Posted on 11/13/2005 10:43:18 AM PST by A. Pole
Both the European Commission that runs the European Union and leaders of several party groups in the European legislature have warned the new Polish government of President Lech Kaczynski that anti-homosexual initiatives and restoration of the death penalty could cost Poland its voting rights in the E.U., Tuesday's European papers report. But there's not a word of this in the U.S. press, even though the European dailies go to bed five to six hours earlier than their American counterparts.
Under the headline, "Polish Leader's Anti-Gay Stance Threatens E.U. Voting Rights," The Guardian's European editor, Nicholas Watt, reports today that, "In a shot across the bows of arch-conservative Lech Kaczynski, the commission declared that all member states must abide by EU rules which protect minorities and block the death penalty..... 'We are going to follow the situation very attentively,' the principal commission spokesman, Jonathan Todd, said yesterday." The Guardian goes on to write that "Friso Roscam Abbing, the European Commission's justice spokesman, warned the new president he must abide by article 6 of the Treaty of Nice, which says that all member states must protect minority rights and not impose the death penalty. A failure to comply could trigger article 7, which allows the EU to deprive a member state of voting rights. This allows voting rights to be withdrawn if a member state is in "serious breach" of its obligations on human rights."
And in The Independent today, a report from Brussels says that "Poland was given a blunt warning over its human rights obligations yesterday - after the election of a president who has sought to curb gay rights." The British paper quotes Martin Schultz, leader of the socialist group in the European Parliament and a member of Germany's SPD (Social Democrats), as saying that Kaczynski is "on probation", adding: "I hope the president will be a different kind of person to the [one we saw as] candidate."
Unfortunately, neither The Guardian nor The Independent (let alone the big American dailies) give any indication as to the substance of what the fuss is all about -- for that, you'd have to have been reading DIRELAND, whose East European expert, David Ost, has detailed the aggressive homophobia of not only newly-elected President Kaczynski, but of the Prime Minister-designate picked by the conservative parliamentary coalition Kaczynski leads, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, who says it is the responsibility of government to prevent gays from "infecting" others with homosexuality. For a more detailed look at the homophobia of Poland's new rulers (and their anti-Semitic alliances), click here.
And to prove that the modernist nihlists are out to lunch, both Poland and Ireland are thriving - culturally and economically. So much for the theory "liberalism = growth" - far from it!
Wooo hoo! Tear that sucker up!
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“Poland was given a blunt warning over its human rights obligations yesterday - after the election of a president who has sought to curb gay rights." The British paper quotes Martin Schultz, leader of the socialist group in the European Parliament and a member of Germany's SPD (Social Democrats), as saying that Kaczynski is "on probation", adding: "I hope the president will be a different kind of person to the [one we saw as] candidate." Was written.
In the EU you have: "The have and the have nots."
Poland is a political “have not.” That was made very clear to them by Chirac who even threatened them and others with EU membership because they supported intervention in Iraq.
Bottom line is that the “centralist” Central European political group think way of operating will demand Poland to ultimately abdicate its power to this Supra-national, pan-European government which in reality is run by Germany/France (the core) and to a lesser extent Great Britain and Italy.
Most of Central Europe is secular. They might have “had” some religious cultural tradition in the past but pride themselves today with their “social” and near anti-religious positions. The Conservative CDU (a Christian party in Germany) is for tax hikes and supports liberal abortion laws. Need one say more about European conservatives?
Central Europe has no conservative or Christian foundation anymore. Communist indoctrination for 45 years by the Soviets, the Socialist movements in the 1900s (European origin) and even the National Socialist movements in the 30s under Hitler or Mussolini and Franco have all but sucked true conservatives and God out of Europe. Today you have a Europe that claims to have strong religious beliefs when convenient in conversation, but Italy is one of the leaders in per capita abortions ( http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/italy/ab-italyr2.html ). That's the "heart" of Catholicism.
A Poland that has a national identity and is based on true Catholic values will have a hard time within this “EU”.
Red6
Done, sorry you feel it isn't a choice you make.
Excuses like God made me that way don't fly.
I don't hate gays, but you can't convince me that this isn't a perverse behavior that didn't have its origin in sexual gratification.
You can still love the sinner without loving the sin, but don't expect me to accept the sin as a normal thing that I should accept and encourage others to engage in.
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