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Bill: Civil Disobedience Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Hobrazian Improvement 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: December 2329
Description[?]:
Civil disobedience is still disobedience. |
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 only disperse a crowd if a state of emergency has been declared.
Proposed: The police may disperse a group without giving any reason.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Weapon concealment.
Old value:: Where weapons are carried, this must be done openly.
Current: Any legal weapon may be concealed when carried.
Proposed: Some categories of weapon must be carried openly, others may be concealed.
Article 3
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 used for commercial purposes.
Proposed: The national flag may not be desecrated or dishonoured.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Ownership of guns by private individuals.
Old value:: Individuals are not permitted to own firearms under any circumstances.
Current: Individuals are allowed to own firearms as long as they do not have a history of dangerous mental illness or a violent criminality.
Proposed: Adult individuals may own guns under strict license conditions.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The confidentiality of letters and correspondence.
Old value:: The confidentiality of letters is inviolable, but the justice dept. can violate the confidentiality of letters with grounded cause.
Current: The confidentiality of letters is inviolable, but the justice dept. can violate it in extreme situations.
Proposed: The confidentiality of letters is not inviolable.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Current: There are no content regulations; the media may publish anything, even proven falsehoods.
Proposed: There are laws against the publication of false information, hate speech, and subversive anti-government material.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Discrimination in the military on grounds of race/religion.
Old value:: Any adult citizen can serve in the military, discrimination for racial or religious reasons is prohibited.
Current: Any adult citizen can serve in the military, discrimination for racial or religious reasons is prohibited.
Proposed: Candidates must be of a certain race/religion to have any place in the military.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change Policy concerning racial segregation in educational institutions.
Old value:: Segregation is illegal in all educational institutions.
Current: Segregation is illegal in all educational institutions.
Proposed: All educational institutions must be segregated.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change Women's working rights.
Old value:: Women are entitled the same working rights as men.
Current: Women are entitled the same working rights as men.
Proposed: Women are not allowed to work. The state requires them to stay at home.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 05:59:54, December 15, 2006 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Civil Disobedience Act |
Message | How are these "improvements" for Hobrazia? We reject all of these, except article 4. ooc: Nice Maddox quote! |
Date | 09:12:49, December 15, 2006 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Civil Disobedience Act |
Message | I didn't see one improvement, well maybe article 1 but only maybe. And, could you actually write a bill description with actually some reasoning behind changes, yes? |
Date | 11:34:20, December 15, 2006 CET | From | Hobrazian Peoples Party | To | Debating the Civil Disobedience Act |
Message | We could go with accepting article 1, 3, maybe 7 and 8, so as it is now we will not. |
Date | 13:31:00, December 15, 2006 CET | From | Marxist-Socialist Party of Hobrazia | To | Debating the Civil Disobedience Act |
Message | This is sad. We are not going to accept any of these articles as they will take Hobrazia back to the stoneage, not improve it. |
Date | 00:01:52, December 16, 2006 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Civil Disobedience Act |
Message | http://theworstpageintheuniverse.com/images/sticker_combo1.jpg |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
no |
Total Seats: 355 | |||||
abstain | Total Seats: 45 |
Random fact: "OOC", "IC" and "IG" are commonly-used acronyms in Particracy. "OOC" refers to comments, discussions and actions which are out-of-character, meaning they are done player-to-player rather than party-to-party. "IC" refers to in-character interactions (ie. party-to-party). Similarly, "IG" means in-game, although this term may also simply refer to what happens in the actual game interface, as opposed to on the forum or elsewhere. "RP" just means "role-play". |
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