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Bill: OPX Re-rights Act 2469
Details
Submitted by[?]: Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX
Status[?]: passed
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: November 2469
Description[?]:
| A bill to reassert the rights of government and good corporations. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The citizens' right to assemble in public.
Old value:: There are no restrictions on the right of citizens to assemble in groups.
Current: There are no restrictions on the right of citizens to assemble in groups.
Proposed: The police may disperse a group if they believe it poses a potential risk to public safety.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Eminent Domain.
Old value:: The government may seize private property for vital government works.
Current: The government may seize private property for vital government works and for corporate use.
Proposed: The government may seize private property for vital government works and for corporate use.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Current: Agricultural crops which are considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state are subsidized.
Proposed: Strategic crops are produced on State owned farms. All other produce is left to the Private sector.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government-issued identity card policy.
Old value:: Citizens are not issued with identity cards.
Current: Citizens are not issued with identity cards.
Proposed: All citizens are issued with identity cards and are required to carry them at all times.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change
The government's stance on illegal aliens.
Old value:: Dealing with illegal aliens is left to local governments.
Current: The government does not actively search for illegal aliens, but puts them in integration centers when discovered.
Proposed: The government actively searches houses for illegal aliens and expels them from the country.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Current: The government does not intervene in the market nor provide any form of subsidies/relief to industries.
Proposed: The state owns the commanding heights of the economy and all major industries, but private ownership is allowed in the minor industries.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on the separation of the police and the military.
Old value:: A civilian police force is in place and the military is not allowed to play any part in it.
Current: A civilian police force is in place and the military may be called in to help in serious emergencies.
Proposed: The military acts as a de-facto police force, with powers of arrest.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change Secondary strike action.
Old value:: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Current: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Proposed: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:30:20, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the OPX Re-rights Act 2469 |
| Message | Voting No aginst a police state. |
| Date | 10:27:20, October 12, 2007 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the OPX Re-rights Act 2469 |
| Message | Really? What a shock. We here at OPX powered by wannabet.com are amazed that the Libertarians would be *against* restricting civil rights (despite the fact that it means the streets will be safer: what good are rights if you're dead?). |
| Date | 17:18:42, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Free Democrats | To | Debating the OPX Re-rights Act 2469 |
| Message | What happened to the Orange Party's tradition of hundreds of years to further fundemental rights in Baltusia? What happened to the LLP's 20 rights? |
| Date | 02:26:21, October 13, 2007 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the OPX Re-rights Act 2469 |
| Message | We sold out to maximise profits. |
| Date | 02:28:12, October 13, 2007 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the OPX Re-rights Act 2469 |
| Message | Plus we knew the RDS were coming back so we have to move away from socialism to new niche markets. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 157 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 143 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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