickied rules, is it?
Not in explicit detail, but yeah, it's there.

MetaGaming

MetaGaming is a difficult to understand category at times, especially since it often shares jurisdiction with Game Mechanics violations. Essentially, a MetaGaming violation is one that breaks "the fourth wall", or attempts to force events outside of the UN itself. Proposals dealing with Regions, with other nations, Moderators, and requiring activities on the Forums are examples. This also includes Proposals that try to affect non-UN nations.
Referring to a resolution that doesn't exist yet, or has primarily been discussed in the forums, is a 'fourth wall' violation. It's not a bad one, but it's there nonetheless.

Kill The Blair and BUSH
A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.


Category: Gun Control

Decision: Tighten

Proposed by: Wartlando

Description: Who invaded ireland and killed their people england who invaded iraq and killed them america and england they are both good for nothin scum bags............killllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllll............they dont deserve to live




kill bush kill blair

stop the war that the 2 countries are making

9/11 was not an acident either was the plain crash in lost well well well......................................................................answer me that .ther scumbags fuckin kill dem whos wit me if ur against me fuck offf................................................................................................ .................................SO PEOPLE WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFEE..............................................................................I REST MY CASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 124 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Tue Nov 21 2006

The Free Republic of Quaon has not approved this proposal. [Approve]



Charming, to say the least.

Category: Global Disarmament


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Bac Tikkal Land

Description: A United Nations Resolution intended to lessen the threat of border conflict by imposing an arms free buffer at borders.

Section I
Article 1: Realizes that border conflicts often escalate into full wars.

Article 2: Admits that border control is an important social and economical factor.

Section II
Article 1: Imposes as International Law under the guidance of the UN and its delegates that a “Range Buffer” be imposed at the borders of all UN Members. This resolution requires that all weapons used by a UN member must never come within its effective range of a border line plus 20(twenty) meters unless it was built or resides within a military base built before this resolution was passed. Weapons (home made or otherwise) that are subject to this resolution are as follows:

a) Light and small arms as defined by UN Resolution #57, Annex A & B.
b) Melee weapons - Defined as any non-ranged, potentially lethal weapon of any size and weight made with the intent to cause harm and/or damage to any person or property. (Swords etc.)
c) Armed and/or armored vehicles - Defined as a self propelled potentially lethal machines built and/or fitted with the intent to cause harm and/or damage to any person or property. (Tanks, Cars fitted with bombs etc.)
d) Armed and/or armored static installations – Defined as a Static building or erection built or erected with the intent to harm and/or cause damage to any person or property. (Gun turrets, towed artillery etc.)


Article2: Imposes that weapons as defined above as well as any passed or future weapons that are subject to the definitions above, may only be used at official border posts were crossings of civilians or militarily personnel are possible and viable.

Article 3: States that Airports, harbors and shores do not classify as borders and/or border posts.

Article 4: States that the range restrictions do not apply to the following:

a) Aircraft such as Airplanes, Blimps etc.
b) Seafaring vessels such as Ships, Submarines etc.
c) Space vehicles such as satellites, rockets etc.


Article 5: States that the range restrictions do not include weapons intended for intercontinental or cross border assault that fall outside the afore mentioned definitions. These include railway artillery, cruise missiles etc. so long as these weapons comply to UN Resolution #113 & #120.

Section III

Article 1: Suggests that if a UN member does require out of necessity or otherwise, to have defense at their border posts as previously defined, that these are restricted to light or small arms. It is further suggested that these weapons be limited to non-lethal weapons such as teargas and tazers in agreement with UN Resolution #94.

Article 2: Demands the UN to grant the right to act against any nation that goes against this regulation whether they are a UN member or not in accordance with UN Resolution #49, section 2 article 4 & 10. These actions should following the regulations imposed by UN Resolution #92, paragraphs 6, 7 & 8.

Section IV
Article 1: Admits that this resolution should only be imposed when a member is not at war or dealing with internal conflict such as revolutions.

Article 2: Suggests that static emplacements falling into the buffer zone be moved, unarmed or demolished. There's at least one HoC violation in there, and considering how many times this one references past resolutions there's probably more than that.

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: North African Patriots

Description: Recognizing...

That agression from imperialist and agressive nations around the world is threatening the Security of the smaller nations of the world, and that all nations have a right to security from larger agressors

The United Nations agrees

-to divert 120 Billion USD into a fund for the armed forces and military's of all nations that are threatened by outside, more powerful agressors.

- to establish UN training for the armed forces of all weaker nations.

- to condemn acts of imperialism against weaker nations


- to recognize the right of smaller nations to ignore the Geneva Convention's when questioning POW's to give them an advantage over more powerful forces

- to encourage peace loving Superpowers of the world to assist smaller nations in times of need

- to legalize the execution of POW's after they have been questioned, as a deterrent to stronger nations

- to support the right of the leader of a nation to restrict Liberty during a time of war in order to defend his people

-to provide several smaller nations with Nuclear Weapons as a deterrent to larger nuclear nations First off, formatting codes have no place in UN resolutions as they don't work, secondly we don't have a Geneva Convention.

Category: Political Stability


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: North African Patriots

Description: Recognizing...

That sometimes POW's, detainees, and terrorists do not cooperate with the law

That stability is necesary to maintain world order

That the UN has an Obligation to defend Order

The UN Legalizes...

Torture: as a valuable tool for interrogation

This includes, but is not limited to, acid baths, amputation, electro shock torture, beatings, prying off of fingernails with pliars, and waterboarding

Rape: As a valuable tool for questioning female prisoners who are more likely to give in to questioning if they are humiliated publicly

Execution: As a way to keep POW levels low and threaten other detainees who refuse to speak



The UN hearby abolishes,

The Geneva Convention: Because it is an infringement on Free Speech, as it doesnt allow detainees to speak since they cant be forced to do so

The UN applauds:

All country's that maintain order within their borders,
whatever the costWhat did I just get through saying?

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Euphobes

Description: The United Nations:

Noting that all people have the rights to a fair trial and not to suffer cruel and unusual punishment,

Concerned that capital punishment is becoming over-used in many member states for offenses that should not warrant it,

Alarmed that condemned people are being executed publicly through cruel, humiliating and inhumane methods,

Drawing attention to the irreversibility of a death sentence,

Informing nations that it is actually cheaper to imprison a person than to execute them,

Accepting that there are cases in which capital punishment is a valid option,

Hereby takes the following action:

1.1 Requires all member states to allow people condemned to death the right to appeal against the sentence.

1.2 Prohibits the use of capital punishment for any offenses other than multiple intentional homicides or crimes against humanity.

1.3 Declares that for all other offenses, the maximum penalty available is that of life imprisonment without possibility of release.

1.4 Forbids public executions in all instances and media coverage of executions on the grounds that is an intrusion of privacy and a violation of human rights

1.5 Institutes a policy whereby those condemned to death may choose their own method of execution, provided that it is economical.

2.1 Creates an International Court of Justice, with these powers:
i) To commute a death sentence to life imprisonment on credible evidence of an unfair trial.
ii) To hear appeals against capital sentences.
iii) To ensure that these standards are being upheld.

2.2 Requires that a trial at which a death sentence is passed is fair: it has an impartial judge, the defendant has legal representation, there is the right to trial by jury and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

2.3 Stresses that this resolution does not prohibit capital punishment for mass-murder.

2.4 Assures nations that this does not mean a soft stance on crime, but will rectify some injustices in capital punishment, and leaves the option of life imprisonment without possibility of parole as a punishment.Illegal, contradicts Fair Sentencing Act.

Legalization of Torture

A resolution to restrict political freedoms in the interest of law and order.


Category: Political Stability


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: North African Patriots

Description: Recognizing...

That sometimes POW's, detainees, and terrorists do not cooperate with the law

That stability is necesary to maintain world order

That the UN has an Obligation to defend Order

The UN Legalizes...

Torture: as a valuable tool for interrogation

This includes, but is not limited to, acid baths, amputation, electro shock torture, beatings, prying off of fingernails with pliars, and waterboarding

Rape: As a valuable tool for questioning female prisoners who are more likely to give in to questioning if they are humiliated publicly

Execution: As a way to keep POW levels low and threaten other detainees who refuse to speak



The UN hearby abolishes,

The Geneva Convention: Because it is an infringement on Free Speech, as it doesnt allow detainees to speak since they cant be forced to do so

The UN applauds:

All country's that maintain order within their borders,
whatever the cost

Approvals: 4 (Ala cuisene, Dian, WZ Forums, Of Poland)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 120 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed Nov 22 2006

What did I just get through saying?

Just came in to post that one. Personally, the mention of the Geneva convention doesn't bother me, but this line..

"Rape: As a valuable tool for questioning female prisoners who are more likely to give in to questioning if they are humiliated publicly"

I find the whole proposal offensive, but, as a female, that line in paticular. Anyone who thinks rape is a valuable tool is one very sick puppy.

I find the whole proposal offensive, but, as a female, that line in paticular. Anyone who thinks rape is a valuable tool is one very sick puppy.If it makes you feel better, I'm very much a male, and find that repugnant.

I find the whole proposal offensive, but, as a female, that line in paticular. Anyone who thinks rape is a valuable tool is one very sick puppy.

I'm a female as well and i find the whole thing Extreamly Offensive. Maybe we should have Hack hide under the guys bed everynight and scare him as punishment

If it makes you feel better, I'm very much a male, and find that repugnant.
Me too.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Polar ice isles

Description: Every person has the right to live and no person has the right to take life.

PROPOSAL: The immediate banning of the death sentence in all UN nations.

JUSTIFICATION: too many times has a court case or political dispute been ended with a death sentence. Many a time has a criminal been executed and then found innocent at a later date. Every being has the right to live. Even criminals who have taken another's life should not be put to the death sentence. A long period in a jail would be more of a punishment.

Understanding: not all nations has enough currency to pay for these criminals to stay in their jails for long periods of time.

Resolve: More Economically developed nations or regions should house a less economically developed nations criminals for a period of time, but only if evidence is shown that the nation could not afford to keep the criminal in jail for the correct period of time. This would help to clean up the streets and make the world a safer place.Illegal, contradicts Fair Sentencing Act.

Category: Moral Decency


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: SEANGWORLD

Description: I feel that the banning of homosexuality, as well as the acceptance of it, will strengthen the moral of all peoples of all lands.

No God, no matter what religion, would accept this 'lifestyle'. Homosexuality is not a lifestyle, it is a mental retardation, either inherited or learned through their upbringing.

A man is meant to be with a woman, a woman is meant to be with a man, in order to join their lives together in marriage, and raise a family. Two of either sex cannot do so because one way or another, the other sex is needed. This is proof in itself that homosexuality is wrong.

Please support this amendment, thank you.:rolleyes:

Category: Gun Control


Decision: Tighten


Proposed by: Nymphea

Description: Here lately people have been getting shot
so to stop that we need to arm our people with
weapons to protect themselves

1. dont give guns to childeren
2. you nust be 14 years of age to own a weapon
3. People will stop being shot
4. if you vote for this your people will be safe
5. we will make peace not having "GangBangers"
6. men own sub machine guns
7. women own rifles You must be insane if you think "nust" is a word.

Schooling over military
A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.

Category: Education and Creativity
Area of Effect: Educational
Proposed by: The Ninja Bunny

Description: Face it, eventually all parents will die and there kids must fend for themselves. The children must be able to support themselves, and even a family. Its neccassery for our children to have a good education.

We need to be able to create new ideas for our nations, and ways to improve technology. Without a good education, our nations will never improve.

Everyone wants to feel safe so they have a great military service, but without a good education then there will be no doctors. Imagine no doctors in your nation. No one can cure the deseases that you catch.

Alls im saying is i think it would make the world better if we were to lower our funds for military and raise our education funds. This is a choice that will make your nations and the U.N a better place.

Approvals: 1 (Seductive Salamanders)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Wed Nov 22 2006

Alls I'm saying is that this made me laugh.


Pro Gambling Act
A resolution to legalize or outlaw gambling.

Category: Gambling
Legalize/Outlaw: Legalize
Proposed by: H-Core Rebels

Description: Gambling brings in money, and the only people who hate gambling are those that can't gamble. So I say that gambling should be legal for the benefit of nations. Who doesn't want to take a chance at making more money. If gambling bothers the public, then setup a casino area where gambling is authorized and the gamblers gamble. What do you say?

Approvals: 3 (Republican Hope, Oliverea, Flying a Chair)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 121 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Thu Nov 23 2006

:rolleyes:

COMMENDING the intentions of the resolution to improve our world.

REGRETTING that the resolution is insufficient to the task.

OBSERVING that there are previous UN measures in place that address issues of pollution more than adequately. Resolution #11, (Banning single hulled tankers), Resolution #18 (Hydro powered cars), Resolution #34 (Banning Oceanic dumping), Resolution #39 (Alternative fuel), Resolution #71 (Sustainable Energy), Resolution #72 (Reduction of Greenhouse gasses) Just to name a few.

BELIEVING that regulating a private enterprise rather than a member government is acting outside of the proper realm of UN authority.

NOTING that CFC's are not the only reasons for Ozone reduction, but the resolution treats it as if it is the only reason.

FURTHER NOTING that there is no conclusive evidence that ozone depletion will be slowed down or stopped by this resolution.

CONCERNED about the possibility of impeding perfectly good businesses without sufficient evidentiary basis for doing so."
Probably not illegal, but may as well note that if this isn't "excessive back-referencing", I don't quite know what would be.

Other than that, it seems a fairly silly argument, and typical of repeals that don't have a thought-out argument: the resolution is insufficient, yet it shouldn't exist anyway; saying that there is no evidence that ozone depletion would be slowed by the repeal (when hotRodia knows full well there can't be any evidence for that - nice bit of rank duplicity there); CFCs aren't the only reason for ozone depletion...yet they shouldn't be banned anyway; and listing a ton of completely irrelevant resolutions - which if anything only serves to cast doubt on the unfounded assertion that regulation of private industry is outside the realm of the UN's authority.

Useless shit. But, it seems Gatesville has finally worked out what a telegram campaign is, so perhaps it'll be time for Jiffjeff to dust off one of her lesser used titles (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11185660&postcount=18).

You might not like my legislative strategy, but do I need your approval to pursue it?

You have a legislative strategy?

Given how many of "the Antarctican clique" operate UN puppets, the ejection of a single nation is meaningless.

Yeah, the Antarctican clique won't be stopped by a few silly ejections. By the way, Gruen, were you at the soiree we had at the Antarctican Country Club this past weekend? I didn't see you there. If you weren't, you missed out on a grand ol' time. Kenny was insulting all the waiters in a most hilarious fashion, and Kivisto showed off his new Beemer.

If it makes you feel better, I'm very much a male, and find that repugnant.

You're not very much a male anymore. You're married. :p

For a duck

A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.


Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: All Businesses


Proposed by: The Exiles of Britain

Description: To put in as few words as possible, I propose we make ducks a protected species.

I) make ducks a protected species

Approvals: 2 (The Exiles of Britain, Deer)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 122 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Nov 23 2006

The Queendom of Witchcliff has not approved this proposal. [Approve]
I like ducks too, but really don't feel they deserve their own UN proposal. Besides, any endangered ducks would be protected already under UNCoESB.

Not sure if anyone's noticed this one. But i'll give it a go:


Band all drugs except Tobacco
A resolution to ban, legalize, or encourage recreational drugs.


Category: Recreational Drug Use
Decision: Outlaw
Proposed by: Germanies

Description: 1. I think we should band all drugs besides tobacco.

2. Its killing people and kids are getting hooked on it like everyday.

3. Also all drugs should be band in public places. Not even a smoking section because people will always come out of the restraunt smelling like smoke.

4. People are selling these drugs to people not of age! If this keeps on happening every ecomony in the world will colapse slowly but certainly.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 124 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Nov 23 2006

Or this one:


Medical Health
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Rhapthorne

Description: I propose that the retail price of all forms of medical bills/products be either reduced by 33% or be unaffected by VAT.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 124 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Nov 23 2006

Allow Civilian Nuclear Weapons

A resolution to develop industry around the world.


Category: Advancement of Industry


Area of Effect: Environmental Deregulation


Proposed by: Oliverea

Description: We, the representatives of the United Nations, hereby agree that nuclear weapons are an essential entity in the normal civilian lifestyle. Therefore, we conclude that ordinary civilians should be allowed to purchase their own personal, portable nuclear devices in an attempt to increase civilian safety. The following clauses must be first approved so this new law can be put into place.

a) Nuclear weapons should be sold to minors, adults and the elderly alike. If we want civilian nuclear safety, it should be granted to all civilians.
b) Portable nuclear reactors will not require radiation safety mechanisms as this could seriously deter the average consumer from using one.
c) All portable nuclear weapons should be sold under 359.99, in World Currency Units.
d) All funds derived from the project will go towards the UN’s new backyard swimming pool.
We're getting a swimming pool!




Wait a minute. This might be illegal. What is this "World Currency Unit"?

We're getting a swimming pool!

YAY!

CANNONBALL!!!

We're getting a swimming pool!


I've seen the guy who proposed this on II. Can you guess what his roleplays look like?

b) Portable nuclear reactors will not require radiation safety mechanisms as this could seriously deter the average consumer from using one. Maybe it's just me, but not having any saftety mechanisms on a nuclear reactor would deter me from buying one.
Wait a minute. This might be illegal. What is this "World Currency Unit"?
Good, I'm not the only one who saw that as a sneaky way of creating a global currency.

Category: Social Justice


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: MidWestern Reserve

Description: IN VIEW of the Universal Bill of Human Rights, and the Gay Rights resolution;

The UN HEREBY :

DEFINES marriage as the civil joining of a member of any nation with any other member of any nation, regardless of sex, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, color, or any other characteristic, with the exception of age;

RECOGNIZES age of the individual(s) as a just reason for not recognizing marriage, as per Article One of the Child Protection Act; Illegal, contradicts Marriage Protection Act.

I think Vastiva must be the most plagiarised resolution author ever.

Been Gone Awhile. Wow! The entire Queue line has been eliminated! Well, here's a list of things that are blatantly illegal.

