Bill to ban Fascism & Communism within Easway

On September 7th 2021, a bill was proposed to the Long Palace legislator which asked if fascism and communism should be banned in Easway."Shall Fascism & Communism, as previously described by the Emizerri, & their totalitarian usages be banned from the Realm of Easway, its political parties, & positive use within its political parties?"The Council defines fascism as "The mass censorship of media through a totalitarian dictatorship, which forcibly organises society into different major corporations and brings in either ethno-nationalism, or the talk of a major rebirth philosophy." "The positive use of national socialist flags, or fascist Italy flags, or any other historically clearly defined emblems of fascist movements is included here as fascism."

The Council defined communism more broadly as "an ideology that combines a clear message of vanguard action with worker centralisation, democratic centralism with the want to ban non communist parties. Leninist, Stalinist, or Maoist forms of socialism are also defined as forms of communist ideology. To this extent, ideologies which explicitly state a communist society as the end goal, past any normal worker based ideology is included as communism. A workers party which refers to itself as scientific socialist, whilst infringing on the rights to exist of other parties, including libertarian socialist parties, is communism." (This was later changed - check Aftermath.)

Background
The public had become increasingly concerned with the rise of both fascist and communist extremism within Easway. From the Homofascist Party's attempt to curb straight representation via the Anti-Homophobe Act, to talks of radical changes of Easway's systems through worker communes, which had people worried about their future rights and the integrity of Easway,. This was seen as becoming too much to ignore. Once the Seven Masts philosophy was passed into the constitution, the ideologies of fascism and communism was increasingly seen as a threat to the integrity of the Realm, and to people's freedoms and civil rights. Therefore, with backing from the Emperor, from the Grand Marshal, & from the Imperial Council, most notably Marquis of Boriopa, Csyeigo, the bill was called to a vote.

Results
The bill was given 24 hours to be voted on. Long Palace representatives were called to vote & with 6 votes in favour, 1 vote against, and 2 abstentions, the bill to ban fascism and communism in Easway was passed. Although there was major changes to the Communist section, which can be read in Aftermath.

Aftermath
This bill being held on Monday, the Homofascist Party was given until Friday to reform, or be disbanded. The deadline passed and the party was disbanded, making 6 government members independent politicians.

The Emperor on the evening of September 10th made this statement."It is with serious outlook, that I as Emperor. With the power of veto. And with the discussion and thought of freedom of speech with members. Change the definition of the new banning of Fascism & Communism bill. Communism, in its Libertarian form shall be unbanned from the constitution from being mentioned in parties. But the existing definition, which says: The Council defined communism more broadly as 'an ideology that combines a clear message of vanguard action with worker centralisation, democratic centralism with the want to ban non communist parties. Leninist, Stalinist, or Maoist forms of socialism are also defined as forms of communist ideology. To this extent, ideologies which explicitly state a Communist society as the end goal, past any normal worker based ideology is included as communism. A workers party which refers to itself as scientific socialist, whilst infringing on the rights to exist of other parties, including Libertarian socialist parties, is communism.' Shall remain, except what is called communism, shall be called leninism/stalinism/maoism. The USSR and CCP flags shall remain banned from official use in Easway. This is no way me supporting communism, nor would it be appropriate as Emperor to say I am against it. I just think that this change is needed to protect freedom of speech, whilst being clear on what is being banned. Which is the totalitarian elements of this ideaology."The definition of what was banned from what was before communism was changed to:

"Leninist, Stalinist, and Maoist socialist or communist ideology that combines a clear message of vanguard action with worker centralisation, democratic centralism with the want to ban non-communist parties. To this extent, ideologies which explicitly state a Leninist, Stalinist or Maoist communist society as the end goal, past any normal worker based ideology is included here. A workers' party which does not specifically refer to itself as Leninist, Stalinist or Maoist but instead refers to itself as scientific socialist, whilst infringing on the rights to exist of other parties, is included here.

The Council's Closing Statements
The Council said this in justification for the bill which the Long Palace voted to pass:"We ban these ideologies for the simple reason that they are inheritently hateful. Historically, political movements & totalitarian dictatorship have overtly used these ideologies to commit crimes, including mass murder and suffering, and they go against everything which the Easwegian constitution guarantees; democracy, civil & political freedoms, moral decency, social justice, solidarity, and the rule of law. With the banning of these ideologies it sends a clear message that Easway will not allow hate to be harbored, or the possibility for an ideaology to come to fruition which inflicts suffering on the great nation which is Easway, and the strong willed Easwegian people. Easway, stay safe.'"