tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post4982195219687852299..comments2024-03-28T00:11:33.489-04:00Comments on bensozia: In Poland, Turning Against 1989Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-79429009248664384332016-04-20T08:52:36.752-04:002016-04-20T08:52:36.752-04:00After many years after fall of communism, it was c...After many years after fall of communism, it was calculated that 80% or so of medium sized and big companies was in the posession of the former nomenclatura. The media for years were boasting about inevitable tryumph of modernity and liberalism, while scolding right-wingers and generally expressing the attitude which could be summarised in the sentence "we do not have to discuss with you, you are not worthy and besides you will die out in no time". In 90s special services carried several actions aimed at the legal opposition (right wing) causing its fragmentation. In a result and because of the 5% entry barrier, the most underrepresentative Sejm was elected, which then passed in 1996 a constitution, which then barely passed in a referendum with barely enough turnout.<br /><br />No one ever was punished for special services illegal actions. While court confirmed that the actions were illegal, it also stated that it was so long ago that the punishments cannot be executed.<br /><br />Special services also illegally investigated dozens of right-wing journalists, and used their illegally kept records even in private cases against said journalists. Special service raided a location of right-wing newspaper to get their laptop, in order to get the names of their informers. <br /><br />In the other news, common citizens who had bad luck to get on nerves on local bonzos were illegally kept for dozen of years inside psychiatric hospital. Others were arrested and put to jail, when they awaited trials for months.<br /><br />The wife of my friend could not find any work in a small city until she got political protection. She got a minor position in railway - she needed a effing political protection to get a minor job with poor salary. The wife of my wife's brother had the bad luck of being in the way of wife of local bonzo, her car was hit by the car of bonzo's wife. Despite witnesses being shown to be lying (e.g. a policeman claimed he saw the bonzo's wife for the first time in his life, despite being related to her), guess who had to pay for the accident?<br /><br />When rightwingers organised huge marches (e.g. independence day march), it was pretty much proven that there were police provocateurs which were there to incite violence (one can find youtube videos showing people without uniforms within police ranks and then the same people in the crowd behaving violently; you can also find youtube videos when police and non-uniformed people attacked passser-byes, kicking them with no provocation at all).<br /><br />At the same time, public media and most of the newspapers were saying everything is all right, we have perfectly functioning democracy. No one in the west was complaining about all this thing. No one was complaining when previous government broke constitution and elected two more constitutional judges than it could, just to ensure it would have majority in next few years - and three another judges were barely constitutional.<br /><br />It was not revolt against democracy. It was a revolt against corrupted system and shortcomings of democracy.szopenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02234132446740838968noreply@blogger.com