Last year brought a unique metamorphosis in the planet of media: many (mostly?) liberal, right-wing and even left-wing commentators and publicists, for whom the "primary values of the West" specified as media freedom, were canonical, they became censors.
According to them, they mark all the slightest deviations from pro-war propaganda, openly supporting the "elimination from media space" not only of skeptics, but even of alleged symmetryists, i.e. those who do not want to repeat anti-Russian and pro-American babbling. Any deviation from the existing propaganda line must be and will be ‘discovered’, marked and then fined.
However, all "war state" has its rights, regardless of whether this state was declared in People's Poland (I will remind you: on 13 December 1981 it was announced in Poland by General Wojciech Jaruzelski) or in the 3rd Poland, which until late referred to as a "democratic state" and which respects fundamental civilian liberties, especially freedom of speech. individual will say that the regulation of these freedoms is expected to be characterized by "written governments", but the alleged democratic opposition is healthy, pro-Western and will be hard to defend civilian rights and freedoms. Nothing more wrong: in 1 line there are censors representing the planet of the media most likely the full modern political class: from Gazeta (Polska) to Gazeta (Electoral). We have even learned that we can "infect media space" by saying forbidden words; here I mention to the words of authoritative people who in specified elegant way summed up the non-russophobic online statements of 1 of the young historical commentators.
The authorities have been silent for years, branding even the smallest attacks on freedom of speech and "trying to restrict freedom of expression". possibly their moral outrage was simply a political rhetoric that rapidly faded when, erstwhile faced with censorship, we had to exposure ourselves to “world leadership” or his voluntary or hired helpers. For decades I have been trying to describe the pathologies of taxation regulations that deplete our country, discriminate against honest taxpayers and reward combinationists.
It can be suspected that an crucial part of these regulations was created on order or under the influence of the powerful of this world, who do not want to pay taxes in specified peripheral and unstable countries as Poland. It is not for that reason that we have been graciously accepted into European and Atlantic structures to pay tributes to local authorities: this work is only on autochthons. Let me just mention 1 example: in 2011, the almost forgotten Minister Jan (Jacek) Vincent R. introduced a taxation strategy allowing a taxation escape under the name of the "reverse charge" to the first group of taxpayers (including scrap metal) while claiming that this is simply a method... to seal the taxation on goods and services. Then the privilege was gradually extended to further goods (including steel and colored metals and even electronic products).
When I described this absurdity, I met many times with attempts at intimidation and threats (criminal), but my texts were not yet eliminated by censors. In the end, we managed to remove this pathology after 8 years, but the losses that we incurred as a collective are in tens of billions of PLN. Even during the work of the Sejm's committee of enquiry dealing with VAT fraud, a hidden or open defence of this gap could be seen. present it is even worse: self-proclaimed censors fight against any scrap of existing communicative and any unusual coincidence the beneficiaries of taxation pathologies are besides standing in the first series of knights fighting "prokremlian propaganda" or any, even the smallest deviation from anti-Russian propaganda.
There are no longer “liberals” in Poland who, contrary to the interests of the servants of our “strategic ally”, would strain censors – both authoritative and volunteer. As we were told, this war will last “very long.” With a teardrop in the eye, we grandfathers will remember the freedom of speech which we utilized in fresh years of the People's Poland and in the beginning of the 3rd Poland. It's an ancient and almost forgotten past.
Witold Modzelewski
Think Poland, No. 15-16 (9-16.04.201023)
