He also opposed the planned stationing of a U.S.
radar base on Czech soil, in the Brdy military district, some 90 km southwest of Prague. Filip said the Czech government "is crawling, bowing its back, Czech National Party followers protest against communism ...
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Czech-U.S. radar treaty to include chapter on link with NATO ... around Brussels to Washington" and thereby contributes to the splitting of Europe. According to the journalists present, some 2000 people attended the KCSM rally, while the organisers spoke about several thousand people. The participants signed a petition against the placing of U.S. missiles in the Czech Republic. Representatives of the Czech extra-parliamentary ultra-right National Party (NS), who staged at anti-communist protest meeting on the Vystaviste premises this morning, passed by the KSCM tribunes before Filip's speech. The NS members welcomed the KSCM supporters at the entry to Vystaviste with anti-communist banners reading, for instance, "Communism is no opinion, communism is a crime." Policemen, including mounted police and a helicopter, monitored the KSCM and NS meetings at Vystaviste. They did not have to interfere as no incidents occurred. The KSCM also prepared a culture programme for its supporters, such as poetry readings and brass music. The KSCM tribunes were decorated with anti-war and anti-American banners. Members of the Communist Youth Association (KSM) that was recently banned by court also brought flags. The police in Brno, south Moravia, the second largest town in the Czech Republic, seized similar flags with the KSM emblems from KSM supporters at the Communists manifestation on Brno's Moravske square. "The KSM is a prohibited organisation and this is why is must not be promoted," local district authority secretary Radovan Novotny told CTK, explaining the reasons for the police action. Young Communists criticised it as unlawful. The police in Prague did not interfere against the KSM flags. Prague police spokesman Ladislav Bernasek told CTK that the KSCM event at Vystaviste took place at a leased and strictly limited area, so the banners presented there cannot be defined as the promotion of a banned association. "The situation would be different if they marched with such a banner in the streets," he added. The Interior Ministry dissolved the KSM in October 2006, citing controversial points in the KSM's manifesto as the reason. The manifesto says the KSM will seek the elimination of private ownership of production means and its replacement by common ownership. The Prague City Court confirmed the ministry's decision in March.
(Ceske Noviny)
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