Podanie brudnych rąk w Bydgoszczy

by guest on 2008-04-07 14:38, replies: 2, translation: pl en, related to: state terrorism

Minister Spraw Zagranicznych Radosław Sikorski i jego odpowiednik minister spr. zagr. Niemiec udzielili dziś wspólnej konferencji prasowej w Urzędzie Województwa Kujawsko-Pomorskiego. Powitała ich jednoosobowa milcząca pikieta pod hasłem "Politycy na front - żołnierze do domów". Pikietujący został obfotografowany przez BOR oraz dwukrotnie spisany przez policję. Goście złożyli kwiaty pod pomnikiem ofiar faszyzmu, który ma niedługo zostać usunięty z Rynku z inicjatywy PO.

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FAIL

by guest on 2008-04-08 00:22

'jednoosobowa pikieta' = epic fail
what is success?

by guest on 2008-04-09 02:49

“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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