Germany seeks to curb far right

[KrazyRabidSheep]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4256877.stm

[FeArANDLoAtHiNg]

Anybody who wants to celebrate the holocaust, or German's fascist history must be sick in the head, but can Germany really just flat out ban a political party?

[bolshevik butcher]

This is a sticky one, but surely they can at least stop the demonsrtation.

[commiecrusader]

Despite the fact that this is obviously a sick far-right organisation, if they go ahead with a ban, this would set a worrying precedent. Communists aren't that popular in much of Germany either, and if they are allowed to ban a far-right party, what's to stop them banning an extreme left one?

Completely discrediting this disgusting nazi relic would be far better than to simply force them underground.

[che-Rabbi]

I wouldn't so much mind them banning the '' nazi'' wannabe parties because they're a group of people hiding behind freedom of speech, yet they want to destroy it. How ironic.... idiots.

[Urban Rubble]

Can someone who is a little more knowledgeable about German politics tell me a little about this party ?

[Xvall]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11 2005, 11:35 PM
Anybody who wants to celebrate the holocaust, or German's fascist history must be sick in the head, but can Germany really just flat out ban a political party?
If they have reason to believe that the party is affiliated with Nazism, then yes, they can. If I recall correctly, Nazism is illegal in Germany; Nazis have to hide themselves under the banner of another party. The National Democratic Party, for example, doesn't immediately sound like a party affiliated with nazism and fascism.

[marxist_socialist_aussie]

they are supposedly very careful never to outright speak as Nazi's etc. or use traditional nazi symbols since they are illegal and there in lies the problem with actually banning the party. To trully be able to do it, they need the NDP to really slip up, or to give a good enough argument that it causes racial violence. Personally,having heard about them from German friends, I wouldn't mind seeing them banned.

[Xvall]

I wouldn't mind seeing them dead.

[TheKwas]

Banning such demostrations, parties, symbols and ideas is just wrong and counter-productive. By hiding such things under social taboos you only increase the curousity of the young and vulerable. People naturally are interested in the forbidden and wish to learn more about the forbidden. If we want people to reject fascism, we must expose it for what it is, not hide it.