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Bill: Weed Them Out Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Steel and the Gray
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 3721
Description[?]:
| This bill seeks to force the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense to cooperatively and proactively seek out illegal aliens hiding among us and expel them from our country. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
The government's stance on illegal aliens.
Old value:: The government does not actively search for illegal aliens, but expels them from the country when discovered.
Current: The government does not actively search for illegal aliens, but puts them in integration centers when discovered.
Proposed: The government actively searches houses for illegal aliens and expels them from the country.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:03:19, August 27, 2014 CET | From |  The Steel and the Gray | To | Debating the Weed Them Out Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker -- Just last week, we found an entire family of aliens nesting in a local churchyard -- purge, purge, purge! Sincerely, The Steel and the Gray |
| Date | 18:10:06, August 27, 2014 CET | From | UNSC (ONI) | To | Debating the Weed Them Out Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker You cannot just barge into a man's home and try to find those who don't belong without evidence. Any search should require written permission by a judge and such a document should only be written if there is sufficient evidence to invade one's privacy. |
| Date | 18:51:52, August 27, 2014 CET | From | The Steel and the Gray | To | Debating the Weed Them Out Act |
| Message | Members of Parliament -- I must strongly disagree with the UNSC's position on this matter. We have a duty to protect our citizens from interlopers as well as gird out country's economy by actively seeking alien invaders who bring little to our productivity and take so much in return. There are known alien-camps being run by such covert organizations as the Orion's Belt throughout Rutania as I speak -- and where are our internal affairs agents? Drinking imported tea because the mandate currently forbids them to root out and upend these EBEs. We must empower our police now before we are facing a complete invasion. Katherine J. Freunlich, PM |
| Date | 02:15:12, August 28, 2014 CET | From | UNSC (ONI) | To | Debating the Weed Them Out Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker There is no way to accommodate this law in the fullest without tearing the freedom and privacy of the people you're trying to help. I'd rather not live in some Totalitarian Police State where a sentence is carried out without evidence and the consent of a Judge. |
| Date | 04:03:16, August 28, 2014 CET | From | The Steel and the Gray | To | Debating the Weed Them Out Act |
| Message | Members of the Parliament -- Where does this bill say that we would be interfering with the freedom and privacy of our citizens? I am concerned only with allowing our government and police to actively search for aliens wherever they may breed, before we start seeing strange items come up on the lunch menu, I would expect the Minister of the Interior to monitor the police force carefully to make sure that these new powers do not corrupt. Katherine J. Freunlich, PM |
| Date | 15:38:26, August 28, 2014 CET | From | UNSC (ONI) | To | Debating the Weed Them Out Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker "The government actively searches houses" implies raids on homes when there is no suspicion. a better wording would be "the government searches homes only with sufficient evidence". |
| Date | 02:11:47, August 29, 2014 CET | From | The Steel and the Gray | To | Debating the Weed Them Out Act |
| Message | Members of Parliament -- Considering the recent passage of the Combating and Eliminating Rogue Institutions and Peoples Program which confirmed Executive Order X (classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=415280) , I submit to you that on its face, the current proposed bill is consistent with existing Rutanian law and should be passed post haste. I'd like to hear directly from President Richter on this matter. Sincerely, Katherine J. Freunlich, PM |
| Date | 04:46:10, August 29, 2014 CET | From | UNSC (ONI) | To | Debating the Weed Them Out Act |
| Message | Executive order X was a direct and unjust violation of the privacy of our civilians, legal or not. It was a reprehensible abuse of power and moved us 1 step closer to a Totalitarian Regime. What God-given right do we have to push aside morals and go at the throats of our innocent civilians private lives? |
| Date | 05:22:00, August 30, 2014 CET | From | Liberal Secularist Party | To | Debating the Weed Them Out Act |
| Message | Madam Speaker, The Prime Minister and her party may seek only to bring their growing police state down upon the heads of undocumented immigrants now, but mark my words, should we allow the Steel and the Gray to pass this measure, it will only be the first step toward a totalitarian regime that will not stop to target any whom they wish, including lawful citizens of the Commonwealth. Geoffrey Cates, MP LSP Leader |
| Date | 02:49:54, August 31, 2014 CET | From | The Steel and the Gray | To | Debating the Weed Them Out Act |
| Message | Members of Parliament -- I cannot see how this law cannot pass since, as I have stated earlier, it is consistent with and necessary to current law, the Combating and Eliminating Rogue Institutions and Peoples Program. I therefore will move this bill forward for immediate ratification. And we find the fears of the LSP to be alarmist at best; the Steel and the Gray do not wish to harm or make difficult the lives of lawful, productive citizens. Katherine J. Freunlich, PM |
| Date | 06:38:08, August 31, 2014 CET | From | Urban Party of Rutania | To | Debating the Weed Them Out Act |
| Message | Members of the Parliament, It's necessary that we remove anybody out of this country that doesn't belong hear instead of taking a lax approach and letting them stay until it's too late and they've committed a crime. I understand the concerns of the UNSC, but the law is the law and nobody is being rounded up unjustly. The only people who are being rounded up are those suspected of committing acts of terrorism as defined by CERIPP. It is in no way Unconstitutional or an invasion of one's civil liberties. Benjamin Richter President of Rutania |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 226 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 108 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 105 |
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