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Polonius3   
30 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

PiS actually hate democracy

Yes, but they hate the quasi-democracy promoted by the post-commie RT clique. The de facto guiding principles of the post-commie setup is: 1) Democracy is when WE (PO,KOD, PSL, N) are in power and: 2) Our version of democracy is meant to serve the "enlightened, privileged elites" who are foreordained to speak and decide for the majority of Poles.
Polonius3   
30 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

history validates that axiom

Indeed, the Bolsheviks also got crowds into the streets that rampaged, looted, burnt and killed and the result: seven decades of the Evil Empire, blood, death, torture, gulags, fear and mayhem all wrapped up in miles of redtape...
Polonius3   
30 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

bravery of Walesa

Someone was saying something like "we overthrew communims in 1989" and the leader of the ex-commie SLD Włodzimierz Czarzasty chimwd in: "You did not overthrow communism. We cut a deal wtih you guys (dogadaliśmy się)!"

It's easy enoiugh to bandy slogans and imponderables about: freedom, democracy, constitution, rule of law, equality law, etc. But often the bottom line is typified by the attitude of Poland's "total opposition" or America's equally resentful and frustarted Democrats: "Democracy is only when WE are in power!" Under the PO regime and preceding administrations there did exist a form of democracy, but it mainly served a select post-commie clique who in turn were largely in the serivce of foreign-interest groups. For 2 years PiS have been evening out the playing field to make the fruits of transformation available to broader sections of the nation. That never sets well with formerly privileged dyed-in-the-wool elitists!
Polonius3   
29 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

in reality he called for the arrest of 15 people

Were they to be summarily jailed or forced to take part in a cooked trial in a post-commie kangaroo court? (Just imagine Michnik, Schetyna and Kijowski in judges' togas passing sentence!)
Polonius3   
29 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

what colour coded socks his pals were wearing

His misdeeds were far from readily dismissible. Dunno if you read Polish but Wałęsa "Bolek" snitched to the SB not only about the general mood at the yard's W-4 section harmed at least 24 of his workmates. Most of them have since died in oblivion with no help from Free (?) Poland. Wałęsa never tried to make it up them materially or even by apologising. Earlier evidence has been backed up by proof found in Kiszczak's cupboard and irrefutably confirmed by thorough graphological analysis. The fact he continues to stonewall does not make him innocent,

telewizjapolska24.pl/PL-H23/3/1852/kogo-i-w-jaki-sposob-skrzywdzil-34bolek34.html
Polonius3   
29 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

unruly hooligan rumpus-raising

Despite or, perhaps more accurately, because of all the opposition's noisy rumpus-raising, suport for PiS has not declined but increased. The latest Ipsos poll shows 38% support for PiS, 3 pts more than in the last survey, whilst PO got 24%, 3 pts down.

That clearly shows that all the liberal-leftist ballyhoo can generate loads of anti-PiS headlines in the West's essentially anti-conservative mainline media and trigger yet another wave of EU Polonophobia. But it turns off the country's overwhelmingly conseravtive, family- and tradition-minded, Catholic and patriotic majority.
Polonius3   
29 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

or their parents were very high up on that same regime

Like Adam Michnik: parents Soviet agents, brother a fugitive from justice with Polish blood on his hands. Red scum all the way! Now you know why Adam is so soft on commies, called Kiszczak and Jaruzelski "men of honour" and labelled a true hero Col. Rysazrd Kukliński, the first Polish officer in NATO, a traitor.
Polonius3   
28 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

82% opposed

And 81% of Poles favour the judicial reforms. And here is an update on PO's hate and fake-news industry. PO MP Kinga Gajewska, on her party's fake-news specialists, has called for the sacking of interior minsiter Błaszczak over the beating of a Chechen family in Białystok. It turned out the incident had occurred in 2013 before Błaszczak became minoister, and the photo she ran did not show a Chechen family but Syrian refugees. Scamster Mateusz Kijowski has called on the EU to impose sanctions on Poland in a deseprate bid to shore up his declining grip on KOD. Milking his Nobel Peace Prize image for what it's worth, Lech Wałęsa told Germany's "Die Welt" one could expect most anything from Kaczyński including him shooting at people. Finally realising that PiS-bashing is not enough to win an election, Grzegorz Schetyna says PO plans to improve on 500+ by also giving benefits to the first-born child. Also emulating PiS, he declared PO would not set the welcome mat out for migrants.
Polonius3   
28 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

expert on business

No, but I know a bit about human psychology.And you, of course, know more about economics than Morawiecki and have better contacts in London and New York.
Polonius3   
28 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

political instability

Loud, unruly hooligan rumpus-raising may suggest instability, but the shenanagins of that lunatic fringe impress only Brusselcrats and media hyenas on the lookout for a "sexy" story. It hasn't hurt PiS' political support nor improved that of the "total oppositon". Nor has it scared investors away.
Polonius3   
28 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

advised to avoid

By whom? Whoever's giving out such advice is completely ignored by hard-nosed businessmen who instinctively knwohow to separate the chaff (of ballyhoo protests) from the grain (real profits).
Polonius3   
28 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

The forest is safe for now

But not from the spruce-bark beetle whose conquest realm is spareading. The removal was meant to take out diseased trees and eliminate thre contsagion but the know-all EU which knows about dendroilogy like HB kmnwos Polish are drifven by their political biases and obsessions, not concern for the environemnt. if PiS said water is wet, the Brusselcrats would retort it's a lie and threaten sacntions. That's the kind of bozos the "total oppsoiton" and a few whackos on PF identify with.
Polonius3   
28 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Opposition

Foreign investors not phased by judicial reform controversy; despite the loud, unruly ballyhoo, more investors are coming to Poland. Foreign investors are not not going to leave Poland country because of court reforms, Morawiecki told a news conference.

Foreign direct investment continues to grow and foreign companies are increasingly "knocking on our door", he said. According to Morawiecki, who is also development minister and deputy prime minister, foreign investors "are perfectly able to separate political emotions from hard economic facts".
Polonius3   
26 Jul 2017
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

American Christmas

American Christmas is one big hyper.commercilaised razzle-dazzle shopping binge that starts in OIctober when the first grinning Sandy Clutzes appear and Jingłle Bells, Frosty the SNowman and Chestnuts roasting in an open fire blare over shopping mall loudspeakers the length and breadth of the land. Some people actually put up Christmas trees in late November and chuck them out on 26 Devcember. Private homes get lit up like Coney Island, and then there's the mad dash to the "holiday tree" (that's in honour of the Big Mulatto fortunately no longer in office!) on Xmas morning to open presents and later it's that big Christmas turkey dinner which is really just a re-run of Thanksgiving. Next day it's business as usual. No St Stephen's or Boxing Day!

By contrast, there is nothing more beautful, solemn, inspiring and deeply symbolic than Polish Wigilia -- everything significant about Christmas takes place on that one single evening.Those are the most imporant several hours of the year. Yes, tacky Western-style commercialism has also been seeping into Poland, but so far at least the Wigilia tradition has held its ground.
Polonius3   
22 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

are not against the new law but against PiS

Although simple and straight forward, that observation is downright brilliant! The more so that it was lost on both sides of the Great Polish-Polish Divide. PO kept attacking the reforms and PiS triefd to explain why they were beign carried out. The bottom line is that if it wasn't judicial reofrms it'd be something else. The resentful and frustrated opposition simply reject their 2015 defeat at the polls but have proved incapable of producing any credible rival programme to compete with what the PiS good-change government are doing.
Polonius3   
22 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

middle of the night actions ?

You apparently have failed to notice it was the "total opposition's" obstructionism, repeated calls for recesses, stalling, foot-dragging, disrupting the business at had, switching off lights, singing, swamping the presidum with 1,300 proposed amendments, throwing paper balls as in primary school, etc., etc. that caused the proceedings to drag into the night.
Polonius3   
22 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

coherent political arguments

Their lack has been the "total oppositon's" downfall. Former Polish Justice Minister and Attorney General Barbara Piwnik has said that although she had doubts about the controversial new laws on the judiciary, there have been no good counter- proposals, and debate has become too emotional.

"If there is no balanced, reasonable counter-proposal, if you do not undertake a factual discussion -- I freely admit it's a little unpleasant to hear only emotions being thrown back and forth, when it comes to the justice system, that leads to the situation we have today," she told Polska The Times.
Polonius3   
22 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

waves of protest at the current attack on democrac

A tiny squeak by groups of liberals, leftists and ex-commies in this overwhelmingly Catholic, conservative nation of 38 million. They are defending not democracy but commie judges and their own post-PO clique. The whole nation would gladly chant "wolne sądy, wolne sądy" if it meant "wolne sądy od komuchów"."

