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Bill: State Security Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Vigs Partija ('Whigs')
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: May 3268
Description[?]:
| With anarchists siding with the enemies of the communist revolution, fresh measures must be taken to protect the peoples revolution comrades. We expect the Supreme Presidium to pass this act, and be good socialist comrades for the peoples good. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right to appeal against a judgement rendered by a court.
Old value:: Every person has the right to appeal against a judgement and to have it reviewed by a higher court.
Current: Every person has the right to appeal against a judgement and to have it reviewed by a higher court.
Proposed: Every person has the right to appeal to the Minister of Justice to have a judgement reviewed by another court.
Article 2
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 only disperse a crowd if a state of emergency has been declared.
Proposed: The police may disperse a group without giving any reason.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy with respect to the death penalty.
Old value:: Local governments may choose whether or not to administer the death penalty for capital crimes
Current: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Proposed: The death penalty is not applied, except for terrorism, treason and crimes against mankind.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are laws against the publication of false information, hate speech, and subversive anti-government material.
Current: There are no content regulations; the media may publish anything, even proven falsehoods.
Proposed: It is forbidden to criticize the government, or publish any material that the government does not approve of.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change International media content regulation.
Old value:: International media content undergoes the same regulation as domestic media content.
Current: International media content undergoes the same regulation as domestic media content.
Proposed: International media content is heavily censored for political purposes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:32:43, March 04, 2012 CET | From |  Progressive Green Party | To | Debating the State Security Act |
| Message | Um, how have the FAI sided against you? |
| Date | 19:43:36, March 04, 2012 CET | From | Vigs Partija ('Whigs') | To | Debating the State Security Act |
| Message | Anyone opposed to this governments agenda in any way is an enemy of the workers, a counter revolutionary Trotskyite. For so long as there is any opposition party to this government, we shall be forced, comrades, to clamp down on the assorted enemies within. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes |
Total Seats: 191 | |
| no | Total Seats: 9 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: If there are no parties in your nation with seats, feel free to visit the forum and request an early election on the Early Election Requests thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4362 |
| Random quote: "I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." - Ronald Reagan, quoted in New York Times, 22 September 1980 |