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"Mr President, so we are all supposed to get exercised about the state of democracy in Russia? In fact, the enemies of democracy are much closer to home. In 2004, Belgium banned the Vlaams Blok, as though banning political parties was quite consistent with democracy. In Germany, in 2001, there were attempts to ban the MPD on the basis of evidence that was found by the Constitutional Court to have been fabricated by state agents. Was this in Communist East Germany? No, it was in the Federal Republic. In the UK, the BBC is a law unto itself. If you are an establishment stooge, you have unlimited access. If you are a genuine opponent of the establishment, you are talked about but rarely given access.
At least the Internet is free, or so we thought. However, yesterday in this Chamber, we saw establishment politicians and an EU commissar – yes, you did hear that correctly – drooling about the possibility of using EU and Dutch law to close down the website of the Dutch Freedom Party and prosecute and jail its leader."@en1
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