Post by mentarior on Jul 26, 2005 17:04:23 GMT -5
The Global Peace Initiative
A resolution to slash worldwide military spending.
Category: Global Disarmament
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Community Property
Description:
PREAMBLE
We believe war to be unnecessary. No nation need ever go to war. Wars can always be avoided through non-provocative, non-confrontational foreign policy, a willingness to resolve all disputes through negotiation and compromise, and a refusal to meet force or threats of force in kind.
We believe there to be no excuse for war. Because a nation never need go to war, any nation that does so for any reason is guilty of aggression. Aggression is unacceptable within this community of nations.
We believe that military forces, weapons, and spending are unnecessary, and should be eliminated worldwide as soon as possible.
DECLARATION
I. No United Nations member may ever go to war or undertake military action of any kind for any reason.
II. With war now forbidden, all weapons are unnecessary, all counterclaims by individual members notwithstanding.
III. With all weapons now unnecessary, no United Nations member may ever produce, acquire, possess, or use any weapon where no prior United Nation Resolution reserves for members such a right.
IV. Where a prior United Nations Resolution reserves for members a right to produce, acquire, possess, or use a particular weapon, whether necessary or not, that right shall be respected for as long as the Resolution in question remains in force; should the Resolution in question ever be repealed, however, such grandfathered rights shall be forever lost.
V. Where the right of members to produce, acquire, possess, or use a particular weapon has been reserved by a prior United Nations Resolution, such a right shall be read as narrowly as possible; thus, a right to produce or acquire a weapon shall confer a right to possess it, nor shall a right to possess a weapon confer a right to use it, and so forth.
VI. No United Nations member may ever organize, assemble, or maintain under arms a military, nor may it spend any money on defense, except as may be needed to exercise its right to produce, acquire, possess, or use a particular weapon as provided by a prior United Nations Resolution, and then only to the minimum extent required exercise the right; thus where a right to possess a weapon is specified, this right shall be held to allow exactly one (1) such weapon, unless stated in the plural, in which case it shall be held to allow no more two (2) of them.
VII. Where the right to acquire or possess a weapon has been reserved by a prior United Nations Resolution, that right shall not be read to embrace any unspecified "supporting" weapon systems, such as airplanes, missiles, artillery pieces, or other means with which to deliver the permitted weapon, and so on.
VIII. Upon passage of this Resolution, all military spending beyond what is needed to acquire and possess any weapons permitted under prior United Nations Resolutions shall be redirected to education and environmental protection, in equal amounts.
IX. As war is now unnecessary, no United Nations member may ever enter into any military alliance or relationship with any other nation.
CAVEATS
X. Where a weapon has been banned under a prior United Nations Resolution, this Resolution shall not be taken to duplicate that ban. Should the ban in question be lifted, however, then the immunity of the weapon in question from consideration herein shall also be considered lifted, and the weapon in question shall from that moment onward be governed under this Resolution.
A resolution to slash worldwide military spending.
Category: Global Disarmament
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Community Property
Description:
PREAMBLE
We believe war to be unnecessary. No nation need ever go to war. Wars can always be avoided through non-provocative, non-confrontational foreign policy, a willingness to resolve all disputes through negotiation and compromise, and a refusal to meet force or threats of force in kind.
We believe there to be no excuse for war. Because a nation never need go to war, any nation that does so for any reason is guilty of aggression. Aggression is unacceptable within this community of nations.
We believe that military forces, weapons, and spending are unnecessary, and should be eliminated worldwide as soon as possible.
DECLARATION
I. No United Nations member may ever go to war or undertake military action of any kind for any reason.
II. With war now forbidden, all weapons are unnecessary, all counterclaims by individual members notwithstanding.
III. With all weapons now unnecessary, no United Nations member may ever produce, acquire, possess, or use any weapon where no prior United Nation Resolution reserves for members such a right.
IV. Where a prior United Nations Resolution reserves for members a right to produce, acquire, possess, or use a particular weapon, whether necessary or not, that right shall be respected for as long as the Resolution in question remains in force; should the Resolution in question ever be repealed, however, such grandfathered rights shall be forever lost.
V. Where the right of members to produce, acquire, possess, or use a particular weapon has been reserved by a prior United Nations Resolution, such a right shall be read as narrowly as possible; thus, a right to produce or acquire a weapon shall confer a right to possess it, nor shall a right to possess a weapon confer a right to use it, and so forth.
VI. No United Nations member may ever organize, assemble, or maintain under arms a military, nor may it spend any money on defense, except as may be needed to exercise its right to produce, acquire, possess, or use a particular weapon as provided by a prior United Nations Resolution, and then only to the minimum extent required exercise the right; thus where a right to possess a weapon is specified, this right shall be held to allow exactly one (1) such weapon, unless stated in the plural, in which case it shall be held to allow no more two (2) of them.
VII. Where the right to acquire or possess a weapon has been reserved by a prior United Nations Resolution, that right shall not be read to embrace any unspecified "supporting" weapon systems, such as airplanes, missiles, artillery pieces, or other means with which to deliver the permitted weapon, and so on.
VIII. Upon passage of this Resolution, all military spending beyond what is needed to acquire and possess any weapons permitted under prior United Nations Resolutions shall be redirected to education and environmental protection, in equal amounts.
IX. As war is now unnecessary, no United Nations member may ever enter into any military alliance or relationship with any other nation.
CAVEATS
X. Where a weapon has been banned under a prior United Nations Resolution, this Resolution shall not be taken to duplicate that ban. Should the ban in question be lifted, however, then the immunity of the weapon in question from consideration herein shall also be considered lifted, and the weapon in question shall from that moment onward be governed under this Resolution.