International Peace Corps

A resolution to slash worldwide military spending.


Category: Global Disarmament


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Community Property

Snip

I should read over it more slowly. Not really illegal. Doesn't create UN army. 'Never skim over long resolutions'

Drug Use

A resolution to increase democratic freedoms.


Category: The Furtherment of Democracy


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: David6

Description: RECOGNIZING the general disagreement among member nations concerning the legalization of recreational drug use,

NOTING the negative health effects of recreational drug use, while

ACKNOWLDEGING the that recreational drug use is in some member nations considered matter of free will,

The United Nations resolves that

(I) The ability to make decisions concerning the legality of some or all recreational drugs should be left to member nations; that although

(II) the United Nations should retain the ability to promote or discourage (but not legalize or outlaw) recreational drug use,

(III) the United Nations has no right to prohibit member nations from or force member nations to allow drug use.

Not 100% positive, but I believe this rules under game mechanics because it wants to make a certain category (Drug Use) off limits.

Creates UN Army from existing armies!
How does it create a UN army?

Not 100% positive, but I believe this rules under game mechanics because it wants to make a certain category (Drug Use) off limits.It doesn't completetly block the Recreational Drug Use category, but as it's a pure blocker, it's still illegal.

Illegal, contradicts Marriage Protection Act.


It also copys a repealed resoultion word from word

Category: Advancement of Industry


Area of Effect: Tort Reform


Proposed by: Kauklaus

Description: The Kauklaus Act provides: "Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal".

The Act also provides: "Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a international felony.

The Act put responsibility upon government attorneys and district courts to pursue and investigate trusts, companies and organizations suspected of violating the Act.

It will allow only regulated monopolies, such as utilities (water, electric, gas), but will be highly under government watch and control.Illegal, branding and miscategorization.

Category: Political Stability


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Rickopolis

Description: Stating that the United Nations Charter states that all countries must respect the domestic Soviernty of other nations.

Believing that even now the UN does not do this

Calling for the Following:

1. A full withdrawal of UN forces in countries or places which express a wanting of their withdrawal We have a charter and forces?

Labor Relations Act
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.


Category: Social Justice
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Sunya

Description: Recognizing that labor unions will exist and granting that workers have an intrinsic right to form into collective bargaining agreements;

With respect to UN Resolution #38 and its repeal by UN Resolution #143, adressing the concerns thereof;

And defining a labor union as an entity, organized by a workforce, for the purpose of barganing with said workforces' employers for increased pay and benefits;

Be it resolved that;

No nation of this body shall impede the rights of private sector workers to organize nor shall laws be passed limiting the ability of labor unions to undertake said organizing activity.

No law shall be passed, and no activity tolerated, which discriminates against the nonuionized workforce or coerces the nonunionized workforce to join or otherwise support a labor union.

Unions and union leaders must be democratically elected by the workforce they represent. All nations must legally recognize the contracts negotiated by a democratically elected labor union, at home or abroad. Legal recognition shall be guaranteed a union which abides by the other stipulations contained within this proposal.

Unions lacking democratic process and procedure, or transparency of budgeting and internal process, within reasonable limits, shall not be recognized as legitimate representatives of workers. Nations have the right to approve public authorities, democratically elected, which will be endowed with the power to oversee union democratic process and insure against fraudulent voting or undemocratic labor activity. Said authority will not be endowed with the right to influence contract negotiations, labor actions, or legitimate union elections or activity. Said body will also have the power to force a return to work and negotiations whenever a strike or other work stoppage lasts for more than 90 days.

Public sector workers, such as military, or government employees, have the right to organize under labor union contract. However, whenever said contract interferes in the national security or political stability of a nation, said nation has the right to temporarily suspend sections of the contract and force renegotiation.

Unions have the right to form into national and international federations.

Workers shall be guaranteed, by their respective governments, protection against anti-union discrimination or coercion by their employers or agents thereof.

Workers and labor unions engaging in labor activity must abide by all laws of their respective nations.

The right to organize, assemble, canvass, petition, strike, or otherwise engage in activity, political or otherwise, for the purpose of obtaining contract negotiation, increasing membership, or otherwise advancing the cause and agenda of a democratically elected and legally abiding union, shall not be infringed upon by any member nation of this body. No law shall be passed, and no activity tolerated, governmental or otherwise, which infringes upon this right.




Approvals: 1 (Scoopy)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sat Nov 25 2006




I could be wrong...but I believe that the RtFU already covers this.

Tolerance Act
A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.


Category: Moral Decency
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Rylden

Description: Hereby all people have the right to believe or not to believe in any God (god, non monotheistic) they choose, believe in what ever political ideals they wish, and to not be criticized by other nations on this.

Approvals: 0
Status: Lacking Support (requires 124 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Sat Nov 25 2006

Hereby all people have the right to laugh at this guy.

I could be wrong...but I believe that the RtFU already covers this.
It does, but this is very well-written and I've contacted the author about it. If there is ever another attempt to repeal or repeal/replace UNR149 I think this would serve as an excellent model for a replacement.

Hereby all people have the right to laugh at this guy.

A right I'm exercising at this very moment. :D

It does, but this is very well-writtenAside from the whole letting-the-military-join-international-unions part.

Of course, any military unionization is just silly, but...

It does, but this is very well-written and I've contacted the author about it. If there is ever another attempt to repeal or repeal/replace UNR149 I think this would serve as an excellent model for a replacement.

Oh yes...Ive been thinking about sending him/her a Red-Star for effort!;) And it would make an excellent replacement for UNR149 as well, if it were tweeked just a bit. I have to agree with Hack on the matter of military unions. Militaries require iron discipline to be successful in battle and a union might get in the way of the chain of command structure.

UN Ban on ALL sexual behavior
A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.

Category: Moral Decency
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Aldreania

Description: This resolution recognizes the fact that people do not need sex. Sex will be banned (this includes fellatio, anal sex, masturbation, etc.), and anyone who breaks this law will be punished with death.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sun Nov 26 2006

Hehehe! Right. :rolleyes:

Creative Happiness and Success
A resolution to ban, legalize, or encourage recreational drugs.

Category: Recreational Drug Use
Decision: Promote
Proposed by: Heman Woman Hatas

Description: Hallucinogen drugs are very inspiring drugs that will not only increase creativity for artists and musicians, but will increase all happiness that their walking dreams can provide.

The art galleries will have more remarkable art works rather than limited tamed-mind artwork. The shrooms will set their minds free. The entertainment industry will benefit as well making millions of listeners and viewers happy. At the same time, the passing of this proposal provides their home nation with a great reputation for those particular industries. Our nation will be renowned for a genuine culture created only through the co-existence of man and mushrooms.

The UN may tax and distribute as necessary.

Approvals: 0
Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Sun Nov 26 2006

Druggies looking at Dahli? That's a bad trip, man.

Civil Rights per International

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Kauklaus

Description: The Civil Right Act of 1968 prohibited the following forms of discrimination:

1. Refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, gender, religion or national origin

2. Discrimination against a person in the terms, conditions or privilege of the sale or rental of a dwelling.

3. Advertising the sale or rental of a dwelling indicating preference of discrimination based on race, color, gender, religion or national origin.

4. Coercing, threatening, intimidating, or interfering with a person's enjoyment or exercise of housing rights based on discriminatory reasons or retaliating against a person or organization that aids or encourages the exercise or enjoyment of fair housing rights.
Illegal. RL reference. In addition, now that I've looked at it again I see that it doesn't actually do anything.

Hehehe! Right. :rolleyes:

Lol goodbye human race :D

Military Defense Increasement

A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.


Category: International Security


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: The Great God William

Description: Within this proposal I will outline the necessity to increase funding to nation's defence department. These funds would be used to protect their leaders. This would include a range of specialzed defense equipment, such as bodyguards and armoured vehicles. Increased inspection of all things coming into the Nation can reduce foreign assasins from entering the Country, and stricter laws on who owns and sells guns can also reduce the risk of inhabitants acquiring guns and using them in assasination attempts.

The main points of what will change;

1. Increases defense funding
Funding to:
1.a. Army, only defense department
1.b. Leader protection; bodyguards, armoured vehicles, etc.

2. Tighter border protection

3. Tighter gun laws

National leaders are extremely important in global governing. If one were to be assassinated, the nation he/she controlled and nations linked would be affected.
Leaderless nations could erupt into cities of riots and civil warfare. Groups could destroy the whole nation to declare themselves its leaders.
Do we want self-destructing nations alongside flourishing nations, bringing them down with it?

We need to supply or increase Global defence funding to better protect the World - protect its citizens, the very backbone of everything that we have achieved.

Illegal for category violation (tighter gun laws would have to be in Gun Control).

Category: Moral Decency


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Liberal Animal Lovers

Description: -Recognising The rights of all animals to life and freedom.
-Animals will not be enslaved, sold, eaten or otherwise mistreated.
-Only if an animal is causing risk of injury,loss of life, and/or direct damage to property can action be taken against them.
-In recognition of the upheavel this will cause in most nations, the Dominion of Liberal Animal Lovers proposes a compulsery eduction program for all UN nations that will compose of:

1: Dietary Education. How to live as a vegan.
2: Nonlethal ways of dealing with pests or dangerous animals.
3: Career advise for those most likely to be effected by the changes.

The Dominion of Liberal Animal Lovers also proposes a package of financial aid for nations severely effected by the bill.Illegal, branding.

Peeps eat to much pork

A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.


Category: Social Justice


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Fahadia

Description: i like eggs i like eggs

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon Nov 27 2006
It doesn't do anything!

It doesn't do anything!

I dispute that claim, it makes Fahadia look like an idiot.


Well more so, his posts have already done that.

So how many times have there been shoddy attempts at drug legalization proposals? And have any of these jokes actually been given serious consideration, or did they all get the brush-off the current crop is receiving?

So how many times have there been shoddy attempts at drug legalization proposals? And have any of these jokes actually been given serious consideration, or did they all get the brush-off the current crop is receiving?
There have been a few serious and well written attempts. For the most part though, drug legalization proposals tend to be of the "smoke pot cause it'll mak u smart, LOLZ" variety. They tend to get the same brush off as the current crop is receiving, yes.

Category: Social Justice


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Kotire

Description: This Act hereby renders the United Nations Fair Wage Convention Resolution Null and Void due to certain discrepencies.

Firstly The United Nations resolves that Infants should not be in work of any paid manner as UN Fair Wage Convention implies that they indeed are. This is problematic as it could allow nation states to employ infants to the detriment of the child's early life that should be reserved for education and personal development, physically, psychologically, emotionally and socially.
The Said Convention does nothing to prohibit infant or indeed child labour, which is agreed by the United Nations as an abhorant abuse of young life for the purposes of labour.

This Act therefore Seeks to affirm the United Nations' Outlawing of Child Labour, where as anyone under the age of Fifteen may not be employed in any form of Labour. For crying out loud, sould you at least wait until the resolution passes before submitting a repeal.

Category: Free Trade


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Gooshing

Description: Free Trade between Countries :confused:

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Neola

Description: WHEREAS all peoples of this planet find suffering to be undesirable to the point of being intolerable.
WHEREAS all peoples of this planet believe in equal justice and equal treatment under the law.
RECOGNIZING that marriage is one of the main causes of suffering on this planet.
RECOGNIZING that the institution of marriage is a "necessary evil" to propagate the species and must continue to exist, in some form or another, in order to maintain said species.
AMENDING of the marriage laws is required to allow gays, lesbians, and transgendered peoples to marry whomever they choose. This is warranted by the fact it will allow all groups equal access to the aforementioned institution thus removing the undue burden of suffering the heterosexual community heretofore had to bear alone.Illegal, contradicts Marriage Protection Act.

Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: All Businesses


Proposed by: The Benign Leader

Description: Do you have a low economy? Or would you like to improve upon it? well, this is hard to do because there is no modern technology that can act as a 'money maker'. Wait a sec THERE IS!!!
what about nuclear energy? theres a modern technology that;
a) creates no greenhouse gasses and only creates neclear waste that is easly stored until it is safe to use again.
b) nuclear energy gives you tons of money. A small amount of uranium can create millions of whats where coal could merely create twenty or thirty.
c) it will allow you to make your poeple happier. creating millions of jobs and reducing electricity costs!

There are no negatives to this program. now you may say "what about Chernoble?". but believe me there is nothing unsafe about it as long as the system is controlled by the government. In chernoble the power plant was owned by a company, not the government, and what do companys want and need? MONEY! So what do they do? THEY CUT CORNERS. and what happens when they do that? They put the plant to full output and risk overload because they fired their safty inspecter. and then BOOM!
But on the other hand, what does the government want? happy poeple so they make sure it stays safe ant then nothing is going to happen.
we can go even further though, with the modern h2o batterys(they store electricity buy splitting the hydrogen and oxegen molecules with electricity so when they connect the same amout of electricity comesout)we could make cars run with nuclear energy powering them!
thank you for reading and please approve of this idea.Is this a resolution or an infomercial?

Animal Equality Bill
A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.

Category: Moral Decency
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Liberal Animal Lovers

Description: -Recognising The rights of all animals to life and freedom.
-Animals will not be enslaved, sold, eaten or otherwise mistreated.
-Only if an animal is causing risk of injury,loss of life, and/or direct damage to property can action be taken against them.
-In recognition of the upheavel this will cause in most nations, the Dominion of Liberal Animal Lovers proposes a compulsery eduction program for all UN nations that will compose of:

1: Dietary Education. How to live as a vegan.
2: Nonlethal ways of dealing with pests or dangerous animals.
3: Career advise for those most likely to be effected by the changes.

The Dominion of Liberal Animal Lovers also proposes a package of financial aid for nations severely effected by the bill.

Approvals: 3 (Gooshing, Big H, WZ Forums)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 120 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Mon Nov 27 2006

Contradicts the 'Un Educational Aid Act'?

Contradicts the 'Un Educational Aid Act'?

branding, at any rate.

was this reposted as well? (it's in flib's post, think 6 up)

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #109


Proposed by: Pogoslavia

Description: UN Resolution #109: Nuclear Armaments (Category: International Security; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.Oh, and what's the reason de jour?
Argument: NOTICING that the best way to stop Nuclear weapons is to eliminate them completely,In your opnion
ANTICIPATING that many countries will eliminate their Nuclear weapons after UN Member nations eliminate theirs,I wouldn't hold your breath until they do.
ACCEPTING that other nations need a good example to follow,Fine, you be the example, I'll keep my nukes.
ACKNOWLEDGING that Nuclear weapons are detrimental to peacful society,Only if they're used, and if everyone has them and everyone realizes that if they use them against someone, that nation will retailate in kind nobody will use them.
the United States of Pogoslavia Call for all UN Members to:Illegal, branding.
1. STOP development of Nuclear Arms of all kinds

2. DESTROY all existing Nuclear Arms

3. HELP other nations destroy their weapons.Illegal, repeals cannot introduce new legislation.

You know what, I actually got that call. I told that person to f*** Off and get a better paying job!

Anyways, other resolutions that are illegal are:

Free Trade Protection

A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.


Category: Free Trade


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Fraietta40

Description: To simply outlaw all tariffs and sanctions imposed by the UN and let nations decide who they wish to trade with.

Stating that protectionism damages the global economy because it leads to domestic monopolies and creates unemployment in the import industry.

Looks to me like a blocker, and a really bad proposal (but aren't 90% of them).

Creative Happiness and Success

A resolution to ban, legalize, or encourage recreational drugs.


Category: Recreational Drug Use


Decision: Promote


Proposed by: Heman Woman Hatas

Description: Hallucinogen drugs are very inspiring drugs that will not only increase creativity for artists and musicians, but will increase all happiness that their walking dreams can provide.

The art galleries will have more remarkable art works rather than limited tamed-mind artwork. The shrooms will set their minds free. The entertainment industry will benefit as well making millions of listeners and viewers happy. At the same time, the passing of this proposal provides their home nation with a great reputation for those particular industries. Our nation will be renowned for a genuine culture created only through the co-existence of man and mushrooms.

The UN may tax and distribute as necessary.

Branding, and I believe through the last line, contradicts the taxing people resolution.

Our nation will be renowned for a genuine culture created only through the co-existence of man and mushrooms.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha! :D

OOC: You guys catch this one?:

Reduce amount of Proposals

A resolution to increase democratic freedoms.


Category: The Furtherment of Democracy


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: The Hounddog

Description: This is a Bill to reduce the wording on UN Proposals to 150.Some of the suggestions for discussions are obviously put forward by people with too much time on their hands.It is apparent that a lot of states can`t be bothered to read long proposals,so that a reduction in the length of the Bills will increase democracy with more states voting on them.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Tue Nov 28 2006

NowSettingItToJustWordsIsSillyAsThisOnlyCountsAsOneWord

Nuclear Power
A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.

Category: Environmental
Industry Affected: Automobile Manufacturing
Proposed by: The Munchiken Shack

Description: Nuclear Power is defined by www.wikipedia.com as the controlled use of nuclear reactions to create energy. Nuclear reactions take a small mass of uranium and turn it into a huge amount of energy. That energy is turned into heat and that heat is used to boil water. The steam produced from this floats up and turns a turbine which creates the energy. 7% of the world’s energy and 17% of the world’s electricity is nuclear. Many people do not trust nuclear power because there have been accidents like the Chernobyl disaster and the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown. Although this is true, there have been many accidents from the other main power sources, Take Love Canal; a neighbourhood in Niagra Falls, New York that was evacuated because of PCB chemical waste from hydro power were put in as landfill there. Also, if you could count the deaths from coal pollution (nuclear power creates no pollution except for radioactive waste see page 4) and coal mining you would see that it using coal burning compared to using nuclear power is foolish.
Nuclear power is most likely the most environmentally friendly source of energy. Hydro power produces tonnes of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB’s). PCB’s are used to cool energy transformers used in hydro power. They are quite toxic and bad for the environment and people. Also hydro power needs a river so that you can dam it up and turn it into a waterfall to make propellers turn. The need of these rivers is quite high and most regular rivers have already been dammed up. Dams are being built farther and farther away from civilization and once the electric source is far away you need to use hydro lines to transfer the energy to the big cities.
Once, in China, the government needed a closer source of energy, so they decided to flood a huge gorge where 1.9 million people lived. Many of these people died and many also had had to move quickly and leave their belongings in the gorge.
Coal burning makes varying amounts of sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOX). When sulfur dioxide reacts to oxygen it creates sulfur trioxide (SO3). When this sulfur trioxide reacts to water it forms sulfuric acid. When this sulfuric acid returns to Earth it is called acid rain.
Acid rain is also called acid precipitation and is one of the causes of premature childbirth, shrinking forests, non-hatched fish eggs and adult fish deaths.
Coal burning produces the most amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) which is the main cause of global warming*.
Nuclear power has the ability to take away the pollution caused by coal burning and the inconvenience of the dams from hydro power. All that nuclear power needs is a plant, some workers, tiny bits of uranium and a place to bury the nuclear waste. Although this waste is toxic if it is contained properly it isn’t a threat at all.
Nuclear power is the safest way to provide energy to people. Coal mining needs coal miners and coal mining is an extremely dangerous job which requires huge amounts of people to do it (uranium mining isn’t great either but only a tiny amount it is needed in this process)Illegal, RL reference, incorrect format.

