Source of Biden’s words:
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Author Maciej Swirski
The information that the candidate for the US presidency, Joe Biden, during the debate during the election campaign, said about „totalitarian regimes in Poland and Hungary” was widely commented on in Poland. But time to ask what the origins of this event are.
Of course, it is known that speeches or preparation for debates are in the hands of staffers, people who cut their teeth on election campaigns, and Biden himself is not a novice, because 48 years in first-league politics, not to mention the fact that he was a vice president.
So the belief that there is a „regime” in Poland, and in addition „totalitarian”, is the general belief of the team that can win the elections in a little more than two weeks.
I do not want to write about how terrible it is and to tear clothes because of it, because firstly it will do nothing, and secondly, the fact that the Democrats will be hostile to Poland under the conservative rule was known even before the 2015 parliamentary elections of United The right has won. This was known because in preparation for the 2015 election in Poland, the American media market was flooded with hundreds of texts preparing public opinion, as well as the opinion of the government and the commentators’ elite, for the upcoming elections and for the possible victory of PiS.
The articles looked similar, as if they had come from the same pen. They were written in a hysterical tone, they spoke about the threat to democracy and about Poland’s departure from the progress it had made after 1989. They did not just quote each other and a small group of members of the opposition today and their friends in the West. American readers were scared of the return of fascism in Europe
The then US administration was also hostile to the power of Law and Justice in Poland, so there is no reason to expect a former vice president in that administration to suddenly change this attitude. In addition, the situation in 2015 and 2016 was skillfully manipulated by the then Polish ambassador to the USA*, who made good use of not only his contacts, but also a very exclusive place of residence: the residence of the Polish ambassador to the USA is adjacent to the residence of the US vice president by a FENCE …
It was known in Washington that this ambassador* made excellent use of the relations he had established with his neighbor and invited him to events at the residence of the Polish ambassador without the consent of the State Department. How? He was inviting him as a neighbor, not as the vice president representing the US government. Thus, he managed to jump OVER the diplomatic protocol intelligently.
Of course, the sympathy between the neighbors translated into the sympathy for the views of the neighbor, which the Polish ambassador used well. The presence of the vice president additionally made the much more prominent guests accept invitations and appear at parties. In this way, the ambassador representing the government of the Republic of Poland, both before and after the 2015 elections, managed to impose and maintain the opposition’s narrative as well as obtain public support from the US administration for himself.
It was in this atmosphere that at the celebration of the Constitution on May 3, 2016, the then chairman of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland, Judge Rzepliński, was greeted with applause at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland* and told the American guests gathered there about the constitutional crisis in Poland and the illegal takeover of judicial power by the right. The actions of the ambassador strengthened the conviction that this was a generally prevailing opinion and that the descriptions of the constitutional attack were most accurate.
The building of the Polish embassy in Washington
A similar scenario, with a similar effect, also took place in the European Union after the 2015 elections: the President of the European Council 2014-2019, Donald Tusk, shaped the narrative of Poland in the EU, supported by the appeals of Polish total opposition to European institutions, urging Poland to be punished for allegedly violating human rights and constantly heating up the atmosphere of hysteria and moral panic.
The specifically understood „human rights issue” as simply the demand for privileging lobbyist pressure groups describing themselves as LGBT additionally shaped the American recipient’s view of reality in Poland. The day after the TV speech mentioned at the beginning, Donald Tusk supported his candidacy for the presidency of the USA and thus praised his criticism of Poland and Hungary by publishing his photo with Joe Biden on the official Twitter account @donaldtuskEPP with the words „MAKE EU-US BONDS STRONG AGAIN” ! „
Thus, the supporters of the total opposition can congratulate themselves, Ambassador Schnepf and Mr. Tusk on a job well done, because thanks to their efforts a man who may be the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the United States has an image of Poland in his head that does not encourage its defense. You wanted this?
How to call your conduct, total opposition?
There are a few words in Polish that describe such action.
We all know them.
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Maciej Świrski – Founder of the Reduta Dobrego Imienia – Polish League Against Defamation (http://reduta-dobrego-imienia.pl, in 2006-2009 vice-president of the Polish Press Agency.
