NationStates Jolt Archive

Description: ALARMED BY international (organized) crime, The Democratic Republic of Tycholand hereby suggests finding the International Criminal DateBase, or ICDB for short. The ICDB will be a fully-automatic database, keeping track of wanted-criminals (that includes any terrorists as well) across the globe.

The ICDB:
-Let’s police in all ICDB-participating nations enter any wanted-criminals.
-Automatically registers if criminals (that includes suspect terrorists and terrorists) cross the border of a participating nation and
-Alerts custom officials for suspects.
-After the criminal is taken into custody, an extradition-process can begin to the nation where the particular criminal is wanted.

ICDB participants would have to:
-Install special software and hardware at international borders and ports of entry. (Think of land border-points, airports and harbours.)
-Realizing that not every nation has enough money to install the ICDB systems, a special United Nations Fund will be implemented, assisting with any financial trouble an ICDB-participant may have in implementing this system.

NOTING the benefits of this system, The Democratic Republic of Tycholand thinks it worthwhile to install this system.

Benefits:
-Prevents any future crimes that would have been committed if the ICDB wasn’t implemented.
-Makes it easier to catch terror suspects and actual terrorists.
-Travellers will feel safer.

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What exactly is this ICDB, and what does it entail doing? How does it recognize criminals? You've failed to address what it actually is in the proposal.

What exactly is this ICDB, and what does it entail doing? How does it recognize criminals? You've failed to address what it actually is in the proposal.

true, true, he's rights, and not only that, some countries might have different laws and stuff. If in one country your busted for use of hemp but you go to a another country where its legal and they flag you- wheres teh sense in that?

import it into a word processing program and grammar check it, please.

import it into a word processing program and grammar check it, please.

Already did that.

Description: ALARMED BY international (organized) crime, The Democratic Republic of Tycholand hereby suggests finding the International Criminal DateBase, or ICDB for short. The ICDB will be a fully-automatic database, keeping track of wanted-criminals (that includes any terrorists as well) across the globe.

Okay... not liking how it is worded. "Organized" in brackets suggests that it is optional, and then throwing in "terrorists" seems more like a scare tatic than actually defining the criminals you wish to hunt down with this thing.

The ICDB:
-Let's police in all ICDB-participating nations enter any wanted-criminals.

Enter any wanted criminals where?

-Automatically registers if criminals (that includes suspect terrorists and terrorists) cross the border of a participating nation and

I'm going to assume that this is some sort of computer. How does the computer automatically add in criminals?

And again, you throw in terrorists like that would make your proposal worthwhile or something.

-Alerts custom officials for suspects.

Sounds like one nifty computer. Oh, problem! My nation doesn't have nifty computers.

-After the criminal is taken into custody, an extradition-process can begin to the nation where the particular criminal is wanted.

I don't want criminals, you can keep them.

ICDB participants would have to:
-Install special software and hardware at international borders and ports of entry. (Think of land border-points, airports and harbours.)

So I have to spend the money to develop some sort of computer that can enter in criminals (and don't forget the terrorists) into it's own database, as well as notify customs agents? Which brings me to the next point:

-Realizing that not every nation has enough money to install the ICDB systems, a special United Nations Fund will be implemented, assisting with any financial trouble an ICDB-participant may have in implementing this system.

Who gives this money into a special United Nations Fund? Who decides which nation is having financial difficulty?

NOTING the benefits of this system, The Democratic Republic of Tycholand thinks it worthwhile to install this system.

Benefits:
-Prevents any future crimes that would have been committed if the ICDB wasn’t implemented.
-Makes it easier to catch terror suspects and actual terrorists.
-Travellers will feel safer.

Terror suspects? Terrorists? What happened to the average criminal? Sounds like a lot of nifty equipment, scare tactics, and misappropriated fund scandals to me.

Crime is almost unknown in our country, and we feel if others in the UN followed our example as well as the examples of many others, then this proposal would be irrelevant. therefore we will not participate, as we have no criminals that we would want back, as they don't exist. And we don't see the need to etradite other criminals. For all we know, your definition of criminal maybe someone who disagrees with you. We call these asylum seekers, and welcome them.

I'm just a tad worried about the privacy of suspects from my nation. Especially the way some of you treat criminals...

And besides, Adam Island has long been a welcoming place for outlaws fleeing unjust dictators from all over the world. We're never going to extradite those persecuted by foriegn tyrants.

Ill have to re-draft this one again then......

I'd just as soon let extradition of criminals and all that be left up to treaties between bordering nations, the UN couldn't take care of all the little differences that go on between nations.

Already did that.
don't ignore the results of the grammar check, please.

Emphatically no. At the very least, the UN rather than individual nations would have to define what constitutes 'criminal' behaviour and I really don't look forward to that argument...

Mathieu Vergniaud
Deputy Speaker to the UN

I think, in general, it is a very good idea. But it needs touching up and clarification on certain issues.