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Bill: The Protection of Innocent Individuals Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: LGC-Freedom Party (UPDD)
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: April 2698
Description[?]:
| Our current policy allows for police to arrest individuals under any circumstance without any evidence of a crime being broken. The LQC maintains that in a free society, we cannot be arresting innocent people. Obviously the police should have discretion to arrest criminal suspects, but our laws go too far. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government's policy towards the powers of the police.
Old value:: The police may arrest citizens for any reason.
Current: The police may arrest crime suspects.
Proposed: The police may arrest crime suspects.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:15:33, January 16, 2009 CET | From | Proletariat | To | Debating the The Protection of Innocent Individuals Act |
| Message | we will support |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 300 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 125 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Cabinet ministers who disagree seriously with the head of government would usually be expected to resign. Parties within the cabinet may attempt to manoeuvre to replace the head of government though, for example by proposing a new cabinet bill or voting for an early election. |
| Random quote: "Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates." - Gore Vidal |