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February 07, 2005
Symbolism
A move to ban Nazi symbols across Europe is running into trouble thanks to those who have the pesky idea that by the same logic Soviet symbols should be banned. Presumably, this would have to include every Che poster and T-shirt.
"We would like to have an equal treatment of the other evil totalitarian regime of the communist system," said Jozsef Szajer, a Hungarian MEP, according to the Associated Press news agency. Czech MEP Jan Zahradil agreed: "If we decide to ban one, we should decide to ban all of them."
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 7, 2005 08:36 AM
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Heh. Why not, then? Apparently the Dutch flag is now banned as "offensive to Muslims".
Unfortunately, it isn't widely understood that in the effort to protect simply everyone from offense, eventually NO ONE has any freedom.
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at February 7, 2005 02:50 PM