NationStates Jolt Archive

Proliferation of GPS Tech
A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.

Category: Moral Decency
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Xianoshi
Description: We propose a series of subsidies and incentives for private industry to develop more sophisticated, efficient, economical and miniature GPS devices.

Increased funding for military and security forces to deploy GPS devices to aid the tracking of known terrorists, imprisoned, criminals, paroled criminals. Clandestine use of ranged GPS tracking devices and systems could be used to track known criminals via their cars. All commercial airplanes will be fitted with sophisticated GPS devices. The uses cannot be counted.

Voting Ends: Sat Jan 24 2004

I hope the Xianoshi government realises that they could be used against themselves. Clandestine means illegal, how do you espect the UN to pass authorization for illegal use? Take some time in the corner to reflex about this...

Pablo B.
President
Community of Bariloche

Clandestine means illegal, ...

Actually, 'clandestine' merely means 'in secret.'

James Moehlman
Asst. Manager ico U.N. Affairs (and keeper of the dictionary)
Greenspoint

Exactly, I wasn't saying the two words meant the same, I was saying that in this case a 'clandestine' device of this kind implanted on ANYONE's private property is illegal, since the known criminal tag can be placed on anyone the government doesn't like.

OOC: Resolutions get into more complicated subjects every day, but no one give them a little though to make them "realistic". They have to properly descript all the effects they cause and the way they have to be implemented. I have decided not to vote in favor of anything that is not well explained, even if the basic idea of the particular proposal appeals me.

OOC: Resolutions get into more complicated subjects every day, but no one give them a little though to make them "realistic". They have to properly descript all the effects they cause and the way they have to be implemented. I have decided not to vote in favor of anything that is not well explained, even if the basic idea of the particular proposal appeals me.

OOC: Agreed totally.

IC:
The Rogue Nation of Greenspoint fails to see the problem that this proposal is attempting to address.

We cannot support it.

James Moehlman
Asst. Manager ico U.N. Affairs
Greenspoint