For the most part, the Czechs love the US. For the most part, they admire much of what this country has achieved internationally. For the most part, they value US culture.
But what they don’t like any more is to be lectured by the US on human rights. After the Czech republic was mildly criticized in this year’s State Department Human Rights report, this is what Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek had to say:
To the report from the U.S. State Department I can only say that a country that allows torturing of prisoners can hardly teach me about how human rights have been violated here.
So I thought this photo that I took in 2006 at Prague’s Kafka Museum was appropriate for this little tiff!
