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Bill: Freedom of Association Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pan-Sekowo Freedom Alliance
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: October 2522
Description[?]:
| Although many may disagree with them, there are many in Sekowo who beleive in keeping th proude cultural and racial traditions of our nation pure, by keeping them seperate, so they are nto diluted. People with such a view currently find themselves discriminated against by law, and are unable to choose who their own children associate with. We demand this be rectified, and people be given the option to educate their children in a school that better understands and values their beleifs. While we support freedom for those who choose to mix their racial and cultural traditions, we demand the same freedom be extended to those who wish to choose not to. anything less is hypocracy |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy concerning racial segregation in educational institutions.
Old value:: Segregation is illegal in all educational institutions.
Current: Segregation is illegal in all educational institutions.
Proposed: Public educational institutions cannot be segregated, private institutions can choose to apply a policy of segregation.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:02:31, January 26, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Freedom of Association Bill |
| Message | NO! Segregation must be eliminated completely! Equality must prevail! |
| Date | 02:05:19, January 26, 2008 CET | From | Pan-Sekowo Freedom Alliance | To | Debating the Freedom of Association Bill |
| Message | Equality? How can we be equal when the cultural views of many of our citizens are hated by their own government? Hypocracy! |
| Date | 02:17:55, January 26, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Freedom of Association Bill |
| Message | Culture is irrelevant. |
| Date | 13:57:52, January 26, 2008 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the Freedom of Association Bill |
| Message | Ha! The DSP wants us to rename the cities based on culture, to do languages on culture and to rename positions in government on culture, and yet, the DSP say: "Culture is irrelevant" |
| Date | 21:40:12, January 26, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Freedom of Association Bill |
| Message | OOC: That's all out of character renaming, not in character. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 224 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 510 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 16 |
| Random fact: When it comes to creating a Cultural Protocol in a Culturally Open nation, players are not necessarily required to provide a plausible backstory for how the nation's cultural background developed. However, the provision of a plausible backstory may be a factor in whether Moderation approves the Cultural Protocol if players in surrounding nations question its appropriateness for their region of the game map. |
| Random quote: "A democracy that does not allow limits is not a democracy. Just as a limitless freedom is not freedom, but prevarication. Indeed, any theory of freedom worthy of this name is first of all a limit theory. If we extend the unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not willing to defend a tolerant society against the attacks of the intolerants, then the tolerants will be destroyed and the tolerance with them! Because, I ask to myself and ask you, given a certain system that we call democratic, which is today the best possible system to allow everyone to live freely and to be able to express their own thoughts, how can the same system admit attacks against its integrity? How can a system refuse the principle of the self-preservation? For this reason, to suppress the apologetics of thalerrism, it's for this reason that the exaltation of exegetes, principles, facts or methods of Thallerism and its anti-democratic aims does not constitute a violation of the freedom of manifestation of thought, but, on the contrary, the celebration of that freedom. The protection of the first premise on which a modern democratic system is based. And this premise must be safeguarded also and above all against itself and its abuses." ~ Malik Astori, Leadership of Liberty and Progress (Istalia) |