Posted on 06/11/2006 1:22:33 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Some formerly Communist countries that eagerly joined the European Union are balking at the social policies that come with democracy. They are led by the union's largest new member, Poland, which is now run by a right-wing nationalist government that seems intent on violating the rights of minority groups, beginning with an attack on gays.
The government is led by the conservative Law and Justice Party, founded by the identical twin brothers who now run Poland: Lech Kaczynski, the country's president, and his brother Jaroslaw, who leads the party. Law and Justice got its parliamentary majority by aligning itself with two dangerous fringe parties: Self-Defense, a peasant party whose leader openly admires the dictator of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko; and the League of Polish Families, an ultra-right-wing Catholic party.
Human Rights Watch reports that a League parliamentarian, Wojciech Wierzejski, accused homosexuals of running pedophile, drug-trafficking and other criminal organizations. At his urging, the state has instructed local prosecutors to investigate homosexuals for pedophilia.
President Kaczynski banned gay rights marches when he was mayor of Warsaw and members of the League's youth wing have attacked gay rights marchers. Mr. Wierzejski said that people who marched in a gay rights demonstration planned in Warsaw this weekend should be "bashed with a baton."
The problems go well beyond homophobia. The preferred broadcasting outlet of Poland's government is Radio Maryja, a Catholic radio station with millions of listeners that is openly nationalist, anti-Semitic and anti-foreigner. It has resisted admonishments from Pope Benedict to stop talking about politics. Radio Maryja's support was crucial in Lech Kaczynski's presidential campaign and Jaroslaw Kaczynski is a frequent guest on the radio station.
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Okay they believe that homosexuality is aberrant behavior contrary to nature and the teachings of the Bible.
Its just possible that these people, having seen the gay marriage debate in this country, know where this incremental gay tolerance thing is headed and decided that they aren't going there.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
The NYT Editorial board? Heck, when those boys get gas, they don't fart, they hoot!
What Soros's billions in the "Open Society" to promote drugs and homosexuality aren't working? Let's get the NYT to help.
Behind it all. Interesting read.
Exactly how many stories has the Times run on the bigotry of Arab countries? Never mind, it was a rhetorical question. My guess is that this is just the tip of the iceberg of negative stories on Poland, as someone at the NYT has just discovered that there is a whole country full of Mass attending Catholics out there.
I'm wondering how many editorials the NYTimes ran deploring the division and extermination of Poland by Hitler and Stalin? I'm betting the number is zero.
The anti-Christian communist bigots at the NYT projecting their usual intolerance.
Still waiting for the propagandists there to condemn Stalin.
League of Polish Families (LPR) is not an "ultra-right-wing" party. It is conservative pro-family Catholic party which tries to adhere to the social doctrine of the Church. Self-Defense (Samoobrona) is a populist party trying to protect interests of the people who got impoverished during shock "therapy" and privatization, critical toward reforms of the last years.
These parties are not dangerous. They represent legitimate and peaceful interests of a large part of Polish population.
"They represent legitimate and peaceful interests of a large part of Polish population."
They represent idiots.
Idiots according to you.
You know very well, that more people voted for them but later changed their minds towards PiS. Rather not because they dislike LPR.
Off topic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84KM--LyQL0&eurl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPj9uUX1_yQ&search=Pis
Some formerly Communist countries that eagerly joined the European Union are balking at the social policies that come with democracy.
Which came first the article or the headline?
The articles seems to start out with a legitimate preface with which to begin a rational dissertation. HOWEVER, it appears the writer quickly took a tangent into leftist screed territory -a tangent apparently necessary to support such an absurd headline...
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