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Bill: Right to Silence Act of 2292
Details
Submitted by[?]: Telamon Royalist 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: February 2294
Description[?]:
| The government currently mandates that the national anthem be sung by all students at the commencement of classes each day. We feel that if a student wishes to opt out of this, that option should be available, especially if the student is opposed to the religious aspects of the anthem. We will still mandate that it be played, and we will not legalize disrespect of it, but the right to opt out needs to be there. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Singing the national anthem in schools.
Old value:: Children are made to sing the national anthem at the commencement of school each day.
Current: Children are never made to sing the national anthem.
Proposed: Children are not made to sing the national anthem, but are required to show respect when it is played at the commencement of school each day.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:32:26, October 02, 2006 CET | From | United Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the Right to Silence Act of 2292 |
| Message | Again we would support this, although we would rather that the anthem wasn't played at all at the start of the school day |
| Date | 15:49:27, October 02, 2006 CET | From | Nuncirist Party of Telamon | To | Debating the Right to Silence Act of 2292 |
| Message | We support the fact that the proposed legislation still encourages a certain act of chauvinism. |
| Date | 22:50:02, October 02, 2006 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the Right to Silence Act of 2292 |
| Message | I don't see why we need for the National Anthem to be beat into our children every day. I never knew that this was called the right to silence. Very interesting. :D |
| Date | 02:28:12, October 03, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Right to Silence Act of 2292 |
| Message | "Patriotism. There is a great virtue. Can we still have a society in which future children learn to revile the symbols of their nation?" -Hugh Protvna, quoting famous Telamonite 20th century general Frederick Glasnoot |
| Date | 03:48:24, October 03, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Royalist Party | To | Debating the Right to Silence Act of 2292 |
| Message | Can we have children who learn to love the symbols of their nation if they have no option to choose their own opinions about them? |
| Date | 13:55:28, October 03, 2006 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the Right to Silence Act of 2292 |
| Message | Quite, patriotism comes as rather offencive if stuffed down your throat and goaded over as the pride of ages. I could barely stand the holiday I took in America. I would admit I'm rather gung-ho on the whole British patriotism thing, but I certainly accept people who do not feel that self-same patriotism. The Centre party pledges that if it were in power, it would go further in removing this unnecessary burden from children. |
| Date | 23:18:29, October 03, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Right to Silence Act of 2292 |
| Message | ((By all means, move this to a vote. My objections are just play-acting and political posturing)). "How could the Centre Party govern, when its citizens would under their own admission be free to hate the nation of their birth?" -Hugh Protvna |
| Date | 23:55:37, October 03, 2006 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the Right to Silence Act of 2292 |
| Message | I think it is a citizen's prerogative to hate their country. It is also their prerogative to immigrate to a country they like better. |
| Date | 02:52:36, October 04, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Right to Silence Act of 2292 |
| Message | "To the second, yes. To the first, no." -Hugh Protvna |
| Date | 13:43:25, October 04, 2006 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the Right to Silence Act of 2292 |
| Message | Oh, so even if you think your government comprises all ranges of incompetent valitudinarians and does everything that you would not and acts as daft as a blind rhesus monkey, it is still not acceptable? What about Americans? I think they have more to hate than even me with a three-term Labour government. Really, I wouldn't want to be stuck with Boy George for eight years. |
| Date | 11:42:12, October 05, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Socialist Party | To | Debating the Right to Silence Act of 2292 |
| Message | Nationalism is an important part of society, one which unites the people under a single community, the community of the country.. If people choose to live in this country, then why should we allow them to refuse to respect the country? And, if they will not sing the national anthem, but are still required to show respect, then why is there any point in them not singing the national anthem, the entire purpose of which is to show respect to your country? No, we cannot accept this. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 209 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 91 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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