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Topic: Help us Steve Earle Return to archive
February 3rd, 2005 02:07 PM
Fiji Joe What will our hero Steve do now?...just a thought after our lively debate not too long ago..

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BRUSSELS, Belgium — A group of conservative European Union lawmakers from eastern Europe called Thursday for a ban on communist symbols, including the red star and the hammer and sickle, to match a proposed EU ban on the Nazi swastika.

The group from Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic said the communist symbols should be included in any ban because of the suffering caused by Soviet-backed regimes in eastern Europe.

"We would like to have an equal treatment of the other evil totalitarian regime of the communist system," said Jozsef Szajer (search), an Hungarian member of the European Parliament (search).

EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini (search) has proposed a Europe-wide ban on display of the swastikas and other Nazi symbols as part of a campaign to combat anti-Semitism and intolerance.

"If we decide to ban one, we should decide to ban all of them," said Jan Zahradil (search), a Czech member of the EU assembly.

Frattini's spokesman, Friso Roscam Abbing, said the EU head office was not at this time pushing for a similar ban on communist symbols.

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And in the spirit of equal time...Steve's side of the story...

Steve Earle:

“I cut my teeth on the communist manifesto.”

“There’s nothing in the communist manifesto that I don’t agree with.”
February 3rd, 2005 02:18 PM
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