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Bill: Free Assembly Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Leviathan 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: August 2041
Description[?]:
| Too often, the police use the excuse of 'public safety' to impose de facto restrictions on free speech. The right to free expression is too important to a functioning democracy to allow a chilling effect when security rules through scrutiny. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The citizens' right to assemble in public.
Old value:: The police may disperse a group if they believe it poses a potential risk to public safety.
Current: The police may disperse a group if they believe it poses a potential risk to public safety.
Proposed: There are no restrictions on the right of citizens to assemble in groups.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Free Assembly Act |
| Message | Woohoo, Wouter's implemented one of my Law and Order proposals. And I agree. |
| Date | not recorded | From | LibCom Party | To | Debating the Free Assembly Act |
| Message | Excellent. |
| Date | not recorded | From | United Socialist Party | To | Debating the Free Assembly Act |
| Message | We disagree with the bill, the arguement which has been put by the Leviathan Party does not reflect upon the reality. In reality the police is a organisation devoted to uphold the law and order in the nation, they have no right to inflict damage upon the rights of free speech and therefore it will not happen in a civilized community, but extreme situations demands extreme solutions. Let us say that a group of people are demonstrating against immigrants and there is another group that demonstrates against the first group, the police and state knows that a conflict between them will arise unless something is made to prevent it, should not the police then have the right to disperse one, or both, group(s) to prevent unnecessary damage being done to the society, both in terms of personal unjuries but also to buildings and other traits? |
| Date | not recorded | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Free Assembly Act |
| Message | Existing public order laws should be used when people act in a threatening manner. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Radical Centrists | To | Debating the Free Assembly Act |
| Message | We support. |
| Date | not recorded | From | United Socialist Party | To | Debating the Free Assembly Act |
| Message | "Existing public order laws" will be useless as there will be nothing to stop them with, any government interference will be looked upon as an attack upon the peoples right of free speech. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 85 | |||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 10 |
| Random fact: Particracy has 464 player slots. |
| Random quote: "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - John Adams |