Tomáš Haas, Czech Steve Bannon (1947-2018)

On Friday, Mr Tomáš Haas died at 15:30. Lots of his Facebook friends including your humble correspondent were sad. He was a major Czech right-wing thinker in addition to a sometime aide to President Klaus in addition to ii Czech prime number ministers – he was maybe 1 of the crucial guys who create lots of the mental run behind the scenes simply stay largely unknown to everybody. His wellness problems accept lasted for some yr or years simply I intend that a calendar month ago, I yet saw him at Klaus' birthday political party inwards Prague where my shortage of fourth dimension (and excess of sweat, due to running uphill inwards Prague) was unfortunately extreme.



I was a chip worried that sometime president Václav Klaus wouldn't write most the deplorable event. But hither it is:

Václav Klaus's eulogy of Tomáš Haas

Tomáš Haas was an extraordinary personality of the Czech Right. He was a consummate exception with the Czech emigrants who were returning from the U.S. or Canada to their homeland later on the 1989 autumn of communism. All of them were tainted yesteryear the American "liberal" world. Haas was the solely white crow with them.

He stood for freedom, democracy, in addition to mutual sense. He was against the political correctness, multiculturalism, in addition to the fawning over the migrants inwards the contemporary Europe. His texts in addition to interviews were a neat root of release energy in addition to refreshment for all of us.

He was a unopen friend of the Institute of Václav Klaus in addition to I must discover that he was a peak candidate for the Annual Prize of IVK for 2018. For some time, nosotros volition reproach ourselves for having missed the chance inwards 2017. Now nosotros can't cook it anymore simply nosotros volition never forget most Tomáš Haas.

I've talked to him for an hr inwards 2007 – when both of us were most active inwards the struggle against the climate hysteria. He was an incredibly variety man.




Haas was born inwards 1947. In 1969, later on the Warsaw Pact business of Czechoslovakia (we volition commemorate the 50th anniversary inwards iii weeks), he emigrated to Canada in addition to the U.S. He completed his studies of history in addition to political scientific discipline at the University of Toronto. 1969 was the "year of choice" for most emigrants – it was yet possible in addition to the reasons to create in addition to then were already potent enough. My mother's blood brother went to Commonwealth of Australia inwards 1969, too.

Between 1977 in addition to 2000, he worked equally an analyst for the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto in addition to from 1997 through 2005, he served equally a consultant for Maxim Group – Technisource inwards Indianapolis. He was 1 of the earliest members of Václav Klaus' Civic Democratic Party in addition to the boss of its Prague 10 local scheme – likely the largest 1 inwards Czechoslovakia at that time.




In the early on 1990s, he was oftentimes sitting side yesteryear side to the finance government minister Klaus during negotiations. He was hired equally an aide to President Klaus betwixt 2005 in addition to 2008; in addition to equally an adviser of ii prime number ministers, Topolánek in addition to (technocratic) Fischer, inwards 2009-2010. (Fischer branded himself equally a centrist; Topolánek ever wanted to persuasion himself equally a right-winger simply that persuasion was sometimes non shared yesteryear others. Sometimes Topolánek wanted to sell himself equally the staunchest warrior for Klaus' ideas; sometimes he acted real differently. H5N1 text message most the "vacuous in addition to counterfeited Topol [poplar tree]" on Klaus' phone, photographed yesteryear a papparazzo, became the minute Topolánek's nickname.)

As a publicist, Haas wrote a lot of articles most domestic in addition to global political issues. Around 2007, I was proud to meet his blog: the template was copied from this weblog of mine, including the clock widget at the same place. More recently, he was writing for the Parliamentary Letters in addition to had a weblog at Aktualne.cz, with a few other places.

Like Klaus in addition to many genuinely right-wing mutual feel folks, Haas lost most of his dear for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) inwards recent v years, due to the ODS' drift towards the unreadable center, peculiarly later on ODS has endorsed the Ukrainian coup in addition to the national socialists over there. He was 1 of the staunchest Czech critics of those Ukrainian events to a greater extent than or less 2014.

I recollect those long discussions inwards 2007. He was also my immature human being warrior inwards several battles. In Spring 2007, he wrote a text Strange Doubts for the Invisible Dog (and it has appeared at several other places) where he defended me against Mr Ladislav Metelka, a climate alarmist in addition to a would-be climate scientist. Metelka hadn't liked a previous text of mine (I wrote lots of polemics against Metelka, in addition to and then did he, most the weather condition records in addition to other things – I am proudest most the championship "Pravdu má Hrad, ne Hradec" i.e. "The Castle, in addition to non the town of Hradec, is right" – Klaus was the boss of the Prague Castle in addition to Metelka's purpose was inwards a similarly sounding simply "smaller" Hradec, "Queen's Minicastle" inwards Eastern Bohemia) where I stated that climatologists who refused to back upwards the alarmist narratives are badly treated yesteryear the universities in addition to the scheme inwards general. Metelka went ballistic in addition to treated me real badly, too. Haas has shown numerous proof that I was right.

Entomologist Martin Konvička, a well-known Czech critic of Islam whom I e-know real good (actually for almost twenty years), has mentioned that he volition ever live grateful to Haas for a vaguely analogous text (on Haas' Facebook profile) that urged everybody to apologize to Konvička because the things he had been proverb most the right handling of the volume migration from the Muslim globe had turned to the mainstream persuasion in addition to the official policy inside a yr or two. But for some reasons, Konvička is yet criticized equally a xenophobe etc.

Well, I must order that Klaus' observation – that Haas was a consummate exception with the Czech emigrants who restored their ties to the homeland – is something that I perceive totally independently in addition to strongly. I know dozens of such emigrants, many of them similar to beak most political issues, in addition to with the exception of Haas, I intend that to 1 extent or another, every unmarried 1 of them has turned into the champion of the political correctness in addition to the contemporary mainstream, basically neo-Marxist, ideological principles.

Sadly, the Czech emigrants aren't the solely grouping that was fudged upwards inwards this way.

The Czechoslovak dissidents basically started to deportment inwards the same way. I intend that the belatedly Václav Benda – a prominent dissident and, rarely enough, a Christian – was analogous to Haas equally an exception with the dissidents. While other dissidents straightaway switched to live a "permanent opposition", i.e. folks who all of a abrupt became keen on criticizing capitalism in addition to materials similar that, Benda supported the badly needed positive reforms that led us towards capitalism in addition to the parliamentary commonwealth without socialist in addition to other left-wing experiments in addition to flavors. His boy Marek Benda – a guy who lived equally a kid inwards a badly treated dissident household unit of measurement – became a life-long politician, he's practiced at all the procedures in addition to relevant laws inwards the Parliament (although lacking charisma), in addition to the opponents of the parliamentary commonwealth dear to pick Marek Benda equally the guy whom they loathe because he represents the archetype of a parliamentarian who is in addition to then unpopular with the typical "politics criticizing" Czechs.

RIP, Mr Tomáš Haas.