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Naram-Sin

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Hello! Thanks for the warm welcome.

Great punnley wrote:

Death to mikeswill

Enjoy being irrelevant.

Monday, 24 July, 2017 :: 55

He who is in harmony with the Tao
is like a newborn child.
Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,
but its grip is powerful.
It doesn't know about the union
of male and female,
yet its penis can stand erect,
so intense is its vital power.
It can scream its head off all day,
yet it never becomes hoarse,
so complete is its harmony.

The Master's power is like this.
He lets all things come and go
effortlessly, without desire.
He never expects results;
thus he is never disappointed.
He is never disappointed;
thus his spirit never grows old.

The Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill graciously extends a warm welcome to our newest Nations:

Great punnley
Lino
Sweelania
Eastern roman oppos
Elann
Triterg
Freedom russia federation

Our Esteemed Region continues to attract the Most
Enlightened Nations in the JenGov Land.

MH

The current WA Resolution, Extrajudicial Punishment Ban has been posted on our off-site forums at:

http://www.runboard.com/bnationstates.f2.t83923

General Assembly Resolution At Vote

Extrajudicial Punishment Ban

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights

Strength: Mild

The World Assembly,

Understanding that numerous circumstances result in the occurrence of extrajudicial activity in a nation, such as the overworking or underfunding of the police, corruption of a nation’s legal system, or the base need for retributive justice innate within us all,

Believing, however, that the prejudiced punishment of unconvicted or untried suspects to be often immoral due to it often leading to instances where innocent people are harmed, and that proper attention should be given to ensuring a fair trial of all persons incriminated of unsavory acts under the rule of law,

Hereby defines for the purpose of this resolution:

Extrajudicial punishment as punishment by civilians or governments causing physical and/or mental harm apart from a formal legal authority for those suspected of criminality or transgressions against society or persons.

Physical and/or mental harm as a state of immense distress for a person in both or either their physical and mental well-being, resulting in the sensation of physical hurting and/or psychological trauma.

Hereby mandates:

No member nation shall allow for the occurrence of extrajudicial punishment through refusing to enact proper legal punitive measures on those who enact the aforementioned punishments on suspected individuals.

All member nations must make extrajudicial punishment a criminal or civil offence subject to the sentencing of the differing jurisdictions of their respective legal systems.

Clarifies that nothing in this legislation criminalizes interference in criminal activity until the appropriate representatives of the law arrive to arrest the suspected individuals, as long as those individuals do call upon those representatives within a reasonable amount of time.

Clarifies further that this proposal neither applies to nations lacking a formal legal system nor applies to the issues of proper parenting.

Encourages further neutrality and objectivity in member nations courts and criminal procedures, along with measures to mend social ills that lead to prejudiced extrajudicial punishment against certain groups of people.

Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill
WA Delegate
NationStates Region

Goodbye, fat communists.

Thoughts on the current resolution-at-vote?
Personally, I think that the resolution is inherently flawed, due to the fact that extrajudicial punishment cannot be regulated. Essentially the author has penned a resolution that says "make it illegal for people to commit assault or harassment against someone accused of a crime". Which in most nations is already the norm.
Utterly pointless, imo.

Today’s Featured Nation:
Etrian

” In union there is strength -Aesop”

WA Category: Liberal Democratic Socialists

Civil Rights: Very Good
Economy: Weak
Political Freedoms: Superb

Etrian's national animal is the ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Etrian is ranked 92,518th in the world and 331st in NationStates for Most Devout, with 13.79 Prayers Per Hour.

Mikeswill

Lesneradi wrote:

Who likes vodka?

I'll pass

Wednesday, 26 July, 2017 :: 57

If you want to be a great leader,
you must learn to follow the Tao.
Stop trying to control.
Let go of fixed plans and concepts,
and the world will govern itself.

The more prohibitions you have,
the less virtuous people will be.
The more weapons you have,
the less secure people will be.
The more subsidies you have,
the less self-reliant people will be.

Therefore the Master says:
I let go of the law,
and people become honest.
I let go of economics,
and people become prosperous.
I let go of religion,
and people become serene.
I let go of all desire for the common good,
and the good becomes common as grass.