Dirty hands in Bydgoszcz

by guest on 2008-04-07 12:38, textile, replies: 2, translation: pl, related to: state terrorism

The [Polish] Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski and the German Minister of Foreign Affairs today [7 April 2008] gave a common press conference at the Kujawsko-Pomorskie regional governmental office [in the town of Bydgoszcz 45km downriver from Toruń]. A single person picket welcomed them with the statement “Politicians to the [war-]front – soldiers home”. The person picketting was photographed by BOR and twice had his identity taken by police. The guests laid flowers in front of the statue to victims of fascism, which soon will be removed from the Town Square based on an initiative by the political party [in government] PO.

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FAIL

by guest on 2008-04-07 22:22

'jednoosobowa pikieta' = epic fail
what is success?

by guest on 2008-04-09 00:49

“jednoosobowa pikieta’ = epic fail”

If the authorities are so afraid of criticism that the secret services have to photograph a one-person demonstration whose only weapon is a banner with words on it and the police have to check his/her identity twice, then it shows that Polish/German authorities are frightened of even the most minimal hints of democracy and human rights.

Seems more like a success in “showing that the Emperor has no clothes on”. Even such small levels of resistance to authoritarianism can have effects, both by inspiring others and, when the message is so simple and powerful and difficult to ignore, creating cognitive dissonance in the ministers’ minds: they are trying to imagine themselves as responsible, realpolitik, etc. and are made by the message to imagine themselves fighting Afghan citizens…

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