Never forget, lower-case, that in Poland "liberał" is almost a swear word!
Polonius3   
22 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

vindictiveness

Vindictivness is the middle name of the mean-sprited "total opposition" who want to get even for losing the election. But with whom? PiS or the Polish nation which in mid-October 2017 announced in no uncertain terms: "PLATFORMIE JUŻ DZIĘKUEJMY. PLATFORMA MOŻE ODEJŚĆ!"

PO leader Schetyna has actually gone so far as to threaten MPs who voted for the judicial reforms with 5-year prison terms. PO keeps reminding us of PiS' "TKM" byword, but at least PiS did not qustion the voter's verdict of 2007. PO have openly rejected the Polish nation's democratic choice and have done everything possible to undermimne, sabotage and even overthrow Poland's legal, democratically elected government.
Polonius3   
21 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

PO and company do not represent people's interests but their own selfish interests

Spot on! That's the reason PO got the red card in mid-October 2015, and nearly two years on PiS still command stable support in the 37% - 41% range.

jon and the candle-lit ranters he so admires have simpyl missed the boat. When a coupla thousandtrn out in their chanty-ranty huddle they think all Poland is behind them. The vast majority are not. And if somehow a snap election were held, they would end up the way PiS did in 2007.
Polonius3   
21 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

It's a simple majority f

So they've changed the rules to bash Poland? I wouldn't put it past that German-ruled corporate mafia.
Polonius3   
21 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Discussed early next week

And 26 EU states must approve whatever sanctions the Brusselcrats decide to impose, And that will never happen. Tough luck, Timmermans!
Polonius3   
21 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

thousands of people attend candlelit vigils

The snitchers have really done ther homework against their own country if sanctions are now being threatened. How many more candlelight vigils do you foresee? Two, three, maybe another week, one or two down the road? But it won't make one bit of difference. The flea-bitten curs may bark, howl, yap and snap, but the good-change government will continue implemetning one campaign pledge after another. Meanwhile, the self-declared "total opposition" can lick their wounds, plot the next round of disruption and stew in their impotent fury and frustration following their second failed putsch attempt in 7 months' time.
Polonius3   
21 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

That's exactly where she is

And every bit as disgusting and revolting as the screechy, screaming b*thces of the "total opposition". At least I am not as blindly partisan as you. Has anyone ever heard you criticise anythign about the the loons of KOD, PO or Petru?
Polonius3   
21 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Thousands of ordinary people come out on the streets

AND MILLIONS DO NOT! We all understand you proclivity for exotic minorities: homos, towelheads, people who chain themselves to trees or believe Brussels rules and may not be questioned, cross-dressers, trannies and the tiny minority that is raising all the rumpus on the streets at the taxpayer's expense to indulge their zest for poltical excitement, and that's your right. But millions in Poland, the overwhelming majority do not. Should they be prevented from having and expressing their own views?
Polonius3   
21 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Pawłowicz

Is a liability for PiS. She must have some metabolic disorder because she's always munching on something, sandwich, cake, etc. in palriament, at conferences or pressers. Pawłowicz would better fit in the rumpus-raisers' faction where there are many more of her kind -- brash, pushy, screechy, tasteless and lacking in class. Oh well, in a party of so many sterling patriots, one rotten apple is understandable.

should be accountable

Under the former post-commie rule, the KRS was an elite accountable only to themselves. How is that democratic solution? None of the ranters nor their leaders saw fit to explain that anomaly.
Polonius3   
21 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

much-reviled pro-British Irish

i have very little knowledge of Irish history, but whenever any country is occupied by a foreign power, there are always some renegades who support the occupiers usually out of self-interest. Prior to Eire's indepdndence, you must've had some Irish who collabroated with the British, Knowing how fiercely patrtoic the Irish tend to be, I can only assume such collaborators were regarded as turncoats and outcasts.
Polonius3   
21 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

not the result of hysteria

I'm glad you do not approve of all the hysterical ballyhoo the "total opposition" is serving up and claiming that shoutng, insulting, pushing, shoving and sabotaging the parliamnetrary process, etc. is "democracy".

On another score, over the ages where there any ethnic Irish (not Ulster Scots-Irish) who actually supported the British side of the age-old conflict? Did any do it as a heart-felt conviction or did it serve their personal interests?

We have a similar situation in Poland. After six years of German occupation and 45 years of Soviet domination via PRL proxy, like those much-reviled pro-British Irish Poland too has its faction that curry favour with foreign interest groups and look to Berlin, Brussels and Paris for guidance and snitchery. Then there is to pro-Polish government which promotes Polish interests first, last and always -- an attitude all but identical to that of the patriotic Free Irish towards their homeland. Which side are you on, Atch?