Is constant retrospection a sign of old age or inquisitiveness? Or perhaps it is time to hold those in power accountable for their promises of change? There have undoubtedly been changes, but have they been for the better? I do not think so. Criticizing or assessing a person in my situation, in the face of the current propaganda, does not sound credible. The “cunning operators,” that is, spin doctors working for politicians, have made sure that people from the past—the period before 1989—are perceived more as public enemies than as authorities.
I do not know who this analysis or assessment of a certain period in the functioning of the Polish State will reach, but I will make an attempt. I am an ordinary man of what is known as a respectable age. I now behave as I did before 1989, just like most people like me. Some pretend they were not there, out of fear of condemnation by their contemporaries; some do not stick their necks out at all and condemn their peers in order to get lost in the crowd. I have nothing to apologize for or thank anyone for; I simply happened to live in wretched times, and I include the present among them as well.
The “new” immaculate figures in the new government also come from that period; they did not appear out of nowhere. At most, they were prepared to assume power by the services of other countries and with their money.
We know such practices, for example from Lenin and Piłsudski… Instead of gradually transforming the national economy to adapt it to new realities and preparing people for freedom and new conditions, certain social groups were immediately driven into poverty, others were set against one another, and the NATIONAL WEALTH...? It simply disappeared.
Companies from all over the world have established themselves in Poland. We have industry—but it is not ours; farmers produce, but not for our processors. What about the label saying that something was produced in Poland? What does it matter that it comes from Poland? It is only located in Poland, but it is not Polish. The companies belong to owners from foreign countries, from pig farms to processing plants and car assembly plants.
MP Jaki thunders that “the Polish economy is developing as the second-fastest in Europe.” The Polish economy? There is an economy in Poland, but it is not a Polish economy.
Next, predatory banks prevent Polish entrepreneurs from developing, both in terms of growth and simply establishing themselves. Young people, after opening any kind of business, are immediately attacked with arbitrary fees; everything is immediately more expensive than for individuals, with no relief or adjustment periods. Inspections begin at once.
Is that what we pay taxes for? Why do we have special services such as ABW? Where were they when Polish national wealth was being destroyed? Where were the services when all kinds of financial pyramids and quasi-banks were being created? Where was ABW when Swiss-franc loans began? That was the scam of the century! Where were the services when cliques were forming? Where were they—and where are they—when self-interested legislative changes are made? Where is ABW amid the devastation of Poland’s smaller towns and counties? Where are the roads, cycling paths, or combined cycling and pedestrian routes?
Politicians, where exactly is the money for health care, national defense, and the safety of ordinary people going? Does it reach where it should? Simply adding more money makes no sense in relation to these tasks without checking who actually receives it.
I encourage society to support our initiative to introduce into the work of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland bills on Public Lies and Official Accountability.
The absence of these regulations has brought Poland to the brink of civil war. The level of hatred is so enormous that this is no longer mere scaremongering; it is reality. The current regulations discipline ordinary citizens only, while politicians and MPs are not held accountable.