CZECH REPUBLIC: US Radar Provokes PR War

[lovuian]

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40302

The Czech government has begun an 890,000-dollar information campaign supporting the U.S. plan to set up a radar station in the Czech Republic. Opponents of the plan -- led by the Social Democrats -- want some of that money to fund alternative information campaigns so as to create an actual debate on the issue and prepare the population for the possibility of a referendum.

The radar system -- officially presented by Washington as offering protection to the West from missile attacks by "rogue states" such as Iran and North Korea -- would have two elements: a radar in the Czech Republic and an anti-missile base in Poland.

"We decided to start an alternative information campaign since we feel the government is brainwashing the Czech public, and we chose to visualize this problem for both the public and politicians in a mocking fashion," Lenka Kukurova, action campaigner for Greenpeace Czech Republic, told IPS.

Members of the Greenpeace organization recently staged a protest depicting a scene in which a U.S. general dictates to Czech ministers how to promote the base. The ‘ministers’ could be seen holding sponges and washing giant brains placed on the heads of activists who represented the public.
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There is growing disaproval of the radar station just as disapproval is growing in Poland
its a big wakeup call to see Russia leaving the treaty on the populace of Europe
Maybe US isn't such a buddy after all and maybe its not Iran thats the real country they want to keep tabs on