Also completely unnecessary (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10960302&postcount=155).

Illegal, RL reference, incorrect format.

Also completely unnecessary (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10960302&postcount=155).

It also doesn't do anything, it's just a speech about nuclear power. Also I'd love to know why it's area of effect is "automobile manufacturing."

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Kauklaus

Description: The Freedom Act objectives are marked as such:

(A) States shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

(B) A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

(C) The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized

(D) No person shall be held to answer for any capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

(E) In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.

(F) Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

(G) Involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

(H) The right of citizens of the State to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

(I) The right of citizens in the State to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the State on account of sex.Someone's been copying the US constitution.

branding, at any rate.

was this reposted as well? (it's in flib's post, think 6 up)

Oops!

It also doesn't do anything, it's just a speech about nuclear power. Also I'd love to know why it's area of effect is "automobile manufacturing."Um, nuclear cars, or ... something?

Um, nuclear cars, or ... something?

Cars with nuclear reactors. What's next, flying DeLoreans?:rolleyes:

Cars with nuclear reactors. What's next, flying DeLoreans?:rolleyes:

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/6977/mtgcomdailymr217picmainbd5.jpg
What's that, Marty?

Power of Police Act
A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.


Category: Gun Control
Decision: Tighten
Proposed by: Big Automatic Weapons

Description: The Nation States United Nations,

When this resolution passes, the only entities to be allowed to own or have access to guns shall be limited to armed forces within the government control. This includes semi-automatic, automatic, and non-automatic weaponry.

This resolution recognizes the importance of self-defence. Therefore, the armed forces will be given 33% of all taxes into the general fund. This will allow these forces to respond to distress calls and buy and research more effecient weaponry.

Any entity that is not in the armed forces under government control with any ownership or affiliation with a weapon of their own or another entity with a weapon shall be kept in a maximum security federal prison as the government deems it necessary.

Approvals: 1 (ExVeCeDe)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 122 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Tue Nov 28 2006


Ahahaha... if this isn't illegal, it damn well should be.

Druggies looking at Dahli? That's a bad trip, man.

Wait, if a druggie looks at a Dali, will the Dali look like a normal scene to him?
Coming up tomorrow on Part XIV of Questions that Humanity has Wrestled With for the past 20000 Years!!!

Environment protection

A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.


Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: Woodchipping


Proposed by: Mi2n

Description: corporations like the ones that produce paper , should be made to replant the whole area cut with exactly the same variety of tree felled .

They Should! What do you propose we do about it?

Child Recreation Promotion Act

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Alaam Hallalaa

Description: BELIEVING that all children need the right to recreation and play below a certain age.

STATING that children under the age of six should not be in full time education.

SUPPORTING child care services such as nurseries and day care centers.

STRESSING that this resolution does not ban education of small and necessary skills such as writing, counting and the learning of the alphabet under the age of six but that should not take away a small child's right to play and to learn through recreational activity.

CONCLUDING a regulation of education of children under six and promotion of recreational activities under six year olds through out the UN.

Another Proposal that doesn't do anything.

They Should! What do you propose we do about it?
Apparently we should make them "replant the whole area cut with exactly the same variety of tree felled"

Another Proposal that doesn't do anything.
Actually it does do something. It states that "children under the age of six should not be in full time education". If it had said "BELIEVING that children under the age of six should not be in full time education", then you might be able to say it doesn't do anything. But it doesn't say that. It says "STATING that children under the age of six should not be in full time education". I know what you'll say next, it uses "should". Well, sometimes should can be a pretty strong word.
should  /ʃʊd/ Pronunciation[shood]
–auxiliary verb
1. pt. of shall.
2. (used to express condition): Were he to arrive, I should be pleased.
3. must; ought (used to indicate duty, propriety, or expediency): You should not do that.
4. would (used to make a statement less direct or blunt): I should think you would apologize.

[Origin: ME sholde, OE sc(e)olde; see shall]

—Synonyms 3. See must.
So it does do something, just not very well.

Onwards.
Chocolate Box

A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.


Category: Gun Control


Decision: Tighten


Proposed by: Dangereux Bay

Description: "BUY CHOCOLATE BOXES COMPULSORY PUNISHMENT DEATH..."
-Pierre Auguste Renoir

Approvals: 2 (WZ Forums, Iron Felix)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 121 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed Nov 29 2006

The Yeldan UN Ambassadorship of Iron Felix has approved this proposal. [Withdraw Approval]
If it's good enough for WZ Forums, it's good enough for me.

Ok, damn. And is that actually what it would be in French?
More or less. That translated back into english by babelfish is hilarious though: BUY THE CHOCOLATE BOXES THE FORCED DEATH OF PUNISHMENT!

More or less. That translated back into english by babelfish is hilarious though: BUY THE CHOCOLATE BOXES THE FORCED DEATH OF PUNISHMENT!

Anything translated through babelfish is hilarious, reguardless of the original language.

To improve human rights
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Changhai

Description: human rights should be improved

Approvals: 1 (Aldreania)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 122 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Wed Nov 29 2006 Well, they got the category right!

Anything translated through babelfish is hilarious, reguardless of the original language.
Babelfish is still better than Freetranslation in that respect though.

Take over of kingdom of cerme

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Deathpussy

Description: this resilustion to to go to war with the kingdom of cerneo

he is a very poor leader and is rasist with his people. something must be done about this. his kingdom must be controled before he forces it upon everyone else

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed Nov 29 2006

Illegal and silly

Repeal "CHILD LABOR"

A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal


Resolution: #14


Proposed by: FreiesDeutschland

Description: UN Resolution #14: CHILD LABOR (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument:

Approvals: 1 (NewTexas)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 122 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed Nov 29 2006

Great argument...

Ban on WMDs

A resolution to slash worldwide military spending.


Category: Global Disarmament


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Veritable Peoples

Description: Whereas, WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) cause catastrophic damage to the innocent bystanders of attacked countries;

Because chemical, nuclear, and biological agents pose an immense threat to the agressor, victim, and uninvolved nations;

Due to the incredible spending on WMDs when much more important humanitarian aid programmes need to be established at home and abroad;

All Weapons of Mass Destruction -- of the nuclear, biological, and chemical nature -- shall be destroyed.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed Nov 29 2006

Illegal, condradiction

Offensive Weapon Act

A resolution to slash worldwide military spending.


Category: Global Disarmament


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Kaysaul

Description: This act decrees that all offensive weapons be put into hibernation until an appropriate occasion occur's that institute's reactivation.

This Act Decrees that:

I. All Offensive weapons be Hibernated

II. All offensive Weapons Manufacturing be regulated

III. Only Under the circumstances below can Offensive Weaponry be reactivated

IV. Any use of Offensive Weapon under this Act Results in loss of manufacturing rights under this act.

V. Weapons used for Law Enforcement can be used but in designated amounts

Under these Circumstances, an Offensive weapon be reactivated:

I. A direct, offensive attack on your nation.

II. A direct, verbal threat on your nations safety

III. An attack approved be the UN council

Approvals: 3 (Kaysaul, WZ Forums, Aldreania)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 120 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed Nov 29 2006

May not be illegal, but that line is rather stupid

Category: Gambling


Legalize/Outlaw: Legalize


Proposed by: Gallastahn

Description: Allow the introduction of Super Casinos

This will allow people to gamble 24 hours a day in custom built complexes, bringing a little bit of Las Vegas to every major city in civilized and intelligent nations throughout the world.

As gambling can be taxed Governments can benefit from this new legitimate revenue stream, and these knew complexes can provide jobs for citizens in the service industries.

These new entertainment centers will also be focuses tor tourism and could provide new hope for previously run down or unattractive areas.Illegal, RL reference.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Huerndy

Description: Argument: RECOGNIZING the intent of the original resolution, to protect deceased and their relatives,

MINDFUL of indigenous populations that preform some sort of postmortem body desecration as a religious or cultural right.

RECOMMENDING UN nations develop a system allowing indigenous populations their deserved rights.

CONCERNED with inappropriate UN-encroachment into matters national governments should determine.

DEMANDING that individual national governments to come up with legislation appropriate for their particular situation.

REPEALS Resolution 178, "Outlaw Necrophilia"Illegal, wrong category.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Heman Woman Hatas

Description: Millions of women throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivation of, and attacks against, their fundamental human rights for no other reason than that they are women.

Vote "YES" for Women Rights 24/7

The Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch fights against the dehumanization and marginalization of women. We promote women's equal rights and human dignity. The realization of women's rights is a global struggle based on universal human rights and the rule of law. It requires all of us to unite in solidarity to end traditions, practices, and laws that harm women. It is a fight for freedom to be fully and completely human and equal without apology or permission. Ultimately, the struggle for women's human rights must be about making women's lives matter everywhere all the time. In practice, this means taking action to stop discrimination and violence against women.

Abuses against women are relentless, systematic, and widely tolerated, if not explicitly condoned. Violence and discrimination against women are global social epidemics, notwithstanding the very real progress of the international women's human rights movement in identifying, raising awareness about, and challenging impunity for women's human rights violations.

Our duty as activists is to expose and denounce as human rights violations those practices and policies that silence and subordinate women. We reject specific legal, cultural, or religious practices by which women are systematically discriminated against, excluded from political participation and public life, segregated in their daily lives, raped in armed conflict, beaten in their homes, denied equal divorce or inheritance rights, killed for having sex, forced to marry, assaulted for not conforming to gender norms, and sold into forced labor.

The Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch fights against the dehumanization and marginalization of women. We promote women's equal rights and human dignity. The realization of women's rights is a global struggle based on universal human rights and the rule of law. It requires all of us to unite in solidarity to end traditions, practices, and laws that harm women. It is a fight for freedom to be fully and completely human and equal without apology or permission. Ultimately, the struggle for women's human rights must be about making women's lives matter everywhere all the time. The only place it truly matters is when they serve in the kitchen. Vote "Yes" for Women Rights 24/7 and take action to stop nondiscrimination and nonviolence against women.I'm guessing that this is one giant RL reference that as a resolution doesn't do jack shit, although you have to appreciate the irony that this is submitted by a nation named Heman Woman Hatas.

Category: International Security


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: New Rio

Description: First, the UN must recognise the following facts

1. The world is an unsafe place.

2. We must protect ourselves

3. To do that we must work together.


We must understand that we have, at our deposal, an as yet untouched military pool of resources. Our nations youth.

I propose we introduce a 'national service' type scheme, but for youth. When they turn 15, they will be sent for two years to a military academy in another UN nation, where they will learn to be soldiers.

This will have the following benefits:
For the youth:
1. Discipline
2. A foreign language
3. Meeting new people, and asserting independence.
4. A sense of achievement and worth

And for the nation:
1. A drop in crime rates
2. A large reserve military force, to be used in combat and peace keeping.

All UN nations will build there military academy with help from a central UN resource pool.Don't we have a resolution banning the use of kids in warfare?

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Alaam Hallalaa

Description: WISHING that all miners have the right to a safe working environment.

WISHING ALSO that all miners be over the age of 18 and over the age of 55.

STRESSING that cave-ins shaft collapses kill hundreds of miners every week and that dust breathed in by miners suffocates miners or can cause lung-cancer and other lung problems later in life.

STATING that poor mining conditions may also affect the mining industry and companies reliant on mining because of worker shortages and strikes.

CONCLUDING that;

1 Mining conditions be improved throughout the UN.

2 Miners must between 18 and 55 years old.

3 More medical, public and political attention be brought to mining and its consequences. "WISHING ALSO that all miners be over the age of 18 and over the age of 55," well, if they're over 55 then they're also over 18.

Repeal "Abortion Legality Convention"

A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal


Resolution: #147


Proposed by: Former Maker Iluvatar

Description: UN Resolution #147: Abortion Legality Convention (Category: Moral Decency; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: REAFFIRMING the inalienable rights: "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” these rights found in many constitutions throughout the world.

Understanding and Acknowledging: The trauma that many women receive and go through as a result of rape, incest and severe fetal abnormality.

Recognizing: That since the begging in of the issue of abortion, numerous organizations have been established with the single goal of aiding mothers of rape, incest and poor decisions in order to save the lives of innocent children who were not victimized and should be given the chance to change the world least of all live.

Seeking: To bring into the world a generation of children who might not have lived. Who had a mother who either was raped, or made a poor decision so that they can have the power the determination and the life to change the world of tomorrow.

Mourning: The loss of great minds of today. Scientists, Doctors, Mothers, Fathers, Brothers, Sisters, Husband, Wife.

Declaring: Abortions of any stage in pregnancy illegal unless the birth of the child in any way would cause the death of the mother.

Calling for: The UN’s aide both financially and through aide of personnel in establishing Organizations to aide woman of rape, incest and poor decisions who wish to either keep their child or in recovery of traumatic experiences. Also calling for the establishment of Adoption Agencies to find homes for the children whose parents are not ready or cannot take on the responsibilities or parenting. These organizations will aide mothers financially if they wish to parent and if schooling is lost or scholarships taken.

Reminding: For those who do not believe that a child is truly alive until after birth, recognize that if left to be born would be no different that yourself however long ago you yourself were born.
Illegal. Attempts to introduce new legislation through a repeal.

If it's good enough for WZ Forums, it's good enough for me.

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Killing any suspicious people
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.


Category: International Security

Strength: Strong

Proposed by: Scourgebane

Description: i propose to kill any terrorists, suspicious people and evil nazis in order to protect our way of life

Approvals: 1 (The Exiles of Britain)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Nov 30 2006
... Whatever.

Guns should be illegal to all
A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.


Category: Gun Control

Decision: Tighten

Proposed by: CHI CHANG CHOE

Description: Guns are the reason there is alot of crime! I say guns should be illegal in all nations to prevent crime

Approvals: 3 (WZ Forums, Kesgrave, Errinundera)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 121 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Nov 30 2006
It doesn't do anything!

Gun control
A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.


Category: Gun Control

Decision: Relax

Proposed by: TFCA

Description: every citizen should be allowed to any gun wherever they go and whatever they do

Approvals: 1 (The Exiles of Britain)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Nov 30 2006


This one doesn't either... and it's even more poorly written.

Anti-Torture Decree
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights

Strength: Strong

Proposed by: CommunisticManifesto

Description: Torture is hereby recognized as any act which is intended to directedly inflict extreme physical and mental pain.

Torture as described above may not be inflicted as an act of any UN nation, and all UN nations shall pass legislation to outlaw torture on the independant level.

Approvals: 4 (Kesgrave, Nicoshore, Errinundera, Kaysaul)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 120 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Nov 30 2006
Haven't we already had a resolution like this?
Legalisation of Gambling
A resolution to legalize or outlaw gambling.


Category: Gambling

Legalize/Outlaw: Legalize

Proposed by: Alaam Hallalaa

Description: BELIEVING that every person has th right to use their own money as they please.

UNDERSTANDING that gambling does cause people to loose money and become hooked.

PROVIDING ways in which people may come off gambling and find jobs to make up for their losses in money an warning gamblers on the affect it can have.

Approvals: 4 (Ellenburg, Gortania, Prudent, WZ Forums)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 120 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed Nov 29 2006

That's nice. What does it actually do?

It doesn't do anything!
...
This one doesn't either... and it's even more poorly written.
See, here's what I don't understand. Both of those proposals do do something. They may not be written in any kind of standard legislative format, and "should" is obviously a word that gives a bit of leeway in interpretation, but they're not completely useless; they're better than shit like Sexual Freedom. And they're not so much "silly" as "beneath contempt".

When people post these proposals that do something and post "it doesn't do anything!", they're clearly making a funny joke. I just don't get what it is, and why they waste our fucking time with it (or why people waste our time whingeing about it).

See, here's what I don't understand. Both of those proposals do do something. They may not be written in any kind of standard legislative format, and "should" is obviously a word that gives a bit of leeway in interpretation, but they're not completely useless; they're better than shit like Sexual Freedom. And they're not so much "silly" as "beneath contempt".

When people post these proposals that do something and post "it doesn't do anything!", they're clearly making a funny joke. I just don't get what it is, and why they waste our fucking time with it (or why people waste our time whingeing about it).
What we mean, or what I mean, is that there is no provision for how the UN should actually implement the suggestions (made using the word "should", which is traditionally a rather weak way of accomplishing anything).

Ban Obesity On Airplanes

A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.

Category: International Security
Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Ohshid

Description: Obesity is defined as:
<clinical sign> An increase in body weight beyond the limitation of skeletal and physical requirement, as the result of an excessive accumulation of fat in the body.

Origin: L. O source: http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk

This may not seem as an immediate threat, but do you know that now most airframe building companies are producing economy class aircraft with 30% more room? As the population steadily gains weight, the aircrafts will need to be larger and larger.
problems that could occur:
i. the larger the seat, the more space there is to hide weapons that could harm passengers
ii. the time spent searching these enlargened seats may increase drastically, wasting military/police time and money
What is proposed is that:
1. peoples classified by the WHO standards as obese shall not be able to board commercial aircraft
2. prevented resizing of aircraft seating rules implemented
thank you

Approvals: 0
Status: Lacking Support (requires 124 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Thu Nov 30 2006

Illegal, wrong catagory. Possible RL referance with the offsite URL.

