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Bill: Public Safety Bill Package
Details
Submitted by[?]: Ikradonian Faith Party
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: April 2211
Description[?]:
| We present this bill package to the Assembly after months of work by our study group. Please read the reasoning behind every proposal below: Article 1: Civil defense For decades, the Office of Defense has been responsible for providing civil defense in the case of an NBC-type attack. While its work has been commendable, the IFP prefers to leave this task to the provincial governments, who are better placed to detect holes in the civil defense network. A national Council of Civil Defense will allocate funds to the provinces and monitor their progress. Article 2: Curfew policy Our current laws allow the police to disperse rioting groups to protect public safety. The IFP wants more security for our citizens, and suggests giving provincial governments the authority to impose a curfew, but only when the national government has declared a state of emergency in that province. This will help the local police forces to deal with the situation. Article 3: Gambling Less related to the other five articles, but still important. For many gamblers, their first winnings are the start of a troublesome addiction. By limiting the betting amounts, we can prevent serious problems while still retaining the entertainment value of gambling. Casino buildings can be tranformed into theme parks or museums. Article 4: Identity cards Only the oldest Ikradonians remember the time when no identity cards were issued. The time has come to make carrying the cards mandatory. This will help the police to identify suspects and victims alike, and can help improve our crime solution rate. Article 5: Confidentiality of letters This article attempts to correct a mistake made years ago in the Assembly. When the right to privacy was limited with Habeas Data (the justice system can force individuals to provide crucial information), this law should have been changed in a similar way. Allowing criminals to use the postal services for organising their activities would be ridiculous. Article 6: Border security This policy has been changed a number of times in the last century. The IFP wants to return to more strict border controls, in order to prevent less trustworthy types of entering our country. This too will help lower the crime rate. The IFP is open to discussion, but we remind all other parties that the public safety of our citizens is at stake here. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Civil defence is the government's policy on providing shelters to be used in the event of attacks on major cities, mainly nuclear attacks and bombing.
Old value:: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Current: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Proposed: Local authorities are responsible for building and maintaining shelters.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Curfew policy (curfew time to be determined in the bill description).
Old value:: No curfew policies may be established.
Current: The national government may impose curfews, but only if a state of emergency has been declared.
Proposed: Local governments may impose curfews, but only if a state of emergency has been declared.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: Gambling is legal, but only in private homes and casinos with special licences.
Current: Only small-scale gambling is allowed, involving limited amounts of money; casinos are illegal.
Proposed: Only small-scale gambling is allowed, involving limited amounts of money; casinos are illegal.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government-issued identity card policy.
Old value:: All citizens are issued with identity cards but are not required to carry them.
Current: All citizens are issued with identity cards and are required to carry them at all times.
Proposed: All citizens are issued with identity cards and are required to carry them at all times.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The confidentiality of letters and correspondence.
Old value:: The confidentiality of letters is inviolable.
Current: The confidentiality of letters is not inviolable.
Proposed: The confidentiality of letters is inviolable, but the justice dept. can violate it in extreme situations.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Travel by foreigners to the nation.
Old value:: The nation imposes minimal border controls on visitors, with cursory security checks, to confirm visitor identities.
Current: The nation imposes minimal border controls on visitors, with cursory security checks, to confirm visitor identities.
Proposed: The nation imposes strict border control on visitors, with intensive security checks, to maintain law and order.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:02:25, March 29, 2006 CET | From | Neoretropostmodernist Party | To | Debating the Public Safety Bill Package |
| Message | This bill won't reduce crime as it criminalizes a large number of activitives. Most of these bills strike us as being unnecessary infringements on civil rights. |
| Date | 10:59:48, April 05, 2006 CET | From | Ikradonian Faith Party | To | Debating the Public Safety Bill Package |
| Message | Only one party graced this proposal with an opinion. We submit the package to the Assembly for a vote. |
| Date | 14:20:24, April 05, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Ikradon Party | To | Debating the Public Safety Bill Package |
| Message | Man i didnt notice this... :\ Anyway, for the future: We oppose article 4 and specially article 6. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 103 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 420 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 76 |
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| Random quote: As for rape, of course, that is a direct consequence of the capitalist system of oppression. Capitalism relies on fuelling division and resentment to sustain itself, and so it sets men against women, race against race and so on. Men rape women because they are being oppressed by capitalism, so they take it out on women. Under Communism, there will be no rape, because there will be a full and natural harmony and equality between the genders. ~ Friedrich Pfeiffer General Secretary of the Dorvish Communist Party |