[PASSED] Repeal “Rights and Duties of WA States”

[Goobergunchia]

“Talk is cheap and I’m bored. Figured it’d be fun to throw the metaphorical equivalent of a grenade in here.”

Our preferred replacement of #2, to be submitted when this repeal passes

Whilst General Assembly Resolution #2, "Rights and Duties of WA States", served its purpose in the early days of the World Assembly, making order out of the cooling remains of that colossal fireball that wiped out our predecessor organisation;

The Assembly of Worlds now, however;

Saddened that many of its provisions on war and interactions between nations are illogical at best and actively detrimental to the goals of the World Assembly at worst;

Dismayed by the rather absurd definition of war, which blatantly disregards all plain understanding of actual armed conflict;

Aghast that Article 10 severely limits or eliminates the ability of the WA to protect its own facilities, operations, and personnel;

Concerned that Articles 3 and 6 together provide no definitions of “an unrequested intervention” and “fomenting civil strife” in their mandates;

Further Concerned that all of the aforementioned Articles limit the actions of member states in interactions with all nations, not just the member states that are also bound to follow them;

Hoping for a swift replacement that removes or solves these problems while retaining the important functionality of the other Articles;

Hereby Repeals Rights and Duties of WA States.

Co-author: Excidium Planetis

[Lord Dominator]

The General Assembly,

Appreciating the historical importance of GAR#2 “Right and Duties of WA States” to this assembly and its codification of important basic rules thereof;

Saddened however that many of its provisions on war and interactions between nations no longer make sense;

Recognizing in particular that the limitations on making war in Article 5 effectively prohibit all war, even to prevent a nation from committing genocide against its own population, as few to no reasonable nations would choose to consent to war;

Appreciating that Articles 3 and 7 together severely limit the ability of nations to sponsor or allow the operation of international charities, aid organizations, and civil rights organizations due to ability for dictatorial and oppressive nations to consider such organizations to be “an unrequested intervention” when sponsored by a member nation or “fomenting civil strife” if not;

Concerned that Article 10 not only prohibits the World Assembly from any form of intervention in armed conflict, even when it involves genocide or other crimes against sapients - but also prohibits the WA from specifically condemning such acts beyond existing legislation prohibiting such;

Further Concerned that all of the aforementioned Articles severely limit the ability of the WA and member nations to act against non-compliant nations where existing resolutions fall short, such as in instances with autarkic or coalitions of non-compliant nations preventing economic damages from being effective;

Hoping for a swift replacement that removes or solves these problems while retaining the important functionality of Articles 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, and 11;

Hereby Repeals Rights and Duties of WA States.

The General Assembly,

Appreciating the historical importance of GAR#2 “Right and Duties of WA States” to this assembly and its codification of important basic rules thereof;

Saddened however that many of its provisions on war and interactions between nations are illogical at best and actively detrimental to the goals of the World Assembly at worst;

Recognizing in particular that the limitations on making war in Article 5 effectively prohibits all war, even to intervene against a nation committing genocide against its own population, as few to no reasonable nations would choose to consent to war;

Concerned that Articles 3 and 6 together severely limit the ability of nations to sponsor or allow the operation of international charities, aid organizations, and civil rights organizations due to ability for dictatorial and oppressive nations to consider such organizations to be “an unrequested intervention” when sponsored by a member nation or “fomenting civil strife” if not;

Aghast that Article 10 severely limits or eliminates the ability of the WA to:

• Provide concrete measures to protect member nations from attack by non-members,
• Intervene to prevent conflict between member nations or between member nations and non-member nations,
• Coordinate military action or collate information to assist member nations in avoiding conflict and in their military operations;
• Condemn specific acts of war or work to promote action taken against crimes such as genocide,
• Protect its own facilities, operations and personnel;

Concerned that all of the aforementioned Articles severely limit the ability of the WA and member nations to act against non-compliant nations where existing resolutions fall short, such as in instances with autarkic or coalitions of non-compliant nations preventing economic damages from being effective;

Hoping for a swift replacement that removes or solves these problems while retaining the important functionality of Articles 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, and 11;

Hereby Repeals Rights and Duties of WA States.

