Law:Condemn NationStates Today Act

Preamble
NOTING the existence of a new paper titled NationStates Today,

HORRIFIED at the risk of The Crazybloxian Times losing readership, hereby passes an act to condemn NationStates Today, and it’s staff.

§101 - Copyright

 * 101.1. Copyright shall not subsist in the works and materials published by NationStates Today or the International News Organization.
 * 101.2(a). All patent, trademark and intellectual property rights shall be revoked from NationStates Today and the International News Organization.

§102 - Legality and Government Treatment of the Newspaper and the International News Organization

 * 102.1. The newspaper shall not be censored in any method of censorship, to protect the freedom of the press, speech and expression.
 * 102.1(a). The newspaper shall not be forcefully altered by the government, which shall constitute censorship by alteration.
 * 102.2. The International News Organization shall be considered a terrorist group by the Crazybloxian government, and the government’s Immigration Department shall intensively interrogate, screen and strip-search via invasive methods anyone found to be a member, employer, employee, or anyone affiliated with the International News Organization,
 * 102.2(a). The searches, interrogations, and other measures shall be conducted with no regard for dignity, human rights. Therefore the human under interrogation shall have no right to remain silent, and shall answer with extreme detail every question asked by the interrogator.
 * 102.3. The offices and buildings owned by NationStates Today, the International News Organization or any of it’s subsidiaries, may be shut down without prior reason, be searched and raided without the prior issuing of a search warrant.
 * 102.3(a) Raids conducted on the International News Organization or it’s subsidiaries shall occur with the presence of a minimum of 80 armed guards, authorized to use lethal force, when suspected or proven to have commited a crime.
 * 102.3(b) The employees' houses may also be raided with the same conditions in 102.3 and 102.3(a), once again, and may apply to the family of the employee, shall they reside in seperate residences.
 * 102.4. The International News Organization, it’s subsidiaries and NationStates Today may not import, broadcast, manufacture (printing) or promote any materials associated with NationStates Today, directly or indirectly.

§103 - Taxation of the International News Organization

 * 103.1. The International News Organization shall pay 99.9 percent tax to the government, shall they operate within jurisdiction of the Crazybloxian Empire, from all subsidiaries.
 * 103.2. The International News Organization shall be expelled for any tax evasion suspected or proven, against the Empire.

§201. LIST OF OFFENCES AND RESPECTIVE PUNISHMENTS.

 * 201.1. Taking employment in the International News Organization, shall be considered as joining a terrorist group.
 * 201.1(a). The offence may only be legally considered to have taken place when Crazybloxian Empire has the ability, to an actionable degree the:
 * a). arrest of the person taking employment for the organization (referred hereafter as "new employee").
 * b). collection of information related to the incident from any person, such as relatives, family and friends of the new employee,
 * c). interrogation,
 * d). the court’s ability to take action based on the new employee’s act.
 * 201.2. To prevent any accidental crime, the Empire shall warn the People, via posters, online ad space, newspaper advertisements (excluding NationStates Today), warning to the People about the legal ramifications of such an occurrence.

Voting

 * For: 270
 * Abstain: 16
 * Against: 14

Status: PASSED