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Bill: Free Assembly Bill October 2074
Details
Submitted by[?]: Primitivist Ethno-Heathen Alliance
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: September 2076
Description[?]:
| The current legislation on the right to assembly in public places is clearly wide open for abuse. Giving law enforcement agencies these kinds of powers is a violation of what many consider to be one of the most important rights and freedoms in a democracy, the right of assembly. Restriction of this freedom is a restriction of a person's essential freedoms as a citizen of this Republic, freedoms that should be upheld regardless of whatever "risk" law enforcement agencies may consider them to pose. Let us therefore vote to make free assembly totally unrestricted. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The citizens' right to assemble in public.
Old value:: The police may disperse a group if they believe it poses a potential risk to public safety.
Current: The police may disperse a group without giving any reason.
Proposed: There are no restrictions on the right of citizens to assemble in groups.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:15:13, July 03, 2005 CET | From |  Patriarchal Party | To | Debating the Free Assembly Bill October 2074 |
| Message | This bill has been discussed several times in the past, and it has been made clear on those occasions that freedom of assembly must be limited in order to enhance our nation's security. |
| Date | 01:14:30, July 04, 2005 CET | From | Circuit Party | To | Debating the Free Assembly Bill October 2074 |
| Message | PEHA: As with your opposition to the eradication of hate speech, your notion of freedom is beyond our understanding. Certain restrictions are indeed needed to avoid total anarchy and rebellions. |
| Date | 15:02:02, July 04, 2005 CET | From | Patriarchal Party | To | Debating the Free Assembly Bill October 2074 |
| Message | Exactly. It must be made clear that the only way to change the government of Davostan is through elections, not through anarchic protests. |
| Date | 04:07:33, July 05, 2005 CET | From | Primitivist Ethno-Heathen Alliance | To | Debating the Free Assembly Bill October 2074 |
| Message | our "notion of freedom" is beyond understanding? Any idea of freedom that defines it in terms of restrictions is not worthy of the name. Do either of you even know the meaning of the word "anarchy"? |
| Date | 11:50:03, July 05, 2005 CET | From | Patriarchal Party | To | Debating the Free Assembly Bill October 2074 |
| Message | PEHA: Can you please put this bill to the vote or delete it. Thanks in advance. |
| Date | 15:22:01, July 05, 2005 CET | From | Neo Republican Party! | To | Debating the Free Assembly Bill October 2074 |
| Message | SAFETY FIRST! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 34 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 282 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 76 |
| Random fact: Cultural Protocols should generally be reflective of RP conducted within the nation and should not significantly alter or modify the ethnic, religious or linguistic composition without considerable and reasonable role-play or other justification. |
| Random quote: "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." - Mahatma Gandhi |