The Czech Helsinki Committee (CHV) has alerted U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice to the existence of Czech neo-Nazis' web pages that are
registered in the United States, in a letter addressed to her early this week
when she was visiting Prague.
Rice and her Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg signed in Prague on Tuesday
the U.S. Czech treaty on stationing a U.S. radar base on Czech soil within the
U.S. anti-missile shield.
The CHV wrote that Czech neo-Nazis and other similar extreme groups have a free
access to Internet servers in the United States irrespective of the intolerant
and aggressive character of the posted material.
The committee says this is due not only to the first supplement to the U.S.
Constitution that guarantees freedom of expression, but also due to the lacking
effective cooperation between U.S. and European states' security forces.
"The CHV considers it of fundamental importance that Internet-posted intolerant
or directly neo-Nazi manifestations and their impact are similar to the
consequences and impact of Internet manifestations that are banned in the United
States, for instance, those connected with terrorism and child pornography," the
letter says.
It says Rice should pay attention to this issue and try to initiate cooperation
between Czech and U.S. security units.
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