I don't know about the "wrong category" part. It looks borderline to me. After all the only way you can ever hope to prevent overweight people from going on airplanes is through drastically boosting security forces at airports requiring everyone to take a MBI test before boarding. Thus police and military budgets would have to be drastically increased in order to cause this to happen.

Illegal, wrong catagory. Possible RL referance with the offsite URL.

I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that usually if a proposal has it's own thread, we don't post it in this thread, in fact my deleted post right above your had this particular proposal in it.

I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that usually if a proposal has it's own thread, we don't post it in this thread, in fact my deleted post right above your had this particular proposal in it.

And I didn't know it had it's own thread.

And I didn't know it had it's own thread.

You might try...oh, I dunno...actually looking next time.

Eton rifles

A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.


Category: Gun Control


Decision: Relax


Proposed by: Tetney

Description: allow guns to be legalised so that homeowners can protect themselves and their families from those who are breaking the law

Hello-Hurrah - cheers then, mate. It's the Eton Rifles.

Silly, though not illegal. But it should be. Learn your musical history. In The Eton Rifles, The Jam were talking about rugby, fighting and class warfare, not firearms.

My Secretary Arnold actually scheduled me for that rather pathetic meeting... Arnold is no longer working for us...

*mutters some really neat Steweystan curses*

I still have to arrange his funeral...

*scowl*

anyone have the Link to the Silly Proposial Contest?

anyone have the Link to the Silly Proposial Contest?

Ask, and ye shall receive (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=505603).

It's a contest? As to see who can come up with the silliest? But not just stupid, right?

No Smoke in public places

A resolution to ban, legalize, or encourage recreational drugs.

Category: Recreational Drug Use

Decision: Promote

Proposed by: Nicholas Stewart

Description: Can't smoke in public places(except bars).

Approvals: 2 (Gortania, Bordoria)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 121 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Dec 1 200630percent or more

A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.

Category: Environmental

Industry Affected: All Businesses


Proposed by: Nicholas Stewart

Description: 30% or more of a nation's forest can not be cut down or bought.

Approvals: 1 (Felis Siamis)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 122 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Dec 1 2006 Filter

A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.

Category: Environmental

Industry Affected: Automobile Manufacturing

Proposed by: Nicholas Stewart

Description: All pollutants will be cleaned and filtered.

Approvals: 2 (Bordoria, Felis Siamis)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 121 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Dec 1 2006 Number of police

A resolution to restrict political freedoms in the interest of law and order.

Category: Political Stability

Strength: Strong

Proposed by: Nicholas Stewart

Description: All nations must have a police force of 10 or more in cities with less than 5,000 people. All cites more should have 120 cops. Cities with more than a million people living in it will have 500 cops.

This will reduce crime and illegal drug use.

Approvals: 1 (Bordoria)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 122 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Dec 1 2006 Abortion is LEGAL

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights

Strength: Mild

Proposed by: Nicholas Stewart

Description: Abortion is legal

Approvals: 3 (Republican Hope, Tercios Viejos, Bordoria)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 120 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Dec 1 2006 MOTHER

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights

Strength: Mild

Proposed by: Nicholas Stewart

Description: NO MOTHER CAN NOT FEED HER CHILD

Approvals: 2 (Bordoria, Felis Siamis)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 121 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Dec 1 2006 Congratulations on reaching two endorsements, Nicholas Stewart :)

Congratulations on reaching two endorsements, Nicholas Stewart :)

Aaaaaarrrrgggghhhh! Will they never LEARN?


I say, I say that's a rhetorical question, son.

Aw, c'mon, that was just darling. Can't you just see his wee ickle hide all aglow with the excitement of thinking he'll make a difference?

You missed one...

Category: Gun Control


Decision: Tighten


Proposed by: Certion

Description: Ladies and Gentlemen of the honorable UN. I have called to this council an issue safety with guns. All Guns should have safeties on them. The proof is obvious with these facts backing it up.

1. Over 802 deaths in the US from off or no safeties

2. Also stated is the fact that 10% of Gun deaths could be prevented with proper safeties.

3. Only three things could help these one is the proper use of safeties.

This new law would do these things.

1. To standerdize the manufacureing of safeties in all firearm companies.

2. To make all contries have classes for the police and troops on safe firearm use.

3. To punish all people who repeatatly don't use safeties on weapons making a hazard for all people.

UN concil members I hope that you will affirm this proposal and make the world slowly a better place.Illegal, RL reference.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Sgarbi

Description: Killing another person is wrong, but we should respect suffering people's desires. Kingdom of Sgarbi proposes to all UN Nations to give to ill people a right of euthanasia. We think that forcing people to live is a real torture.Illegal, branding and this issue has been done, undone, and redone.

Category: The Furtherment of Democracy


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: PaxBritannia

Description: This resolution's purpose is to introduce into all regions of the world regular and open democratic elections. In order that the needs of ordinary people may be addressed, it is essential that democratic government is upheld in the global community in order that the vox populi is not ignored by undemocratic regimes. The implementation of this proposal has the following conditions:

1) That all nation states hold at least unicameral national governmental elections every five years.
2) For national government elections there will be
constituency boundaries join with an equal numbers of representatives in each constituency
3) These elections are not restricted to one or two parties but are open to all who wish to stand.
4) An independent commission is set up in every nation to ensure that the elections are kept free of such debilitating actions as, bribery, blackmail and intimidation of candidates, parties and the electorate.
5) That such state instruments as the military or the police are not used by one political party/organisation for their own purposes and to the detriment of others in an election. At all times the security arms of government should not be used for political advantage.
6) Any attempt, successful or not, to bribe, blackmail or intimidate political parties/organisations, the electorate or government officials is a criminal offence with a custodial sentence.
7) Universal suffrage is essential with no discrimination against race, gender, sexual orientation, religious or political affiliation.
8) There is no mandatory electoral system, e.g. nations may choose how elections are decided (First-past-the-post or Proportional representation etc.). What is essential is that free and fair elections are held on the regular basis stated above.

It is important in our modern world that law-abiding democracy is upheld so that no citizens will ever have suffer at the hands of dictators or other undemocratic forces again.Illegal, idealogical ban.

Compulsary chaos worship
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.

Category: Social Justice
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: The mutated ones
Description: Everyone in the UN must devote their lives to one or all of the 4 chaos gods: Tzeentch, nurgle khore and slaanesh.
If antone in the UN doent devot their lives to chaos they will be killed, or worse....
Approvals: 0
Status: Lacking Support (requires 124 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Sat Dec 2 2006

“A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare”?!?!?!?If antone in the UN doent devot their lives to chaos they will be killed, or worse....Oh, yes. I agree. Mild. :rolleyes:

The spelling, OTOH, is perfect. If I worshipped Tzeentch, nurgle khore and slaanesh (is that three gods or four?!?), id spel lik thet to.

And Antone will be killed, or worse. How is that Social Justice?

And Antone will be killed, or worse. How is that Social Justice?No, yu dont unerstan. Antone and ervone. Al wel die!!!!!1111 Cthulhu Fh'tagn! Ïa! Ïa! (http://www.nationstates.net/The_Plateau_of_Tsang)

Oh, wait. Cthulhu isn't on the list. Sh_t.

We will quit the U.N. if this passes. Lord Cthulhu demands it¹.

¹Not to mention Violet.

Manual Labour For Debtors
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.

Category: Social Justice
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Vigilante Pirates

Description: With the world sinking into further debt everyday and the constant rise of insolvency, we propose a manual labour punishment for individuals who cannot pay their debts.

This would involve work within the community, removing graffiti, repairing property etc without payment.

This would also be viable for creditors. A debtor would work for the creditors company for and agreed time to clear said debt.

This would become an extremely effective deterrent for getting into debt in the first place and will boost public confidence by debtor being forced to face the responsibility of their actions rather than saying 'BANKRUPT!' and getting away with it.

All assets will still be seizable to pay off as much debt as possible in the first instance.

This may seem like slavery of biblical proportions but it in reality it is not. It is a strong deterrent and effective strategy to reduce the number of insolvencies wasting the courts time and money.

Approvals: 16 (Vigilante Pirates, Republican Hope, Gortania, Manchurian Zabraks, WZ Forums, Big H, Understood correctnes, The Great Irwin Rommel, New Hamilton, Woollymice, The Amazons Daughters, Kaysaul, Marjatta, Jacob Yates, Jonny B da rappin MC, Ducks of Snow)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 108 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Dec 1 2006 “This may seem like slavery of biblical proportions but it in reality it is not.” No, in the Bible slaves were released every seven years, when the Jubilee came around.

“A debtor would work for the creditors company for and agreed time to clear said debt.” Cool. I can see that:CREDITOR: How about ... FOREVER!!!!
DEBTOR: I don't like the sound of that...
CREDITOR: <Displaying copy of 'Manual Labour For Debtors' resolution> Yeah, yeah. Like you have a choice. Oh, did I tell you that's forever for your first dollar of debt? Then your debts get passed on to your kids and they serve forever for a dollar each, and then their kids. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!Ah, but the best part: it's another “Social Justice” resolution.

I guess people don't know what “Moral Decency” means...

"Manual Labour?" Yes, I know about how "fuel effieicent" it is, but you don't need as much skill to use an automatic transmission on your labour as opposed to a manual transmission on your labour. And the new Hybrid "Continual Labour" systems are even better!

The problem with "Manual Labor" is that "If you can't find it, grind it."

Worldwide Day of Peace and Rep
Category: Human Rights
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: His Christ Our Lord

Description: Description: RECOGNIZING the right of all Nations to defend its borders and wage war when legally and morally right;

RECOGNIZING that War is ethical and moral when used as a last resort;

RECOGNIZING that much suffering comes from war, particularly to the innocent civilians and children;

RECOGNIZING that innocent civilians, particularly children have a human right to life and peace;

RECOGNIZING that sometimes, due to human limitations, two rational nations may still be unable to avoid war;

RECOGNZING that all evil in the world is contrary to the purposes of our design when created;

CONCERNED that in many instances, a mutually beneficial peace may be obtained when nations pause and give reflection;

CONVINCED of the need to promote world peace and tranquility, in order to protect the innocent citizens and children that pay the true cost of war;

BE IT RESOLVED to that for a period of 24 hours, upon ratification of this resolution:

The General Assembly of The United Nations hereby ordains that:

(I) For the Purpose of this legislation, “Cease-Fire” shall be defined as is a temporary stoppage of a war, or any armed conflict, where each side of the conflict agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions.

(2) All Nations are to “Cease Fire” from any military conflicts or wars that they may be fighting;

(3) All Nations must postpone any planned invasions during this same said period;

(4) Any Nation being found to not comply with this resolution will be automatically removed from this honorable Assembly of United Nations;

(5) During this time of “cease-fire” all Nations are to spend that time in reflection and repentance: the proverbial day of Prayer and Fasting;

(6) This period of 24 hours is to commence the moment that the resolution passes, and will continue for exactly 24 hours from that moment.

(7) This 24 hours period of peace and repentance shall be known as the Annual Day of Prayer and Peace and shall be repeated every year on the anniversary of the passage date of this resolution;

(8) It is affirmed that UN nations shall retain the right to make final decisions in all matters concerning wages and compensation, taking into account local economic conditions and factors affecting the economic well-being of all their citizenry.
Even more amusingly, he then realized his mistake and resubmitted the proposal with an amended clause in place of (8).

Oh, also category violation, Games Mechanics, contradiction of United Nations Security Act, and bloody stupid.

Criminals
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.

Category: International Security
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Illvutar

Description: In order to keep criminals in cheek I think that barcoding citisens would help decrease the criminalty in the world.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 124 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sun Dec 3 2006

Whee!!! Barcoding again!

Category: Education and Creativity


Area of Effect: Educational


Proposed by: PeterGriffinVille

Description: The school board should be run by a child.:rolleyes:

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Thamesmead84

Description: we need an international police force to control all borders and stop international terror all countries need to recogniese that the black market for wepons must stop Illegal, the UN doesn't get to have a police force.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #37


Proposed by: Cianciana

Description: UN Resolution #37: World Heritage List (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: Woodchipping) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: This is right there sould be places for they are left for the nature to do as it pleases, repeal the world heitage list now Say what?

More Guns, More Protection!!!2

A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.


Category: Gun Control


Decision: Tighten


Proposed by: The idestroyer

Description: My proposal is that everyone in every nation should register for a handgun so that everyone may protect themselves... Of course, everyone will have to register, incase a criminal trys to register, we will be able to stop the criminal from getting a weapon.

so i hope u consider my proposal part 2

sincerely,
The Dictatorship fo The idestroyer.

Approvals: 4 (Republican Hope, Huntin rednecks, Mooredodge, WZ Forums)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 120 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sun Dec 3 2006
Why a part 2? Part 1 was bad enough and the spelling/grammar in this effort are worse than the first effort.

New Heritage List

A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.


Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: Uranium Mining


Proposed by: Ardinian

Description: The UNR#37 (The World Heritage List) is being repealed, but I believe that we still need to protect the environment.

I believe that we should have a new heritage list that can be maintained somehow.

I believe that we need to pass a more effective legislation in replacement.

I believe that we need to specify how to classify locations as being of environmental significance.

I believe that we need to specify what protective measures are to be taken, and by whom.

And lastly I believe that this needs to affect uranium mining because it is an ingredient in nuclear bombs. Nuclear weapons should be banned because they are too dangerous.

Approvals: 2 (Ardinian, WZ Forums)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 122 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sun Dec 3 2006
Illegal I believe. The old reso hasn't finished being repealed yet. Besides, this effort is worse than the original. At least it states more than just the authors beliefs.

3rd World Industry

A resolution to develop industry around the world.


Category: Advancement of Industry


Area of Effect: Labor Deregulation


Proposed by: H-Core Rebels

Description: All nations that are developing and have never been able to obtain a major economy would be eligible to get help from nations in favor of helping their nations attain higher wages and more equipment regarding industry.
The proposal states-
>That all nations in favor will contribute to the growth and well being of building better industrial infrastructure and worker wages by giving help and aid to nations who require it to develop economies
>Developing nations that join must promise to try their best to get the project off the ground, and not embezzle the funds and assets given to them by contributing nations
>Nations who finish out the project must give back to the nations that helped them start their industrial infrastructure projects
>Developing nations may not re-apply if the project fails the first time
>All contributing nations must remain with their developing nations until the project ends or is canceled
-These are the terms of the 3rd World Industry Proposal

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 124 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sun Dec 3 2006
This one is an interesting idea, but needs to be much better written.

I'm not sure but this seems to me to be a back-door attempt at creating a UN army or military force of some kind.

International Peace Corps
A resolution to slash worldwide military spending.


Category: Global Disarmament
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Community Property

Description: We, the People of these United Nations, seeking to promote peace among the Nations of the World, do hereby mandate the creation of an International Peace Corps.

I. Each Member Nation, as part of this Peace Corps, shall establish and maintain its own component thereof, hereafter to be referred to in this legislation as its National Peace Corps.

II. Each National Peace Corps shall be considered an independent entity, solely under the authority of its Member Nation.

III. Each National Peace Corps shall be funded from its Member Nation's military budget, with funding to be maintained at a level equal or greater than 20% of whatever funds the Member Nation in question may allocate to said military budget, calculated on a per annum basis.

IV. All military inductees and military personnel, whether standing or reserve, shall be entitled to transfer to their National Peace Corps on demand.

V. No member of a National Peace Corps may be involuntarily transferred into military or paramilitary service.

VI. No member of a National Peace Corps may be armed or employed in any way that could be construed as support for any Nation's war effort.

VII. National Peace Corps personnel shall only be employed in activities that promote World peace and harmony. Such activities include:

A. Providing medical care to persons at home or abroad.

B. Providing education to persons at home or abroad.

C. Engaging in cultural exchange activities, at home or abroad.

D. The establishment, improvement, and maintenance of non-military infrastructure, at home or abroad.

E. Any other non-violent activity that is conducive to World peace and harmony, at home or abroad.

This we do in the name of preserving and promote peace and harmony among all Nations.

Approvals: 47 (Misplaced States, Bordoria, Neo Atlantisz, WZ Forums, The Dancing Vagabond, Big H, The Derrak Quadrant, The Great Irwin Rommel, New Hamilton, Vorlich, Murrumbeena, Woollymice, Kaysaul, Marjatta, Soviet Britian, Greenmark, Travoltastan, Nurdia, Sorgloss, Greater Bushtovia, The OverFather, The Incorruptible, Eirisle, Ajmirego, Lusapha, Borat Sagdiyevistan, The Belima, Gunfreak, Manussa, Kizil Orda, Jazeera and Koto, Nicoshore, Vampire Piggies, Kalakinstan, FreeChina, Ellenburg, Bellaben, The Exiles of Britain, Dunellen, Euphobes, HappyValley0012, Manfigurut II, Spurtopia, The New Tundran Empire, Knights Ni, Ultrasilvania, Angelic Heroism)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 77 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Dec 1 2006




And yes, I know a similar one by the same author has already been posted about in this very thread.

Vladimir Khernynko
Elleltian Ambassador to the UN.

National Peace Corps personnel shall only be employed in activities that promote World peace and harmony. Such activities include:

A. Providing medical care to persons at home or abroad.

B. Providing education to persons at home or abroad.

C. Engaging in cultural exchange activities, at home or abroad.

D. The establishment, improvement, and maintenance of non-military infrastructure, at home or abroad.

E. Any other non-violent activity that is conducive to World peace and harmony, at home or abroad.Doesn't sound like any army I've ever heard of.

Sorry, Ellelt, but it was legal when I asked for 50% of peoples' defense budgets to be allocated to a national peace corps, and it's still legal when all I've done is lower the slice to 20% (in fact, all I changed was that one character: a “5” to a “2”).

