NationStates Jolt Archive


Submitted: The Right To Protest

Ski Town
01-04-2006, 03:31
The Right To Protest

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Ski Town

Description: RECOGNIZES that people will not always agree with the government or other established organizations and therefore should have the right to protest against them.

DEFINES Protest as a demonstration against a party with the objective of gaining support against the party.

MANDATES That all NSUN members must allow their citizens the right to protest freely.

EXCEPTION to this proposal occurs when a citizens protest moves toward violent acts and has potential of harming the general public.

DEFINES Violent Acts as any protest that becomes dangerous to society and may result in the physical harm of human life or property. Violent acts may include riots among many other acts.

ALLOWS for the use of military force in order to put an end to violent protesting.

ALLOWS for the use of deadly force if and only if the violent protest has turned to the point where it is not only threatening the safety of the public but also the lives of the public. In cases where deadly force is used to end a violent protest the NSUN reserves the right to investigate the use of deadly force and determine whether or not it was actually necessary. If deadly force was found to not be necessary then heavy fines will be levied on the government of the offending nation.

DEFINES Deadly Force as the amount of force needed to kill a person.

DEFINES Heavy Fines as a fine of no less than $20 000 000 dollars paid for by either the government or the organization responsible for the unnecessary use of deadly force.

ALLOWS for the prosecution of those in charge of leading a violent protest.

DOES NOT ALLOW for the use of government intervention in a protest that would not be classified as violent. There are no exceptions to this, even if the protest may be damaging to your current government

CREATES the NSUN PROTEST INSPECTION COMMITTEE (NSUNPIC)which would investigate the use of military and or deadly force in ending a violent protest. If the NSUNPIC finds that the use of military and or deadly force was not needed it will levy heavy fines against the offending nation.

IN SHORT this resolution would allow for the people in any NSUN member nation the right to protest, if these protests turn violent the government will have the right to use military force and deadly force if necessary to stop the violent acts. The creation of the NSUNPIC will investigate the use of military and or deadly force and if the force used is deemed to be unnecessary the NSUNPIC will have the right to levy heavy fines against the offending nation.



Well there it is, no go on and get to ripping it to pieces, and if you like it go ahead and support it, voting ends tuesday and you know where to find it.
Gruenberg
01-04-2006, 03:38
For the love of Wena, post drafts on this forum before you submit proposals.

Article 2 -- All human beings have the right to express themselves through speech and through the media without any interference.

Article 3 -- All human beings have the right to peacefully assemble.
Illegal: duplication.

You had a free trade proposal, didn't you? Why not work on that - that was much less illegal and more promising.
Ski Town
01-04-2006, 04:57
technically it is not illegal, as neither of those articles ensure the right to free protest, one is assembling which can mean just about anything, and the other is free speach which again is a very broad idea. I guess what this proposal is doing is expanding on and attempting to clarify article 3 if you want to go that far.
Cluichstan
01-04-2006, 04:58
technically it is not illegal, as neither of those articles ensure the right to free protest, one is assembling which can mean just about anything, and the other is free speach which again is a very broad idea. I guess what this proposal is doing is expanding on and attempting to clarify article 3 if you want to go that far.

So it's acting as an amendment. Also illegal.
Ski Town
01-04-2006, 05:03
Okay fine then, call it what you want but because no where in the universal bill of rights does it specifically state that you have the right to protest, it is not an amendment or a repeat, it is a new idea because it is guaranteeing a differant right than the ones that were previously sighted.