Amendment regarding the Treason Act

SECTION III. HIGH TREASON

…3.1. Every one commits high treason who overthrows or attempts to overthrow the legitimate Delegate or the legitimate government of the East Pacific; within the East Pacific, levies war against the East Pacific or does any act preparatory thereto; or assists an enemy at war with the East Pacific or any forces against whom the East Pacific is engaged in hostilities, whether or not a state of war exists between the East Pacific and the entity to which the forces belong to.

SECTION IV. TREASON AND TREASON-ESPIONAGE

…4.1. Every one commits treason who
…4.1.1. does any unlawful act for the purpose of overthrowing the legitimate Delegate or the legitimate government of the East Pacific; commits high treason or conspires with any person to commit high treason
…4.1.2. conspires with any person to commit high treason or to do any unlawful act for the purpose of overthrowing the legitimate Delegate or the legitimate government of the East Pacific;
…4.1.3. 2. forms an intention to do anything that is high treason, or to do any unlawful act for the purpose of overthrowing the legitimate Delegate or the legitimate government of the East Pacific, and manifests that intention by an overt act

…4.2. Every one commits treason-espionage who
…4.2.1. without lawful authority, communicates or makes available to an unauthorized person or entity any government-related information or property which they knew or should have known was not to be shared;
…4.2.2. conspires to, without lawful authority, communicate or make available to an unauthorized person or entity any government-related information or property which they knew or should have known was not to be shared;
…4.2.3. without lawful authority and with intent, acquires or discovers any government-related information, which they knew or should have known was to be unavailable to them;
…4.2.4. conspires to, without lawful authority, acquire or discover any government-related information which they knew or should have known was to be unavailable to them;

…4.2.5. With malicious intent, uses government property in a manner that is committing an offence that is an attack on the East Pacific, or preparatory thereto or assists an enemy at war with the East Pacific or any forces against whom the East Pacific is engaged in hostilities, whether or not a state of war exists between the East Pacific and the entity to which the forces belong to.

…4.2.6. With malicious intent, conspires with any person or entity or attempts to conspire the usage of government property in a manner that is committing an offence that is an attack on the East Pacific, or preparatory thereto or assists an enemy at war with the East Pacific or any forces against whom the East Pacific is engaged in hostilities, whether or not a state of war exists between the East Pacific and the entity to which the forces belong to.

…4.3. Where it is treason to conspire with any person, the act of conspiring is an overt act of treason.

The following changes are made to strengthen the treason act ever since the regional infrastructure attack on TEP.

4.1.1 and 4.1.2 are redudant in the fact that committing high treason is also committing treason as such I simplified it to make it much simpler, if you commit high treason you also commit treason and if you conspire to commit high treason you commit treason.
An expansion to include government property was added to all treason-espionage charges as the stealing of government property is not actually considered treason-espionage and future prosecutors would have to prove there was information tied to the property to pursue treason-espionage charges, this seems like an outrageous burden of proof on the prosecution.

Can we see the proposed changes in the text? This is not practical.

I’m terrible at formatting ;-; I’ll see what I can do

I did it :smiley: I figured out how to format yippee

Personally, the concision of treason including high treason is good.

Regarding the inclusion of property under treason-espionage, one must take the interpretation that it was the job of Vussul to ask every Delegate if he had permission to continue using the nation following their initial creation - and indeed anyone who accesses a TEP nation. This wouldn’t be a difficult change, but seems a bit dangerous since anyone could easily just bring a case against someone who just forgot to re-ask permission.

It seems if we would want to prohibit people misusing property rather than having false access to it (since most people who access these properties have current access or were just never formally revoked access), then the crime should focus on that than property access.

Honestly while we’re simplifying treason, could we just keep it to “conspiring to commit high treason”? If someone already committed high treason do they really need to also charged with another crime?

As for the addition of property,
I don’t know if it makes quite as much grammatical sense there — perhaps it’s worth outlining what you’re describing as a new crime?

I mean this was merely a formatting fix in this bill, but I would defer to the rest of the magisterium if they believe it is too redundant to charge high treason and then immediately adding the crime of treason as well.

That is fair, I’ll reword it later when I have the time to do so.

@Zukchiva I finally got around to editing it have a look around

I was asked to motion this to vote.

Apparently I can second it

I second the motion, if it’s not already done