I know that you're in a hurry to prove that I “can't write a legal proposal”, but as was explained to you last time, the Peace Corps, in spite of my calling it “international”, is entirely under national control. That alone makes it anything but a “U.N. army”.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #40


Proposed by: Nobitta

Description: UN Resolution #40: Banning the use of Landmines (Category: Global Disarmament; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: Because i have oneThat's a great reason.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Courtz

Description: To provide sufficient resources to ensure that all mankind receives the housing, food, medical and educational needs that are rightfully his.Right, how you gonna do it?

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Honourable Angels

Description: Abortion should be illegal to all UN states, except in certain extreme cases, where for instance:

i) the life of the mother is directly at risk
ii)the baby is likely to die at birth
iii)the baby would not have a life which would cover all basic human rights
iv)Over population is a problem, and it is illegal to have more than, x number of children.
Illegal, covered under ALC and since this is illegalizing abortion it should be Moral Decency.

Category: The Furtherment of Democracy


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Heman Woman Hatas

Description: PROBLEM the smaller regions have a weak vote in the UN.

SOLUTION all UN delegates in regions less than 500 nations receive 500 votes in the UN proposals.

BELIEF as we balance the UN voting, we will bring a healthy balance to the our world.It's no Inflatable Gandalfs, but I like it.

Sorry, Ellelt, but it was legal when I asked for 50% of peoples' defense budgets to be allocated to a national peace corps, and it's still legal when all I've done is lower the slice to 20% (in fact, all I changed was that one character: a “5” to a “2”).

I know that you're in a hurry to prove that I “can't write a legal proposal”, but as was explained to you last time, the Peace Corps, in spite of my calling it “international”, is entirely under national control. That alone makes it anything but a “U.N. army”.


Oh I am in no hurry to prove that at all. I dont need to. Many of the poorer nations will be dead against this and the NatSov Nations definately will be. As for its legality...it barely skims by. However, I would consider this a truely dangerous resolution. But arguing over the merits of this particular peice of rubbish is not the purpose of this thread.

Vladimir Khernynko
Elletian Ambassador to the UN.

Gambling
A resolution to legalize or outlaw gambling.


Category: Gambling
Legalize/Outlaw: Legalize
Proposed by: Littleman Ownage

Description: Gambling should be accepted in some areas of the world for example the usa we should legalize gambling. We should let the gamblers make there own mistakes and fall in to debt.

Approvals: 7 (Huntin rednecks, Gortania, Understood correctnes, Big H, ModMyMoto, WZ Forums, Senzimillia)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 117 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon Dec 4 2006




Illegal, RL reference.

Never mind that, the UN doesn't have the right to legislate in "some areas of the world," only all UN Member nations. Still the RW reference to a small province in China (Usa) is clearly a RW violation.

Inspirational Drug Use
A resolution to ban, legalize, or encourage recreational drugs.

Category: Recreational Drug Use
Decision: Promote
Proposed by: Bucklainia

Description: The recreational use of hallucinogen drugs made legal to increase creativity for jobs which require creativity and inspiration such as painters, musicians, writers, film makers and so on.

i) Hallucinogen are substance which effect your brain in a way which makes you hallucinate

ii) The use of hallucinogen drugs will inspire artists and increase creativity thus increasing the quality of artworks, recordings and films and so on.

iii) The increase of quality in artworks will boost the economy by taking taxes from the rich artists who create such great artworks.

iv) Also nations in the UN will have and increase of culture and reputation from artworks becoming internationally famous and thus giving a good reputation to the home nation of the artist and their work.

v) The increase of reputation and culture will boost tourism and thus boosting the economy

Therefore hallucinogen drugs should not only be legalized, but also be made compulsory for any jobs which involve creativity.I love that he's not just legalizing, but he's making it manditory for any "creative" type.

Then again, he picked "Promote", so it's legal. Just highly amusing.

Let All Politicians be high! Being a politician, you have to have creativity also. If that resolution passes, expect my country to leave the UN until a repeal comes in (if possible since everybody will be high).

Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: All Businesses


Proposed by: The Zionist Knights

Description: We the Zionist Knights propose that all public transit buses be hydrogen fuel cell in order for emmisions to be cut. By starting this transition, less stress would be put on the environment and we would even see a loss in respiratory related diseases and disordersIllegal, branding and incorrect area of effect (should be Automobile Manufacturing).

Category: Political Stability


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Naronistan

Description: The Free Land of Nowan Zen should be removed from the game.Illegal, targets one nation and game mechanics.

Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: Automobile Manufacturing


Proposed by: Hawaiialaska

Description: We already live in a world of disease and cancer. Greenhouse gases are affecting the atmosphere, making the ozone layer disappear. Because of this, citizens are becoming more and more in contact with harmful UV rays, which can eventually cause skin cancer. We already have too many cancer patients already, so we most stop this threat before it become irreversible. To stop this effect, the use of spray cans, and other aerosol products should be banned, and automobile exhaust should be looked at. Do not make skin cancer something that everyone will have.Since when do greenhouse gases affect the ozone layer?

Oh I am in no hurry to prove that at all. I dont need to. Many of the poorer nations will be dead against this and the NatSov Nations definately will be. As for its legality...it barely skims by. However, I would consider this a truely dangerous resolution. But arguing over the merits of this particular peice of rubbish is not the purpose of this thread.

Vladimir Khernynko
Elletian Ambassador to the UN.

If I'm reading this resolution right (and I admit I might not be), it basically allows all military personnel to legally desert by joining this non-combat group, without giving the nations any recourse to bring them back. That it will never pass is certain, since few countries would want to leave themselves open to losing their entire military force, but I'm surprised that's even legal by the rules here.

Spasmonious People Gambling
A resolution to legalize or outlaw gambling.
Category: Gambling
Legalize/Outlaw: Outlaw
Proposed by: The Gedwey Ignasia

Description: With people gambling all their money away there will be no money to make a living on. And think of all their kids. No life!!!! Because their parents gamble it away, then they gamble it away. There will be a whole big line of people with no way of living because of just one person gambling it away. So please think about it, for the sake of our child and grandchildren!!!!!
Removed for "Think of the children!" violations x2.5. (Looks like we need a new rules category, unless we can squeeze this in under Format violations. We'll see.)

Removed for "Think of the children!" violations x2.5. (Looks like we need a new rules category, unless we can squeeze this in under Format violations. We'll see.)Cog had a great phrase for tripe like this: "UN Proposals require more than just rhetoric."

Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: Uranium Mining


Proposed by: Petrogralin

Description: RECOGNIZING the world's growing energy problem

CONCERNED with increase of Global Warming

SUGGESTING a UN Universal Energy centre

PROPOSING that UN energy centres are placed around the world to distribute clean energy to all nations

DEFINING a UN energy centre as either a fission reactor, a solar field, or a cold Fusion reactor

DESIGNED to lessen the dependence upon oil and coal power plantsYou know, if this proposal's intent is to "lessen the dependence upon oil and coal power plants," why is this proposal targeted at Uranium Mining?

Repeal "UN taxation ban"

A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal


Resolution: #4


Proposed by: Lionsgate

Description: UN Resolution #4: UN taxation ban (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The fact that the UN exists should be reason enough to repeal this taxation law. Keeping peace and order between regions and nations is a primary purpose for the UN. If we were able to collect taxes from citizens directly, it would greatly help us. It would provide us with the monies to build new technology to create Utopia.

Approvals: 2 (Errinundera, Lionsgate)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 122 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Dec 7 2006

Just that last sentance is so silly

Just that last sentance is so silly

If by "silly" you mean "retarded," then yes. ;)

Anti-Abortion Resolution
A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.


Category: Moral Decency
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Gabrielmagno

Description: The Anti- ABortion Resolution will bw an international law that protects the lives of those humadn beings that want to be aborted by thier unaturalized mothers.

PROSECUTE:The law will prosecute the irresponsible men that abuse wemen, being that a reason why most wemen want to abort.

PROTECT:The resolution will protect the mothers that are victims of abuse and will obtain economic help by the international community.


NO CHILD ALONE ACT: This act will help those babies that dont count on financial aid to get into College or University.

The children are the future of the world he international community, future delegates of the U.N. Confederacy. Also future intellectuals of the world and leaders of respectful and peaceful countries.

WE MUST PROTECT:The lives of those human beings. I can count on the international community to pass this resolution

That violates the Abortion Legality Convention, doesn't it?

That violates the Abortion Legality Convention, doesn't it?
That, and a goodly number of rules of the English language.

Repeal "Due Process"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal
Resolution: #27
Proposed by: Meilidao

Description: UN Resolution #27: Due Process (Category: The Furtherment of Democracy; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument:

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 124 more approvals)



Illegal for obvious reasons- it has no argument.

Illegal for obvious reasons- it has no argument.
Just FYI: we usually don't bother listing those in this thread. Most often, it's new players clicking a "I wonder what this does?" button, and the mods routinely clean them out without warnings. Only if somebody does that with multiple proposals (Repeal the UN!!!) do they get warned for illegal posting.

I didn't know that; thanks!

Economic Rights Act

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: David6

Description: DISTURBED by the unlimited economic power of the government in certain UN member nations,

CONCERNED by the lack of legislation protecting personal economic rights,

The United Nations hereby

BANS member nations from seizing private property without the consent of the owner for any purpose,

FORBIDS member nations from terminating or modifying any patent or copyright promised to an individual or entity before its specified date of termination for any purpose without the written consent of the individual or entity,

MANDATES that member nations enact legislation that requires mutual consent between two entities or individuals for any exchange of goods or services to take place between those two entities or individuals, and

ESTABLISHES the United Nations Economic Rights Organization (UNERO) in order to enforce this resolution.

Approvals: 1 (David6)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Dec 8 2006

The Timeless Warriors of Kolothland has not approved this proposal. [Approve]
Clause 1 would probably prevent police gathering evidence. I think that puts it firmly in the silly department. Plus, I'm not an expert on catagories, but does this really fit human rights?

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #30


Proposed by: Dashanzi

Description: UN Resolution #30: Common Sense Act II (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The United Nations,

REGRETFULLY ACKNOWLEDGING that individuals may be reckless, irresponsible, ignorant and/or foolish, and

SOBERLY MINDFUL of the potential for wasted time and resources on such individuals,

NONETHELESS REMAINS AGOG at the chutzpah exhibited in crafting a resolution that seeks to legislate against stupidity and in doing so fails to account for the myriad factors involved in personal decision-making, and furthermore

RAILS MOST FURIOUSLY at those who seek to undermine the lofty goals of this institution by involving it in such trivialities, and consequently

RIGHTEOUSLY PURIFIES the UN statute of this most heinous resolution by

REPEALING United Nations Resolution #30: Common Sense Act II.This has got to have the best all caps words ever in a UN proposal.

NONETHELESS REMAINS AGOG at the chutzpahThat is one of the best phrases I've ever seen.

Bastard: I thought "Splutters with indignant rage" wouldn't be bested, but I think "Righteously purifies" is a whole new world of odd.

Wow. That proposal embodies my opinions on "Common Sense Act II" almost perfectly, and a day before my animosity toward said resolution reappeared. Spooky.

That is one of the best phrases I've ever seen.

Totally agree with you on that one. That single bit nearly had me choking on my beer. :)

EDIT: And I just noticed it was Dashanzi who posted it. Kudos to Dashanzi! That's a brilliant bit of silliness! I'm...well, I'm in awe. :D

An Amendment to Due Proces...
Category: The Furtherment of Democracy
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: LostAngles

Description: REALIZING that new evidence can come after the trial;

DISMAYED that this new evidence will not see a new trial;

FURTHERING the process of Justice, this amendment will not allow double jeopardy, but will allow a Perjury trial for those found guilty because of new this new evidence, with a punishment equal to half of a guilty verdict of the original offence.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 124 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Dec 8 2006Bwah, ammendment.

Repeal "UN taxation ban"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal
Resolution: #4
Proposed by: Lionsgate

Description: UN Resolution #4: UN taxation ban (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The fact that the UN exists should be reason enough to repeal this taxation law. Keeping peace and order between regions and nations is a primary purpose for the UN. If we were able to collect taxes from citizens directly, it would greatly help us. It would provide us with the monies to build new technology to create Utopia.

Approvals: 8 (Errinundera, Lionsgate, Huntin rednecks, The Dancing Vagabond, Kirjakastan, WZ Forums, Aethera, Nicoshore)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 116 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Dec 7 2006Smashing!

Now if we can just define utopia.....

Smashing!

Now if we can just define utopia.....

Pay attention, boy. That one's already been posted here. Try reading. :p

Replacement for Due Process
A resolution to increase democratic freedoms.


Category: The Furtherment of Democracy
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: High Liegelor

Description: No person, regardless of race, language, religion, class, crime, or any other differences, shall be forced in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

I think this looks illegal, because:
1. It contradicts the resolution Due Process, which is still in effect.
2. It is not the authors own work- it's one of the amendments to the US constitution.
3. It has pretty much the same wording as "Due Process" and is hardly a replacement.

Pay attention, boy. That one's already been posted here. Try reading. :p<blinks owlishly>

http://test256.free.fr/UN%20Cards/badday.png

Category: The Furtherment of Democracy


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: High Liegelor

Description: No person, regardless of race, language, religion, class, crime, or any other differences, shall be forced in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. For crying out loud, we haven't repealed Due Process yet.

Category: The Furtherment of Democracy


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: High Liegelor

Description: No person, regardless of race, language, religion, class, crime, or any other differences, shall be forced in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.Is it my imagination, or did High Liegelor just plaguerize themself.

Oh, delegates, please; I'm all red-faced. When drafting that little piece of whimsy in my chamber at an ungodly hour of the night (rice wine at hand, I confess), I was captivated by the image of a UN drone rending his garments, railing at a tempestuous sky and bellowing in defiance as the gales lashed at his tattered robes.

I awoke this morning with 'a bit of a head' and the uneasy feeling that something ill-judged had taken place the night before.

Nuclear power subsidings

A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.

Category: Environmental

Industry Affected: Uranium Mining

Proposed by: Draisol

Description: Due to high accidental rates of nuclear reactors, I propose that uranium mining, slowly be decreased to the lowest point possible, whilst uranium miners, and nuclear reactor engineers, get free training to move into other forms of energy safer for both the workers and the enviorment; such as wind or water.

Approvals: 8 (WZ Forums, Outer Gogonia, Ultrasilvania, Kesgrave, Soviet Britian, Scoopy, Sandyalfred, Kaysaul)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 116 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed Dec 6 2006

The Holy Empire of James_xenoland has not approved this proposal. [Approve]
So this proposal helps "increase the quality of the world's environment" how again?

So this proposal helps "increase the quality of the world's environment" how again?

Well let's see, it's an environmental proposal targetting uranium mining. The lineI propose that uranium mining, slowly be decreased to the lowest point possiblewould decrease the amount of uranium mining being done, which is what the category and area of effect do.

A return to the Good Old Days
A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.


Category: Moral Decency
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Scrutonia

Description: The United Nations,

OBSERVING that things aren't what they used to be;

CONCERNED about all these confusing new-fangled ideas;

NOTING WITH REGRET that you can't trust anyone these days;

REMEMBERING when this was all fields;

Hereby resolves that:

1: Gentlemen shall henceforth be obliged to wear hats at all appropriate times. Cloth caps will be permitted for the lower orders, provided they are doffed respectably to those of a higher class when passing them in the street. Baseball caps and all similar sporting headgear shall be banned.

2: Corporal punishment shall be introduced for the following offences:
- Not spelling out words in full when sending text messages on a mobile telephone.
- Impertinence towards one's betters.
- Having ideas above one's station.
- Having long hair (men).
- Having short hair (women).
- Using the phrase 'innit'.
- Listening to popular music where you can't hear the words.
- Failing to stand up for the national anthem.
- Understanding how to use a computer.
- Not understanding cricket.

3: Children shall be seen and not heard. Furthermore, little girls shall be seen in pretty gingham dresses, little boys in a miniature sailor's uniform. With a lollipop.

This speaks for itself, doesn't it? Not worthy of consideration.

Yeah, it may be silly and may not survive long, but It is funny enough to earn an endorsement from me :p.

I quite enjoy reading the rare silly proposal that makes me giggle instead of groan.

I should think that it should be deleted. It's at least a "significant" Moral Decency proposal. Honestly. Back when it was "all fields", we had the courtesy to not classify a proposal's strength incorrectly! Kids these days.

I'm so tempted to leave it...

Yeah, it may be silly and may not survive long, but It is funny enough to earn an endorsement from me :p.

I quite enjoy reading the rare silly proposal that makes me giggle instead of groan.

Aw, thanks :)

As regards the strength, of course it seems mild to us right-thinking Scrutonians as it's really all just simple common sense. But I suppose to those nations where standards have been allowed to slip much further it may seem rather strong.

Oh, delegates, please; I'm all red-faced. When drafting that little piece of whimsy in my chamber at an ungodly hour of the night (rice wine at hand, I confess), I was captivated by the image of a UN drone rending his garments, railing at a tempestuous sky and bellowing in defiance as the gales lashed at his tattered robes.

I awoke this morning with 'a bit of a head' and the uneasy feeling that something ill-judged had taken place the night before.

That makes it even funnier! http://209.85.48.12/6802/45/emo/happy175%5B1%5D.gif

Although it may well be illegal, I have approved it. It's the funniest one in a long time.:)

Well let's see, it's an environmental proposal targetting uranium mining. The linewould decrease the amount of uranium mining being done, which is what the category and area of effect do.
And when we run out of fuel for our nuclear power plants and have to turn to fossil fuels. That'll help increase the quality of the world's environment how again?

And when we run out of fuel for our nuclear power plants and have to turn to fossil fuels. That'll help increase the quality of the world's environment how again?

We don't run out, we just have to turn to non member nations for our uranium.

We don't run out, we just have to turn to non member nations for our uranium.You rang?

Johnny "Slick" Vendenhurst
Nukes-R-Us Representative

Although it may well be illegal, I have approved it. It's the funniest one in a long time.:)

I agree. It earned my approval a couple days ago solely on the basis of being the first proposal here to make me laugh. Nice to see the UN isn't all stuffy proposals taking themselves too seriously sprinkled with the random bit of moronic tripe about legalizing drugs, disarming the military, or allowing pedophilia.

