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Bill: The Law and Order Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Militarist 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 2300
Description[?]:
| Preamble: RECOGNIZING, that in order to have a productive, safe and sovreign nation, that we must have law and order, and that without these things our nation cannot prosper, and REALIZING THAT, in order to obtain this, we must have an effective national police force with the support and power to carry out it's duties, AND UNDERSTANDING, that the people of Sekowo value Order and Safety more than devise Libertarian freedoms, which hurt the nation, WE, The National Assembly of Sekowo, HEREBY, Enact the following Legislation and Ammendaments. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Curfew policy (curfew time to be determined in the bill description).
Old value:: No curfew policies may be established.
Current: No curfew policies may be established.
Proposed: No-one may use streets or public property beyond the curfew time.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning gated communities.
Old value:: Both the government and the private sector can set up gated communities.
Current: No gated communities are allowed.
Proposed: The government sets up gated communities.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change
The government's stance on illegal aliens.
Old value:: The government ignores illegal aliens.
Current: Dealing with illegal aliens is left to local governments.
Proposed: The government actively searches houses for illegal aliens and puts them in integration centers when discovered.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the organization of police/law enforcement
Old value:: The operation and funding of the police is left to local governments.
Current: The operation and funding of the police is left to local governments.
Proposed: There is a national police department, funded by the government.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The weapons used by police forces.
Old value:: Police officers may only carry standard firearms apart from specially trained firearms units.
Current: Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons.
Proposed: Police officers carry military-grade equipment.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The use of torture for obtaining information.
Old value:: Torture is never allowed.
Current: Torture is never allowed.
Proposed: It is at the discretion of the police officer to torture suspects for information.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:22:29, October 15, 2006 CET | From |  Militarist Party | To | Debating the The Law and Order Act |
| Message | Speech by Alexander Thompson, Leader of the Militarist Party of Sekowo: “The state of our nation is disgraceful. With the restriction of and decentralization of our national police force, our country is slipping into anarchy. This land is a Utopia for Mafiosos and thugs. Women must fear for their safety walking the streets. Gangs are given free reign, and our nation’s police are held back in their enforcement of the law by dangerous and devise legislation, and under equipped to fight criminals who would take advantage of our weak security forces. This situation is intolerable! It cannot be allowed to continue. Is this what our ancestors worked so hard to achieve? Is this to be a nation, or a fiefdom of crime syndicates and gang territories? Our great country must not be allowed to fall into disorder and disgrace! We must create a safe and unified nation for our children! If not that, then what? Shall we be known as the generation that dropped the ball? The Militarist Party will not stand for these devise and neglectful policies that we have at presents. The Law and Order Act is vital to maintaining the security and unity of our nation. I expect that our brothers and sisters in the National Congress will support this initiative, and that President Benitez, in his wisdom, will help us bring these proposals into realization. Long live Sekowo!” |
| Date | 17:30:04, October 16, 2006 CET | From | Capitalist Party of Sekowo | To | Debating the The Law and Order Act |
| Message | Article 2 and 4 we disagree with. These are part of the backbone of our policies, and we cannot accept this change. |
| Date | 23:51:02, October 16, 2006 CET | From | Cruzada Tradicionalista Sekowana | To | Debating the The Law and Order Act |
| Message | Good luck to the mafiosos and thugs in a land where every hand holds a chauchat. If women forget to carry their liberty pistols while walking down the streets... well, "Fatum Iustum Stultorum." Safety is for sheep. We are a land of heroes. We will not give up our freedom so easily. For a mere cowardly existence under the protection of 'tame' wolves. Justice Minister Emiliano Chavez |
| Date | 04:12:40, October 17, 2006 CET | From | Militarist Party | To | Debating the The Law and Order Act |
| Message | Statement from the Militarist Party of Sekowo: “The unpatriotic decision by the Capitalist Party of Sekowo to oppose this bill on the grounds of it’s restrictions on privatized police forces and privatized elitist gated communities reveals that the greed and treachery which the party really stands for. The Capitalist Party’s prioritizing of the ability to generate profit looking out for the common good and the nation’s strength shows that it is a party only concerned with the wants of the rich and elite upper echelon of society and entirely unconcerned with the good of the people. The Militarist Party of Sekowo would like to assert its disgust at this Movement and its goals. The Liberal Party of Sekowo’s unpatriotic and counter-productive opposition to this bill fills the Party and our supporters with great disdain. The proliferation of arms by you’re party is not only irresponsible and a lazy shifting of responsibility for public safety onto the people, but is dangerous and devise, as it allows gangsters and thugs, whom you pretend to so despise, easy access to all the weaponry they need to murder, rob and intimidate the people of Sekowo, and carry out their despicable operations safe from the police, with the ability to fight back against the enforcers of justice. It further gives any and all armed insurrections that may occur easy access to all of the equipment they need to extort our people, fight our armed forces and confront our law enforcement officials. An armed populace will only give rise to disorganized vigilantism and murderous extralegal retribution. To proliferate arms among the people will only allow people to murder at will and with ease, and to retaliate without proof against people whom one might think, without proof, harmed someone unjustly, and not save any lives whatsoever. Furthermore, you’re insistence on the dissolution and decentralization of our law enforcement officials and the curtailing of basic police powers is severely restricting their ability to police the nation, enforce the law and protect the people. You’re continued misuse of power is dangerous and divisive. We must deplore you’re irresponsibility and self serving policies. Down with traitors. Also, party leader Alexander Thompson would like to thank Minister Chavez for his having wished good luck to our movement.” |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 76 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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