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Word from the editor /np/
At that time, the Polish ambassador to the USA was Ryszard Schnepf, nominated by his friend Radek Sikorski, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Schnepf is a co-founder of the lodge in Poland – B’nai B’rith. He became famous, among other things, for the fact that parents and children attending a Polish school in the US capital refused to organize a Christmas meeting in 2012 in the embassy room. But a dozen or so days earlier at the ambassador’s residence, the writer Anne Applebaum – privately the wife of Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, promoted her books. The strangest thing, however, is that this man, who had reached the top in holding state positions in Poland, was flooded with strangers that he and his family were the targets of a „campaign of harassment, slander and lies” launched by the far-right media over his Jewish origins.
And what do you think about it?
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Translation into English and illustrations by naszepismo.pl
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Until I remembered Orwell’s words – The further society drifts from the truth, the more it hates those who preach it. Best wishes!
Steve
On 6th July 2017, President Trump delivered a speech in Warsaw. The Poles in USA have an easy choice on 3rd November.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3nKhhz7ZMw
@@@ From the editorial office of naszepismo.pl /We received e-mail:
These are the democrats in the democratic era …
1.Joe Biden in an interview with The New York Times. He said that he had stopped going to the Polish-American club, suggesting that he was already in contact with „smart people”.
2. „Polish death camp” – these are the words used by Barack Obama when he was giving a laudation in honor of Jan Karski. He wrote to Komorowski when Poles protested: „I inadvertently used the phrase Polish death camps in my speech” – wrote. The word „sorry” was NOT mentioned.
3. American politician /Democratic Party/ Bernie Sanders wrote that his father fled Poland from poverty and „universal anti-Semitism”!
4.The author of Senate bill 447 is Senator Tammy Baldwin, a representative of the left wing of the Democratic Party.
5. “NATO is at risk of an onset of rupture (…). We see everything that is happening from Belarus to Poland to Hungary and the rise of totalitarian regimes in the world (…) „- said Biden during a meeting with voters in Philadelphia. He then added that President Trump supports” thugs in the world „, not It’s hard to guess that he was thinking about Poland.
I wonder what Polish diaspora in the USA will choose; is the lesser evil or the greater evil? (…)
Felix
I agree with Mr. Balcerzak. Free elections are the process of a well-understood democracy in a free country. The Polish community in the USA has so far voted for those who showed real kindness to Poland, an example of which was the unforgettable President Regan. However, the problem does exist. The American Polonia no longer has such a leader as Edward Moskal, and the process of distorting the concept of „Democracy” is already visible in Poland and the USA, and unfortunately also among the Polish diaspora. In the US, Democrats indulged when mobs demolished monuments, houses, streets, and private property. In Poland, „democrats” began to demolish churches and property that did not belong to them.
With respect to the Author of the comment and the Editorial staff of this website.
JUREK ZARZYCKI Z GOLD COAST
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What is happening in the USA is not – as left-wing and not only left-wing journalists would like to see it – the fault of Donald Trump. America is ideologically divided and even more so than Poland. And Biden himself has a strong leftist and revolutionary background. It is only surprising that the power that is Antifa and BLM that not so long ago destroyed and demolished everything related to American history has already been forgotten and has become a heroism. But even in this tragic situation you can laugh.
Everyone saw it on TV what the defense of the White House is. When the attackers broke into the entrance to the building, the guard waved only his hands and waved a stick as he escaped up the stairs. And that’s climbing the roof of the building? The Chinese are happy about it, because they will not need commandos, cannons and not a single bomb. They’ll just walk in there.
Democracy itself is not a safeguard. Let me remind you of the words of St. John Paul II, who said that democracy could very well be hidden totalitarianism. So it is only a mechanism, and if at its source there is no space for a healthy idea, healthy thought that respects fundamental human rights, then this mechanism can get stuck and be used in all directions.
Today on ABC News, ALP leader Anthony Albanese talked about the great future of the US and Australia under Joe Biden and Co. that at one point I had to turn off the TV. I wonder how the others endured it?
STEVE
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Lie and hypocrisy
The US State Department announced in a report to Congress that it changed its previous position and lifted sanctions against the German-Russian gas pipeline project of Nord Stream 2 AG, and its boss Matthias Warnig, which was building the second part of this pipeline from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea.
The President of Poland and our Polish government offered Biden a „heartfelt congratulations”, but Joe had said earlier that he would „not hang out with stupid Poles.” Lie and hypocrisy make that old guy laugh because Joe pupet said right away that he was against „from the beginning”. Maybe this will cure Polish naïves into „full confidence in Joe Biden”, who entrusted the most important positions in the US government to wiser „older brothers in faith and politics „.
Joe the Younger