Should Golden Dawn, Jobbik, the NPD and other such neonazi parties be banned

[ingemann]

I think banning them would make them more popular, no?

You could think that, but would you be right? If Jobbik had been been banned in the outset, would the current Hungarian political scene be so noxious?

Yes or it would be worse with the precedence of banning parties having been created.

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I too is uncomfortable with the idea that people in parliament having difference opinion than me, but the problem with banning people with non-mainstream political view is that you never know when it's your views who's seen as outside the mainstream, and there's no better way to deal with views you disagree with than engage in discussion with them.

Of course I think if it can be proven that a party engage in violence (like Golden Dawn does) they should be banned, but no one should be banned for just being horrible people.

[ingemann]

mah free speech for nazis

If you can take away free speech for Nazis, why not Communists? I certainly have no qualms about you being packed off to a reeducation freedom family camp in Alaska.

Nazism is inherently hateful and anti-democratic. Communism (in most of its modern incarnations) is not.

Yes it is. Most of the far lefties on here are in favor of locking up their "political enemies" in times of a revolution.

What do you think "revolution" means?

It means rich American teenagers wannabe communists would be the firsts against the wall.

[ingemann]

A government powerful enough to ban parties you don't like, is also powerful enough to ban parties you like, which is why I favour not banning organisation unless they organise criminal acts and least of all for something people say.

Should the Nazi have been banned in Germany? Well yes but not because what they said, but the fact that they attempted a armed insurrection in 1923.