Posted on 12/01/2005 10:59:10 AM PST by lizol
Storm over president's plan to pardon convicted ex-minister
01.12.2005
Discussions continue in Poland over the outgoing president’s intention to pardon former deputy interior minister Zbigniew Sobotka. The latter was sentenced to 3 and a half years behind bars for links with the criminal world. President Aleksander Kwasniewski has now sent a pardon motion to the prosecutor’s office.
New prime minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz has called on the president to drop the motion to show Poles that criminals will be penalised. Throughout Aleksander Kwasniewski’s second 5-year-long term as president nearly a thousand people have been pardoned.
Hopefully those two commies will meet each other in the jail soon. This is “new SLD” :)
Kwasniewski's pardons remind me of Bill Clinton, whose final disgrace was the pardons he corruptly handed out just before leaving office. Yet, I was in Warsaw when ex-President Clinton was there and people were paying a high price to hear him speak so they could say "Bylem z Billem." I hope the new Polish government will set a high standard and if Clinton shows up again he will be ignored.
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