Whilst General Assembly Resolution #2, "Rights and Duties of WA States", served its purpose in the early days of the World Assembly, making order out of the cooling remains of that colossal fireball that wiped out our predecessor organisation;

The Assembly of Worlds now, however;

Saddened that many of its provisions on war and interactions between nations are illogical at best and actively detrimental to the goals of the World Assembly at worst;

Dismayed by the rather absurd definition of war, which blatantly disregards all plain understanding of actual armed conflict;

Concerned that Articles 3 and 6 together severely limit the ability of nations to sponsor or allow the operation of international charities, aid organizations, and civil rights organizations due to ability for dictatorial and oppressive nations to consider such organizations to be “an unrequested intervention” when sponsored by a member nation or “fomenting civil strife” if not;

Further Concerned that those same Articles limit the ability of member nations and the WA from attempting to even inform national populaces or otherwise promoting the benefits of compliant membership and consequences of non-compliant membership when non-compliant governments restrict such information;

Aghast that Article 10 severely limits or eliminates the ability of the WA to:

• Protect member nations or its own facilities, operations, and personnel,
• Intervene to prevent conflict between member nations or between member nations and non-member nations,
• Coordinate military action or collate information to assist member nations in avoiding conflict and in their military operations;
• Condemn specific acts of war or work to promote action taken against crimes such as genocide,

Hoping for a swift replacement that removes or solves these problems while retaining the important functionality of Articles 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, and 11;

Hereby Repeals Rights and Duties of WA States.

Co-author: Excidium Planetis

[The Orwell Society]

Do you have a replacement in the works?

[Lord Dominator]

Do you have a replacement in the works?

“I found the draft from the ambassadors of Separatist Peoples to be excellent. If they no longer believe in their draft, I of course will look into producing my own.”

[Magecastle Embassy Building A5]

"Opposed. Many practises demanded by the Holy Book of Klyprer contravene World Assembly law. We do not want member nations having war unjustly waged upon them by an international body because they are enlightened by the divine truth."

Ooc: I'm not actually against a repeal of the resolution Ooc, but I do view this _

Appreciating that Articles 3 and 7 together severely limit the ability of nations to sponsor or allow the operation of international charities, aid organizations, and civil rights organizations due to ability for dictatorial and oppressive nations to consider such organizations to be “an unrequested intervention” when sponsored by a member nation or “fomenting civil strife” if not;

as an exaggeration. I assume that you mean Article 6 by Article 7 and even so, "subject to the immunities recognised by international law" in Article 3 means that the World Assembly can pass a resolution allowing nations to do this and that would supercede Article 3.

[Unibot III]

In the past, moderators argued that resolution didn’t just block war, it blocked peacekeeping too even if the goal is to remain neutral ultimately, because the use of force itself was not allowed.

What’s interesting there is the way in which technology has caught up to the WA.

The WAHQ Act used the language “furnish the necessary security” which was found compliant, and later reused for the Multilateral Prosecution Act, because the secretariat believed this security could be purely technological. Out of curiosity, I wonder how today’s drone technology and the potential for drone strikes would interact with GA#2. I don’t think, for instance, it was the intention of GA#2’s author to allow drones to police a border.

This post is most likely a tangent, but I wanted to advise the author to be careful about the Honest Mistakes rule. Lately, the Secretariat has taken the rule extremely literally. The more clauses and arguments you add to the resolution, the more opportunity for them to rule the resolution contains some kind of error or error of omission.

Full support, btw.

[Daarwyrth]

Zylkoven: "The Daarwyrthian delegation supports this repeal, especially in light of the replacement draft written by the delegation from Separatist Peoples. May the Seas bring you to bountiful shores in this endeavour."

[Tinhampton]

No support. WA Army bad. (Also, it should not be the business of the World Assembly to deliberately and specifically destroy individual sectors of individual member economies.)

[Bananaistan]

No support. WA Army bad. (Also, it should not be the business of the World Assembly to deliberately and specifically destroy individual sectors of individual member economies.)

"We concur with the comrade Ambassador."

