Posts Tagged ‘freedom of speech’

Swedish Politician Debates Unheard in the Park

May 14, 2009

Today, I was walking by a demonstration, (the trams were delayed!), because the “Swedish Democratic Party”s leader held a speech and the “extreme left” was shouting at the “extreme right” to stop being nationalists. In turn, the SD leader said not allowing him to speak was undemocratic. I’d say he was both right and wrong in the sense of democracy meaning freedom of speech, because the protests have the right to express their feelings and the politician has the right to be heard. More civilized than hooligans though.

This is 3 months ago, just to give you an example of the left-right disagreements over here: