Posted on 07/06/2006 12:48:56 PM PDT by lizol
PiS wants legal action against German daily
06.07.2006
The parliamentary caucus of the ruling Law and Justice party wants the justice ministry to establish whether the author of an article in a German daily satirizing President Lech Kaczynski and his brother insulted the Polish head of state. A letter to this effect was sent by the caucus head Przemyslaw Gosiewski to the national prosecutors’s office. The article, which compared the President to a potato, appeared in Die Tageszeitung at the end of June. Gosiewski argues that its language suggests the author intended to show unjustified contempt for Poland’s president. At the same time, the president’s aides denied the article caused President Lech Kaczynski to call off his presence at the Weimar Triangle summit earlier this week.
I guess politicians are above contempt. Freedom of speech is a beech.
If they want to get even they just ought to reprint pics of Angela Merkel's bare behind.
Gosiewki is a total moron in my opinion, I bet that they wont sue “Taz” but just gave reason to media to bash them. Zero profits from this comment, only problems, he should be FIRED!
Unfortunately, LK has an extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others. This was shown already when he was head of BBN and collected information on other politicians. Later it turned out that it was done for personal gains and that he made personal copies of such information. I guess that is illegal...
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New ABW Head
14 December 2005
Witold Marczuk has been appointed the new head of the Internal Security Agency (ABW). As of Nov. 3 Marczuk held the office after the dismissal of Andrzej Barcikowski. In line with the law, opinions on the candidacy must be provided by the president, the governmental Council for Special Services and the Sejm Committee for Special Services. However, none of these opinions is binding on the prime minister.
Marczuk is a close colleague of President-elect Lech Kaczynski. In 2002, he became commander of Warsaw's City Patrol Force with personnel of over 1,000. Earlier, he was General Customs Inspector three times, in 1992, 1998 and 1999-2001. In 1995, the public prosecutor's office accused Marczuk of failure to perform his duties regarding a case of cigarettes and audiovisual equipment smuggling, which caused the Treasury to lose zl.8 million. In 1999, the prosecutor's office found Marczuk innocent of the offense and discontinued the proceedings.
In 1991, Marczuk presided over the Fifth Department of the National Security Office (BBN) at the Office of President Lech Walesa (the then BBN head was Lech Kaczynski). The department was accused of surveillance of prominent politicians.
http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/10135/ but there are much more to tell.
I generally dislike Polish politicians from all parties, they are such a hypocrites and masters of demagogy that I simply cannot stand it…. But if we are talking about cleansing in the administration, secret services and management of the state owned companies I fully support PiS. This should be done a long time ago.
creating => creation
Soviet Union is long gone and they still protecting each other. There is no justify for that kind of behavior. I have never said that brothers are the best thing what could happen to Poland but at least they are not scum. Samoobrona is the main obstacle to clean the house, I agree. Lepper would like to place their shady people on the influential position. Personal animosity between leaders of PO and PiS is outstanding and irrational on both sides. I can do nothing with this… Hopefully Samoobrona will lost their voters to PiS, it would resolve us many worries in the future.
Kaczynski said that there will be no revision of the coalition agreement Giertych said that he respect agreement. Lepper before failed to set his candidate for the top spot of the channel 3 of the Polish public TV.
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