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Poland's post-election political scene [4080]
Law and Justice" is a reference neither to law and order nor social justice, but to the idea that the Polish state itself is lawless and unjust. If the state is illegitimate, the normal rules of political behaviour no longer apply.
When an MP from a party supportive of Law and Justice declared in parliament in November that "The good of the nation is above the law," he received a standing ovation from Law and Justice deputies, includin Jarosław Kaczyński.
One of the very best articles I've seen in the foreign press. From an independent source, very well-written and sums it up perfectly...
All the paranoia, the spite, the historical messianism and points out the anomaly that the person who actually runs the country holds no public office apart from being an MP.
Contempt for the rule of law; the identification of a minority faction with the interests of the nation; the separation of power from office by constructing extra-legal chains of command; demonisation of opponents and purges of state structures; an ideological re-interpretation of history: these are all legacies of communist rule.
theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/16/conspiracy-theorists-who-have-taken-over-poland
