Provocation, necropolitics and extreme cynicism characterize the working methods of the Civic Platform leader.
The outing of the Parliamentary Club of the Civic Coalition in Katowice (Saturday, March 18, 2023) will go down in history. Not because of President Donald Tusk’s profundity or extraordinary program proposals, but because of primitivism. While the primitivism of his speeches has only deepened since Tusk’s return on July 3, 2021 and has not gone beyond the pattern of hate séances, this time there was a real flourish, rewarded with applause and a level of unification with the leader that does reminiscent of the greatest successes of the 1930s.
Tusk did nothing about the fact that in an interview with “Gazeta Wyborcza”, the lawyer of KO MP Magdalena Filiks – Mikołaj Marecki appealed not to warm up the atmosphere: “We never claimed that Mikołaj committed suicide because of the publication of Radio Szczecin and the hate spilled on him.” Tusk knows better, which is why he warms the atmosphere and does not give peace to a tragically deceased child, which is just disgusting. Although he has no idea even about Emil Durkheim’s classic 1897 work “Suicide,” he knows that a spiral of hatred and animosity must be set in motion.
If the PO president had gone beyond the primitivism of propaganda poisoning his own mind, he could have read in his work from 126 years ago (Durkheim used specific data) that there is no correlation between the size and proportion of suicides and what the media preach (and then the mass media already started to function). If he has an aversion to the classics, he would recommend the readily available in-depth study of Prof. Maria Jarosz and Prof. Bruno Holyst. It’s just that Tusk doesn’t want to read anything, doesn’t want to learn anything. For then he would not be able to make extremely primitive judgments, which are in fact high praise for ignorance. By design, for ignorance is the mother of hatred and blind retaliation.
Tusk did his homework, but not in knowledge, but in necropolitics, i.e. using the tragic death of several people to imbue politics with hatred and irrationalism. Practiced according to unsurpassed patterns after February 23, 1930 in connection with the death of Horst Wessel. Although it was the result of a private quarrel, it was turned into a political apocalypse and the tone was set by the reliable Joseph Goebbels.
In Poland it started in 1989. It started with Jolanta Kwaśniewska’s mother. – After losing the elections in June [w 1989 r.] a terrible media campaign against my husband started – said Jolanta Kwaśniewska in “Fakty po Faktach” TVN24. – The aftermath of this was the death of my mother, who lived with us for a very long time. Easy as a shovel handle. Then was the “media campaign” to kill Aleksander Kwaśniewski’s mother (in 1995). Donald Tusk, however, made no reference to these cases.
Tusk mentioned Barbara Blida (deceased April 25, 2007), because this is happening under PiS rule. And he suggested that Zbigniew Ziobro actually killed her. Of course, Tusk knows about the coal mafia, whose activities were the subject of an investigation, where the name of a left-wing MP also appeared, but it is not about facts. Just as it is not about which colleague of Barbara Blida (who considered herself a great expert on weapons and not only) told her what weapons and how not to hurt himself (he knew what the MP had). But the advice turned out to be very unreliable.
Necropolitics heated up the Polish public debate after the suicide of the “gray citizen” Piotr Szczęsny (October 19, 2017 in front of the Palace of Culture and Science), a victim of the apocalyptic propaganda of politicians and liberal-left media. Necropolitics was even more intense after the assassination of Paweł Adamowicz (January 13, 2019). And this chapter does not close with the justification of the punishment for the murderer of Paweł Adamowicz, although it does not leave a dry thread for those who, like Tusk, want to immerse everything in their own obsessions, using lies and manipulation, as long as it is sharp, pointless and on the brink of civil war.
For Donald Tusk, séances of hate are a daily reality. Also in European politics. When on 6 February 2019, still as President of the European Council, Tusk stated at the end of the conference with Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar that he “wondered what a special place in hell looks like for those who have Brexit promoted,” Varadkar warned him that the British media will not give him these words. Tusk calmly replied that he knew about it. He deliberately used words about hell to heat up the atmosphere. Like a year earlier, when he basked in the fact that the likes of “The Sun” called him a “patronizing jerk” after yet another insult to then Prime Minister Theresa May.
