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Bill: Senate Resolution 15: Furthering Liberties Act (FL Act)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federal Independent Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2438
Description[?]:
| The continuation of furthering several liberties. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National policy regarding the desecration of the national flag.
Old value:: The national flag may not be desecrated or dishonoured.
Current: The national flag may not be desecrated or dishonoured.
Proposed: There are no regulations regarding the desecration or use of the national flag.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change
The government's policy regarding foreign marriages.
Old value:: Only foreign marriages that comply with domestic policy regarding marriage are recognised.
Current: Only foreign marriages that comply with domestic policy regarding marriage are recognised.
Proposed: All foreign marriages are recognised, regardless of domestic policy regarding marriage.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Internet regulations.
Old value:: The government allows anyone to use the internet but the police can run investigations concerning illegal activities conducted by using internet (child abuse, illegal filesharing, ...)
Current: The government allows anyone to use the internet but the police can run investigations concerning illegal activities conducted by using internet (child abuse, illegal filesharing, ...)
Proposed: The government has no position on who may use or what is published on the internet.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:13:42, August 02, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Party of Solentia | To | Debating the Senate Resolution 15: Furthering Liberties Act (FL Act) |
| Message | Not supported. The desecration of the flag of Solentia would most likely lead to unrest among citizens, and therefore in extreme events, leave the Government open to a coup. People's rights must be protected on the internet, no laws regarding the internet would lead to a massive increase to exploitation of children etc. Xavier Evans, Party Leader |
| Date | 21:02:08, August 02, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Party of Solentia | To | Debating the Senate Resolution 15: Furthering Liberties Act (FL Act) |
| Message | I concur with Mr. Evans. Julia Taylor, Inner Party Leader |
| Date | 00:13:20, August 03, 2007 CET | From | Federal Independent Party | To | Debating the Senate Resolution 15: Furthering Liberties Act (FL Act) |
| Message | Mr. Evans, I respect your ideas and find that I once shared them. Before arriving to serve the needs of the public in Solentia, I worked as a Liberal Democratic Party Supreme Councilman for years. My party, much like yours, was fiercely anti-drug and anti-unregulated internet among other security issues...until it realized that it was the right of the people to implement these things with government warning. However, we have always been pro-civil liberties, especially a proud supporter of the right to instill any action regarding the flag amendments. Preventing citizens the ability to show their opinions and voice their expressions will only anger them more than they may be already. We believe that freedoms in various categories should have a point to where the excessiveness is stopped, but this is a situation of utmost regards towards the topic of destroying, severing, and eviscerating citizen's common ground freedoms. A flag is a flag, it has no possession towards human qualities. While it should be respected it is the right of a citizen to overcome a preventing law with civil disobedience and practical points in law to be seperated as is. The government can and should not be able to massacre a citizen's rights to brutally. We do not think burning a flag is wise, especially one that means so much, but we do not believe in burning down citizen's rights for a flag's sake. FIP Minority Leader Hugh Bieler |
| Date | 13:20:30, August 03, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Party of Solentia | To | Debating the Senate Resolution 15: Furthering Liberties Act (FL Act) |
| Message | Mr Bieler the issue here is not that opinions cannot be expressed! We have worked with you in the past, and you must surely know that we are most certainly pro-civil liberties. However, we are not pro-civil unrest. The burning of a flag is considered in many nations to be a henious act, and often coincides with violence. The people of Solentia have many ways in which to express themselves, but the burning of the flag is one that achieves nothing but hate and violence. I quite simply cannot see the sense in this bill! Xavier Evans, Party Leader |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 58 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 105 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 12 |
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