Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Socialism is Dead, Long Live Socialism
I understand the brutality that socialism is prone to, yet banning their symbols seems counterproductive to me. According to http://rexcurry.net/swastikanews.html

EU proposal would ban socialist symbols
How does a state banning the symbols of another state promote liberty? It seems to me that such a ban only increases the power of a state, precisely the opposite of the stated intention of divorcing the EU from the history of state-mandated slaughter within its members. If the EU really cared about preventing future atrocities, why don't they ban the national socialist policies that preceded the original slaughter? A governmental ban sounds, to me, like the hypocrisy of the statement, "Socialism is dead; long live socialism."

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