stella41b
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Prime Minister Donald Tusk said late last year he wanted obligatory castration for pedophiles, whom he branded 'degenerates'. Tusk said he did not believe "one can use the term 'human' for such individuals, such creatures." "Therefore I don't think protection of human rights should refer to these kind of events," Tusk also said. This is typical for Polish politics - focus on the least relevant issue. Especially of those parties on the right. Donald Tusk is the leader of the Citizen's Platform (Platforma Obywatelska), which together with the Kaczynski twins who head Law and Order (Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc) which both came to be out of the disaster of allowing the Polish Solidarity movement to form a government. Kaczynski (Lech) is the same guy who made anything containing 'sex with the suggestion of force or violence' a criminal offence in the Polish Criminal Code driving the BDSM community underground. Lech Kacxzynski is the same guy I personally stood in opposition to in 2005 along with many others when he tried to make the Warsaw Equality Parade illegal in 2005 because he felt that 'sick people shouldn't be allowed to parade in the streets' in fact this year was the first legal and supported Warsaw Equality Parade supported by Donald Tusk, who is erm... recently elected. Let us also bear in mind that the vast majority of the Polish LGBT community that was are living in.., erm London, elsewhere in the UK, Germany, France, who were basically branded 'sickos' and have had to flee Poland and live in exile in the West. Let us not forget that it was Tusk's party who collaborated with Kaczynski's party in 2006 which from the Ministry of Education sent out among all Polish high schools a pamphlet warning teachers of the dangers of homosexuality and lesbianism, namely: quote:
homosexuals and lesbians are ill people who may also indulge in disgusting acts such as S/M, whipping and beating each other, engaging in oral sex, drinking each other's urine, eating each other's faeces, having sex with minors, etc Neither party have done anything to address the social problem of Mlodziez Wszechpolska (basically Poland for Poles) who with the approval of the Polish Catholic Church and such media organizations as Radio Maryja hunt down and persecute the LGBT community. Neither party have investigated the Krakow Equality Parade of 2005 where police were found to be joining in with the 'Mohair Berets' and Mlodziez Wszechpolska throwing large stones at the peaceful LGBT procession. Neither party are addressing the issue of Radio Maryja and Father Tadeusz Rydzyk it's owner, and with airing extremist right wing views over the air waves including inciting Polish Catholics to hatred and acts of violence against those who don't fit in with society. The Mohair Berets (Berety Moharowe) is basically the elderly fundamentalist Polish Catholic right wing faction of supporters of Radio Maryja. It's 2009 and almost 20 years since the Round Table talks between Lech Walesa and the former communist PZPR party (who were no saints after their 1968 expulsion of Jews from Poland) but how much longer is it going to take until all Poles enjoy freedom and democracy? It's also 2009, five years since Poland entered the European Union after preparing for the event over 10 years and today it still does not guarantee - as it pledged to do so when it signed up - its citizens the similar level of human rights available to those in other member states. I'm sorry, but I would be far more impressed when a Polish government takes steps to put these cross-waving loonies in their place in the modern world and when it also takes steps to tackle homophobia and transphobia which is ubiquitous in Polish society. Don't let's even mention the issue of race. I'm not saying paedophilia here isn't a serious issue, it is, but when most of the population can't tell the difference between a homosexual and a paedophile I'd say that this is a somewhat bigger issue. ETA: Yes I did use the term 'cross-waving loonies' to refer to members of the Polish Catholic Church who have no concept of the Solicitus Rei Solidaris teachings of the late Pope John Paul II and I'm sorry but to refer to them as 'Catholic' would be an insult to the millions of Catholics practising outside Poland.
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