Worried about Hate Speech in Politics
President Danilo Tuerk joined a number of groups and individuals who have condemned a commentary of the general election published on the Democrats' (SDS) website, by saying that the publishing of the commentary was "worrying". The information commissioner filed a criminal report against the author and the web site administrator.
According to the president, the commentary, which says that Zoran Janković won the 4 December election by scaring voters who are not of Slovenian ethnicity against voting for the SDS, exceeds the right to freedom of expression and contains elements of hate speech.
"Such actions should be firmly rejected as unacceptable in the public discourse and political dialogue," Tuerk was quoted by his office. He expects the authorities to investigate the matter and take appropriate action.
"The level of culture in the public and political discourses in the Slovenian society is a problem we encounter too often," he pointed out.
The commentary says that most of the people who voted for Jankovic in the 4 December election had "a foreign accent" and "came to the polling stations in track suits". It also suggests that they had been instructed on how to vote and even pressured into voting for Jankovic.
Information Commissioner Natasa Pirc Musar said that the controversial commentary, published under the news section of the SDS site, contained elements of the crime of public incitement to hatred, violence and intolerance, which is why she filed a criminal report against the author and the web site administrator today.
In a statement for the STA, she said that her office had received no reports of abuse of electoral register or personal data, which the author alleged in the commentary.
Human Rights Ombudsman Zdenka Cebasek Travnik said earlier today she expected a criminal report to be filed. "We have highlighted the unacceptable remarks or analysis which probably is not an analysis and which focuses on the voters who did not vote for rightist parties," Cebasek Travnik told the press today.
The Slovenian Journalists' Association (DNS) also condemned the commentary, by saying it contained "nationalistic, shunning discourse which also contains elements of hate speech and goes against the notion of equality of all regardless of their ethnic origin, which is an indisputable civilisational gain within the framework of human rights and freedoms notion".
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Communist genocide against "Slovenian"(part of German nations for over 1500 years) and Croatian nations TODAY(2011/2012) !!!
http://sloveniatoday.blogspot.com
ABDUCTIONS / FORCED BRAIN CHIP IMPLANTS / BLACKLISTING / FORCEFUL UNEMPLOYMENT / MK-ULTRA BRAINWASHING AGAINST WHITE(in so called "Slovenia" against native population under "NAZI" lie and with intention of creating again SERBOSLAVIA which have fallen apart with bloody ethnic war in 1991) CIVILIAN POPULATION TODAY IN 2011/2012 ACROSS THE EUROPE AND NORTHERN AMERICA !!!
http://myshortbiography.blogspot.com/
WITH THIS NOTE, I AM STATING HOW 67 YEARS OF COMMUNIST PRO SERBIAN GENOCIDE AGAINST OUR NATION IN WHAT IS KNOWN AS SO-CALLED "SLOVENIA" IS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE !!!
THIS IS NOT RUSSIA AND WILL NEVER BE DESPITE COMMUNIST KILLING 50% OF NATIVE POPULATION HERE !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB7OT3wBbdQ THIS IS WHERE OUR PEOPLE(others exiled anywhere from Canada,USA across the Europe and all the way to Australia/Argentina) HAVE ENDED AND AS YOU SEE TODAY IN 2012 FOR THE SAKE OF COMMUNIST PRO RUSSIAN(Serbian) LEBEN RAUM BASED ON ETHNIC CLEANSING( GENOCIDE) !!!
I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE AMERICAN(German) MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SO CALLED "SLOVENIA" BECAUSE OUR PEOPLE WHOM YOU PRO YUGOSLAV COMMUNISTS HAVE ASSASSINATED(or exiled) WILL NEVER BE SUBSTITUTED BY YUGO FOREIGNERS AS ACCEPTABLE !!! THIS IS OUR COUNTRY AND NOT YOURS !!!
WE ARE NOT RUSSIANS(communist scum have placed us Russian flag and named our country Slovenia/Slovakia/Slavonia/Slovania alike to substantiate genocide against us with misleading name/flag and discourage foreign intervention for the sake of our freedom) !!! YOU WILL NOT BUILD HOMES ON OUR GRAVES ANY FURTHER !!!
MR. MUSSOMELLI(AMERICAN AMBASSADOR) IS VERY WELCOME HERE(please feel this to be your home sir on what I will insisted your obtaining here as well honorable citizenship - end of mandate) WHILE YOU RUSSIAN/SERBIAN AMBASSADORS ARE NOT AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED(I want you out per ASAP) !!!
MY NAME IS AVSEC BOSTJAN(native) AND AM TELLING THIS PUBLICLY(this is not gonna be another Latvija/Estonija etc. which you have forcefully populated with economic oppression against natives there and for the sake of USSR#2) !!!
DEAR MR. MUSSOMELLI, PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT MR. DANILO SLIVNIK(prominent journalist) WAS ASSASSINATED BY PRO YUGOSLAV COMMUNIST SCUM IN SO CALLED "SLOVENIA" JUST FEW DAYS AGO !!!!
IT IS INTERESTING HOW PRO YUGOSLAV COMMUNIST SCUM IS INCREASINGLY PROMOTING FOR PAST SEVERAL YEARS WHAT IS ORTHODOX CHURCH(Russian/Serbian) IN SO CALLED "SLOVENIA" WITH WHICH WE HAVE HISTORICALLY ABSOLUTELY NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER AND FOR WHAT(beside everything else stated above) I CONSIDER TO BE DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST US NATIVES !!!
OUT OF OUR COUNTRY YOU COMMUNIST SLAVIC SCUM !!! OUT !!! FREEDOM FOR OUR PEOPLE NOW !!! MY NAME IS AVSEC BOSTJAN(Address: Krka 1, Novo mesto) IF YOU HAVE ANY ISSUES WITH ABOVE STATEMENTS(IT WAS NOT FOREIGNER WHO STATED THIS, BUT INSTEAD NATIVE BORN IN SO CALLED SLOVENIA WHO WAS COMPELLED TO ESCAPE FROM ONE AT AGE 23) , YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO INQUIRE FURTHER INFORMATION WITH ME PERSONALLY !!!