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Bill: Elimination of Curfews
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberty 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: January 2241
Description[?]:
| Curfew is simply universal house arrest. The State has no right to imprison innocent people purely for the convenience of the government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Curfew policy (curfew time to be determined in the bill description).
Old value:: The national government may impose curfews, but only if a state of emergency has been declared.
Current: The national government may impose curfews, but only if a state of emergency has been declared.
Proposed: No curfew policies may be established.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:18:12, June 10, 2006 CET | From |  Progressive Party | To | Debating the Elimination of Curfews |
| Message | I disagree. This is only for state of emergency. And that is not easy to declarate in any nation i know. You are not liberal, you are anarchist |
| Date | 00:43:12, June 10, 2006 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Elimination of Curfews |
| Message | I have never previously claimed to be "liberal" (unfortunately modern abuse of the term "liberal" means that we true liberals have to always use the prefix "classical", as such I am a "classical liberal"). I am not quite anarchist. Anarchists believe in the complete absence of a State. You will notice that I have not advocated the abolition of government. I did not advocate the elimination of the military. I have not advocated the elimination of the court or police systems. Back to the subject at hand, how easy it is to declare a state of emergency in other countries is entirely irrelevant. The important factor (if you accept the State *ever* has the authority to deny innocent people the right to move freely around their country) is how easy it is to declare a state of emergency in *this* country. We have no documentation that identifies how easy it is to declare a state of emergency in this country, and I do not share your confidence at the State's restraint knowing the fascist parties in this country. I wonder just how reluctant to declare a state of emergency they will be next time they are in power? Nonetheless, we diverge on the fundamental point that you believe that the State has the ultimate right to dictate how people may interact and what they may do (in both cases where the people are behaving in a perfectly innocent fashion) at the unilateral whim of the State. I cannot accept that the State can have that sort of authority over innocent people and therefore we will have to agree to disagree. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 163 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 340 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 52 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." - A. Whitney Brown |