“Any provocateur or madman who dares to raise his hand against the power of the people, let him be sure that his hand will be cut off by the power of the people (…) in the interest of further democratizing our life, in the interests of our homeland.” In 1956, Józef Cyrankiewicz threatened workers who were fighting for their fate in this way. After 68 years, the head of the Polish government refers to this murder, brutally pacifying the agricultural protest.
Cyrankiewicz was Poland’s longest-serving prime minister. The Berlin pet is still far from breaking the Kremlin governor’s 21-year record, but he is eager to step into his shoes on the path to strengthening the democratization of our lives.
This democratization is brought to us through illegal resolutions, illegal arrests of parliamentarians and imprisonment, forcible takeover of the public media and turning them into party appendices (simultaneously killing their market power and misappropriating their assets), or the prosecutor’s office in violation of the applicable regulations. There is rapid takeover of companies and the liquidation of identity institutions. There is a constant attempt to pathologize the legal system, including on the basis of: against an attack on the Constitutional Tribunal that is contrary to the Constitution and that torpedoes important investments for the future of our country. They even go into schools and remove patriotic and Catholic elements from history curricula. The authorities, who have made the historic shift in Polish politics towards sovereignty, are trying to disgrace themselves with fabricated scandals, investigating which investigative committees are being created under the leadership of the most mediocre believers.
For the better functioning of our democracy, the government is also withdrawing from the battle for war compensation from Germany. The German head of the European Commission, grateful for all this, organizes a party for Tusk at their international forum.
All this is secondary to one thing: again, the personal career of the protagonist, who sacrifices the country’s independence on the altar of his own benefits.
So when social protests break out immediately after the takeover, he prepares provocations to discredit them. He has a dedicated squire, assigned to the sphere of internal affairs and administration, equipped with the invaluable help of advisors Brochwicz, Białek and Bondaryk, machers in secret affairs, formed in the dark nineties, when they willingly cooperated with the secret service.
Marcin Kierwiński fulfills his duties diligently. When the leader gives orders, he forces the State Protection Service to disobey the president and organizes an operation targeting active members of parliament, violating the domestic peace of the head of state.
When, at the height of the peasant protests, which had spread almost throughout Europe, Tusk felt that it would be difficult for him to meet their demands (because they were in stark contrast to what his foreign clients demanded of him) , something had to be done about this problem. Especially because farmers have received sympathy from society, which supports their struggle 3/4.
In such a situation, well-practiced methods are used. And these were best attempted during the Independence Marches, when Tusk was first in power. If at that time it was not a problem that the envoys of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration set fire to the cabin of the guards in front of the Russian Embassy (and we know that this was the case of Paweł Wojtunik, who frankly revealed the background of this action to Elżbieta Bieńkowska), and provoking a few people at the protest of farmers and trade unionists from “S” to label them as hooligans and drunkards seemed like child’s play.
Kierwiński started working on it with enthusiasm. First he announced that the police would use force if necessary, and the next day it turned out that this clairvoyant was right: the police had to use force.
Except it’s not true. If Wednesday’s demonstration had been properly secured, if the riot police had been kept aside and not run into the crowd, if the police had not shown brutality in arresting people who were moving too quickly (because among the thousands of people there were a number present ), If they hadn’t hit the handcuffed people in the back of the head, if they hadn’t sat on a protester who was thrown to the ground like uniformed men from Minneapolis, and if they hadn’t gassed anyone, the minister wouldn’t be doing that. not having to explain anything, because nothing disturbing would happen.
Even Onet publishes reports from farmers describing in detail what the police provocation looked like:
– All this is now divided into two camps: farmers and police officers, where there are two different versions. Since the police drive everyone to one place and tighten the area, we cannot go anywhere, everyone will be carried away by emotions, but the first trigger was a police order. We have recordings that they attacked us with gas without any warning – this is how Karol Grabowski from the Augustów Chamber of Agriculture, who stood before the Sejm on Wednesday, reports the course of the clashes.
