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"en.20140417.48.4-274-000"2
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"Mr President, we all agree that the Communist regime in North Korea is an undemocratic shame. What are we to make of a regime that jails its opponents on trumped-up charges and keeps them in prison, even when the political motivation for it is tape-recorded and exposed? What are we to make of a regime that claims to hold free and fair elections, but then arrests its opponents to stop them collecting and delivering the 300[nbsp ]000 signatures they need to stand? If it happened in North Korea you would rightly condemn it, but the victims in my first example are Greeks, and in my second, Italians. Because the systematic police repression of Forza Nuova activists has happened there in the last 24 hours. So stop whining about North Korea, as it is totally hypocritical unless you also stand for the right of European electors to choose Golden Dawn or Forza Nuova if they so wish.
You have no power at all to change North Korea, vile though the Communist regime there undoubtedly is, but you could order your backyard occupation puppet regimes to restore democracy in Greece and Italy this afternoon. People in glass houses should not throw stones."@en1
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