Leszek Socha’s column:
I was there, I saw it, I left. The Ceramic Festival? Absolutely necessary. The question is: why was the politicians’ procession protected there?
This is the second time I have attended this wonderful celebration of artisans. Wonderful pottery products. Craftsmanship on a global scale. Everything is OK. As our comrades from the USA like to say.
The question is: why was this politicians’ procession protected? Wouldn’t ordinary volunteers in bright shirts have been enough for the councillors to walk through peacefully—what was this supposed to serve? Whom are the beloved politicians afraid of, or what do they want to make clear? After all, they work for our good and prosperity, sacrificing themselves for us. Who would attack our benefactors?
Policewoman: am I here to clean up?
There was also this little episode when a uniformed policewoman stepped on a reinforcing bar lying in the street. The bar was large, about 60 cm long.
I suggested that she remove it before someone used it for something bad, but the policewoman quietly asked me whether I thought she was there to clean up things like that.
I decided she was not and picked up the bar myself, so it would be safer. And as an aside: policewoman, that is precisely what you are there for in a place like this. You should have thanked me for the assistance and secured the bar, because that is your task. It is called PREVENTION. Prevention, meaning stopping things from happening.
Meanwhile, politicians and others, including the Craftsmen of Pottery, were welcomed on stage. There was also a small but conspicuous group of LGBT activists. Not everyone has to like this, and not everyone does. However, we have authorities—that is, representatives of the nation—who are constitutionally obliged to tolerance and equal treatment.
As can be seen, Poland cannot cope with its own Constitution
and has no intention of fulfilling its provisions, not only regarding tolerance. By a strange coincidence, the group of activists was covered by signs identifying a foreign delegation.
Following the trail of tolerant countries, I missed the USSR there—a little joke. I am deliberately mocking this because it was very embarrassing and petty. A normal mayor would have welcomed them in a flowery speech and there would have been no problem, while the activists would have had no reason to be there. That is how it would be in a normal country. In Poland, a police prevention unit is sent in, and an older man with a rainbow-colored bag and a modestly but colorfully dressed woman are asked for their IDs. So that is our country’s only problem: LGBT! After all, there are no other problems.
An intrusive thought occurs to me: why is difference fought so fiercely in our country? History offers a clue. Do politicians have a problem with history? If so, why do they want to govern so badly? Without knowledge of history—and therefore of human nature—it is better not to take on this job. One can also buy a diploma at “kolegium tumanum” … The rainbow is one of the Christian symbols; homosexuality has always been known and described in the mythologies and earliest histories of human civilization, particularly among ruling elites—ancient Greek pottery being one example. It seems that contemporary people want to drown something out or, for some reason, divert attention from other groups. Be that as it may, this is a way of dividing society, and that has always served those in power, whatever system we have lived under.
The angel from the town hall tower flew past the rainbow, even beautifully twisting around there, so what was the point of this charade with screens and checking IDs?
Ceramic Festival YES! Culture Festival YES! Politicians and their arrogance NO!
I also saw what I cannot stand at mass events of this kind: politicians showing off and being referred to by titles they do not hold.
Beautiful ceramics. Respect for the hands that make them—I even bought quite a lot. Czech ceramics too, but the politicians’ behavior ruins everything. Modesty pays off; arrogance does not. I have seen this before. I do not want it back. Once again, someone wants to arrange our lives and impose ideologies on us. I hope someone puts a stop to it.