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Polish priest, govt supporters try to 'exorcise' newspaper
The media it seems is not trusted any where today?
Polish priest, govt supporters try to 'exorcise' newspaper
A priest and some 50 supporters of Poland's ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party on Sunday sought to "exorcise" the leading Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza in an anti-media protest.
After a march in which protesters denounced the "lies of the media" the priest recited an exorcism prayer before the newspaper's ultramodern headquarters, an AFP journalist reported.The protesters arrived at the building with an icon of the Virgin Mary and a sign reading "Rosary crusade for the Motherland". They were greeted by a flurry of leaflets which included cartoons defending freedom of speech.A large banner hung from the Gazeta Wyborcza building read "Constitution without censorship"
.Most Polish media, especially the Gazeta Wyborcza, have been critical of Jaroslaw Kaczynski's recently elected PiS party. The Gazeta Wyborcza, led by former dissident Adam Michnik, is considered a key symbol of free speech in Poland.
The eurosceptic PiS party has plans to overhaul state media and at the moment has the Constitutional Court in its crosshairs.Kaczynski lashed out at the country's top court on Sunday, accusing it of trying to block government policies in an escalating row over which judges can serve on the bench.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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Re: Polish priest, govt supporters try to 'exorcise' newspaper
More like conservatives are kinda kooky everywhere today
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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BTW, American conservatives might want to read a little about polands law and justice party before getting too chummy and assuming it's all the media's fault
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Polish priest, govt supporters try to 'exorcise' newspaper
Has anyone actually studied or researched this PiS political party? Yikes!
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Just Fred wrote:
Has anyone actually studied or researched this PiS political party? Yikes!
There is an article in the NYT from Sunday, I believe. A real authoritarian group
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Polish priest, govt supporters try to 'exorcise' newspaper
Here is that article from the Times.
Under their undisputed leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, they pardoned the notorious head of the security services, who was appealing a three-year sentence for abuse of his office from their previous years in power; tried to halt the production of a play they deemed “pornographic”; threatened to impose controls on the news media; and declared, repeatedly and emphatically, that they would overrule the previous government’s promise to accept refugees pouring into Europe.
But the largest flash point, so far, has been a series of questionable parliamentary maneuvers by the government and the opposition that has allowed a dispute over who should sit on the country’s powerful Constitutional Tribunal to metastasize into a full-blown constitutional crisis — with thousands of protesters from all sides taking to the streets.
I don't think that it would be accurate to think of the PiS party as "conservative" in terms of American conservatism. Rather they are a far right, radically authoritarian nationalist movement.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.