Jumping on the ban wagon

Al Qaeda is similarly banned in the United States, because it is a terrorist organization. Under Czech law, freedom of speech does not give you the right to incite and/or carry out acts of violence against groups of the country's population and thereby pose a threat to their right to live in safety. What kind of message does it send when officials in the city of Ústí nad Labem practically shut down the whole town to accommodate the neo-Nazis and tell everyone who lives there that they'd better stay inside and not go out so that the neo-Nazis can mark down the streets drunk smashing car windows, vandalizing public and private property and shouting "Gypsies to the gas chambers" and "Blacks to the gas chambers" while the police look on? What about the right of people, and I mean all of them, living in Ústí to be able to walk down the street to the supermarket to buy groceries without having to fear for their lives? Freedom of speech has its limits when you infringe on the rights of others.

Regarding political extremes, the body of Ion Tabuleac was thrown from a car beloning to the Minestery of Interior of Moldova at the doors of the local emergency hospital (www.azi.md) he was 22 years old, other deaths of young people protesting against government have occured and abuse in detention wide spread. Political extreme can originate in the government of any county, and that is where the focus of attention of democratic values should focus. Please visit www.azi.md and view government policy.

Banning political parties is counterproductive. Extremist will always exist in every society. Fortunately, in ours they are a tiny, though noisy, minority. A ban will actually work wonders for them because they will go clandestine and that will sure have more appeal among the sort of people that can be their audience, those who are disenchanted with the system.

With the Communist party the idea of a ban borders stupidity. Unless you can ban the people that currently form KSCM nothing will prevent them from establishing another party, under another name, but with the same ideas and agenda, and that could be even more dangerous than the ideological honesty they now have.