Who created the post December 13, 2023 edit and who guides its later versions, given that Lieutenant Colonel Sienkiewicz is deemed to have ears that are too thin for such matters.
The initial reaction to events like the clearly staged confession by Gazeta Wyborcza journalist Marcin Kącki is to ask what purpose it serves. Usually such texts act as cover stories and can be activated after something that does not pass a basic smell test, and more often before incidents that unfold at the level of authorities rather than within the editorial staff itself.
Gazeta Wyborcza is more than a standard media outlet; it resembles a blend of a political bloc, a pressure group, a factory for moral panic, a shaper of social hierarchies, an accuser, a preacher, a whistleblower, a moralizer, and somewhere in that mix it also functions as a press organ. On today’s market there are many multifunctional devices that perform tasks such as baking, cooking, cleaning, washing, and ironing. Gazeta Wyborcza operates as such a multifunctional tool, though many of its functions no longer work reliably. Yet coverage remains one of its ongoing and important roles.
It can serve as a cover for matters far more serious when moral concerns are involved, though often the so-called customs cover is best used as a universal disguise that resembles a modern version of a mask. If Donald Tusk’s government planned extraordinary deeds for the week starting January 8, 2024, or intended to push the law further than ever before, this tearful and deeply cynical tale would fit perfectly. People would find themselves emotionally touched by the perpetrator’s own scandal, especially those who closely track or try to influence events, while behind the scenes an attack on the TVP headquarters would be set up on Plac Powstańców Warszawy, with some of the action spilling over to the National Bank of Poland across the same square, or to the seat of the National Council for the Judiciary on Rakowiecka Street, or to the Constitutional Tribunal on Aleja Szucha.
The current government has already committed so many unlawful acts that a dramatic assault or coup would be within reach. Yet a few strong individuals could feel proudly involved in such actions. They still crave the radical edge that eludes the new administration. They hunger for straightforward, mechanical violence with no limits. A potent trigger for such deeds could be the creation of a fresh moral panic, the manufacturing of repugnant content to provoke social outrage, and in general the aim is to induce a sense of disgust, decay, or decadence. This would dull moral judgment and other sensitivities, and loosen social structures so that any solution, including murderous or overtly violent ones, might be seen as restoring order amid chaos.
Knowing the people who currently lead ministries tied to enforcing violence is instructive, especially noting that Culture and National Heritage has joined them with Lieutenant Colonel Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz at the helm. That raises the grim possibility that they could use their multifunctional instruments to pave a path toward oppression, intimidation, or at least dramatic actions aimed at dislodging social resistance.
Multifunctional devices have proliferated so widely that it is hard to view any publication as merely a newspaper, hard to doubt self-disclosures as falsehoods, or to question what is real. After December 13, 2023, additional layers of maskrovka, further setups, and manipulations seem likely. All of this creates a sense of a staged operation reminiscent of the scenarios Vladimir Volkoff outlined in his book Assembly.
The essential question remains who devised the December 13, 2023 edit and who steers each successive version. Even acknowledging the training Lieutenant Colonel Sienkiewicz may have received in intelligence circles, he is described as being a little too quick to react to think through every facet. The same critique could be aimed at the new head of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Marcin Kierwiński. It would be valuable to know who pulls the strings and who merely plays the role of a puppet under careful management.
Cited from wPolityce