The chief of the security unit of the Interior Ministry, Lubomír Kvíčala, has already asked the police to investigate the cheeky reporters who caught Interior Minister František Bublan driving 170 kilometers per hour (105.4 miles per hour) and published it.

Yesterday Bublan himself got angry at the reporters who dared to drive as fast as he did, which must have been dangerous for others although, at the same time, it documented the speed of his driver.

Kvíčala is correct in saying that racing reporters are a threat to the road safety. I add that so are racing police presidents or a minister's driver. And, because drivers of government officers can break the law if it's necessary for the security of their prominent passengers, it seems that we have to come to terms with the fact that we are all equal behind the steering wheels except for a few government drivers.

I'm glad that the interior minister has a driver who can escape potential terrorists on the highway.

At the same time, I think that when we have a newly implemented traffic law the minister should be smart enough to tell to his driver there are no terrorists anywhere close, so slow down — the plane will wait for me for a minute, and, next time, pick me up on time; otherwise, you will lose your bonus.

I understand the reporters' position, but, on the other hand, I wouldn't like to experience them checking on us ordinary drivers with the aim of denouncing us.

Vojtěch Filip, the chairman of the Communists, was an StB agent (the pre-1989 secret police) and has won a court ruling that he didn't know about this, Karel Steigerwald writes in Mladá fronta Dnes July 28.

He admires border guards who were shooting people and refuses the nomination of Jan Kasal for the chairman of the Chamber of Deputies because Kasal made an anti-Communist speech at the meeting of political prisoners who were tortured by the Communists.

Maybe Kasal should have applauded the Communists. We are reverting back to the old times.

Tolerance of communism, the whole normalization and all its mannerisms, has returned during the eight-year rule of the Social Democrats (ČSSD). But games with the Communists that are played from time to time by those who need votes, and whom the ČSSD uses for its post-election strategy, aren't paying off now.

Four years ago the ČSSD had 111 votes with the Communists counted, but no socialist said: Our bloc has 11 more votes than the opposition. His jaw would have dropped at the idea. Today jaws never drop. They easily hound Kasal because he is an anti-communist. So let's at least tell them: Being an anti-communist is an honor.