Category: Moral Decency


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Simonation

Description: Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer and Should Be Outlawed.No, they don't. (http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/12/07/223218.shtml) Excessive Capitalization However, Does.

Category: Moral Decency


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: The venezuelan rebels

Description: for the furtherment of internatinal morality, we must ban the death penalty and use other forms of punishment for our capital offenders.

-Recognizing- that we are in a day when we can make a prisioner harmless to society withought killing them.

BAN THE DEATH PENALTY NOW!!!!!!!!!Illegal, contradicts Fair Sentencing Act.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Bellaben

Description: Notes:
1) The phrase age of consent rarely appears in legal statutes.
2) The reference to criminal law the age of consent is the minimum age at which a person is considered to be capable of legally giving informed consent to any contract or behaviour regulated by law with another person.
3) Other UN policy of not tolerating discrimination on the grounds of gender, ability, race or sexuality.
4) Social (and the resulting legal) attitudes toward the appropriate age of consent have drifted upwards in modern times.

Further Notes:
1) Many legal systems refer to or are informed by the moral viewpoint of lawmakers, or refer to or appeal to cultural and religious norms.
2) Sexual relations with a person under the age of consent is in general a criminal offence, with punishments ranging from token fines to life imprisonment.

Believes:
1) That equality is a basic human right regardless of gender, ability, race or sexuality.
2) That the unequal ages of consent for homosexuals and hetereosexuals is unjust and oppressive.

Resolves:
1) To set the age of consent for all UN nations at 16 for both homosexuals and heterosexuals.Great, another nation who fails to realize that not all UN nation's populations are human.

Category: Global Disarmament


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Jourdelay

Description: AGAINST global terror threats.

FOR total disarmament.

TOWARDS a safer future.

WITHOUT exception to larger or smaller nations.

UNCONVINCED at the effectiveness of current laws.

DISMAYED at the in balance between Nuclear weapons in richer nations and poorer nations.

AWARE of Government "bullying" between industrial countries and countries with large recourse stock piles through Nuclear Weapons.

THEREFORE, preventing the manufacturing, selling and stockpiling of ALL NUCLEAR ARMS. You know, this was perfectly legal until the word "stockpiling" was used. Once that was banned, it contradicted Nuclear Armaments.

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: The Sasquatch 311

Description: Require all militaries of all nations to compete in athletic events, such as the Olympics, that is non-profit, to raise money for themselves as opposed to government funding. These athletic activities would of course be limited to the militaries. No citizen participation.OK, how do you make money by participating in a non-profit event?

Repeal "End slavery"

A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal


Resolution: #6


Proposed by: Mancind

Description: UN Resolution #6: End slavery (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: People cant just tell others what to do and people have to and do it or they get killed

Approvals: 3 (Gruenberg, Bucklainia, WZ Forums)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 121 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon Dec 11 2006

The Timeless Warriors of Kolothland has not approved this proposal. [Approve]

Call me clueless, but I have no idea what that arguement means.

Gruen approved that shite?

Gruen approved that shite?
He probably thought it was funny. So do I.

Culling the Herd

A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.


Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Fuzzymanland

Description: The United Nations,

AWARE that the resources of the Earth are finite;

RECOGNIZING that the survival of the human race depends on the intelligence of the species;

NOT CONVINCED that humans with a low intelligence quotient are needed in our societies;

BELIEVING that by preventing the reproduction of low-IQ humans the human race will be improved with each generation, and that the survival of the human race depends upon rapidly improving the intelligence of the average human.

THEREFORE resolves that member nations shall put in place mandatory programs to sterilize those humans with an IQ less than 100, thus removing them from the gene pool. Also that the minimum breeding IQ shall be raised not less than 10 points each generation.

Approvals: 1 (Fuzzymanland)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 122 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon Dec 11 2006

The Timeless Warriors of Kolothland has not approved this proposal. [Approve]
I propose the first person subjected to his/her idea of forced sterilisation is the author of this. Offensive in my opinion. Even though it doesn't advocate mass slaughter, selective breeding on the basis of IQ isn't that much more acceptable.

Obviously that person doesn't realize that our economies require a "few" stupid people running around. Who would pump the used fryer grease into the Embassy's car? Who would wash the windows of my office?

The mopper-upper for the Elleltian Delegation is a mentally-disabled deaf-mute and he works for us quite well. Furthermore, I'm not convinced that Andre even knows how reproduction is performed in the homo sapien species, although he does like to collect "The Mad Mugwump" cartoon series, and odd bits of tin-foil, which is hardly a problem, and a great way to get rid of him if he is being particularly annoying on occasion.

Although I can see the need for forced sterilization, we can start with the author of that proposal and work thru the neo-nazis and the klansmen first.

Demitri Petrovich
Secretary to the Elleltian Ambassador to the UN.

Category: Advancement of Industry


Area of Effect: Labor Deregulation


Proposed by: Dumarses

Description: We should have government companys to pay people who have no jobs to build government buildings.Can anyone explain to me how exactly this is labor deregulation?

Regional Condensation
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.


Category: International Security
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Sierra Rubala

Description: DUE to the exponential global increase in regional territories, it is:

NECESSARY to condense the regions into approximately 100 equal social groups, each united for the same cause,

THUS allowing trade to flow more freely among nations,

AND increase the awareness of the global economy.

Seems grossly miscategorized. For one thing, the liquidation of pre-existing national borders is in no way a mild proposal. And if this is to improve trade and awareness of the global economy, why is it a proposal "to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets"?

Repeal "Nuclear Armaments"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal
Resolution: #109
Proposed by: DiTutti

Description: UN Resolution #109: Nuclear Armaments (Category: International Security; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: If you have nuclear weapons you can use... If you don't have you are forced to use diplomacy.... The Nuclear weapons is a danger for the entire world!

Approvals: 9 (WZ Forums, Big H, Ventulia, Coolguyistan, Lusapha, Vasankaria, Barsaca, Outer Gogonia, Duffla)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 114 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Dec 8 2006

hurts head and i can't understand this. can anyone :confused: also how chould you miss this one filb

Repeal "End slavery"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal
Resolution: #6
Proposed by: Mancind

Description: UN Resolution #6: End slavery (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: People cant just tell others what to do and people have to and do it or they get killed


Approvals: 7 (Gruenberg, Bucklainia, WZ Forums, Iron Felix, Leg-ends, Gortania, NewTexas)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 116 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon Dec 11 2006

English is your friend please use it correctly

Regional Condensation
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.


Category: International Security
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Sierra Rubala

Description: DUE to the exponential global increase in regional territories, it is:

NECESSARY to condense the regions into approximately 100 equal social groups, each united for the same cause,

THUS allowing trade to flow more freely among nations,

AND increase the awareness of the global economy.

Approvals: 1 (WZ Forums)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 122 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Mon Dec 11 2006

lets see wrong Strength and lets see metagaming i think

Category: The Furtherment of Democracy


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Fuzzymanland

Description: The United Nations,

AWARE that all you need is Love;

RECOGNIZING that Love makes the world go 'round;

DISMAYED that Love's in need of Love today;

BELIEVING that love is a many splendored thing;

THEREFORE resolves that the second Tuesday in January shall be declared Annual World Hug Day. Further, that in celebration of this day all people shall be exhorted to hug one another. What's next, a proposal mandating the use of the fluffle smilie?:rolleyes:

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Warplanet

Description: If all humans are truly created equal, then it is by the declaration of this resolution that all humans deserve the right to the same chance of survival after suffering cardiac arrest. This can only be accomplished by globally standardizing CPR education. It is then upon adoption of this resolution that all U.N. members...

1) Recognize the importance of early cardiac defibrillation in order to increase chance of survival from cardiac arrest.

2) Educate the public in the globally standardized steps to perform CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation).

3) Agree in officially creating the International CPR Certification Program to maintain the following standards and improve upon them:

Upon the witness of a heart attack, a by-stander with appropriate CPR certification shall begin resuscitation. However, CPR shall not be performed on an individual that has an original signed copy of his or her DNR.

CPR shall be performed in this manner for adults 12 years of age and older...
30 chest compressions one inch above the base of the sternum with heel right hand with left hand on top, and fingers locked and straight, and compressing downwards with elbows locked at a depth of 2-3inches and a rate of approximately 100 beats/min and then give 2 rescue breaths by pinching the nose close, slightly hyper-extending neck(to open airway) and breathing directly into mouth. Continue this cycle until Emergency Services arrive.

For children 12 years of age and younger it is done in the same manner EXCEPT with only one hand and the compression depth of 1-2inches and a ratio of 15 compressions at 110 beats/min to 2 rescue breaths.

So long as a CPR certified individual acts in GOOD FAITH and WITHOUT compensation, they can not be sued or tried for any REASONABLE damages.

REASONABLE damages can be, however; through thorough and good training, avoided, but are SOMETIMES unavoidable.
It is up to the individual nation to dictate what is reasonable, based upon their individual laws or resolutions adopted by the U.N. Do we really want the UN to define CPR?

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #15


Proposed by: Caber Toss

Description: UN Resolution #15: Protect Historical Sites (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: All Businesses) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: RECOGNIZING the intentions behind UNR #15;

ALSO RECOGNIZING that UNR #37, dealing with the same subject, has been repealed;

THEREFORE UNR #15 is redundant and therefore shall be striken down.Wow, there's some great logic.

Category: International Security


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: David Winter Fan Club

Description: The respectable members of the United Nations,

APPALLED at the selling of dangerous weapons by member nations to terrorist groups and rogue regimes,

DISGUSTED at the large profit that arms dealers make from selling said weapons,

FRIGHTENED by the possibility that said weapons, some being of a nuclear nature, could cause mass war and kill innocent people,

HEREBY outlaw the illegal and secret trade of arms between countries.Um, if something is illegal, doesn't that mean that it has already been outlawed?

Right of Self-Defense

A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.


Category: Gun Control


Decision: Relax


Proposed by: PatriachaUNMission

Description: We The United Nations Recognizing that guns can be used to protect the lives of individual citizens here-by pass this resolution that:

RECOGNIZES: That PEOPLE NOT GUNS destroy human life.

RECOGNIZES: That When Guns are Outlawed only Outlaws Have Guns.
RECOGNIZES: That guns save lives every day.

MANDATING: That NO MINOR CHILD be allowed to posses a gun.

PROTECTING FROM PROSECUTION: Any person that uses a fire arm to protect his/her property or life.

ACKNOWLEDGING: The Basic Human Right to Defend Yourself
from attack.

ACKNOWLEDGING: The Right to Bare Arms.

Approvals: 2 (WZ Forums, Halfbreed)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 121 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Tue Dec 12 2006
Was yawning my way through the usual pro gun blah blah, but then got a giggle out of the last line. The right to wear short sleeved shirts is acknowledged :p.

Was yawning my way through the usual pro gun blah blah, but then got a giggle out of the last line. The right to wear short sleeved shirts is acknowledged :p.
Or sleeveless shirts.
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/+2005/larry-cableguyLO.jpg

Repeal "Protect Historical Sites"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal
Resolution: #15
Proposed by: Caber Toss

Description: UN Resolution #15: Protect Historical Sites (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: All Businesses) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: RECOGNIZING the intentions behind UNR #15;

ALSO RECOGNIZING that UNR #37, dealing with the same subject, has been repealed;

THEREFORE UNR #15 is redundant and therefore shall be striken down.


This has no argument except that another resolution, on a similar theme, got repealed. That resolutions #37 and #15 are different resolutions with different arguments and effects. Even if it isn't illegal, it certainly is stupid and a half-baked argument.

Next:

Defining Historical Sites
A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.


Category: Environmental
Industry Affected: All Businesses
Proposed by: Caber Toss

Description: RECOGNIZING the need to protect historical sites,

CONSIDERING UNRs #15 and 37 did not properly deal with the definition of a historical site,

THEREFORE the guidelines of a historical site are to be set out in this resoultion.

-Any building, group of buildings, or village more than 100 years old;
-Any environmental site in immediate danger of pollution;
-Areas populated by endangered animals;
-Any glacial-fed river.

All the above are mandatory sites to protect; any other sites are to be protected at the discretion of the member states.

Amends an existing resolution, possibly contradicts #15 when it makes protection of the sites mandatory, and is a house of cards violation. Resolution #37 has been repealed, for goodness sake!

Amends an existing resolution, possibly contradicts #15 when it makes protection of the sites mandatory, and is a house of cards violation. Resolution #37 has been repealed, for goodness sake!Not HoC. It's recalling previous Resolutions, not using them as key parts.

Here's one that got removed from the floor this morning by a moderator. It has been re-submitted and looks quite illegal to me:

UN Disarmament
A resolution to slash worldwide military spending.


Category: Global Disarmament
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Sultana Bran Cereal

Description: RECOGNISING a lack in restraint in the development of Nuclear Arms.

CONDEMNING UN Nations still producing war-heads.

AIMING for a safer future without Nuclear threats.

AGAINST terrorist threats.

AWARE of tax money being spent on manufacturing missiles.

PROPOSING a total ban on the PRODUCTION, TRADE and STOCKPILING of ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

I think it contradicts the resolution "Nuclear Armaments" which allows nuclear weapons. It is, as far as I'm aware, unchanged from the last time it got deleted.

Yeah... I was doing a very quick sweep and wasn't sending out TGs (or warnings). Usually they aren't resubmitted...

Yeah, I just saw that one. Gave me a bit of a chuckle.

Battle For Power

A resolution to restrict political freedoms in the interest of law and order.


Category: Political Stability


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Unholy Pleasures

Description: I propose that control of the UN should be decided every three years by a contest of gladiators. Each nation represented in the UN would be required to have their best trained warrior compete in a round by round death match against the other nations warriors. The nation whose gladiator that remains standing at the end will then be allowed to head the UN as chair until the next tournament is held, three years later.
Our gladiator will be the Mecha-Diřgę.

Animal rights

A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.


Category: Gun Control


Decision: Relax


Proposed by: Arklow Sea Scouts

Description: People should be allowed to use chickens or hens or roosters as target practice
Silly. And it doesn't specify target practice with what. This is a Gun Control, Relax proposal, but for all we can tell from the text the author may be talking about rocks or sticks or slingshots.
Freedom and Rights Conduct

A resolution to increase democratic freedoms.


Category: The Furtherment of Democracy


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: High Liegelor

Description: No party, regardless of race, language, religion, class, job, gender, or any other differences, shall be forced, compelled, bribed, etc. in any lawsuit, whether civil or criminal, to be a witness against himself/herself/themselves, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of just and moral law; nor shall private property be taken for public, state, or others’/other’s private use, without just compensation and agreement between the owner and the buyer/taker.
This sounds familiar.

Silly. And it doesn't specify target practice with what. This is a Gun Control, Relax proposal, but for all we can tell from the text the author may be talking about rocks or sticks or slingshots.And people wondered why I included "Bloody Stupid" in the rules. Although, since the text doesn't specify, we assume he means all non-military weapons. Kinda like that mess with Sexual Freedom...

Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: Automobile Manufacturing


Proposed by: Ruchba

Description: United Nations,

Proposal: To advance mass transit systems to reduce emissions and road fatalities.

ADVANCED MASS TRANSIT SYSTEM: A new system implementing the use of cutting edge technology such as: Small hi-speed, low-powered bubble trains that range in size from 2-50 passengers. Trains can travel up to 600km/h-375mi/h.

Smaller trains are fully automatic while large ones require an engineer. Trains can be privately rented and shuffled around for commuters. Passengers can run express to their destinations via a mass network of rail completely moderated by advanced military / private networks.

1: TIME: If we look at commuting as $XX/h we can understand that traveling by either bus, train or tram will cost more time than commuting via car.

TO COMBAT this we need a GLOBAL system of high speed trains.

2: SPEED: HIGH speed = more passengers = higher revenue. Having a continual flow of passengers will create a fast flow of money.

3: COST: Initial costs may be high for governments but fast revenue will combat this. Citizens can reduce their own costs by not spending large sums on vehicles that depreciate rapidly, have running costs and continual repair needs. TO BALANCE this TAX Rates can be raised to support the system.

4: ENVIRONMENTAL: The use of high speed, low-powered, electric vehicles will cut emissions greatly and reduce the ever escalating death rate on roads. By advancing the mass transit system regions can save precious space by going completely underground or high above ground.

ADVANCEMENT of our Mass Transit Systems will advance us all as a global civilization, save lives, boost economy, raise the trust in government bodies and save the regions from global warming disaster. I'd like to see the UN try to connect a midair archeplego like The Rogue Nation os Flibbleites to a global rail network.

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Deus ex Mechanus

Description: This resolution shall declare all oceans and seas with the exception of coastal ocean up to 2 miles from the coast, as well as the airspace above it and the mining rights below it INTERNATIONAL TERRITORY, and shall make the waging of any type of warfare which involves passing any troops, war machines or supplies over this territory ILLEGAL, unless express permission is given by the United Nations to do so. In addition, no profit-making organizations are to operate in these International Waters.The way I see this, the clause, "shall make the waging of any type of warfare which involves passing any troops, war machines or supplies over this territory ILLEGAL," would basically make all war illegal because you have to get your troops to the battlefront and the UN can't pass resolutions that only affect a single nation.

I'd like to see the UN try to connect a midair archeplego like The Rogue Nation os Flibbleites to a global rail network.World's. Biggest. Rollercoaster.

World's. Biggest. Rollercoaster.

Did I forget to mention that the individual islands tend to drift in the wind?

The way I see this, the clause, "shall make the waging of any type of warfare which involves passing any troops, war machines or supplies over this territory ILLEGAL," would basically make all war illegal because you have to get your troops to the battlefront and the UN can't pass resolutions that only affect a single nation.
Did you notice that it also destroys the shipping and deep-sea fishing industries at the same time?

Space-Based Weaponry
A resolution to slash worldwide military spending.


