ooc: reading could = understanding. As you read omens in the sky or whatever if we are all illiterate. Or we could presume that Immortals being strange beings know the mysteries of signs long forgotten to ordinary men. Either way arguing over semantics is tedious no
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IC: @Teekaj: I of course am not saying the Brazilian people cannot read what is clearly evident in the proposal, only that the Social Democrats can't, or more likely are wilfully falsifying the document for their own ends, resorting to lies rather than facts in tacit acknowledgement of their utter lack of any rational basis to oppose the proposal.
This you, like your confreres, continue to do. For example you accuse the proposal of violating supposed traditions of liberty, and yet you end your statement there. You provide no evidence or explanation for precisely how it is an attack on liberty, rather you expect the Brazilian people to believe what you say despite the fact that you, your leader Tycho, and your entire party have already been entirely discredited by their own outrageous actions in this debate.
As to your question about changing in a fairly moderate way the way our government works, the answer of course considering the current absolute unchecked power of the current system is that we desire positive reform so that such absolute power is not concentrated in a single persons hands. You imply that we seek absolute power, and yet the proposal itself self-evidently results in the outcome that no position is as powerful as the current President, who by virtue of his dominion over party and government has the powers of both the Prime Minister AND the Emperor established in the proposal the TABD has brought forward.
This concentration of power in one persons hands is dangerous, and detrimental to the rule of the law the shaman so wisely espoused and proclaimed. Thus why this proposal separates the powers of the repository, the powers that serve to protect and watch over the nation, from those of the executive and legislative instead of conflating all branches of political power in the hands of one, unchecked, position, a position currently occupied by a man who's noted achievement is overseeing an alternative to baskets and the recovery of the knowledge of the past which he so disdains. A man who's policies and arguments are so sparse and insubstantial that he had to resort to falsifications and outright lies when opposing the reasonable and progressive policies of the TABP who along with our Imperialist associates are the only ones actually seeking to improve the way this country governs itself.
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@Tycho: The reform proposal notes that responsibilities for ministers lower down than the Prime Minister are the purview of the Prime Minister. A problem thus in a specific area is already specifically defined to be within the elected Prime Ministers competence. The power we propose to give to the Emperor (dismissal of governments) as such applies to the collective whole, and cannot be legally applied on the basis of a single official down the government apparatus. The Emperor could only as such use with evident legality this power when the government as a whole is either clearly dysfunctional and unable to competently administer the nations affairs, or acting as a collective beyond its competence as established by law. As the proposal puts it, the dismissal of a government can occur only in the event of undue corruption (of the government which is a collective) or other need (dysfunction, assassination of most members, or some other thing which impairs the governments ability to function). This is clear, and continued statements implying constant dismissal are simply absurd fearmongering based on vapours rather than solid fact, of which you yourself as I noted have been egregiously guilty.
As to the removal of political ties. The person self-evidently cannot be separated from his attachments and beliefs, that is clear. However the Emperor can as a function and office. In ones capacity as Emperor, a person fulfils a very specifically defined role as a repository branch of government, as a link between past and present, the memory of the nation. In the exercise of these roles the Emperor would indeed be distinctly separated from political parties, and the political debate even if as a private individual he is entitled to his own views. Ergo, the goal is to separate the office of the Emperor from party and partisanship, rather than to pretend that somehow becoming Emperor would remove a persons personal views and values.
