Poland Declares Self Unfit For Freedom

[VetLegion]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hAyIIyvR9Jii7tvtbc9RArzoE6pwD9C81A901

WARSAW, Poland — Poland's president has approved legislation that allows for people to be fined or even imprisoned for possessing or buying communist symbols, two decades after communist rule ended.

The new law says that people who posses, purchase or spread items or recordings containing communist symbols could be fined or be imprisoned for up two years.

I am both no lover of Communism and a firm believer in freedom of speech. A concept
which has yet to arrive to Eastern Europe

[OzzyKP]

Poland.
Germany.

[Kitschum]

Symbols

[David Floyd]

Communism
Suppressing Communism
People who display Communist symbols (and I mean in the Roman way)

[Heraclitus]

Laws like this are in effect all over Europe. Be it communism, national socialism or eco-terrorists. Hate speech laws, anti-constitutional speech bans, anti-terror acts, you can dress it up all you want... The simple truth is each year we slide closer and closer to existing political options basically banning any alternative.


How is freedom of speech doing in the Anglosphere btw?


I feeling that soon it will be just to say that Western Liberal Democracies aren't Western nor Liberal nor Democracies.

[Kitschum]

After all, a Liberal Democracy is a misnomer. The People is tyrannical.

[David Floyd]

We could certainly do without the "democratic" part. People are too stupid to be part of the process.

[Heraclitus]

We could certainly do without the "democratic" part. People are too stupid to be part of the process.

Heh, I can see where you are coming from. I've always tought that Plato's criticism is valid even for representative democracies.

[Heraclitus]

Poland.
Germany.

I'm just wondering in which context you are Germany?

[David Floyd]

You mean, besides general principle?

[Heraclitus]

You mean, besides general principle?

Don't most countries deserve a just on general principle? So why bother posting it?

[Felch]

How is freedom of speech doing in the Anglosphere btw?

Pretty well in the US. You can buy Mao's Little Red Book or Mein Kampf, and not worry about the law. We've even got those www.godhatesfags.com *******s protesting military funerals.

The Brits have some utterly ridiculous libel laws, and all sorts of anti-hate speech laws, but I think that one of them would be better able to answer than I am.

[Kitschum]

Can you be a member of a real Communist party yet, i.e. one advocating an overthrow of your precious constitution?

[DinoDoc]

Can you be a member of a real Communist party yet, i.e. one advocating an overthrow of your precious constitution?

Che isn't in jail, is he?

[Kitschum]

Che is dead.