Gentlemen, one more thing, ONE important thing the anti-terrorist bill which I support with one exception, that it make differense between the terrorists target and what they called "innocent" people, I think that it must be changed before we can vote for it, without us voting for it it may not pass throu.
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EUTOPIAN ANTI-TERRORIST BILL
By MDIA Dan Hartwell, Jacob Langley, and Charles S. Morgan
Article I
Creation of Counter-Revolutionary Operations Group
(Consisting of 4 officers [OOC: human players] and 20-30 soldiers)
1. Adequate funding for sophisticated intelligence gathering equipment and high tech arms as used by most counter terrorism units.
2. CROG to be charged with finding and bringing to justice members of the revolution and other terrorists in Eutopia.
3. Wide powers including; right to plant bugs on persons, to tap phones, to run surveillance on suspicious persons, to arrest persons suspected of terrorist activities or suspected of being involved in the planning of such activities or being involved with persons involved in terrorist activities. The power to arrest and hold persons without laying charges for up to 24 hours.
4. To be independent of other military units and would liaise with police forces, be under overall command of the President and responsible to the parliament.
[OOC: All actions from point 3 to be approved by GM in every case before being implemented.]
Article II
Foundation of National Department of Investigation
A National Department of Investigation will be created under the Ministry of Defense (as a civilian organization) with the purpose of identifying and stopping terrorist activities inside the nation of EUtopia. The Department’s goals:
-To arrest figures known to be or suspected beyond reasonable doubt to be terrorist leaders
-To stop suspected terrorist plots before they start
-To investigate acts of terrorism which do occur
-To identify organizations or businesses which support terrorism and to freeze these organizations’ money-flow
-To perform background checks on immigrants to the country
-To investigate nationwide crime sprees, ie., crimes in different regions of the country which are proven to have been committed by a single suspect or group
This department will have power to conduct espionage activities on suspects if the suspicion is sufficiently strong.
Article III
Judicial Consequences of Terrorist Actions
1. Any act of terror that results in the death of an innocent person shall automatically carry a death sentence.
2. Any act of terror that could have reasonably resulted in the death of an innocent person, shall automatically carry a life sentence in a super maximum security prison.
3. Any other act of terror, including, but not limited to, massive destruction of property, false bomb threats, death threats, and kidnapping shall be punishable by no less than 20 years in jail and no more than life in prison in a super maximum security prison.
4. Knowingly supporting or assisting terrorist operations or organizations by providing any of the following: information, financial support, shelter, cover, training, equipment, protection, or any other assistance shall be punishable by no less than 10 years in jail. In cases that result in the death of an innocent, the death penalty may be enacted.
Article IV
Petition of American Government
The government of EUtopia shall request the government of the United States of America to add the Most Enlightened Order of Socialist Revolution (MEOSR) to the globally accepted “State Department list” of terrorist organizations. Should the American government refuse the President has the right to request of the United Kingdom, if he so chooses, that MEOSR be added to the said list.
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