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Bill: Public Order Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Vrné Eslam (Green Theocracy)
Status[?]: defeated
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 3656
Description[?]:
| For too long we have allowed the police's powers to be unhelpfully limited. They must be given back the powers to ensure order in our society. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The citizens' right to assemble in public.
Old value:: The police may only disperse a crowd if a state of emergency has been declared.
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.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government's policy towards the powers of the police.
Old value:: The police may arrest crime suspects.
Current: The police may arrest citizens for any reason.
Proposed: The powers of the police are not restricted.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Police searches.
Old value:: The police cannot search a person or their property without their consent unless the police have obtained a warrant from a court or have reasonable grounds to suspect that a crime was committed.
Current: The police can search a person or their property without restrictions.
Proposed: The police can search a person or their property without restrictions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:07:32, April 21, 2014 CET | From |  Jezvraljogadsrlji Nrzi - Social Democrat | To | Debating the Public Order Act |
| Message | Parties which support such extreme policies have no place in our national government. We do not want a dictatorship and will rule out every working with such parties in the future. |
| Date | 10:56:26, April 22, 2014 CET | From | Parti Minarchiste | To | Debating the Public Order Act |
| Message | A win for the nutters. |
| Date | 02:33:10, April 23, 2014 CET | From | Faşist Prensibi | To | Debating the Public Order Act |
| Message | My party agrees with crowd dispersal, but we feel uneasy about unlimited police power. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 211 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 440 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Culturally Open nations can adopt advisory/non-enforceable Nation Descriptions. See http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6242 |
| Random quote: "When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader." - Plato |