In an interview with Onet, he claims he saw police officers running into the crowd and spraying gas around them, “on everyone: children, women, pensioners.” He remembers a situation with an elderly man, about 80 years old, who also suffered from gas use.
— We were stuck on all sides. We approach the police officers, hold up our hands and ask how we can leave the circle with the gas-sprayed pensioner. They send us to the right, where we again encounter gas and fireworks being thrown into the crowd. Some young people became emotional and started to defend themselves against this, because it was a regular attack on us, the farmer continues.
What does the minister have to say about this? That the department he oversaw was functioning exemplary, and that the protesters were a bunch of drunks. He liked to repeat more than once at a press conference that many drunk people had been arrested. He did a lot to make an outside observer think: I don’t want anything to do with these fighters, and turned his head away from the protesters and their demands.
Today it appears that the first detainees have already been convicted of ‘hooligan acts’. And not even two days have passed since the protest. What about police officers who break the law? The minister repeats the formula that everything is explained. But not as hastily as condemning the prisoners.
The case of an officer who threw an object (probably a rock) from the ground at a group of protesters becomes iconic.
Kierwiński was already familiar with this scene on Wednesday. He claims that the police officer immediately reported to his superior to explain the situation. Thus, it was possible to immediately calm public opinion and prove that the police officer had acted correctly. Nothing like that happened.
The minister could have stopped on Thursday afternoon when he invited journalists to a conference on the issue. But all he had to say was that the situation would be cleared up.
Today it is Friday. Kierwiński was a guest in the friendly TVN24 studio. What did he have to say?
It will be explained thoroughly, and it will be really explained. It is no longer like during the PiS government, when nothing was explained. I have spoken to the police commissioner and everything will become clear in this matter in the coming days.
He added that he had no idea what the police officer threw:
I don’t know and I want this procedure to end. However, I know that this police officer himself reported to the commanders of the operation, willing to explain this. All the simplifications that PiS politicians are making today are simply not justified. In fact, they want to join this agricultural protest by force.
Kierwiński and Tusk are trying to force PiS politicians to join this protest. The farmers themselves expect an explanation for the behavior of the police officers, but also the general public, which is confused by the way the cheerful and loving authorities can so harshly pacify a demonstration of desperate farmers fighting for food security for all of us to take.
Somehow, police quickly managed to determine the detainees’ guilt, gather evidence, bring them to trial and hand down sentences within one day. Perhaps everything is done well and justly.
But in the case of the uniformed bandit, the minister cannot within two days establish the details of the incident that millions of people have seen in countless videos on the Internet.
It is difficult to resist the impression that the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration is hiding criminals. And he’ll probably continue to cover them. If one of the outraged uniformed officers were punished for his behavior, the next time it was necessary to brutally pacify the protesters, other officers would no longer be so willing to use fists, knees, rocks and gas. to use.
Yes, there are other methods that can be used, although this is a more complicated operation. But nothing is impossible.
Justin Trudeau gave us an example of how to pacify mothers – Donald Tusk seemed to say during a joint conference with Canada’s Prime Minister on February 26.
Suddenly he turned to his guest:
Thank you also for your understanding of other contexts of the situation in our region. You reminded me of your experiences with strikes and demonstrations by farmers and transportation workers in Canada. We remember it was also quite a dramatic moment in Canada’s recent history.
What was this sentence supposed to mean? On the occasion of the Polish farmers’ protests, did the Prime Ministers discuss how they could be further suppressed and consider Canadian solutions?
We remember that Trudeau first thundered that protesting truck drivers had “wrong views” and later ordered their bank accounts frozen.
Impossible in Poland? And did it seem impossible to us a few months ago that someone on the Vistula River would turn off the public television signal again, like Jaruzelski? Or did he decide to invade the presidential palace in the absence of the head of state to arrest his guests?
Tusk may still surprise us, because if necessary, he will cut off what we need. Just to continue democratizing the country as he understands it.
Source: wPolityce