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Bill: Public decency bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Likaton Fascist Front
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: June 2171
Description[?]:
We beleive that citizens should have a right to walk down the street without being affronted by overt acts of public affection - or worse.
We fail to see why ordinary citizens need to be inflicted with visions of public affection they have never consented too, along with the outrage or embarrasment that continues for long after the event. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Displays of public affection and obscenity laws.
Old value:: Sexual intercourse is illegal in public.
Current: Sexual intercourse is illegal in public.
Proposed: All public displays of affection are illegal, except brief greeting exchanges between close relatives.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:19:58, January 08, 2006 CET |
From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | The AAS fails to see why young lovers should be forced NOT TO be happy and passionate, on the offchance that they upset some prim, victorian value set.
The intercourse 'act' is currently illegal in public, anyway... so it is unlikely our citizens are going to be offended by witnessing 'random acts of coitus'.
The AAS opposes this attempt to stamp all life out of the Likatonian city streets. |
| Date | 05:25:25, January 09, 2006 CET |
From | JLP Liberation Militia | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | Coitus? I haven't heard that word since health class in 9th grade.
Basically, the JLP wouldn't mind seeing more PDA's from the citizenry. A happy citizenry is one that... well, never mind. Anyways, we don't support this legislation, and we have to agree with the AAS on this one.
With all due respect to Absalom ben Adamah, you must have been a terrible person to date. Lighten up. Enjoy life. |
| Date | 05:55:02, January 09, 2006 CET |
From | JLP Liberation Militia | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | "Get a room"??? That is what we should do as a government if we pass this proposal. Shouldn't we at least buy the citizens dinner first? |
| Date | 06:05:27, January 09, 2006 CET |
From | Likaton Fascist Front | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | We censor acts of this nature on Television, why not real life ? We see no moral distinction. If anything, we can't flick a switch to turn reality off.
While no formal response shall be coming from the PSS to the JLP about Absalom benAdamah's social life, there has been plenty written in the mainstream press using terms such as "discreet", "gentelmanly" and "stamina of a steam engine in top gear on steroids with a battering ram that would put a medieval army to shame." |
| Date | 06:22:49, January 09, 2006 CET |
From | JLP Liberation Militia | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | After reviewing the latest issue of The National Enquirer - Likatonia Edition, the JLP formally apologizes to Absalom ben Adamah regarding the previous dating statement. You stallion! |
| Date | 13:11:26, January 09, 2006 CET |
From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | Response to the PSS: We do not (currently) censor such things as holding hands, and moderate kissing on television - although, perhaps that is NEXT on the PSS agenda?
And, to use the PSS logic, if we DON'T censor it on television, why censor it on the street? |
| Date | 14:42:20, January 09, 2006 CET |
From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | Without commenting on the motives of anyone proposing such restrictive legislation, the RLP must join the opposition. Under this law, I can give someone the finger but not shake their hand. Is this the message we wish to send our citizens? I think not. |
| Date | 17:46:51, January 09, 2006 CET |
From | JLP Liberation Militia | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | How are we going to monitor who is a "close relative"? Even more government interference in someone's personal life? |
| Date | 22:57:28, January 09, 2006 CET |
From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | The last PSS comment has prompted Arkham Konstantinos to recommend this debate to the "Book of Records", for the "Most Painful Pun Ever Used in a Political Debate". |
| Date | 05:20:43, January 10, 2006 CET |
From | Likaton Fascist Front | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | In a rare event for PSS party meetings, Absalom ben Adamah has been warned not to make any more similar puns or he will face party disciplinary action. |
| Date | 15:43:33, January 10, 2006 CET |
From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | OOC: The 'pun' in question has been entered on the Forum (General Discussion) "Most humorous line heard in a debate?" thread. We hope we have not offended the PSS. :-)
IC:
In a rare event for AAS party meetings, Arkham Konstantinos has offered to send a group of 'special bodyguards' to help make SURE Mr. ben Adamah does not make any more similar puns or he will face 'partly' disciplinary action...
:-) |
| Date | 19:18:20, January 10, 2006 CET |
From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | The RLP supports freedom of speach, therefore we deplore the condemnation of Mr. ben Adamah for making a bad pun (of course, our defination of a bad pun is any pun we did not think of first). |
| Date | 19:28:11, January 10, 2006 CET |
From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | The AAS is aware of the RLP concerns about "freedom of speech", but believes that Absalom ben Adamah has crossed that line, and is now in the territory of "cruel and unusual punishment"..... |
| Date | 22:09:55, January 10, 2006 CET |
From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | We will even extend our defination of freedom of speach to include the horrifying pun just made by Mr. Arkham Konstantinos, although it may more qualify as 2/3 of a pun .....P.U. |
| Date | 03:37:26, January 11, 2006 CET |
From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | The Freedom Party wonders why the Progressive Social Strength Party advocates incest. |
| Date | 23:29:42, January 11, 2006 CET |
From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | The Freedom Party missed the word "greeting" in the phrase "except brief greeting exchanges between close relatives". |
| Date | 23:18:48, January 12, 2006 CET |
From | Likaton Fascist Front | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | To theJLP:
"How are we going to monitor who is a "close relative"? Even more government interference in someone's personal life?"
Again, this will be easy to police when the national identity card is in place. |
| Date | 16:59:47, January 13, 2006 CET |
From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the Public decency bill | | Message | Hmm, we are unsure about this bill. Although the current law does sem adequate, sexual intercourse would not include other sexual acts that do not involve intercourse, thus we would like certain loopholes to be removed from the current status, but we are unsure as to whether the proposed change is the most effective, is there not a midway point between the two?
(although i realise i have poked my head up too late to alter this bill, sorry) |
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