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Tőkés and on
Tőkés nonetheless worked together with the bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church on another festival in spring 1989.
Tőkés explained the message and effect of this interview in a German TV series on the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 2008:
A court ordered Tőkés ' eviction on October 20.
As Tőkés described it later, the interview, which had been seen in the border areas and was then spread all over Romania, hada shock effect upon the Romanians, Securitate as well, on the people of Romania.

Tőkés and election
In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).

Tőkés and out
* 1989 – Protests break out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
On 16 December a protest broke out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict the dissident pastor László Tőkés.
The program was seen by Hungarians and human rights activists as a particular threat to Hungarian villages, although Tőkés ' sermons did not single this out, calling for solidarity between Hungarians and Romanians.
" The crowd moved out from around Tőkés ' flat and church, crossed a bridge, and headed for the city centre and Communist Party headquarters, where they threw stones before militia drove them back toward the church around 10 p. m. and the water cannons finally came into play.
On 16 December a protest broke out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict a dissident, Hungarian Reformed church pastor László Tőkés.

Tőkés and Romania
László Tőkés (; born April 1, 1952 ) is a politician from Romania of Hungarian ethnicity, currently serving as a Member of the European Parliament ( since 2004 ) and Vice President of the European Parliament ( since 2010 ).
In competition with the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, the main party of Romania's Hungarians, Tőkés was accused, for instance by a leading politician of that party, György Frunda, of splitting the Hungarian vote.

Tőkés and had
Tőkés had recently made critical comments against the regime to the Hungarian media, and the government alleged that he was inciting ethnic hatred.
Tőkés had in July that year made critical comments against regime's Systematization policy to the Hungarian television, and complained that the Romanians do not even know their human rights.
As it became clear that the crowd would not disperse, the mayor, Petre Moț, made remarks suggesting that he had overturned the decision to evict Tőkés.

Tőkés and .
A mid-December protest in Timişoara against the eviction of a Hungarian minister ( László Tőkés ) grew into a country-wide protest against the Ceauşescu régime, sweeping the dictator from power.
A native of Cluj, László Tőkés is the son of István Tőkés, professor of theology and former deputy bishop of the largely Hungarian Reformed Church.
Máté Tőkés, who was only three years old during the Revolution of 1989, later collected the memories of the friends, relatives, and other participants of the events, and in 2005 wrote Egymás tükrében (" In Each Other's Mirror "), a book about his parents and the hardships of the family.
Like his father, Tőkés was a persistent critic of the totalitarian Ceauşescu regime.
In the summer of 1988, Tőkés organized opposition to systematization among Hungarian Reformed Church pastors, again drawing the attention of the Securitate.
On March 31, 1989, Papp ordered Tőkés to stop preaching in Timişoara and move to the isolated parish of Mineu.
Tőkés refused the order, and his congregation supported him.
In July, 1989, Tőkés gave an interview to the Hungarian television, in which he complained that the Romanians do not even know their human rights.
As December 15 approached, Tőkés ’ parishioners began something of a vigil outside his flat, refusing two guards ’ orders to move along.
Tőkés thanked the crowd but advised them to leave, but several hundred stayed in groups close to the flat.
Tőkés spoke with the mayor and again urged the crowd to disperse.
The crowd remained ; the mayor stormed away, returned at noon, and promised that Tőkés would not be evicted.
The crowd remained ; some of them accused Tőkés of collaborating with the authorities and demanded a written retraction of Tőkés ’ transfer and eviction.
Tőkés again pleaded with the crowd to disperse, but, possibly convinced that he was acting under threats from the Securitate, they refused.

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He commented favorably on colonization in the Emancipation Proclamation, but all attempts at such a massive undertaking failed.
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" Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson commented on astrological belief, noting that " part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us.
They pointed out that astrologers have only a small knowledge of astronomy and that they often do not take into account basic features such as the precession of the equinoxes which would change the position of the sun with time ; they commented on the example of Elizabeth Teissier who claimed that " the sun ends up in the same place in the sky on the same date each year " as the basis for claims that two people with the same birthday but a number of years apart should be under the same planetary influence.
In the 1995 case State of Idaho v. Howry before the Idaho Court of Appeals, the Court commented on the impact of the Alford guilty plea on later sentencing.
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