You would not be surprised that since nouveaux-riches in Russia
introduced their democracy in 1991, they have been continuously making
attempts to modify it so that it would make existence of communist
organisations illegal. The last major one was a bill “to prevent the
communist revanche” introduced by an infamous politician, radical
fascist Zhirinovsky in August 2000.
The bill proposes to ban issuing communists statements and using
any communistic symbols in any state authority and in campaigns in
allRussian and local elections. It reads that “parties and movements
defending the communist ideas should only be allowed to participate in
elections as parts of movements and blocs, whose names and programmes
are different to those of communists.” Furthermore, not only should it
be illegal to use “communist” as a title to stand in elections, but
also the “equivalents” of that term — “Marxist”, “Marxist-Leninist”,
“Lenin’s”, “Stalin’s”, “Soviet”, “worker-peasant” and, believe it or
not, — “international”!
And then, comes the classic anti-communism: banning any calls for
forcible overthrow of the Constitutional System in Russian Federation.
This time, the above bill was lost in time because of its
absurdity. However, Soviet communists regard such attempts as something
more serious than bad jokes. With Putin now rewriting the official
ideology to give the highest priority to the “law”, it is realistically
possible that his regime will revert to reactionary practice (including
open fascism) as the crisis aggravates.
With communistic greetings, Viktor Bourenkov.
On 13 Mar 2001, at 22:35, Bill Howard wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eric Hayes Patkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 3:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [MLL]Capital Punishment?
>
> >This reads like a bad joke. Any clue as to the bill name/number? I did a
> >quick search and came up empty -- nothing on Gary George's site lists
> >anything like the above bill.
>
>
> It came from an article it 'the People' which
> is SLP USA - perhaps you could try there
> (whole article reprinted below...)
> [...]
> An Oregon legislator who says he is targeting the "political
> correctness" of hate crimes legislation has introduced a bill that would
> make it a hate crime to smash a store window or sabotage a company.
> There are already laws against such activities, of course. But the bill,
> introduced by Sen. Gary George (R-Newberg), would add an additional five
> years' imprisonment for anyone whose crime is motivated by "a hatred of
> people who subscribe to a set of political beliefs that support
> capitalism...."
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