Berlin to ban neo-Nazi demonstrations

[Kellanved]

BERLIN - German Interior Minister Otto Schily is drafting legislation to outlaw neo-Nazi demonstrations, a move welcomed by opposition conservatives but criticised by civil liberties advocates.

A spokeswoman for the minister said Tuesday the reduction of the rightists' constitutional freedom of assembly was designed to protect the general public and had been suggested by most of the 16 state interior ministers.

Analysts said Berlin was especially worried that neo-Nazis would picket the Holocaust Memorial to be opened next May in the heart of Berlin. Germany was deeply embarrassed when neo-Nazis held a procession in 2000 through the Brandenburg Gate in the capital.
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The states are also fed up with the huge cost of deploying thousands of riot police to prevent brawls every time that a tiny neo-Nazi group announces a demonstration and militant leftists picket it, according to analysts.
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[David__77]

1. This measure will not limit revanchist influence.

Nor will it drive them from the streets. Best to allow the left to destroy them--politically.

[Kellanved]

2. absolutely

I don't like limiting any civil rights one bit. At the moment the proposed law would just create means to establish the equivalent of stop nazi marches around holocaust memorials and other landmark sites.
I see the reason, but I have problems agreeing with such tailored laws.

[Lost147]

3. its about time but

if people stopped paying attention to them chances are the Neo-nazis wouldn't know what to do with themselves and would isband... of course that didn't work last time did it...

[Lenape85]

4. Nazis should be allowed to talk....

...for it will prove their simian-esque ignorance.