Five months in prison, suspended for 2 years for a Facebook entry condemning the Azov Battalion – specified conviction was given to left-wing political commentator, Mr Arkadiusz Domeredzki in the Opole territory Court. This information was provided by Opolskie radio. This is not the first conviction for inclusion in social media in Poland.
“I do not agree with what you are saying, but I will give my life so that you have the right to say it.” – this is the conviction attributed to the French philosopher Wolter. It's not crucial or true, it's very important. This conviction raises my firm objection. Not due to the fact that I support Mr Domered's view. due to the fact that I don't know if there are Nazis in this battalion, Azov says. I can't believe it. And not due to the fact that I support Russia. due to the fact that Russia does not like much, and I have sympathy alternatively to the Ukrainian side. It's getting smaller, though.
My opposition results from this reason that I inactive believe in democracy and freedom of speech. For 32 years in the Polish People's Republic, I opposed punishment for views and censorship. I went to demonstrations, I had a fixed resistor, I distributed opposition newspapers published in Huta Katowice. I want to believe that Article 54 of the Polish Constitution is inactive in force in Poland, which says: “Every individual is guaranteed the freedom to express his views and to get and disseminate information. The preventive censure of the social media and the licensing of the press are prohibited."
However, I have increasing doubts. Today, in free Poland, I feel the same way. I feel restricted again. I announcement more and more bans and censorship on social media. For example, erstwhile I am in the country, I cannot see pages of your writing or “Polish Thought”. For a while, I could not read on the net “The top Time!”. The anticipation of expressing opinions under texts concerning the war in Ukraine on information portals is blocked. present I am writing a letter to “Poland’s Thought” although I am more curious in “Gazeta Polska”. However, I am convinced that I have no chance of printing it there. This is my private drama. Everything I believed in falls apart like a home set out of playing cards.
I wonder if I should tell my daughter and my grandchildren – sorry. For supporting the anti-state opposition in the Polish People's Republic with action, word and money. It was me and millions of people like me who paved the way for power to opposers of freedom of speech and supporters of censorship. We've wasted quite a few our lives. There was no freedom of expression for the commune, and censorship was public. I think it was more honest than that camouflaged and hidden under slogans about freedom of conviction and speech. I hope you post an email confession.
Bogusław Kozłowski
