News / Hypocrisy, finagling and foot-in-mouth disease of Poland's "noble" opposition [13]

**The absolute leader in the gaffe department is Romanian-surnamed MP Ryszard Petru. At the height of the Constitutional Tribunal row Petru said Poles should respect "the binding May 3rd Constitution". (It hasn't been binding since the late 18th century when Targowica, an opposition similar to today's, also involved foreign forces to overthrow independent Poland.)

**'On another occasion Petru said Piłsudski's May coup, which put na end to unruly MPs only after their own selfish interests (like PO and Nowoczesna) had occurred in 1935. In actuality it took place in 1926. But being off by 9 years isn't really that bad, is it?

** Besides history, Petru also isn't too savvy in the area of Polish traditions. Not long ago he said something may last until the Six Kings (The Feast of the Three Kings, 6 Jan is a public holiday in Poland).

** Neither is geography Petru's strong point.. When discussing Poland B, he said it started in Góra Kalwarii and ran south from Warsaw via Ciechanów and Łomża. (Ciechanów is to the north, Łomża to the NE and Góra Kalwaria to the SE of Warsaw.)

**But Petru's ignorance is exceeded only by his inflated ambition. Asked back in the PO days whether he would accept a ministerial portfolio, he replied: "I've got higher aspirations. I want to be prime minister."

**While his fellow opposition MPs were staging a sit-in in the Sejm instead of spending Christmas and New Year's with their families and opposition backers were freezing in the cold outside. wife-cheating Petru takes an attractive lady MP and goes on a mid-winter junket to sunny Portugal. Asked why he called for protests and then skipped town, he called it a "niezręczność" (awkward situation).).

**PO MP Arkadiusz Myrcha asked by a reporter if he knew the names of the Three Wisemen, replied: Kacper (should have been Kasper), Melchior and Belzebub! (For the benefit of PF's atheist fringe, Belzebub was one of the devils and the correct answer would have been Baltazar.)A

**Wojciech Dziduszko, the husband of a leftist journalist, was to have been the first "victim" of alleged PiS police brutality. During the nocturnal rumpus outside the Sejm someone hurled a smoke bomb, and the next thing one could see was a "body" lying on the tarmac. PO used the obviously stage-directed sequence in a spot, and soon the world media would have led with the Polish opposition's first "martyr". Except that someone caught the would-be "corpse" on cell cam suddenly getting up and walking away.

**KOD leader and child-maintenance shirker Mateusz Kijowski is the opposition's finagler hypocrite and liar supreme who could easily give the PF's Liar Laureate a run for his money. The hero of an invoice scam, whereby he charged KOD for IT services his company never rendered to the tune of 120,000 złotys and transferred the contents of KOD on-the-street collection boxes into his own pocket. When cornered, he hummed and hawed, claimed he had returned the money and called the whole scam a "niezręczność" (award situation).

**Kijowski was sized up by his sister Marta Wiatr who wold reporters: "What my brother is doing is harmful and is acting agaisnt democracy. He hasn't got the makings of a leader, and I think some force stands behind KOD. Mateusz would never have thought it up himself. He's so deep in debt that he'll do anything for money,"

AND TO THINK THERE ARE ACTUALLY SOME MISGUIDED SOULS WHO WOULD WANT SUCH CHARACTERSTO RUN THE COUNTRY!?