Slovak News Back to the news
SaS Urges President Not to Sign Patriot Act
Sunday 07 March 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, March 7 (TASR) - Extra-parliamentary Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party calls on President Ivan Gasparovic not to sign the newly-enacted Patriot Act, as forcing somebody into patriotism is in conflict with principles of a free society, TASR learnt on Sunday.
The party views the law as harmful, unnecessary and freedom-restricting. "We condemn such legislative trash and we're ready to propose immediate abolition (of such laws) in the future," said Michal Niznan, head of the party's 'Democratic Society' section.
Slovak National Party (SNS), which drafted the law, is using sheer demagogy to promote the Act, said Niznan. "By drawing parallels between education at church schools and patriotism, SNS is only exposing the spiritual emptiness of its representatives and toothlessness of their reasoning," noted Niznan.
He added that no legislation compels pupils at church schools to pray, listen to religious songs or look at excerpts from religious books on walls.
All rights reserved. Any publishing or further dissemination of press releases and photographs from TASR's resources without TASR's prior written approval constitutes a violation of the Copyrights Act.
