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Bill: Citizens' Right to Assemble in Public Amendment Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Progressive Alliance
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 3848
Description[?]:
Mr. Speaker, We believe all citizen's have the right to protest. The law currently allows room for police to disperse a group if they believe it poses a potential risk to public safety. There is a lot of room to move in the term 'potential', and it could be very easy for police to end protests and disperse a group, despite the group not actually doing any harm, or because they simply don't like them. What we propose will make sure that police are able to disperse groups in a fair and just manner, and actually have a legitimate reason to do so. This is similar to saying "person x has the potential to shoplift or commit a crime, so I shall act on that'. It is unfair and undemocratic to keep the law as it is. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 13:50:53, May 18, 2015 CET | From | Liberal Progressive Alliance | To | Debating the Citizens' Right to Assemble in Public Amendment Bill |
Message | Mr. Speaker, Well this is extremely embarrassing. It seems that instead of adding a proposal, I accidentally initiated the voting process! I apologise to all parties for this mistake. The proposal I intended on adding was; The police may only disperse a crowd if a state of emergency has been declared. If you are in support of this bill, please vote yes and if it passes, I will write another bill withe the proposal officially included so it can be passed into law properly. Sorry once again for this error. Alex Gleed Leader Eastern-Central Alliance |
Date | 14:17:51, May 18, 2015 CET | From | Grand Nationalist Fraction | To | Debating the Citizens' Right to Assemble in Public Amendment Bill |
Message | Mr. Speaker, such a change in legislation doesn't seem wise to us. The police now can only disperse a crowd if they believe there is potential danger. If a crowd feels the need to protest, they are allowed to do so, as long as they don't endanger anyone. By changing the law as proposed we take away an important tool from the police. On the other hand, it could also open the road to the useless and unnecessary proclamation of the state of emergency. Would that be a more democratic way? Ludwig Murphy LNC chairman vice-President of Lodamun |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||||
yes |
Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
no |
Total Seats: 599 | ||||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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