Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Dec 21, 2007 12:59:28 GMT -6
It has been revealed that within the last few months, a number of individuals were recruiting prospective citizens before they had been naturalized. Without casting blame about or naming names, we must note that this is in contravention of a long-standing and well-respected policy within the nation, that up until now did not require formalization in law. This was so well-respected, that it was even grounds for a groundbreaking lawsuit by King Robert I, and directly connected with his departure. Being as that informality's potency no longer seems to be forceful enough, it seems worthwhile to therefore make it a law, especially given the close quarters with which the new TalossAssist program has put prospectives.
I have thus tried to formulate a bill which will tackle this nasty problem. This is a truly vital issue... as prospectives enter the country, they are learning wholesale about the wonderful world of Talossanity. It has long been understood that, were partisans to present them with flawed information or blatant recruiting, they would be disproportionately swayed or bothered. This would be to the detriment of the nation. A prospective may well feel as though his immigration depended upon party support, and in time all immigration will become a facade as each party simply struggles to benefit itself rather than the nation.
This bill has teeth to give it force; since it is providing for the illegality of an action, that action is accorded appropriate punishment. Further, to provide for reasonable enforcement, I am hereby proposing that the prospectives be informed of this policy and required to report any attempts to broosk them, at peril of censure (and presumably accordingly failure to immigrate).
If you are opposed to this, then I urge you to find an alternative. But I am convinced the correct response is not to do nothing... otherwise Talossa will invisibly become a procession of citizens who are lied to by a dozen secret conversants, without a single Witt post for which they can be held accountable.
Some may question my seemingly arbitrary choice of terminologies. When first writing this bill, I chose a name from history to represent the illegal act of pre-citizenship recruitment in an effort to ease discussion: the public beating of Senator Charles Sumner by Senator Preston Brooks on the floor of the United States Senate in 1856. Pre-citizenship recruitment is as belabouring and dangerous to democracy as a caning in a house of legislature, so it seemed appropriate. But during drafting, my staff remarked that she kept wanting to type "broosking" instead of "brooksing." So "broosking" it became.
This is the second draft of this RUMP bill, but I feel it is much improved. I welcome comment from legislators.
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WHEREAS it has been a hallowed and respected tradition not to subject prospective immigrants to a partisan assault or recruitment attempts, out of concern for the best interests of the country as a whole rather than that of individual parties, and
WHEREAS it has become necessary to give this tradition the force of law, as its extraordinary importance merits, and
WHEREAS this restriction will be meaningless and without force if it is not granted an appropriate and commensurate penalty in law, and
WHEREAS such a penalty would be impossible to apply fairly without a just disclosure of all evidence,
THEREFORE the Cosa decrees the following:
1. The attempt to propagandize or otherwise recruit for a political party while conversing privately with a prospective citizen shall be henceforth known as "broosking", and shall henceforth be an illegal action.
2. The penalty for broosking shall be expulsion from all public office for a period of no less than six months from the time of conviction. This shall include but not be limited to: any positions within the Royal Household, Cabinet, Senäts , Cosâ, the office of Cunstavál, or position within provincial assemblies.
3. All potential immigrants will be informed of the illegality of this action by the Ministry of Immigration before they are introduced to the nation, and will be required to report any attempts to broosk them as well as provide all relevant documentation. Failure to do so will be cause for censure by the Ziu.
I have thus tried to formulate a bill which will tackle this nasty problem. This is a truly vital issue... as prospectives enter the country, they are learning wholesale about the wonderful world of Talossanity. It has long been understood that, were partisans to present them with flawed information or blatant recruiting, they would be disproportionately swayed or bothered. This would be to the detriment of the nation. A prospective may well feel as though his immigration depended upon party support, and in time all immigration will become a facade as each party simply struggles to benefit itself rather than the nation.
This bill has teeth to give it force; since it is providing for the illegality of an action, that action is accorded appropriate punishment. Further, to provide for reasonable enforcement, I am hereby proposing that the prospectives be informed of this policy and required to report any attempts to broosk them, at peril of censure (and presumably accordingly failure to immigrate).
If you are opposed to this, then I urge you to find an alternative. But I am convinced the correct response is not to do nothing... otherwise Talossa will invisibly become a procession of citizens who are lied to by a dozen secret conversants, without a single Witt post for which they can be held accountable.
Some may question my seemingly arbitrary choice of terminologies. When first writing this bill, I chose a name from history to represent the illegal act of pre-citizenship recruitment in an effort to ease discussion: the public beating of Senator Charles Sumner by Senator Preston Brooks on the floor of the United States Senate in 1856. Pre-citizenship recruitment is as belabouring and dangerous to democracy as a caning in a house of legislature, so it seemed appropriate. But during drafting, my staff remarked that she kept wanting to type "broosking" instead of "brooksing." So "broosking" it became.
This is the second draft of this RUMP bill, but I feel it is much improved. I welcome comment from legislators.
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The Antibroosking Act
WHEREAS it has been a hallowed and respected tradition not to subject prospective immigrants to a partisan assault or recruitment attempts, out of concern for the best interests of the country as a whole rather than that of individual parties, and
WHEREAS it has become necessary to give this tradition the force of law, as its extraordinary importance merits, and
WHEREAS this restriction will be meaningless and without force if it is not granted an appropriate and commensurate penalty in law, and
WHEREAS such a penalty would be impossible to apply fairly without a just disclosure of all evidence,
THEREFORE the Cosa decrees the following:
1. The attempt to propagandize or otherwise recruit for a political party while conversing privately with a prospective citizen shall be henceforth known as "broosking", and shall henceforth be an illegal action.
2. The penalty for broosking shall be expulsion from all public office for a period of no less than six months from the time of conviction. This shall include but not be limited to: any positions within the Royal Household, Cabinet, Senäts , Cosâ, the office of Cunstavál, or position within provincial assemblies.
3. All potential immigrants will be informed of the illegality of this action by the Ministry of Immigration before they are introduced to the nation, and will be required to report any attempts to broosk them as well as provide all relevant documentation. Failure to do so will be cause for censure by the Ziu.