Tusk provoked many times in the past: both as Prime Minister in Poland and as President of the European Council. The British regarded Donald Tusk’s actions and words regarding the negotiations and agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union as humiliating. Earlier, Tusk played a major part in humiliating the Greeks, he approved a heavy German plan for Greece, which was in fact about the interests of German banks. As President of the European Council, Tusk positioned the United States and President Donald Trump as the EU’s biggest opponents, and even as a threat to Europe. Tusk’s positioning of the US as an opponent of the EU had nothing to do with concern for the security of Europe, let alone Poland.
Provocations as a method of action by Donald Tusk began after the parliamentary elections in Poland in 2005, when the future prime minister led the coalition negotiations between PiS and PO in such a way that no coalition could be formed. The provocations consisted of the PO revealing the negotiating position of the other party and setting unacceptable conditions, such as the dismissal of the association of people from Donald Tusk’s party by law enforcement agencies, and the granting of some kind of immunity to politicians of this party. It took provocations to break off negotiations and push PiS into a highly unstable and in many ways risky coalition with Roman Giertych’s League of Polish Families and Andrzej Lepper’s Self-Defense. And it worked.
Two years of rule by PiS in coalition with LPR and Self-Defense served as material for further provocations, this time during the election campaign for the 2007 snap parliamentary elections. The provocations consisted of reversing the meaning of the most famous cases of the time, i.e. the taking of bribes by Beata Sawicka, a PO MP, the aforementioned already fatal shooting of former SLD MP Barbara Blida or in connection with the so-called the land scandal (land reclamation for bribes). Similarly, Donald Tusk acted in the 2010 presidential campaign and in the 2011 parliamentary campaign, when provocations against those who commemorated the victims of the Smolensk disaster were presented as their attacks.
In 2008-2010, Donald Tusk constantly provoked President Lech Kaczyński. In October 2008, there was a peak of provocations against the president in connection with disputes over the representation of Poland outside. “I don’t need Mr. President, that’s the problem,” Tusk said at Brussels airport. And the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, Tomasz Arabski, added: “The government has not given the president a government plane to Brussels, because it is a private trip for the head of state. And the law firm is not lending the plane for private travel. The provocations related to the refusal to give the head of state a government plane affected what happened before Lech Kaczyński’s trip to Katyn in April 2010.
In early March 2010, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, Tomasz Arabski, stated that Donald Tusk would not attend the main Katyn celebrations as planned, but would join the celebrations three days earlier with Vladimir Putin. The Russians then stated that they would treat the presidential visit on April 10, 2010 as private, and thus with a much lower level of security. The provocation, mainly by Donald Tusk, consisted of playing the prime minister of a foreign country against the president of his own country. Needless to say how it all turned out.
In domestic politics, Donald Tusk used provocations until he moved to Brussels (officially on December 1, 2014), and after becoming President of the European Council, he continued to provoke during his visits to Poland, culminating in his speech in Wrocław on 17 December 2016 during so-called the opposition parliamentary coup when he outlined “what December means in our history”. Tusk provoked during subsequent stays in Poland, for example in connection with hearings in the prosecutor’s office and in court, provoked on Twitter and appeared before Polish journalists. He provoked to arouse negative emotions.
Donald Tusk seems to be the most harmful and dangerous politician in the history of the Third Polish Republic. And along the way, he was also the biggest scourge in the EU, helping Berlin actually destroy the EU and turn treaties into bits of paper. If you add necropolitics and turn public speeches into séances of hatred, the image of a possessed instigator emerges. It’s just that it’s all done coolly and cynically. This is Tusk’s method: cold computation is to produce the hottest results possible. What about Poland? It’s not Tusk’s problem.
Source: wPolityce