In the municipalities bordering Belarus, we have been utilized for the last 4 years, that erstwhile it is warm, it is "the border is moving", that is, the migration movement is intensifying. It does not substance how many fences and fences have been created, with what systems and for how many billions, and what number of soldiers this or any another defence minister has directed here. People go, they go.
Similarly, it becomes a tradition that, with more attempts to cross the border, intensifies in Poland the phenomenon which, together with Wojciech Siegień, we call bordering – that is, a policy that professes the primacy of the concept of the sealability of the border submitted even above the applicable law, while at the same time nullifying the reality which happens on the another side of the border, including the annulment of human life.
Thus, a discriminating frame manifested in the language of hostility and hatred is intensified. Not only in any far-right media, but increasingly besides in mainstream media, in liberal media center.
Media Horror
Take, for example, a fresh article from the Forsal Legal Gazette published by the publisher. I feel bad sharing a link to him.But it's worth seeing how fast we slide down the slope. From the text you will learn that “the loop around Poland is tightening”, due to the fact that “our country has again been targeted by Polish and Western human rights organizations”. Although humanitarian organizations do not shoot, the author’s opinion of the text is simply a hostile act publication of a study on the situation of migrants on the Polish-Belarusian border and reports on the brutality of Polish services towards people on the way. And we have an insinuation right distant in the lead: "It is an unusual accident at the same time as Belarus and Russia begin another destabilisation action and the West threatens us with our finger."
As I have already pointed out, the destabilisation action aimed at Poland is that it has become warmer and as usual for respective years there are more passages in the spring. From the further part of the text on Forsal, we will learn that erstwhile publishing the study Oxfam and Egal's organizations launched an "angry attack" on Poland. “The accusations directed at Polish services are freezing blood in the veins,” we read. But not due to what they describe, and due to the fact that individual just dared to collect and describe it. And the West threatens with a finger due to the fact that it expects Poland to comply with the provisions of the migration pact. We're cornered from all sides! Horror!
In the context of the publication of the report, there were besides voices of politicians seeking to limit freedom of expression and public debate. During the session of the Polish Parliamentary Committee on abroad Affairs, erstwhile Deputy Minister of abroad Affairs from PiS Paweł Jabłoński said that the consequences should be drawn against activists operating on the border, including legal (interesting what others?) for what they say about Polish services. Although this is simply a voice from the opposition for now, given the practices of the current government, including late voted regulations allowing to suspend the right to request asylum, the Polish version of the paragraph for discrediting the army and uniformed services does not seem to be a complete abstraction. I utilized to compose about, the situation in which the service is to be respected only for wearing a uniform, this is the situation of a fascist state, not a democratic state. There is simply a rule of civilian control of a force apparatus in a democratic state. Its form is besides the improvement and publication of reports on their operation.
If anything coincides here with a unusual coincidence, it is only that erstwhile there is an election run in Poland, the subject of the border is heated again, which, to be honest, we have had adequate to do here, in border regions. I'm not amazed at all that he played this subject and will most likely be playing Lukashenko this spring. By generating a fresh phase of strengthening around the impenetrable leak, the Polish authorities themselves give the Belarusian government the chance to influence the electoral process in Poland. This has been happening for respective years. To a large extent, it is thanks to the satellite neighbour that we have specified a strong right turn. Lukashenko is effectively pouring fuel and driving fear of all migrants and foreigners. Polish politicians are eager to burn this fuel, completely ignoring the fact that they refuel from a refinery in Nowopolock. It means the Russian goods processed by the Łukaszenko regime.
There's nothing incorrect with migrants.
It would be much more reasonable to normalise the situation, to show it as a typical EU external border and to convince it that the applicable services – in accordance with the law and with the support of the social side – are in control of it and manage it. due to the fact that so far nothing truly terrible has happened in Poland in connection with the migration movement across the Belarusian border. There are besides people who, after crossing this border, yet received any form of legalization of their stay from Poland, live and work in our country, which did not collapse.
