Help, democracy is over!

The assassination of democracy, the assassination of the Court, the assassination of the judiciary, the assassination of peculiar services, the assassination of parliament, the assassination of standards and good customs – we have heard for respective days.


Media, experts, commentators criticizing everything PiS does themselves. This is simply a bit like the situation of a swimmer-pipnisia, who likes to screw friends and rescuers with the shout of "Help, I'm drowning!" The point is, erstwhile he truly starts to melt, his cries for aid nobody takes him seriously. This argument with the same comparison has already been cited respective times in 2005-2007, present it is becoming applicable again. Now a fewer facts concerning the “attacks” on democracy, which, in fresh days, any people believe, is being carried out by a fresh power. Most of them are not very different from what the Civic Platform did in erstwhile years. Yeah, the same 1 that's the most thunder today. Yes, it is worth pointing out that the Law and Justice Department was to present different, better standards, but from replicating bad patterns to threatening democracy a long way. Who present remembers that in 2007 Donald Tusk already a fewer hours after his swearing in to the office of Prime Minister (yes, yes, on the same day) appointed the head of Homeland Security, Krzysztof Bondarik? Who remembers present that in 2007 Platform and PSL reduced the number of members of the Parliamentary peculiar Services Commission from 9 to 5 people? erstwhile the PiS protested, Paweł Graś argued that it was “quality alternatively than quantity” that matters and that a smaller number of members would improve the efficiency of the specimission. Who remembers present that in 2007 the Platform refused to agree that the PiS was in the specialization represented by Antoni Macierewicz, although the seismic customized said that the clubs themselves decide who they send to work in the committee. Did anyone too the Law and Justice talk about breaking good morals? In 2011, erstwhile there was no place for a typical of the Solidary Poland club in the specom, the PO-PSL coalition did not see this problem, present erstwhile there is no typical of the PSL club shouting about breaking standards. Let me repeat, just due to the fact that the Platform broke standards doesn't mean you should applaud erstwhile the PiS does the same. But let us not exaggerate the hysteria that PiS is doing something that has not yet been seen in the Polish Sejm. I besides regret that those who are present grumbling about the "attack" of the Law and Justice at the Constitutional Tribunal did not protest equally loudly and decisively erstwhile the "attack" of the Court was doing the Civic Platform. If Bronisław Komorowski (author of the bill) and the Platform had met with specified a strong wave of criticism then, if radios and televisions had devoted so much air time watching the then tampering with the Court Act, we might not have the pâté we have today. due to the fact that the fact is, the Platform started a dangerous play with the Court. Knowing that he might lose power, she amended the bill so as to be able to appoint not 3 judges to which the word of office ended, but besides an additional 2 (i.e. a full of five) which the fresh Sejm should choose. The fact that the PO is corrupting the Court was written by Ewa Siedlecka in the “Gazeta Wyborcza”, the text went without much echo and did not initiate a great, nationwide discussion on Platform's appeal to the Court. besides bad. The platform brewed beer that the PiS must drink today. Yes, yes, he drinks them in an elegant kind – at a strangely expressive pace, without the opinion of the Bureau of Sejm Analysis and constitutionalists. However, Platform Members are the last to have the right to instruct on this matter. Going back to the swimmer-puppnisia comparison. I am afraid that the media, commentators, authorities, by surpassing themselves in pointing out the next "attacks" of the Law and throwing them all, regardless of the species burden, into 1 bag with the word "end of democracy" contribute to a situation where no 1 will take their cries of breaking democracy seriously. It's a gift for the PiS, which gets an argument to minimize all criticism at its own address in the future. besides the right and legitimate one. n./z.: Presidents of the Constitutional Court, December 3, 2010 at the Chancellery of the President