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Bill: The Humane and True Justice Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Partei des Demokratischen Merkantilismus
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: March 3323
Description[?]:
| As a civilized society, we must treat all criminals as human beings and not resort to force as a punishment for a crime. Ruling a society by force and fear will only cause uprisings and make people feel hate, but by ruling through virtue, compassion, and ritual they will love each other and will not seek to do harm to someone and will respect the government. Gisa Odila- Justice spokesperson for the Partei des Demokratischen Merkantilismus |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy with respect to the death penalty.
Old value:: The death penalty is applied to most minor and all major criminal offences.
Current: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Proposed: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The terms of extradition.
Old value:: The law does not limit the power of the government to pursue extradition treaties.
Current: Extradition to nations with capital punishment or with cruel or inhumane treatment of suspects and convicts is not allowed.
Proposed: Extradition to nations with capital punishment is not allowed, unless there are assurances that the death penalty will not be imposed.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the organization of police/law enforcement
Old value:: The government competitively subcontracts security management to private security firms.
Current: There is a national police department funded by the national government and there are local police departments, funded by local governments.
Proposed: The operation and funding of the police is left to local governments.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The weapons used by police forces.
Old value:: Police officers carry military-grade equipment.
Current: Police officers carry standard firearms.
Proposed: Police officers may only carry standard firearms apart from specially trained firearms units.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The use of torture for obtaining information.
Old value:: It is at the discretion of the police officer to torture suspects for information.
Current: Torture is never allowed.
Proposed: Suspects can only be tortured under grave emergencies where the information is vital.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The legality of slavery.
Old value:: The slave trade is illegal, but slavery is legal as a punishment.
Current: Slavery and the slave trade are illegal.
Proposed: Slavery and the slave trade are illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:44:09, June 21, 2012 CET | From | Konservative Partei | To | Debating the The Humane and True Justice Act |
| Message | I'm sorry, but what the heck is Frau Odila smoking? "The government does not operate or fund any police." So you want private militias to go around exacting their own form of vigilante justice, do you? Or better still, no punishments for crimes at all? I would have thought that the last thing that a "democratic" party would want is to abolish the most basic protection that enables citizens to live in safety. If this legislation were introduced and a person were physically attacked, raped or sexually assaulted, who would they turn to? Well, the answer is that they would have nobody to turn to, because there's no police to report the crime to and no police investigators empowered to look into the crime. We accept that the PDM has a legislative mandate to introduce reforms, and some of the proposals in this legislation are undoubtedly part of this mandate: we oppose these changes of course, but we accept that you have the mandate to introduce most of them. But the PDM has stepped over the mark if it believes that the people of Dundorf have consented to the abolition of the entire criminal justice system. The bill as it presently stands is nothing less than a rapists' bill of rights, a licence for murderers and carte blanche for criminals. This is not an exaggeration in the slightest: without any law enforcement officers, anybody could commit any crime with impunity, because they know that they will never be investigated or punished for it. We urge the PDM to reconsider their approach immediately. - Gabriela Staudinger, internal affairs spokesperson for teh Konservative Partei; Jens Kniebe, justice spokesperson for the Konservative Partei. |
| Date | 05:50:01, June 21, 2012 CET | From | Partei des Demokratischen Merkantilismus | To | Debating the The Humane and True Justice Act |
| Message | OOC forgive me, I thought that proposition meant that the National Government did not own or fund a police department. I meant to make it entirely a local thing. I will correct that now. |
| Date | 05:50:03, June 21, 2012 CET | From | Partei des Demokratischen Merkantilismus | To | Debating the The Humane and True Justice Act |
| Message | OOC forgive me, I thought that proposition meant that the National Government did not own or fund a police department. I meant to make it entirely a local thing. I will correct that now. |
| Date | 05:52:20, June 21, 2012 CET | From | Partei des Demokratischen Merkantilismus | To | Debating the The Humane and True Justice Act |
| Message | OOC I selected the wrong things without noticing, my fault :). |
| Date | 16:15:22, June 21, 2012 CET | From | Konservative Partei | To | Debating the The Humane and True Justice Act |
| Message | OOC: Okay, thanks. Looks like I wasted about six paragraphs railing against the introduction of anarchy. :P |
| Date | 19:34:28, June 21, 2012 CET | From | Partei des Demokratischen Merkantilismus | To | Debating the The Humane and True Justice Act |
| Message | OOC: lol :D |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 335 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 165 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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