[Morover]

"Resolution 2 ought to be repealed, and this does a satisfactory case of demonstrating as such. While I agree that the Separatist Peoples' draft to be an adequate replacement, but we tend to be in favor of the free-for-all that will occur in the drafting processes in an effort to reinstate a new basic document for the Assembly. We support wholeheartedly."

[Heidgaudr]

OOC: Full support as long as there's a good replacement. I'll support Sep's replacement if he intends to submit it, or anybody else's replacement as long as it's of equal or better quality

[Lord Dominator]

Ooc: I'm not actually against a repeal of the resolution Ooc, but I do view this _

Appreciating that Articles 3 and 7 together severely limit the ability of nations to sponsor or allow the operation of international charities, aid organizations, and civil rights organizations due to ability for dictatorial and oppressive nations to consider such organizations to be “an unrequested intervention” when sponsored by a member nation or “fomenting civil strife” if not;

as an exaggeration. I assume that you mean Article 6 by Article 7 and even so, "subject to the immunities recognised by international law" in Article 3 means that the World Assembly can pass a resolution allowing nations to do this and that would supercede Article 3.

“I try to be an efficient person, and while I could write a proposal to workaround it, it’s rather easier to get rid of such obstacles while getting rid of a resolution I already dislike. Also, Ambassador Greer basically dared me to get rid of this one.*

OOC: You would be right, I did mean Article 6.
*(Sanct, if you object to me pretending there was an IC version of your comment on the WA Discord or my use of your ambassador in that, let me know and I’ll change or remove it.”

Zylkoven: "The Daarwyrthian delegation supports this repeal, especially in light of the replacement draft written by the delegation from Separatist Peoples. May the Seas bring you to bountiful shores in this endeavour."

“Your support is appreciated, even if you apparently want me to also go sailing for some reason.”

No support. WA Army bad. (Also, it should not be the business of the World Assembly to deliberately and specifically destroy individual sectors of individual member economies.)

“You may see by my confused face that I’m not remotely clear where you get the idea that this proposed repeal promotes such actions. Or indeed, how the only mention of economic actions is not clearly related to existing resolutions on non-compliance. If this is legitimately unclear, I am open to phrasing suggestions while I mull over the existence of that clause.”

[Lord Dominator]

“I would proudly present version 2 of my draft proposal, taking into consideration comments here and an argument I got into with Bananaistan delegation in the halls.”*

*Similar to above, if you prefer I not treat an IC version of that conversation as having happened, lemme know.

[Anne of Cleves in TNP]

“Any true friend of mine would know that I normally hate repeals against the first 50 GA resolutions (excluding repeals, resolutions already repealed, and insignificant resolutions). However, given that the arguments made in this repeal are strong enough on a preliminary read and that there is a potential replacement already in the works, I will make an exception this time around. I will have to look into the replacement draft by the delegation of the Separatist Peoples later.”
-Ms. Charlotte Schafer, WA Ambassador for the Clevesian Empire

[The Orwell Society]

Full support.

[Gruenberg]

Against. R&D isn't a real resolution, so it shouldn't be repealed. Should just be deleted.

[The Orwell Society]

Against. R&D isn't a real resolution, so it shouldn't be repealed. Should just be deleted.

And how exactly do you think that GA#2 isn't a real resolution?

[Excidium Planetis]

Against. R&D isn't a real resolution, so it shouldn't be repealed. Should just be deleted.

And how exactly do you think that GA#2 isn't a real resolution?

OOC:
My guess would be that, if it were submitted today, would not only be below the current GA standards but also be highly illegal.

The only reason the resolution exists is because it was the second one passed.

[Gruenberg]

Against. R&D isn't a real resolution, so it shouldn't be repealed. Should just be deleted.

And how exactly do you think that GA#2 isn't a real resolution?

Dunnot what "GA#2" is, but I was talking about Rights & Duties, which (a) was not passed by the normal resolution process (Frisbeeteria unilaterally used his "position as a Game Mod to push through a one-time-only acknowledgment of an existing metagame rule") and (b) violates the core site rules on plagiarism.

