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Bill: Personal Liberties Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pnték Znkak Prta 'Bastardry'
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: July 2183
Description[?]:
| By removing and relaxing legislation and recommendations that waste money to enforce and endorse, whilst still granting the people the choice to exercise the acts they recommend or mandate, we can reassign the responsibility to local governments, instead of blanketting matters of individuals when we have too much terrain to scout for breaches. It also means local governments can have the chance to provide facilities for the populus to keep them occupied in a way they enjoy if local factors decide, instead of being tempted into malevolence. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right to euthanasia.
Old value:: Euthanasia is only allowed with consent from the patient and a court order.
Current: Euthanasia is only allowed with consent from the patient and a court order.
Proposed: Euthanasia is allowed with consent from the patient and the treating doctor.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: Prostitution is illegal.
Current: Prostitution is illegal.
Proposed: Prostitution regulation decisions are left up to local governments.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are only made to sing the national anthem on special occasions.
Current: Children are only made to sing the national anthem on special occasions.
Proposed: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: Teacher-led prayers in schools are encouraged.
Current: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Proposed: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The funding of sports clubs.
Old value:: The government does not fund sports clubs; only private ones are allowed.
Current: The government funds some sports clubs side-by-side with private ones.
Proposed: Local governments decide the funding policy of sports clubs.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Weapons allowed to private citizens.
Old value:: Only certain types of weapons may be owned by the general public, but these may be carried anywhere except as determined by the property owner.
Current: Only certain types of weapons may be owned by the general public, and there are further restrictions on places where they may be carried.
Proposed: Citizens may own any type of weapon. They may be carried anywhere except as determined by the property owner.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:27:23, February 06, 2006 CET | From |   Pnték Znkak Prta 'Bastardry' | To | Debating the Personal Liberties Act |
| Message | I would like to also emphasise that Article 3 (as pending) says "are not MADE to" not "are PREVENTED from" - the choice is still there. |
| Date | 19:30:28, February 06, 2006 CET | From | Georgeonian Centrist Party | To | Debating the Personal Liberties Act |
| Message | Despite severe objections to article 6, which we believe could be disasterous to law and order, the GCP would, on balance, be willing to support this bill. |
| Date | 19:39:06, February 06, 2006 CET | From | Friedrich Hayek Party | To | Debating the Personal Liberties Act |
| Message | We will fully support this bill if article 5 is removed. We fail to see how local government involvement in sports clubs has anything to do with civil liberties and are firmly in the belief that the right to free/subsidised sports club access does not exist and is in fact NOT a human right, |
| Date | 20:57:01, February 06, 2006 CET | From | Pontesi Fascist Coalition | To | Debating the Personal Liberties Act |
| Message | Unsuprisingly, the PFC will oppose this bill |
| Date | 18:17:30, February 07, 2006 CET | From | Pnték Znkak Prta 'Bastardry' | To | Debating the Personal Liberties Act |
| Message | FHP - you'll notice I said Civil Liberty, not human right; a freedom to take, not a promise to bestow. |
| Date | 19:47:22, February 08, 2006 CET | From | Friedrich Hayek Party | To | Debating the Personal Liberties Act |
| Message | Children not being made to sing the anthem is not a freedom to take, if you say you are handing out freedoms to take, what you mean is... "Here is something you can have for free that someone else worked for and produced which i have taken from them without their consent to give to you" We say no to theft and socialism thanks |
| Date | 22:15:53, February 08, 2006 CET | From | Pnték Znkak Prta 'Bastardry' | To | Debating the Personal Liberties Act |
| Message | You misunderstand... I don't mean the freedom to take anything they can, I mean in this bill they will be granted freedoms that people, at their liberty and choice, can participate in. There is no theft involved. With regards to the singing of the national anthem, as it stands, there is education in culture, history and cuisine for, and the tales of the generations before every Pontesian child so that they can appreciate what it is to be Pontesian. They can always choose to sing it. At present we are making them sing it before they fully understand what it is to be Pontesian, tantamount to brainwashing (with a national anthem that doesn't even rhyme, I might add (although the Spanish solution to this problem wouldn't really work here ;) )) the minds who cannot appreciate what they are. If they are unhappy with the way they are, they can always go into politics to change things as all the respectable members of this house have done, they can campaign, or ultimately, if our way of life is not their cup of tea, they can always emigrate. |
| Date | 02:22:05, February 09, 2006 CET | From | GotNation Party | To | Debating the Personal Liberties Act |
| Message | Sadly, the GNP does not support fragmenting federal authority by parceling it out to the local governments. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 100 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 171 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Kubrk" is a Jelbic word that has the colloquial meaning "old man" or "geezer". |
| Random quote: "I am a conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few." - Benjamin Disraeli |