Posted on 07/29/2011 9:33:37 AM PDT by yoe
PRAGUE (AP) -- They're the Czech Republic's fourth-largest political party, but the hardline Communists could soon be outlawed if the center-right government has its way.
It's more than two decades since communism collapsed here, but the survivors and ideological heirs to the party that ruled from 1948 until the "Velvet Revolution" of 1989 are under increasing political pressure.
Petr Necas' government has taken the first step toward a possible ban by asking the Interior Ministry to work on a legal complaint to make it happen. A study commissioned by a Senate committee compiled numerous complaints from lawmakers about their conduct.
The party, which is vehemently opposed to NATO, brands opponents "terrorists" and maintains friendly ties with the ruling Communists in Cuba, China and North Korea.
Unlike most other communist parties in the region that have joined the left-wing mainstream, the Czech party has maintained its hardline stance.
Supporters of the ban say it is a direct successor of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, whose members killed more than 240 political prisoners while thousands of other opponents died in prisons.
Jaromir Stetina, the main force behind the Senate report, said the Communists are an anachronism.
The Czech Communists adore the violent communism based on Marx and Lenin," Stetina told The Associated Press. "They adore revolutionary violence."
He says the party should have been banned immediately after the Velvet Revolution.
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Impy, communism is intrinsically evil and people who do commie organizing are engaged in criminal behavior. So, yes, it is proper to criminalize this type of politics.
Same thing with the Nazis. They are criminals. Organized crime. (Just my viewpoint.)
“What’s stopping them from calling themselves “Democrats” instead?”
This is true, the Czechs “conservtives” should be warned that a name is but a name. You can’t ban a political party, you just force them to become something more dangerous. A politician that supports every aspect of the communist agenda but deny’s it.
I suppose you’ve seen the video here
http://freemarketcircle.blogspot.com/2011/07/jack-webb-schools-obama-on-america.html
I thought that was the Democrat Party...after all just ask Barney Frank....
That’s the thing, they can just form a new party.
And if they ban the espousing of communism all together they can just call their policies something else.
Yes and yes, CF.
What’s a practical way to “ban” a political party? There isn’t one that I can see.
Sorry! You’re Impy, not CF.
WAY early on a Sunday morning :)
Not in a democracy anyway. Ideas can’t be killed, only the people that have them. (which brings me back to the shooting them part ;) )
I’m with you 1,000%!!!
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