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Bill: Libel Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dranian Free Anarchist Faction
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: June 2456
Description[?]:
| The people should have the freedom to say what they want. Heck, these laws make it illegal for us to slander the damned Welsh! They must be removed! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Libel laws.
Old value:: Individuals may sue over falsehoods printed on them.
Current: Individuals may sue over falsehoods printed on them.
Proposed: The nation has no laws regarding libel.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Slander laws.
Old value:: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Current: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Proposed: The nation has no laws regarding slander.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:25:29, September 16, 2007 CET | From | Fascist Zealotry League | To | Debating the Libel Reform Act |
| Message | Existing slander laws should not (and do not to the best of my knowledge) apply when speaking about sub-human races (the Welsh for instance). Can you imagine the public furore if some disgusting untermensch scumbag attempted to bring charges against a law abiding Dranian, simply because of a few home truths made about the Welsh cunt stinking of shit? That would be a disgrace I tell you, a disgrace! |
| Date | 03:49:38, September 16, 2007 CET | From | Dranian Free Anarchist Faction | To | Debating the Libel Reform Act |
| Message | Do remember also... these slander laws make it so that people like Serene Lore and the leaders of the FZL can be sued for libel of other political parties. |
| Date | 01:01:37, September 17, 2007 CET | From | Fascist Zealotry League | To | Debating the Libel Reform Act |
| Message | "One man's libel is another man's honesty." - Rex Tillerson, circa 2304. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 227 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 237 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 201 |
| Random fact: Real life-life nationalities, cultures or ethnicities should not be referenced in Particracy (eg. "German"). |
| Random quote: "Religion, like capitalism, will perish in the end. We estimate the complete Terra-wide extinction of Hosianism as a religious belief by the year 4409, and in Dorvik by 4398." - Friedrich Pfeiffer, former Dorvish politician |