If the substance matches the rhetoric this is probably good, but it is unclear that is the case. - Edit 1
Before modification by Joel at 30/09/2013 11:14:48 PM
View original post"There is no provision in the Constitution, and certainly no recent precedent, for the banning of a political party on the grounds of its ideology. That's why the government documented a series of criminal acts to hold them responsible for."
This, IMHO, is PRECISELY the proper approach for both foreign and domestic terrorists. It is both needless and wrong to ban free speech that stops short of promoting or soliciting violence, because speech that DOES exhort violence can and should be prosecuted for that violence. Summoning conferences or rallies where attendees are urged to physically assault, let alone kill, others, or publicly or privately promoting such practices, strikes me as conspiring to murder irrespective of partisan or any other extraneous ideology. Conversely, even the ugliest ideology committed to non-violent action within the legal political process merits free speech protection.
Now, whether the Greek government is sincerely and truly operating on those principles or simply paying lip service to them as excuse remains to be seen.