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Bill: Involuntary Information Bill IV

Details

Submitted by[?]: Abandoned NFC Headquarters

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: March 2073

Description[?]:

For reasons previously stated.

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date00:17:55, June 27, 2005 CET
From International Socialist Party
ToDebating the Involuntary Information Bill IV
MessageOnly if they are Fascist or Capitalists

Date00:25:38, June 27, 2005 CET
From Democratic Socialists of Endralon
ToDebating the Involuntary Information Bill IV
MessageThe idea that a state has the right to torture its citizens under any circumstances is utterly abhorrent and absurd and must be rejected by anyone who values democracy and human rights in Endralon.

Date00:55:41, June 27, 2005 CET
From Abandoned NFC Headquarters
ToDebating the Involuntary Information Bill IV
Message'Democracy and human rights'. If a terrorist plot is uncovered, must we merely stick that terrorist in jail? If the lives of our citizens are risked, we should be able to take measures to resist torture. The proper response to difficulty and terrorism is not to retreat, but to prevail. Torture is horrible but necessary in today's world.

Date02:31:35, June 27, 2005 CET
From Democratic Socialists of Endralon
ToDebating the Involuntary Information Bill IV
MessageThere is no evidence to suggest that Endralon faces any considerable terrorist threat but that is beside the point. The fact is that torture is brutal and barbaric, it is a further step towards a totalitarian society, the information gained is often false, it could be used against innocent people and it represents an unacceptable strengthening of state power.

Date23:13:58, June 27, 2005 CET
From Imperial Conservative Party
ToDebating the Involuntary Information Bill IV
MessageSorry to vote no on an NFC position which I can half agree with, but in practice torture provides as much bad intelligence as it does good, and has the same ethical problems as capital punishment.

One widely observed effect is that suspects under torture say whatever their interrogators most want to hear, rather than the truth. This was a particular problem in Northen Ireland, and an ongoing one in Israel.

The best intelligence is observation and targeted strikes once the case is clear. This also doesn't seriously infringe civil liberties.

Once we've an economy, we must fund our intelligence network well!

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Voting

Vote Seats
yes
 

Total Seats: 91

no
      

Total Seats: 404

abstain
   

Total Seats: 164


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