Communists, president, gypsies and concentration camp

The European parliament issued a resolution that urges the Czech republic to remove the pig farm, that stands on a place, where 60 years ago died hundreds of Czech Romes in a Czech concentration camp. It begins to be a simple matter of fact, that the Czechs are unable to face the darker parts of their history. I already once mentioned our inability to apologize to the Germans which had to pay for the faults of others during the postwar expulsion. This time, our polititians try to figure out as many apologies as possible, but in a different way - they defend the existence of the former concentration camp of the Romes in Lety at Pisek. Those are not just the Czech communists, but also our president, the most popular polititian according to the recent public opinion data. They try to explain, mainly with the same arguments, that the camp wasn't a regular concentration camp, it should have been a labor camp for the people, who refused to work as other normal people. And I keep asking: And the point is? Is it normal, that there existed a labor camp, which collected in 90% Romes and where 300 of those died? And is it normal, that nowadays there is on of the biggest pig farms in the CR?

Our president showed another intellectual outburst this weekend - he criticized nongovernmental and civil organizations, that they influence our public life more than they deserve. By his opinions, only political parties and their members (BTW, there are just about 100 000 members of political parties in the CR, except the communists, who still have many, mainly old members) have the right to state opinions and publish their insightful comments in the media. Our president starts to be ridiculous. I never liked that old arrogant man, but now I slowly start to mind him a lot.