[Lord Dominator]

“After a discussion with my sock puppet PR advisor and then one with ambassador Meritt, I believe the now pair of us have come up with a yet greater draft.”

[The North Polish Union]

Ambassador M. Wyrzykowski: "The former GA № 2 was successfully repealed years ago by the delegation from Auralia. At that time, the shadowy WA elite manipulated the gnomes into expunging all recognition of this fact from the official WA record in an act that was unprecedented at the time (although this elite has now proclaimed themselves as GenSec and somehow convinced the GA at large to recognize their authority, allowing them to indulge in these shenanigans openly).

"In spite of these underhanded dealings, there are still a few of us who remember the passage of GA № 2's repeal, and as such we cannot support a resolution to repeal already-repealed legislation. Not only because this would be impossible, but additionally because to support or even recognize such a repeal would be a recognition that GA № 2 is active law."

[Imperium Anglorum]

Ambassador M. Wyrzykowski: "The former GA № 2 was successfully repealed years ago by the delegation from Auralia. At that time, the shadowy WA elite manipulated the gnomes into expunging all recognition of this fact from the official WA record in an act that was unprecedented at the time (although this elite has now proclaimed themselves as GenSec and somehow convinced the GA at large to recognize their authority, allowing them to indulge in these shenanigans openly).

"In spite of these underhanded dealings, there are still a few of us who remember the passage of GA № 2's repeal, and as such we cannot support a resolution to repeal already-repealed legislation. Not only because this would be impossible, but additionally because to support or even recognize such a repeal would be a recognition that GA № 2 is active law."

Weird flex but okay.

[Excidium Planetis]

Ambassador M. Wyrzykowski: "The former GA № 2 was successfully repealed years ago by the delegation from Auralia. At that time, the shadowy WA elite manipulated the gnomes into expunging all recognition of this fact from the official WA record in an act that was unprecedented at the time (although this elite has now proclaimed themselves as GenSec and somehow convinced the GA at large to recognize their authority, allowing them to indulge in these shenanigans openly).

"In spite of these underhanded dealings, there are still a few of us who remember the passage of GA № 2's repeal, and as such we cannot support a resolution to repeal already-repealed legislation. Not only because this would be impossible, but additionally because to support or even recognize such a repeal would be a recognition that GA № 2 is active law."

"Oh. I, uh, I now see the meaning behind all those 'Polish jokes' that, er, I found in an old catalogue of Terran histories." Adelia says. "Y-you know, they uh, they're still not very funny, now that I get them."

[Unibot III]

Ambassador M. Wyrzykowski: "The former GA № 2 was successfully repealed years ago by the delegation from Auralia. At that time, the shadowy WA elite manipulated the gnomes into expunging all recognition of this fact from the official WA record in an act that was unprecedented at the time (although this elite has now proclaimed themselves as GenSec and somehow convinced the GA at large to recognize their authority, allowing them to indulge in these shenanigans openly).

"In spite of these underhanded dealings, there are still a few of us who remember the passage of GA № 2's repeal, and as such we cannot support a resolution to repeal already-repealed legislation. Not only because this would be impossible, but additionally because to support or even recognize such a repeal would be a recognition that GA № 2 is active law."

“Arguably, the disastrous decision to discard the repeal of GA#2 for petty branding, brought about the creation of GenSec due to the blow to the old Secretariat’s credibility,” said Percy.

[Lord Dominator]

Ambassador M. Wyrzykowski: "The former GA № 2 was successfully repealed years ago by the delegation from Auralia. At that time, the shadowy WA elite manipulated the gnomes into expunging all recognition of this fact from the official WA record in an act that was unprecedented at the time (although this elite has now proclaimed themselves as GenSec and somehow convinced the GA at large to recognize their authority, allowing them to indulge in these shenanigans openly).

"In spite of these underhanded dealings, there are still a few of us who remember the passage of GA № 2's repeal, and as such we cannot support a resolution to repeal already-repealed legislation. Not only because this would be impossible, but additionally because to support or even recognize such a repeal would be a recognition that GA № 2 is active law."

“Consider this to be burning and salting the remains of #2 then - I know I will be.”