If the substance matches the rhetoric this is probably good, but it is unclear that is the case.
Joel Send a noteboard - 30/09/2013 11:13:04 PM
View original post"There is no provision in the Constitution, and certainly no recent precedent, for the banning of a political party on the grounds of its ideology. That's why the government documented a series of criminal acts to hold them responsible for."
This, IMHO, is PRECISELY the proper approach to foreign and domestic terrorists alike. Banning free speech that stops short of promoting or soliciting violence is both needless and wrong, because speech that DOES exhort violence can and should be prosecuted for violence. Summoning conferences or rallies where attendees are urged to physically assault, let alone kill, others, or publicly or privately promoting such practices, strikes me as conspiring to murder irrespective of partisan or any other extraneous ideology. Conversely, even the ugliest ideology committed to non-violent action within the legal political process merits free speech protection.
Now, whether the Greek government is sincerely and truly operating on those principles or simply paying lip service to them as excuse remains to be seen.
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Greek far-right leader, other legislators arrested
29/09/2013 03:56:18 AM
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Greece needs to fear the Left more than it needs to fear the Right.
29/09/2013 04:17:31 AM
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While this is becoming a recurring theme with you which I don't usually agree with...
30/09/2013 10:13:12 PM
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If the substance matches the rhetoric this is probably good, but it is unclear that is the case.
30/09/2013 11:13:04 PM
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This sounds very iffy
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