However, it would be even worse to violate the ruling of an independent court.
If the Nazis behave in a dangerous way, let the police clamp down on them, Petracek writes. If they pose a danger to society, their grouping should be banned by a court, he adds. But they can be dispersed beforehand only by the hurricane Emma. "I wish it happened," Petracek concludes. How do Communists dare enter the debate on the Masin brothers? Vladimir Kucera asks in Mlada fronta Dnes in connection with Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's having decorated the brothers Josef and Ctirad Masin who led the anti-communist resistance Vaclav Klaus re-elected Czech president ...
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Czech communist leader receives same award as Castro-press ... group and managed to fight their way out from communist Czechoslovakia to West Germany with a weapon in hand in 1953. The Masins and Milan Paumer, a member of their resistance group, killed two policemen and a cashier in their homeland and later three East German policemen during their flight from Czechoslovakia. Communist leader Vojtech Filip has come up with the argument that by awarding the Masins, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's government has lost legitimacy as it decorates murders. If Filip's line were followed up, his party would only be legitimate after it recognises that Communist president Klement Gottwald in the 1950s was a murder, Kucera writes. Unless Filip does this, he has the only right - to keep silent, he adds. The Masin case is a divisive issue of Czech politics, Martin Weiss writes in Lidove noviny. Interestingly, when assessing the Masins, former president Vaclav Havel has not found as clear words as he did when he spoke about the deportation of Germans from the former Czechoslovakia, Weiss writes. President Vaclav Klaus is ready to swim against the tide, provided it is something for which he bears no responsibility such as global warming, he adds. However, when it comes to an issue on which Czechs are deeply split, Klaus suddenly seems to lack any words, Weiss writes.
(Ceske Noviny)
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