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Bill: Passports Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Catholic Political Union
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 3264
Description[?]:
| The process of acquiring a passport to travel abroad need not be quite so intrusive, intimidating and time-consuming. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Travel by nationals to foreign nations
Old value:: The nation issues passports to nationals after an invasive security check.
Current: The nation issues passports to nationals after an invasive security check.
Proposed: The nation issues passports to nationals after a cursory security check.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:47:52, February 25, 2012 CET | From | Red Police Party | To | Debating the Passports Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, It seems that the Catholic Political Union does not understand the current international tensions. Those security checks allow our nation to continue diplomatic, economic and military ties with or allies. By having these strong checks that are more than "cursory" we assure that we do not allow our citizens to become terrorists and terror others. Think, we want tourists who have been extensively checked by their government to make sure that they will not be conducting acts of terror. As such we support strong checks by other nations, but not our own? We cannot afford to become hypocrites. |
| Date | 15:50:34, February 25, 2012 CET | From | Catholic Political Union | To | Debating the Passports Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, The RPP are exaggerating the security threat in order to scare-monger the public, win political power and further the interests of the wayward police unit they lobby for. When our citizens want to travel abroad, they should be security-cleared, but they ought not to be treated like criminals and forced to go through lengthy and unnecessary procedures. Leroy Adams (Chairman of the CPU) |
| Date | 01:32:50, February 26, 2012 CET | From | Red Police Party | To | Debating the Passports Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, The CPU is underestimating the security threat, and which is worse, and overestimation of the worse or an underestimation of the threat? I'd rather be prepared than find out much too late to help anyone. The CPU must acknowledge that this is simply not the time to be relaxing our security checks. |
| Date | 01:37:17, February 26, 2012 CET | From | Catholic Political Union | To | Debating the Passports Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, As far as the Red Police Party is concerned, we suspect there will never be a time when they think it is right to scale down the security state. Why? Quite simple. The Red Police get jobs, cash and power from maintaining a heavy and intrusive state security infrastructure. Plus they hope that bringing in laws like this will panic the public and win them votes. We are not fooling for it! Leroy Adams (Chairman of the CPU) |
| Date | 01:39:56, February 26, 2012 CET | From | Red Police Party | To | Debating the Passports Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We welcome you to comfort the families of the thousands of Telamonese citizens who are killed by relaxing security measures to allow terror threats into our nation. Do you want the blood of our innocent civilians on your hands? |
| Date | 01:43:07, February 26, 2012 CET | From | Catholic Political Union | To | Debating the Passports Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We will not be lectured about "the blood of innocent civilians" by a party which wants to hand a military machine gun to every police officer in the land. Over-reactive legislation like this makes us less safe instead of more safe because it gives political fuel to the extremists. Leroy Adams (Chairman of the CPU) |
| Date | 01:48:39, February 26, 2012 CET | From | Red Police Party | To | Debating the Passports Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Giving machine guns to trained peace-keeping officers who are currently facing rifles with batons is over-reactive? I'll amend my first statement to "the blood of innocent civilians and police officers!" |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 154 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 459 |
| Random fact: When elections in a country are held, all bills in the voting phase are reset to the debate phase. |
| Random quote: "I'm the motherfucking Premier of Kalistan. It don't get more full time than that!" - Omar Al-Khali, former Kalistani politician |