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Bill: Right of Assembly Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: We Say So! 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: January 2634
Description[?]:
| In the interests of public safety the Police are empowered to monitor any group operating in a suspicious manner or that is deemed to be a danger to either themselves or those around them . Guidelines will be put in place for the Police as to what equates a breach of the peace or a danger to public safety. This law does not empower the Police to disband any groups without provocation, or without probable cause, nor does it allow for intervention within an organised assembly of persons, be the gathering of a political or social nature, without aforementioned cause. However if it is believed that said group could become violent or breach the peace in some way so as to cause public disorder, the Police are empowered to disband said group in a peaceful manner. Should peaceful means be unsuccessful than the Police are entitled to use whatever means necessary, barring lethal force, in order to subdue those that may become a danger to either themselves or the public. This law may not be used, either politically or by the Police, to forcibly place restictions on peoples right to gather, rather it only allows the Police to disperse groups should they become a point of public disorder. *A breach of the peace is classified as: A person who recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally: (1) engages in fighting or in tumultuous conduct; (2) makes unreasonable noise between the hours of 11pm and 6am and continues to do so after being asked to stop; or (3) disrupts a lawful assembly of persons. *commits disorderly conduct. |
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 only disperse a crowd if a state of emergency has been declared.
Proposed: The police may disperse a group if they believe it poses a potential risk to public safety.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:21:07, September 07, 2008 CET | From |  United Blobs | To | Debating the Right of Assembly Act |
| Message | We strongly support this bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 300 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 100 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: It is the collective responsibility of the players in a nation to ensure all currently binding RP laws are clearly outlined in an OOC reference bill in the "Bills under debate" section of the nation page. Confusion should not be created by displaying only some of the current RP laws or displaying RP laws which are no longer current. |
| Random quote: "Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American...[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." - Tenche Coxe |