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Published: 28 May, 2009, 20:12


A Moscow court has sentenced nationalist leader Aleksandr “Belov” Potkin to one and a half year’s imprisonment, suspended over two years. He has been found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred and violence.

 
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Count Cash May 28, 2009, 18:23 quote
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It's so important that we stamp out race hatred, but its also important that we preserve freedom, and use our minds to prevent problems in the first place. The West is in a total mess around these issues, and we must be careful not to follow. There they have lost completely the definion of incitement and free speech, also they have lost control of the root cause of tension which is pocketed tribal cultures, where incomers herd together, sometimes for protection, sometimes for preserving culture and sometimes for all together different reasons. Their governments try to use a strong arm approach to fix what are the inevitable problematic social issues In Russia we need be absolutely clear, that we will not tolerate attacks, we will not tolerate true incitement, where the words are unarguably linked to a goaded action. However, other than that, we must foster and adhere to free speach, backed with a strong education in tolerance for our children, backed by a strengthening economy On top of this we must control immigration and ensure the pocketed cultures don't develop and become foundaries of tension. In Russia we have a chance to go a different, more legal way, which is our fundamental DNA difference to Europeans anyway. Their way is hyper politics, arguing black is white, until the reality that they can't see the wall in the dark hits them squarely in the face.

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