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Bill: Emergency dispersal Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Vanuku Nationalists Party
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: October 2522
Description[?]:
| In the case of State Emergency Police must be given the right to move the Public away from dangerous areas aswell as remove citizens from areas they believe will cause more trouble. Since im unable to find how a State of Emergency can be declared. Im adding to this Bill a 2/3 Majority Senate approval before a Government may declare a "State of Emergency" |
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: The police may disperse a group if they believe it poses a potential risk to public safety.
Proposed: The police may only disperse a crowd if a state of emergency has been declared.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:33:57, January 22, 2008 CET | From | People's Party of Vanuku | To | Debating the Emergency dispersal Act |
| Message | This is easily manipulative. A power hungry leader could declare us in a perpetual state of emergency and use this clause as a reason for crowd dispersal. |
| Date | 09:21:16, January 22, 2008 CET | From | Vanuku Nationalists Party | To | Debating the Emergency dispersal Act |
| Message | Well any law enforcement act can be used like. This is more about Public Safety then anything else. Since im unable to find how a State of Emergency can be declared. Im adding to this Bill a 2/3 Majority Senate approval before a Government may declare a "State of Emergency" |
| Date | 21:50:47, January 22, 2008 CET | From | Freeholder Party | To | Debating the Emergency dispersal Act |
| Message | I could with the amendment the Nationalist have presented consider support |
| Date | 05:26:21, January 23, 2008 CET | From | Vanuku Nationalists Party | To | Debating the Emergency dispersal Act |
| Message | Thank You Freeholders |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 99 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 23 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 83 |
| Random fact: Submitting a bill without any proposals in it will not attract or detract voters. It will not raise your visibility or change your political position. |
| Random quote: "What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?" - Abraham Lincoln |