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Bill: Torture Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Novy Smer 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 2106
Description[?]:
| Torture is never justified. Information gained under torture is unreliable anyway as people will say anything if made to suffer enough pain. End this barbaric practice. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The use of torture for obtaining information.
Old value:: Suspects can only be tortured under grave emergencies where the information is vital.
Current: Torture is never allowed.
Proposed: Torture is never allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:49:13, September 04, 2005 CET | From |  Ducal Delegation | To | Debating the Torture Act |
| Message | Torture is an ugly business, but we believe there are certain, very extreme, extremely rare cases where it IS justified. What should the police do if they've arrested a terrorist and believe he has information which, if swiftly obtained, could prevent a major terrorist attack? |
| Date | 22:54:24, September 05, 2005 CET | From | Civil Liberties Party | To | Debating the Torture Act |
| Message | We'll not support this and torture is not acceptable! |
| Date | 22:55:04, September 05, 2005 CET | From | Civil Liberties Party | To | Debating the Torture Act |
| Message | We'll support this and torture is not acceptable! |
| Date | 22:56:51, September 05, 2005 CET | From | Civil Liberties Party | To | Debating the Torture Act |
| Message | ok i made a typo and some how added not... not sure how i did that so... it was a blonde moment |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 105 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 216 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Unless otherwise stated, monarchs and their royal houses will be presumed to be owned by the player who introduced the bill appointing them to their position. |
| Random quote: "In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order." - Idi Amin |