Category: Global Disarmament
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Terazur

Description: A proposal to restrict the use of Space-Based Weapons. Any Space-Based Weapon (abbreivieated SBW) that is designed for use as a tool for the destruction of men, machines, homes, or property is hereby classified as an SBW and prohibited in UN Member nations. For a weapon to be classified as an SBW, it must fulfill the folowing requirements:
1. It must be either launched from, or travel trough, or be placed at some point higher than an altitude of 63 miles(101 kilometers) above the surface of the Earth.
2. Must be designed for use in war, and have no realistic or practical use in peacetime. These include, but are not limited to: Scud missles, ICBMs, SLBMs,and Space Based misseles.
3. The following are exempt from the banned weapons, Reconnaisance satellites, counter-missiles, civilian spacecraft, and other anti-missile systems.

Approvals: 10 (Aerowind, Ultrasilvania, CookiesMEH, Ellenburg, Martels, Bucklainia, WZ Forums, The Derrak Quadrant, Manfigurut II, Capitalistic Capital)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 113 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Tue Dec 12 2006

I'm sure this nation will feel the wrath of the death star very soon

Mutually Assured Destruction
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.


Category: International Security
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Fuzzymanland

Description: The United Nations,

OBSERVING that petty disputes between nations often result in conflict in which conventional weapons are used;

DISMAYED at the wanton and senseless death and destruction caused by such conflicts;

CONVINCED that no nation will dare attack another that is armed with nuclear weapons;

REQUIRES that every member nation construct or purchase nuclear missiles sufficient for the assured destruction of all neighboring nations.


Approvals: 1 (Fuzzymanland)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 122 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Wed Dec 13 2006

goes agaist #109, introduces war, bloody stupied, and seems to want us to nuke him

I will admit to some of my previous proposals being silly, but I resent this one being included in this thread. Mutually Assured Destruction was the military strategy of the United States and the Soviet Union for many years. During that time they never went to war with each other. I think this proposal is worthy of debate. It does not introduce war, it is intended to prevent it.

Your proposal was included here because it's illegal. Look a the title of the thread. It's Silly and/or Illegal Proposals.

It's usually a good idea to post a draft of your proposal on the UN forum before you submit it. That way, we wouldn't have as many silly and/or illegal ones. Than again, that would mean less to make fun of.

Battle For Power
A resolution to restrict political freedoms in the interest of law and order.


Category: Political Stability
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Unholy Pleasures

Description: I propose that control of the UN should be decided every three years by a contest of gladiators. Each nation represented in the UN would be required to have their best trained warrior compete in a round by round death match against the other nations warriors. The nation whose gladiator that remains standing at the end will then be allowed to head the UN as chair until the next tournament is held, three years later.

Approvals: 10 (TheWarpChaos, Camgo, Borat Sagdiyevistan, Budkeville, Noormandy, Ultrasilvania, Bucklainia, WZ Forums, Capitalistic Capital, Phthisis)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 113 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Tue Dec 12 2006

Speaks for itself, really.

Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: All Businesses


Proposed by: Heridonia

Description: In Strict Relation to the Environment Protection Act (by Homophobic Warriors)

Recognizing that the increasing number of Oil Powered Veichles is strongly contributing to increase the pollution tax of Our Cities,

Thinking that this situation will seriously endanger our citizens' Health in the near future,

We State as Follows:

Every Nation Member of the UN will introduce by Law the UN Traffic Control Act.

Article 1

A circulation Tax will be imposed by the Government on every Oil Powered Veichle in strict relation to its Nocive Emissions Rate.

Article 2

A dayly access Tax will by imposed by the City Councils on every Oil Powered Veichle entering cities with more than 500'000 Inhabitants (in relation to its Nocive Emissions Rate)

Article 3

The resulting Income must be spent to boost the Public Transports Sistem, To improve its Efficiency and to make it more suitable in relation to the needings of the citizens; To promote the realization of Green Areas; To create a pubblic Bycicles Hire Service and to support Car Sharing.

Article 4

The amount of the previous Taxes must be decided by National Governments in relation tho the "Life Cost" that caraterize each Nation and respecting, However, the elementary principles of Social Justice.

Article 5

Every nation should provide fundings for those Industries that will show their efforts in reducing the Nocive Emission of the Manufactured Veichles;
And impose a stronger taxation on that industries that will refuse to share these efforts.Do HoC violations work when the resolution being referenced doesn't exist as a resolution?

Category: Gambling


Legalize/Outlaw: Outlaw


Proposed by: Heridonia

Description: Under-Age Gambling Convention

The States Member of the United Nations,

According to the international Protective Policy as Regards Citizens under 18 Years,

Believing that this convention won't represent a limit to the freedom of choice, to the Gambling Industry and to the free jurisdiction of each nation but will be an important step towards the recognition of shared civil rights,

Having in Mind the purpose and principles that such a resolution could support as regards education and cultural progress,

Have Agreed As Follows:

Article 1

Is Prohibited ANY form of Gambling for Citizens under the age of 18.

Article 2

Responsible of any violation to this disposition will be considered the respective owner, seller or provider of the Games.

Article 2 Bis

Co-Responsible of any violation to this disposition will be considered Minors respective Parents or Tutors.

Article 3

Violations of this disposition will be prosecuted by national/regional Laws according to their principles and values.

Article 4

Local Application of this disposition (such as Age Check Procedures) will be ruled by national/regional Laws.You know, this has got a loophole big enough for Cluichistan's Death Star.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Heridonia

Description: Convention of Heridonia on Diplomatic Immunity and Privileges.

The States Member of the United Nations,

Recalling that peoples of all nations from ancient times have recognized the status of diplomatic agents,

Believing that an international convention on diplomatic intercourse, privileges and immunities would contribute to the development of friendly relations among nations, irrespective of their differing constitutional and social systems and may support the mutual recognition of shared civil rights

Realizing that the purpose of such privileges and immunities is not to benefit individuals but to ensure the efficient performance of the functions of diplomatic missions as representing States,

Have agreed as follows:

Article 1
1. The premises of the Diplomatic mission shall be inviolable. The agents of the receiving State may not enter them, except with the consent of the head of the mission.
2. The premises of the mission, their furnishings and other property thereon and the means of transport of the mission shall be immune from search, requisition, attachment or execution.

Article 2
The sending State and the head of the mission shall be exempt from all national, regional or municipal dues and taxes in respect of the premises of the mission, whether owned or leased, other than such as represent payment for specific services rendered.

Article 3
The archives and documents of the mission shall be inviolable at any time and wherever they may be.

Article 4
The person of a diplomatic agent shall be inviolable. He shall not be liable to any form of arrest or detention. The receiving State shall treat him with due respect and shall take all appropriate steps to prevent any attack on his person, freedom or dignity.

Article 5
1. The private residence of a diplomatic agent shall enjoy the same inviolability and protection as the premises of the mission.
2. His papers, correspondence and his property, shall likewise enjoy inviolability.

Article 6
A diplomatic agent shall enjoy immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the receiving State. He shall also enjoy immunity from its civil and administrative jurisdiction.

Article 7
1. The members of the family of a diplomatic agent forming part of his household shall enjoy the same privileges and immunities.
2. Members of the administrative and technical staff of the mission, together with members of their families forming part of their respective households, shall enjoy the same privileges and immunities specified in articles, except that the immunity from civil and administrative jurisdiction of the receiving State. Illegal for branding, and besides it's been done (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9875401&postcount=128).

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Philipinoff

Description: Nazis, human rights' worst nightmare.
Should they eb aloud to post new proposals to the UN? I don't think so. Those with Nazi, facist and in-humain ways of thinking should be banned from from spreading their evil views throughout this world.Why did we have to get rid of Resolution 245A Proper Grammar (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Resolution_245A_Proper_Grammar_%28removed%29) (aside from the fact that it's illegal and unenforceable)? Oh, and illegal, miscategorization.

Your proposal was included here because it's illegal. Look a the title of the thread. It's Silly and/or Illegal Proposals.

It's usually a good idea to post a draft of your proposal on the UN forum before you submit it. That way, we wouldn't have as many silly and/or illegal ones. Than again, that would mean less to make fun of.

Well, I figure it should be as entertaining as the issues we get every day. :)

Is it illegal because it contradicts resolution 109 or some other reason?

Is it illegal because it contradicts resolution 109
Yes.

What's next, a proposal mandating the use of the fluffle smilie?:rolleyes:

C'mere, big boy! :fluffle:

Our gladiator will be the Mecha-Diřgę.

Mind if we hire the Destructor Bunnies? :D

I'm sure this nation will feel the wrath of the death star very soon

Frankly, not worth our time.

You know, this has got a loophole big enough for Cluichistan's Death Star.

"That's no moon..." ;)

Lassiaz Faire Act
A resolution to develop industry around the world.


Category: Advancement of Industry
Area of Effect: Labor Deregulation
Proposed by: Stochopia

Description: This hereby nullifies all resolutions passed in regards to industry and big business inorder to allow them to grow unrestricted and without the influence of big government.

Approvals: 1 (Stochopia)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Dec 14 2006

Holy repeal frenzy Batman!

Jedi law
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Love albtrosses

Description: that jedi be reconginised as a offical religion
by member states

Approvals: 1 (Stochopia)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Dec 14 2006 This sounds like cletus the slack-jawed yokel put this into one of them new-fangled dictation devices after being merged with comic book store guy in a chemical spillage.

Operation Annie Get Your Gun
A resolution to tighten or relax gun control laws.


Category: Gun Control
Decision: Relax
Proposed by: The Sasquatch 311

Description: REQUIRING every single citizen of every UN Nationstate to own a firearm

REDUCING the crime rate in such nations

Approvals: 4 (Republican Hope, WZ Forums, Juggoth, The Exiles of Britain)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 120 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Dec 14 2006 Babies with guns anyone?

Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: All Businesses


Proposed by: Gator Land

Description: WHEREAS, the health of our world is a necessary precursor to the survival of all nations;

WHEREAS, the environmental impact of one nation can impact another; and

WHEREAS, the government should provide the public investment needed to protect our natural environment and resources;

THEREFORE, the United Nations hereby requires all member nations to spend at least 2 percent of its governmental budget on the environment.Illegal, game mechanics.

Originally Posted by UN Traffic Control Act
Category: Environmental


Industry Affected: All Businesses


Proposed by: Heridonia

Description: In Strict Relation to the Environment Protection Act (by Homophobic Warriors)

Recognizing that the increasing number of Oil Powered Veichles is strongly contributing to increase the pollution tax of Our Cities,

Thinking that this situation will seriously endanger our citizens' Health in the near future,

We State as Follows:

Every Nation Member of the UN will introduce by Law the UN Traffic Control Act.

Article 1

A circulation Tax will be imposed by the Government on every Oil Powered Veichle in strict relation to its Nocive Emissions Rate.

Article 2

A dayly access Tax will by imposed by the City Councils on every Oil Powered Veichle entering cities with more than 500'000 Inhabitants (in relation to its Nocive Emissions Rate)

Article 3

The resulting Income must be spent to boost the Public Transports Sistem, To improve its Efficiency and to make it more suitable in relation to the needings of the citizens; To promote the realization of Green Areas; To create a pubblic Bycicles Hire Service and to support Car Sharing.

Article 4

The amount of the previous Taxes must be decided by National Governments in relation tho the "Life Cost" that caraterize each Nation and respecting, However, the elementary principles of Social Justice.

Article 5

Every nation should provide fundings for those Industries that will show their efforts in reducing the Nocive Emission of the Manufactured Veichles;
And impose a stronger taxation on that industries that will refuse to share these efforts.

Do HoC violations work when the resolution being referenced doesn't exist as a resolution?

Don't speak so fast flibbleites. My Environment Protection Act is only a few approvals off of quorum. I think the guy who wrote this resolution can see into the future...................

My Environment Protection Act is only a few approvals off of quorum. I think the guy who wrote this resolution can see into the future...
He can't see far enough then. There's no possible way for a proposal currently in Queue to pass before this one falls off the list. Referencing non-passed resolutions = bad.

THEREFORE, the United Nations hereby requires all member nations to spend at least 2 percent of its governmental budget on the environment.Illegal, game mechanics.
Does anyone realize the ENORMITY of two percent? "Let's see - we'll shut down our Energy, Housing, and Justice departments to take care of this mandate."

C'mon, people. Look at a REAL budget sometime.

I agree with Fris on this one. 2% of this years Elleltian governmental budget is руЯ20,069,736,960.00. Now 20+ billion Rubles to us is quite a bit of money. And that is also the amount we did spend on environmental protection.

2% may sound small but when it comes to governmental budgets, RL or NS that can end up being a very large amount.

VK.

Klingon law

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Love albtrosses

Description: that the klingon language be recongised as a offical languague by the un

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 124 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Dec 14 2006

The Timeless Warriors of Kolothland has not approved this proposal. [Approve]
Why should it when english isn't even recognised, and besides would this really fall under human rights. Oh, by the way....NUQ DAQ O' PUCHPA E'? I need one after reading that.

Helping hand

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Crackajacka

Description: In order for nations to truely take into accout the changing world around them, the ymust be educated as to what their policies are effecting.

I propose that:

A: Nations spend more time educating their people on good and bad outcomes of the government's decisions.

B: Nations allow their people to express their oppinions about their government through protest, words, art, and voting.

please consider this....i dont really know if this is the place to put it, so i am taking a chance..

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 124 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Dec 14 2006

The Timeless Warriors of Kolothland has not approved this proposal. [Approve]
This looks more like a furtherment of democracy proposal than human rights.

Category: Global Disarmament


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Gallipolis

Description: Recognizing the fact that Hethrum has begun establishing a regional defence force which has no objectives other than invading helpless regions around it

Acknowledging the risk of this force to many regions around the world

DEMANDS the immediate disarmament of the Hethrum Peoples Regional Defence Force

ENCOURAGES UPON all UN member nations to cease relations with Hethrum and its member nations

ASKS UN member states to employ economic sanctions on Hethrum member states

CALLS UPON UN member states with strong armies to prepare for a potential peace-keeping operation against Hethrum if above-mentioned sanctions do not produce any results and thus prepare the operation with regards to;
a.Establishment of UNHPF(United Nations Hethrum Peace-keeping Force) which would implement UN decisions in Hethrum through military enforcement
b.Mustering of military experts from all interested member nations for the creation of a Military Tribunal which would in cases of insubordination from Hethrum officials regarding peace-keeping operations

STRESSES UPON the fact that the UN Member nations should inform the Founder and the Chairman of Hethrum to comply with UN decisions with regards to this resolution

URGES all member Nations to remain actively involved with this matter.Oh God, where do I start with this one. Let's see, targets a specific region, establishes a UN army. and you know what I don't see a need to go further.

Category: Advancement of Industry


Area of Effect: Labor Deregulation


Proposed by: Turkytamamistan

Description: This Act would be used to create and modify Human Genes to make the race stronger as a whole including making use less vunerable to Hazardous enviroments. Improving the human race and makin us lees likely to car=tch certain diseases. Illegal, miscategorization and spellcheck is obviously not the author's friend.

Category: Social Justice


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Vega-Altair

Description: The below text describes the contents of a proposed UN resolution to preserve the developed world and provide a fair playing field for competing business. The framer(s) of this resolution would like to state that they are:

CONCERNED by the rapid outsourcing of industrial jobs from the developed world to the third-world.

WORRIED that outsourcing may lead to the degradation of the standard of living in the developed world.

APPALLED at the wages third-world workers are forced to accept.

HESITANT over using Labour Unions to press the agenda of said workers.

This resolution will, if ratified:

INCREASE the overall minimum wage for EVERY nation within the United Nations to an agreed level set by international inflation.

PROVIDE basic benefits into the workers of third-world factories so they may live in tolerable conditions and receive tolerable care, no matter what.

CREATE a level playing field for factories to compete in on deciding where to establish business-- a playing field based solely off of the laws of individual countries and NOT their wages.

PRESERVE preexisting manufacturing and industrial jobs in the developed world.

The framer(s) of this also:

HOPE developed nations will not be forced to lower their standards of living just because corporations wish to make a quick profit.

BELIEVE a resolution like this is essential in global human welfare and economic expansion.Illegal, contradicts UN Fair Wage Convention.

Category: The Furtherment of Democracy


Strength: Mild


Proposed by: Gator Land

Description: WHEREAS, a sign of corruption is the amount of wasteful spending a government has;

WHEREAS, a bloated bureaucracy can lead to a more corrupt government; and

WHEREAS, less government spending can lower taxes people have to pay;

THEREFORE, the United Nations hereby requires all member nations to limit spending on administrative costs to 10% or less of the government budget and to return the money previous spent on administration to the citizens of their nation in the form of tax cuts.Illegal, game mechanics.

2% may sound small but when it comes to governmental budgets, RL or NS that can end up being a very large amount.Hm. Even with my 0% tax rate, NSTracker sez I'd be spending 796,922,053,620 chits. Converting into dollars (whee), I get $1,555,910,617,488. I'm not going to spend 1.5 trillion on the environment.

Why should it when english isn't even recognised, and besides would this really fall under human rights. Oh, by the way....NUQ DAQ O' PUCHPA E'? I need one after reading that.


Okay, now you frighten me... :p

Rights of the Accused

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Northern Taylor

Description: A Resolution to protect the rights of the accused.

BELIEVING that all humans have protective rights from governments;

ACKNOWLEGING that all Nations should be allowed an
independent Judaical System;

AFFIRMING UN RESOLUTION #21, AND UN RESOLUTION #47, "Fair Trials";

REMINDING Members of the protections of UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION #41;

FURTHER REMINDING Member nations of the rights provided by UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION #73 “Habeas Corpus” and UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION #180 “Fair Sentencing”;

FEARING that some Nations may infringe on these above rights and rights lost in UN RESOLUTION #27,

CALLS FOR;

Article I
No person shall be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy by the government, of life or limb;

Article II
No person shall be compelled, in any criminal case to be a witness against himself;

Article III
No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;

Article IV
No persons private property shall be taken for public use without just compensation.

HENCEFORTH Articles I though 4 shall be ENFORCED, EMPOWERED, AND MANDATED.

Approvals: 15 (Ultrasilvania, Understood correctnes, The Dancing Butterfly, Errinundera, Kytheros, Worldia555, Ducks of Snow, El Rey de Los Payasos, Paris-Moscow, Xarvinia-Wurttemburg, WZ Forums, Firebert, New Hamilton, Tonuria, Ventulia)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 108 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Dec 14 2006

HoC, Bloody Stupied, and lists resolutions that have been repealed.

