NationStates Jolt Archive

Congress today has passed a law to cut back oil production in the State of Iraq as the EPA prepares to restore areas of Iraq's ecosystem to the pristine nature it enjoyed prior to the time of Saddam Hussien.
The effort to restore the southern marsh system has been a success.
Attempts at building factories and communities in the western desert have faltered however because of lawsuits by crazed environmentalists and because of a problem ensuring the communities would have access to adequate clean water.
The new communities are meant to provide low income housing for local Iraqis but are open to all Americans because of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
2 million Iraqis are recieving food stamps and other government unemployment assistance.

In other news, attempts to disarm some of the Iraqi Americans has floundered as the NRA has sued the government on behalf of Iraqis. The NRA is accusing the Reagan administration of violating the second amendment rights of Iraqis to own guns. The US government says the 2nd amendment does not give people the right to own machine guns and the National Rifle Association disagrees.

In the meantime, in yet another lawsuit, Planned Parenthood of America is suing Iraq's state government for banning abortion clinics. President Reagan, who is anti abortion, has filed a brief supporting the Iraqi state government's position on the issue. Abortion is a violation of Islamic and Christian moral principals. The courts are expected to rule against the government because of the Roe V Wade decision of 1973 which legalized abortion for all women for any reason.

Meantime the US military continues to occupy Iraqi public schools to ensure that integration of sunnis, shiites, and kurds goes smoothly. A few Iraqis, who don't want their children at the same school as children from a different group have put their children private schools instead.

The state constitution banned individual ownership of firearms because of Iraqs history of violence and religious strife. In order to cut down on terrorism and on murder rates, the state legislature passed a law to ban all gun ownership.
The State's Supreme Court had ruled that law to be a violation of the state constitution but the legislature responded by changing the constitution to ban all gun except by the police and military.

The NRA sued the state on behalf of several Iraqis saying the new state Constitution violates the federal constitution.

The case specifically involves former militiaman, Abdul Ahkman. Mr. Ahkman is suing the government to get his machine gun back which was confiscated earlier this year.

After hearing both sides, the US Supreme Court is expected to rule on the matter tomorrow.

In a just developing story, parents are suing the Baghdad school district on grounds that children are being required to pray during class time. The parents are a coalition of christians and athiests and the prayers are reported to be Islamic prayers.
Children who do not join in the prayers are given F's for the day. At least 1 athiest and 3 christian children have been expelled from school for at least 1 week for refusing to pray.
District Superintendant Michelle Hosni says it is a perogative of the district to ensure that children learn good moral values and that part of the moral instruction is to require children in public schools to pray toward Mecca during school hours.

The US Supreme Court today has tossed the federal government a major defeat today in the project to bring Iraq to the level of the rest of America.
In NRA versus the State of Iraq, the Justices unanimously ruled the state constitution to violate the federal constitution.
Cheif Justice Marshall said that even former insurgents cannot be deprived of their rights without due process in the civil courts.
In the opinion, the court ruled that like all Americans, Iraqis have a right to own handguns to defend themselves. Insurgents cannot be denied this right unless they actually were found guilty of a violent crime via due process.

In summary the Supreme Court has overturned the antiweapons clause of the Iraqi state constitution declaring that all Iraqis have the right to own and possess firearms. But in the same ruling they said that grenades, mortars, and bombs did not count as firearms and that personal possession could be regulated or banned.