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When you refer to Simon Murphy as a "faggot"
You have not only stepped over the mark into the bounds of abuse, I regards this as homophobic harrasment of Simon Murphy.

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I may also point out that section 28 as (an admittedly hastily drawn-up and badly worded) reaction to the loony left's approach on flooding schools with pro-gay literature. Even once Labour did come into power, it took six years and an EU slap on the wrist to get them to rescind it, so a) don't blame Tories for all this. and b) we seriously don't need a bunch of fucking Belgians to tell us how to run our country at the totally obscene price tag of £40 MILLION a day.

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To: @coe.int">bureau.paris@coe.int; @coe.int">bureau.bruxelles@coe.int

Dear Council of Europe,

Please confirm what action the Council of Europe will be taking against Lithuania for the new facist law currently under discussion in that country?

Lithuania's parliament has given final approval to a bill banning information on homosexuality in schools or in media accessible by young people. The law, titled 'Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information', includes "the propaganda of homosexuality [or] bisexuality" as a detrimental factor on young people.

This law will institutionalise homophobia, violate freedom of speech and harm children. It puts homosexuality in the same category as showing images of dead or mutilated bodies and will even ban discussion of homophobic bullying.

The bill will put Lithuania in breach of international and European human rights legislation.
This legislation is homophobic discrimination. As such, it clearly violates the European Convention on Human Rights. Lithuania has signed up to this humanitarian declarations but it is now defying them.

As such all financial aid to Lithuania must be suspended and they must face suspension from the EU until they reject this law. This legislation will enshrine facist extremism into Lithuanian law.

What is the Council of Europe doing to address this dangerous development.

Yours sincerely

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Well done Simon Murphy for being so pro-active. You have my ultimate respect

However, we must remember that Lithuania (and other Eastern bloc/Slavic countries) are former satellite states of the U.S.S.R. Whatever front they put on, it is undeniable that these countries, ravaged by Soviet oppression and Orthodox Christianity, are not as socially advanced as we are. So this is no surprise. (Interesting to note, that in WW2 the Lithuanian version of the schutzstaffel 'SS' were even more brutal, and even more willing to round up Jews than any other Nazi-occupied nation. And to think many from that generation are still living and will have taught the younger generations their same prejudices.)

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"Though if it comes to human rights abuses, the UK should be kicked out of the EU for its laws on detaining suspected terrorists."

That's open to discussion. I see what you mean but a 'terrorist' in our statutes is not defined as 'a Muslim, an Arab, a Pakistani' or anything discriminatory like that; it can mean anyone from an animal rights activist, to the IRA. Lithuania's law is SPECIFICALLY aimed at homosexuals, a recognised minority; hence it is discrimination and different to our terror laws

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Check out his statement:

"This kind of thing just goes to show what a useless, ineffective and toothless dinosaur the EU is."

Now Rob. As you know Britain got a similarly vicious law in the 1980's called Section 28. That was before the EU banned discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation (this happened in the mid 1990's).

Lithuania will be forced to change this homophobic law BECAUSE of the EU. But this will involve a court case so it will not happen overnight.

You obviously don't let common sense or facts stand in the way of your instinctive xenophobia. You are after all a supporter of the neo-facist UKIP/BNP. Both UKIP and the BNP are homophobic, extreme right-wing parties. Are you going against your party politics byv opposing homophobia. Or is it simply that your xenophobia is greater than your homophobia.

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We should get the hell out while we still can.

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Well done Simon Murphy for being so pro-active. You have my ultimate respect

However, we must remember that Lithuania (and other Eastern bloc/Slavic countries) are former satellite states of the U.S.S.R. Whatever front they put on, it is undeniable that these countries, ravaged by Soviet oppression and Orthodox Christianity, are not as socially advanced as we are. So this is no surprise. (Interesting to note, that in WW2 the Lithuanian version of the schutzstaffel 'SS' were even more brutal, and even more willing to round up Jews than any other Nazi-occupied nation. And to think many from that generation are still living and will have taught the younger generations their same prejudices.)

Monkeychops-

"Though if it comes to human rights abuses, the UK should be kicked out of the EU for its laws on detaining suspected terrorists."

That's open to discussion. I see what you mean but a 'terrorist' in our statutes is not defined as 'a Muslim, an Arab, a Pakistani' or anything discriminatory like that; it can mean anyone from an animal rights activist, to the IRA. Lithuania's law is SPECIFICALLY aimed at homosexuals, a recognised minority; hence it is discrimination and different to our terror laws.

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If Lithuania realises that there will be immediate financial consequences then they may think twice about enacting this. The Lithuanian economy is down the toilet at the moment and this law sounds like typically, nasty and populist where the government is trying to scapegoat the gays to divert attention from the disastrous economy.

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And these people have the cheek to call this "protecting" the youth. Against what? From being what they already are? From getting an actual education? What is this – we'll send you to school – but just you dare learn anything there and see what happens!

Bigots!

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Lithuania should be 'suspended' from ALL European Union aid from the date of this disgraceful legislation. If they want to belong to the 'club' AND accept the benefits – they can damned well abide by the rules, regulations and obligations!!

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