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Respected members and delegates of the United Nations:

UN Resolution 10, "Stop Privacy Intrusion", while noble, has no place in our international law books. A global body such as this should not be concerned with the inner workings of individual governments. This great institution was established to maintain peace among the member states of the United Nations, not dictate the way in which a government decides is best for protecting their citizenry.

This Resolution, along with many others, MUST be repealed to protect individual state sovereignty parallel with international cooperation.

Please search for Repeal "Stop privacy intrusion" in the United Nations proposal section and endorse this important and possible landmark decision. Take back YOUR country!

Your humble brother in peace, The Holy Empire of Marcusism.

It's a good idea to post your proposal instead of just telling people to "search" for it.

Repeal "Stop privacy intrusion"

A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution


Category: Repeal
Resolution: #10
Proposed by: Tel Amur

Description: UN Resolution #10: Stop privacy intrusion (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: 1. Realizing the right to privacy which many nations find important.

2. Also realizing the need for privacy intrusion to acquire needed proof of an offense.

We propose that, resolution #10 Stop Privacy Intrusion, be rendered null and void and that such decisions be left to the discretion of regional authorities.

Approvals: 14 (WZ Forums, Faldawi, Extremation, Puppetingness, Intelligenstan, Waggi, Ruritania, Compulsoria, NewTexas, Brazykystan, Krankor, Warbler and Pecker, East Hylia, Moe-zambique)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 89 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sun Feb 10 2008

And just a note. As I stated in the other thread, you must have not read UNR #10 when you drafted your proposal because it stated in it "unless there is serious evidence of a planned or committed crime. This evidence shall be reviewed and approved by the Judiciary before eavesdropping, phone tapping, network traffic monitoring, and other kinds of interception of communications is allowed"

Thus your proposal is rather "Silly".

That isn't Marcusism's proposal; that's Tel Amur's.

Both use invalid national sovereignty justifications in their arguments. You need something stronger than that. Simply by passing the proposal the UN has proven that nations are not entitled to absolute sovereignty over privacy matters.

Seeing as how this is a repeal and not an attempt to create more regulations (something this nation is strongly against) I felt a simple explanation would do fine, at least to begin the discussion.

I appologize if it wasn't up to your standards. You might want to examine the outside sometimes.

*SNIP*
You might want to examine the outside sometimes.

Insult? I hope thats ICly...

If you government needs to violate civil rights without any justification, then all it need do is withdraw from the UN, that option is available. However, the United Nations has set some very basic rules for it's members to follow.

[signed]
Sir Robert Holst
Ambassador to United Nations
Regional Delegate for Reformed Oceania

If you government needs to violate civil rights without any justification, then all it need do is withdraw from the UN, that option is available. However, the United Nations has set some very basic rules for it's members to follow.

"Yeah, like have the members of the Judicracy be controlled by the spy agency and act as a rubber stamp in order to approve privacy intrusion. In fact, what is it to stop a nation from having a 'secret judicracy' where the Head Judge also happens to be the Head of Secret Police as well?

This resolution is, well, erm, weak. Have anyone actually considered a full-out ban on all those privacy intrusions, including a ban on those pesky security cameras?"
---Dr. Bob