Mutually Assured Destruction

A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.


Category: International Security


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Marsos

Description: DEFINING a Weapon of Mass Destruction as any conventional if over 50 Mt. in power or an attack causing damage equivalent to at least a 10 Mt. weapon, dispersive (containing submunitions) if over 10 Mt. or an attack using such causing damage equivalent to at least 10 Mt. chemical (intended to release a toxic chemical), nuclear (relying on nuclear fission or fusion), biological (intended to release a deadly or damaging biological agent), radiological (intended to release radioactive material), incendiary if causing damage equivalent to 10 Mt. or an attack using such causing damage equivalent to 10 Mt. or electromagnetic (destroying electronic devices witin a certain radius) weapon with the capability and intent of causing extensive damage to the civilian population of a nation as well as a nation's military.

NOTING that many rogue nations in the UN posess or are developing weapons of mass destruction, possibly intending to use them

REALIZING the need of nations to defend themselves from such attacks

RECOGNIZING that strikes against the military alone may not dissuade some national leaders from continuing acts of hostility

The UN hereby:

AFFIRMS the right of UN nations to defend themselves with weapons of mass destruction if an opposing nation continues in actions of hostility using weapons of mass destruction, despite all efforts of the defending nation, through diplomacy and conventional warfare on military targets, to ameliorate the crisis, and if the agressor still has military capability to attack with weapons of mass destruction

MANDATES that defensive attacks using weapons of mass destruction must cease after the aggressor's military capabilities have been exhausted, and/or the aggressor's ability to attack using weapons of mass destruction have been neutralized

REQUESTS that nations recognize that if they engage in war using weapons of mass destruction, mutual destruction is all but assured

Approvals: 6 (Ohrder, WZ Forums, Juggoth, New Hamilton, StarWarsGalatic Empire, Ventulia)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 117 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Dec 14 2006

Still goes agaist res 109, copys Fuzzy's idea, and extreamly boering to read.

For the People?

A resolution to increase democratic freedoms.


Category: The Furtherment of Democracy


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Setznia

Description: REPEAL the process of an indirect vote or "electoral college," as well as representation. Therefore allowing the popular vote, the majority, always have the say in a democratic society. Giving the people the ultimate say in goverment. This would also eliminate the use of representatives and the like who, vote on the peoples behalf.

CREATE a new streamlined process of voting, where when an issue comes up the people would be notified through television broadcast or some other system of announcement and then be able to vote at a permanent voting station in their area. The voting station would use lastest technology and anti-fraud measures to ensure that the voting is streamlined and safe.

Approvals: 1 (Setznia)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 122 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Dec 15 2006

We have an electoral college?

Anti-Illegal Immigration

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: The Promised South

Description: Crucify all illegal immigrants.
When captured the illegal immigrants will be warned. After Two offenses they will spend time in federal prison. If they illegally enter the said country again they MAY be crucified or exterminated if the countries(Country which crime was perpetrated against as well as the Country of origin) are in agreement.

Exceptions
The only exceptions will be when the said immigrant is a second or third generation immigrant from the country accusing him/her.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Dec 15 2006

Miscatorgize and i think it speaks for itsself

Crucify?!? :eek:

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Mutually Assured Destruction

A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.


Category: International Security


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Marsos

Description: DEFINING a Weapon of Mass Destruction as any conventional if over 50 Mt. in power or an attack causing damage equivalent to at least a 10 Mt. weapon, dispersive (containing submunitions) if over 10 Mt. or an attack using such causing damage equivalent to at least 10 Mt. chemical (intended to release a toxic chemical), nuclear (relying on nuclear fission or fusion), biological (intended to release a deadly or damaging biological agent), radiological (intended to release radioactive material), incendiary if causing damage equivalent to 10 Mt. or an attack using such causing damage equivalent to 10 Mt. or electromagnetic (destroying electronic devices witin a certain radius) weapon with the capability and intent of causing extensive damage to the civilian population of a nation as well as a nation's military.

NOTING that many rogue nations in the UN posess or are developing weapons of mass destruction, possibly intending to use them

REALIZING the need of nations to defend themselves from such attacks

RECOGNIZING that strikes against the military alone may not dissuade some national leaders from continuing acts of hostility

The UN hereby:

AFFIRMS the right of UN nations to defend themselves with weapons of mass destruction if an opposing nation continues in actions of hostility using weapons of mass destruction, despite all efforts of the defending nation, through diplomacy and conventional warfare on military targets, to ameliorate the crisis, and if the agressor still has military capability to attack with weapons of mass destruction

MANDATES that defensive attacks using weapons of mass destruction must cease after the aggressor's military capabilities have been exhausted, and/or the aggressor's ability to attack using weapons of mass destruction have been neutralized

REQUESTS that nations recognize that if they engage in war using weapons of mass destruction, mutual destruction is all but assured

Approvals: 6 (Ohrder, WZ Forums, Juggoth, New Hamilton, StarWarsGalatic Empire, Ventulia)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 117 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Thu Dec 14 2006Still goes agaist res 109, copys Fuzzy's idea, and extreamly boering to read.
I don't think it contradicts Nuclear Armaments, simply because it never says that UN members can't possess nuclear weapons.

Crucify?!? :eek:

thou i do think something should be done about the illegals Crucifying em is just to mean. How about we just put em on a cruise ship, set it on corse for the Bamudra triangle, break the searing so they can't change the corse, and then jump off said boat and laugh.

Repeal "UN Fair Wage Convention"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal
Resolution: #187
Proposed by: Oliverea

Description: UN Resolution #187: UN Fair Wage Convention (Category: Social Justice; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The United Nations

COMMENDING the attempt of UNR#187 (The Fair Wage Convention) to protect the poor and needy;

AGHAST about the total failure of UNR#187 in action;

DISMAYED that there is no uniform system of rules for fair wage in countries with lower per capita Gross Domestic Product,

LAMENTS that UNR#187 specifically targets mistreated and underpaid immigrants in First-World countries;

SEARCHING for a chance to produce a more effective legislation in replacement;

HEREBY REPEALS UNR#187 The Fair Wage Convention.
It seems stupid, First-World countries may be an rl reference (I'm not sure) and has no argument except "it doesn't work, but I'm not going to say why". If not illegal, then, in my view, a bit stupid.

Un canteen
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Love albtrosses

Description: that the un canteen supply a alternative vegeteraian meal to non meat eaters

I don't think the UN canteen exists. And this is not worth considering anyway. It'd be nice if it reached quorum, though...

Klingon law
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Love albtrosses

Description: that the klingon language be recongised as a offical languague by the un

Him again? This is another waste of time and a meta-gaming reference: the UN has no official language and I believe that in a recent debate a moderator said that there will not be one due to it being metagaming. Also, this one is not worth consideration for obvious reasons.

Molw

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: The cornness

Description: MOLE

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Fri Dec 15 2006

The Timeless Warriors of Kolothland has not approved this proposal. [Approve]
Stupid, miscatagorised, title spelled wrong, need I go on?

What would be the right category though?

What would be the right category though?

Recreational Drug Use.

What would be the right category though?

Bloody Stupid.

Category: Education and Creativity


Area of Effect: Educational


Proposed by: Democratic Wealth

Description: Todays children will be tomorrows leaders. If we don't spend money to optimize their education then we might as well not even teach them. Without the proper tools children won't be able to function as adults. They need to know that history repeats itself. If we let a whole generation forget about say Hiroshima or The Holocaust then this knowledge may be lost forever. Except we will still maintain the industrial power and technological weapons we have now. This could easily lead to disaster.

We need to :

A) Decrease taxes to create an influx of migrants then return the tax rate to the original amount which will increase cash flow substantially. Use 2/4 of the gained money to benefit education. Split the remaining 2/4 of the gain between other aspects of government .

B) Decrease focus on sports and more focus on nationalism. This will make the nationals strive for a better version of their nation. Without the constant nagging of sports student will be able to concentrate better on their education.

C) By increasing the educational focus we can cut back the time spent in schools thereby decreasing time before the first generation of these better prepared men/women enter the work force. This way we will be able to monitor our progress from the get-go.Illegal, RL references.

Category: Recreational Drug Use


Decision: Promote


Proposed by: Democratic Wealth

Description: The Legalization Of Marijuana
It is quite clear that there is a great number of recreational drug users. It is also clear that marijuana has a harmful effect on society if used innappropriately. There is also a small minority that uses this "Drug" as a means of religious worship. Many natives base important religious beliefs and rituals on this plant. Thereby it is quite obviously unlawful to make marijuana completely illegal. Here are som ideas to remedy this great traavesty.

1 Legalize the use but not sale or transfer of marijuana in religious contexts. This would prevent the drug from being smuggled away from the intended use.

2 Set aside special areas for marijuana use. Only in these areas would legal use be allowed.

3 The user of the plant must prove in one way or another that he has a spiritual and/or ancestral link to the beliefs aforementioned.

4 There would also be optional national holidays for the dedication and use of Marijuana.

This would decrease money spent on drugs and also provide a legal way to satisfy the guidelines of native religions.Shouldn't this be Recreational Drug Use/Legalize?

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Joseph Thomas

Description: I am bringing a proposal on military issues. I will Like for the UN Members and Delegates vote to put our crriminal on the battlefields. We have murders and Theif I'm pretty sure that is a great thing to do.Someone tell me that the author doesn't actually think that giving murderers guns is a good idea.

Well, if that holiday deal was mandated, he'd almost hit the promote level...

Teens To Be Sent To Millatary

A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.


Category: Social Justice


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Longhaven

Description: I Submit That We Place All Teens In To The Milatery As Punishment For Braking The Laws And Corfu i Think 10 Years Will Set Tham Strate

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sat Dec 16 2006
Really bad spelling/grammar. Not to mention I doubt forcing delinquent teens into the military could be called social justice by any stretch of the imagination.

More Industy

A resolution to develop industry around the world.


Category: Advancement of Industry


Area of Effect: Environmental Deregulation


Proposed by: Longhaven

Description: Thare Should Be More Produton And Devalepment In The Feald Of It And Entertement And Food Prodution

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 123 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sat Dec 16 2006
Another 'gem' from the same person, and not much better than the first one.

Category: International Security


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Big Stu and Belle Vue

Description: Every nation should be able to defend themselves vehemently.

Every nation should spend at least 50% of it's budget on defence and those who do should be brought in to line by the UN or invaded to stop their silly beliefs corrupting other great nations.

Every nation should be able to produce nuclear weapons, WMDs and more so as to maintain its national identity and for the pride of its people.

Guns do not always mean violence, if used appropriately they can be a very effective deterrent.

More guns equals more peace and a safer world for everyone.Illegal, game mechanics and duplicates Nuclear Armaments.

Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: The kid 60

Description: we at kid nation belive the un should take action on the issue of pro choice. as well as death penilty. we realize this is a power keg issue. but time as come to reslove these issuses. submited this day decmber 13 2006. kid nation.If I'm interperting the atrocious grammar correctly, this resolution is about abortion and the death penalty, both of which we've covered.

It makes me wish we had a proposal to force people to think right... somthing like this


Originally Posted by Rules of Grammer
Category: Human Rights


Strength: Strong

Proposed by: someguy

Description: Everyone shall hence forth use spellcheck before posting an idea to be voted on. It also shall make sense and use proper grammer. Failing to do such will result in the writter being shot in the head, Crucified, burned at the steak, or killed in some other fasion. (like letting hack have a feild day with a chainsaw)

*sighs* if only this was ture.

Grammar.
Field.
And, the really tricky one, true.

Anyway:
Photographer integrety clause
Category: Human Rights
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Mystic Dawn

Description: I see that the rights of many are infringed upon through the use of the freedom of the press. not only do they snoop and pry and make public that which should be kept under wraps. its infringing on moral decency.

- basically my problem is that the press should stick with non personal stories if they are human interest pieces

-i really dont think its kind to pry into someones personal life and have pictures and other crazy stories that could damage the persons reputation.

- its an ethically immoral and childish thing to do

- infringes on basic human rights

- the solution should be written consent from the person(s) that are mentioned in these articles thus allowing the pieces to stay true to facts and not harmful or just not be printed

(mail me for additional ideas and spell checks first proposal..)
Could probably make a case for contradiction of UBR, Freedom of Press and Artistic Freedom, and also category (if it's arguing against a free press, then it's obviously MD/PS).

Minimum Wage Laws Abolished
Category: Advancement of Industry
Area of Effect: Labor Deregulation
Proposed by: Stormcliffe

Description: Strength: Significant [sic - this was included by the author in the text]

Purpose:
As any true market driven economy will know, less government regulation means a stronger market.
All nations are strongly urged to immediately abolish all minimum wage laws. Individual employers will be given the opportunity to set their own wages in response to market demand, in compliance with the Invisible Hand. Wages will stay at a point that is fair to workers, in order for businesses to be competitive in their marketplace.
It's mildness doesn't initially contradict UN Fair Wage Convention, but the inclusion of a strength is odd. Later, it starts talking about what "will" be the case, which probably slips into contradiction.

Entertament Games None Vilent
Category: Global Disarmament
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Longhaven

Description: Tare Should Be More Entertainment For Kids So That Thay Are Not Running Ramped On Ower Streets i Hear By Ask All To Think About It Whats Better Having Kids Running The Streets Running Amuck Defacing Propatys Steeling Cars Buying Or Using Guns Etc Is This The Kind Of Futer We Need For Ower Kids
Shut up.

Could probably make a case for contradiction of UBR, Freedom of Press and Artistic Freedom, and also category (if it's arguing against a free press, then it's obviously MD/PS).
Could also make a case for posting what is clearly a draft on the proposal list instead of the forums. Did make such a case, in fact.


Shut up.
It always amazes me when people create UN multis to post dreck like that.

That last one you posted Gruen actually gave me a headache while I was reading it. I seem to have developed a tick as well. God that's horrid! It's brain hurty. :(

It makes me wish we had a proposal to force people to think right... somthing like this



*sighs* if only this was ture.

Well, we used to have a resolution called "Resolution 245A Proper Grammar (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Resolution_245A_Proper_Grammar_%28removed%29)." Unofrotunately it was illegal and unenforcable, and as a result it was deleted during the move to Jolt.:(

Keep Stoners out of Un
A resolution to ban, legalize, or encourage recreational drugs.


Category: Recreational Drug Use
Decision: Outlaw
Proposed by: Juggoth

Description: Recognizing that drug users/stoners are complete retarts
Knowing that drugs ruin the users life and their associates lives
Suggest that any country legalizing marijuana or any other recreational drug shoud be kicked out of the U.N.

I mean come on do we really want drug users in the U.N.

Approvals: 1 (Juggoth)

This is meta-gaming, offensive and discrimnates against certain styles of government.

I mean, c'mon...do we really want nations like Juggoth in the UN? :p

Repeal "Fossil Fuel Reduction Act"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal
Resolution: #126
Proposed by: Thelovetrain

Description: UN Resolution #126: Fossil Fuel Reduction Act (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: All Businesses) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: United Nations,

AGREEING that there is a dire need to reduce the usage of Fossil Fuels amongst the United Nations.

APPLAUDING the fact that the United Nations passed an act attempting to Reduce the use of Fossil Fuels.

CONSIDERING that many nations do not have enough renewable resources to adequetly comply to this act and that many nations do not have enough government funding to comply to this act.

OUTRAGED that this resolution, knowing that changing Energy Resources can take Decades to change, forces nations to spend 1% of their budget a year (10% of their budget if taking 10 years to notice changes) when that money could be spent better.

ACKNOWLADGING that many nations either a.) receive energy from their private sector or b.) receive energy from other nations and therefore cannot effectively comply to this Resolution. This FORCES budget increases and even economic sanctions on those that do not have control over their energy source.

CONSIDERING that many nations prefer to have very low taxes and therefore do not have enough government money to fund such projects, meaning that certian nations face Economic Sanctions unless they increase their TAX rates ( The UN should never force a nation to increase its taxes).

CONSIDERING many other points brought up about this subject Such as the ceiling consumption rate does not include exceptions for rapidly growing nations, therefore making them cut emissions by much more than the requirement.

ATTEMPTING to prevent redundent laws, especially those that have severe flaws, it should be noted that there are other similar laws in effect.

#18 Hydrogen Powered Vehicles
#39 Alternative Fuels
#71 Sustainable Energy Sources
#72 Reduction of greenhouse gases (implementing a 10% decrease in fossil fuels consumption over the next ten years);

In CONCLUSION, The United Nations hereby repeals Resolution #126 Reduction of Fossil Fuels for the following reasons:
1. Redundancy
2. Serious Flaws

This is a House of Cards violation. When I was working on a proposal, I was told that to avoid a HoC violation, you do not list out other resolutions. In addition, I can see very little argument except about national soverignty.

( The UN should never force a nation to increase its taxes).
I believe the UN can and should do what it likes to member nations.

Category: Repeal


Resolution: #127


Proposed by: Glorious Sephiroth

Description: UN Resolution #127: Diplomatic Immunity (Category: The Furtherment of Democracy; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: REALISING That persons with diplomatic immunity can, under the current resolution, commit crimes while immune and never be brought to trial unless the home nation revokes immunity

NOTING That many crimes considered heinous beyond belief in one nation may be considered in another to be perfectly acceptable and by no means grounds for removal of diplomatic immunity.

RECOMENDS That Resolution 127 be repealed and replaced with a new resolution alowing host nations to prosecute and punish diplomats for especially heinous crimes without the assent of the diplomats home nation.Incorrect arguement, Resolution #127 states that both the host nation and the home nation can revoke diplomatic immunity.

I mean, c'mon...do we really want nations like Juggoth in the UN? :p
Why is it that the authors of proposals deleted for "Bloody Stupid" always seem to be UN Multis? It's got to be coincidence ... right?

Free health care

A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.


Category: Social Justice
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: ALEROS

Description: free health care to the poor

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 122 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sun Dec 17 2006

This is just spam in the form of a proposal, in addition to the customary format and strength violations.