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Bill: Flag Burning Amendment
Details
Submitted by[?]: Center-Right Coalition
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: February 2284
Description[?]:
| A bill to outlaw the desecration of the Aldegarian flag. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National policy regarding the desecration of the national flag.
Old value:: There are no regulations regarding the desecration or use of the national flag.
Current: The national flag may not be desecrated or dishonoured.
Proposed: The national flag may not be desecrated or dishonoured.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:06:46, September 12, 2006 CET | From | Fenner Brockway Socialist Party | To | Debating the Flag Burning Amendment |
| Message | We think this is an unnecessary restriction of freedom of expression. |
| Date | 21:55:33, September 12, 2006 CET | From | Aldegar Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Flag Burning Amendment |
| Message | People should have the right to say whatever they want. This bill would greatly infringe on freedom of speech. |
| Date | 00:41:44, September 14, 2006 CET | From | Center-Right Coalition | To | Debating the Flag Burning Amendment |
| Message | Burning down this Capitol Building as a political statement would never be seen as someone's right to have "free speech" or "free expression". Our laws simply do not tolerate causing harm to other's property or life as an act of 'free speech'. Well, this flag is the property of the Aldegarian people in not only my opinion but in the opinions of my fellow Aledgarians across the country, and I believe they will wholeheartedly support the CRC's desire to pass this bill. |
| Date | 22:53:12, September 14, 2006 CET | From | Aldegar Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Flag Burning Amendment |
| Message | So every Aldegarian flag is the sole property of "the people"? If someone buys something or receives it from someone, they have legal posession of the thing in question. If someone has legal posession of something, that means they own it. (Unless somebody steals it, but that's irrelevant.) If someone owns something, they can do whatever they please with it without the government interfering. If someone can do whatever they like with something, they can very well burn it. QED. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes |
Total Seats: 183 | |
| no | Total Seats: 89 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 54 |
| Random fact: Moderation will not implement nation renaming requests where the proposed name does not comply with the requirements set out in the Nation Renaming Guide: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6364 |
| Random quote: "Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of fascism." - Benito Mussolini |