A
liberal state protects individual rights. Theft, fraud or attacks
against one's body or life are punishable. After providing one with a
fair trial one can be convicted of such crimes. Members of “Golden
Dawn” have been, among others, accused of crimes against property
or life and thus being convicted of them (if evidence occurs) will be
just. Being democratically elected does not affect one's capacity to
be found guilty.
For
example, it is not punishable itself to be the leader of a Nazi
party, but it is punishable for the leader to ask the party's chief
members to attack or kill another specific individual.
Democracy
must deal with Nazis not by depriving them of their individual
rights. Nazis must, as individuals, have the right to use hate
speech, recruit people, converge or hope to the substitution of the
constitution by their misanthropic “moral code”.
Democracy,
on the other hand, can use only just weapons to fight them. Justice
(quick and functional), freedom of expression and knowledge can
isolate “Golden Dawn” from the liberal society, in which it does
not belong.
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