No, don't make the same mistakes as the Americans ( WATCHING AMERICA )

As a citizen of the United States and a democratic Socialist , I agree with you completely that you don't need a Belgian version of the Patriot Act or a European Guantanamo.

The FREE SPEECH as ABSOLUTE chants in recent Paris demonstrations were also demonstrations of exquisite French hypocrisy. Could their "socialist" president be completely oblivious to the Marxist view of the limitations of bourgeois "free speech"? And what about the ringing call for the workers of the world to unite? Did the old socialists exclude poor downtrodden RELIGIOUS people of the world? Nothing could be less in the spirit of revolutionary socialism than to mock the great faiths of human civilization.

Those "scientific" socialists -influenced by historical materialism- simply believe that a people freed from the nightmare of capitalist oppression and misery would be more free to rethink their religious beliefs. Of course, it was a great error of the Russian Bolsheviks to make their state officially atheist. Here, America has a better idea: separation of Church and State!

( comment on article published in Le Vif ( Belgium ) on Jan.14, 2015 by Hubert Van Humbeeck , "If Jan.7 was the European Equivalent of Sept.11, we can't make the same mistakes as the Americans")