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Bill: Police Reform Act, 2275
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kazulian Labour Party
Status[?]: passed
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: September 2276
Description[?]:
| To build a wall of seperation between the police and the military, and to have reasonable weapons standards. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on the separation of the police and the military.
Old value:: The military acts as a de-facto police force, with powers of arrest.
Current: A civilian police force is in place and the military may be called in to help in serious emergencies.
Proposed: A civilian police force is in place and the military may be called in to help in serious emergencies.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The weapons used by police forces.
Old value:: Police officers carry military-grade equipment.
Current: Police officers carry standard firearms.
Proposed: Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons apart from specially trained firearms units.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:27:30, August 28, 2006 CET | From | Social Democrat Party | To | Debating the Police Reform Act, 2275 |
| Message | You can already find those clauses in Social Democrat Party's Reform Pack I |
| Date | 07:22:50, August 29, 2006 CET | From | Communist Party of Kazulia | To | Debating the Police Reform Act, 2275 |
| Message | You continue attempting to weaken our country through such pacifistic policies. |
| Date | 02:00:42, August 30, 2006 CET | From | Kazulian Labour Party | To | Debating the Police Reform Act, 2275 |
| Message | How does it strenghten our country to have the military act as a police force, thereby using resources that could be used for our national defence and overstretching the military? How does it strengthen our country to have police officers carry rocket launchers and tanks, thereby again using resources that the military could use and promoting a climate of fear that is not conducive to a civilized democratic society? |
| Date | 05:52:43, August 30, 2006 CET | From | Communist Party of Kazulia | To | Debating the Police Reform Act, 2275 |
| Message | Your second argument is nullified by your first argument; When the military WAS our police, they were equipped with military-grade weaponry. And to answer your first question, it is more efficient to have one strong arm of the government to serve as police & military instead of requiring a second arm with bones and ligaments of its own being necessary. |
| Date | 06:06:57, August 30, 2006 CET | From | Kazulian Labour Party | To | Debating the Police Reform Act, 2275 |
| Message | It, however, is incredibly dangerous to the structure of a free society as it gives too much power to the military. It is an unfortunate tendency of yours, CPK, to support dramatic curbs on civil liberties in your quest for a "communist utopia". Blinded by political romanticism and utopianism, you have lost sight of all reality and your attack on capitalism and economic liberalism has evolved into an attack on liberal democratic values generaly and a support for the most tyrannous legislation to bring the egalitarian society. It is incredibly naive of you to belive in the nescesity of a dictatorial supertyranny as a prerequisite for the Kingdom of Freedom, and reminds me of many religious fanatics who believed that it was nescesary to make a Hell of this world in order to enjoy Paradise in the next. Communism is a faliure. |
| Date | 06:09:17, August 30, 2006 CET | From | Kazulian Labour Party | To | Debating the Police Reform Act, 2275 |
| Message | In any case Karl Marx said "The workers have no country", and therefore repudiated nationalism, yet your support for nationalism appears to be equal to that of the extreme right. |
| Date | 03:05:17, September 01, 2006 CET | From | Communist Party of Kazulia | To | Debating the Police Reform Act, 2275 |
| Message | Actually, I've recently been going for all-out hard-liner socialism, frequently entitled "Nazbol" (national bolshevik) which views the victory of global socialism, and then to the evolution of communism, possible through world conquest. It's not exactly what I believe, but at the expense of simulated people, there's no harm in it, especially as it makes games more fun. My actual views are much more humanistic communist, gaining under a -8 on the Y political scale for civil liberties, putting me on the fringes of anarcho-communism. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 65 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 35 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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