Yes, we have force and aggression on the border, including those who effort to cross it. Unfortunately, this is besides a sad reality of migration routes, especially where states choose to force as a primary remedy. And even more so, where any kind of political force arises, e.g. from countries specified as Turkey or Belarus and where their services are active in managing the migration route. The victim of specified force was Sergeant Mateusz Sitek, who died after a fewer days in the hospital. However, it is worth noting that although his death is taken as a banner as an example of heroism in defending the border, we are besides dealing with with sweeping under the carpet of her circumstances. The investigating case of the attack and death of a soldier of the D.A. did not issue any communication and did not uncover any applicable details, the Polish services did not capture the perpetrator, and we do not know how the deficiency of medical safety of soldiers at the border affected that the life of Sergeant Sitka was unsuccessful. In unofficial conversations, including with the service representatives, you can hear quite a few criticism about the low level of training that made this situation possible. Neither at the command level nor at the political level was anyone responsible. By the way, after a soldier shot at random civilians in Mielnik in fresh Year, no 1 besides suffered consequences, in consequence to this event the army and mon developed a wide-ranging PR action, part of which were chopper flights for selected journalists.
Over the past 4 years, there have been no attacks on residents from migrants crossing the border. besides in another parts of Poland, there were no specified signals, although respective tens of thousands of people passed through our country with only a “transit” to the West of Europe. A very typical situation has become erstwhile the greater fear is felt by those who have never encountered them than by their place of residence or by their work they frequently deal with people on the road. So we're here at the border. This does not change the fact that, from the point of view of the inhabitants, it would be best if this were not happening at all if there were neither this migration movement nor the political tensions that accompany it. But we can't control it. The only thing we have left is to adapt to life in the reality we have, and it would go well if it wasn't for another, usually coupled with election run waves of intensifying around the border topic.
Although in the context of irregular migration across the Polish-Belarusian border, media and politicians are constantly talking about threat, destabilisation and hybrid war, there are inactive no concretes. What's the real threat? How does it manifest itself? He's a good scorer. Mateusz Kępa from Magazine Contact in the text “Safety for Show”in which he analyses the reasons for the alleged Polish migration strategy developed by the current government. The atmosphere created around the migration situation on the border with Belarus contrasts with the reality, in which it is alternatively legally arriving and Polish citizens of Russia, Ukraine or Belarus that are allowed to recruit Russian intelligence for arson-type actions remotely. Although there is besides a change – besides foreigners legally coming to Poland and coming from countries so far perceived as culturally similar, become the object of fear and hostility, and politicians are eager to make this field.
The language of utmost hostility of the discourse on migration across the Polish-Belarusian border has more destabilizing possible than the migration itself, resulting in Mentzen, who wants to get along with Putin, having a chance to enter the second circular of presidential elections.
Minefields alternatively of rape fields
In the meantime, he was called a liberal-left candidate. Rafał Trzaskowski does not even effort to keep the impression that the flagship task of the Tusk government, i.e. The east Shield, It's a purely military and defence project. He late explicitly acknowledged that TW should besides fight migration. In the context of this breathtaking project, there has just been a fresh turn. The government announced that Poland intends to abandon the Ottawa Convention prohibiting the production and usage of anti-personnel mines. This fact is not upsetting. The war threat from Russia is unfortunately real, and his feeling jumped in society in connection with the proputin American volt. Unfortunately, Europe must arm itself and build a fresh safety architecture. This is not a voluntary choice, we would all like to live on a peaceful continent and make free, mutually beneficial cooperation and burn inexpensive Russian gas. But the Kremlin has chosen another way, and we can't change that. Even Trump and his large America can't do much about it. So there is only a reaction on our side and, as we know, we are very late with this reaction in Europe. The argument that we cannot ban ourselves from the weapons our enemy uses makes sense, unless we accept the papal logic of relations with the aggressor.
But there is simply quite a few difference between the anticipation of utilizing specified a weapon and the desire to spread mines along the border here and now. In the spring of last year, erstwhile MON presented graphics with the plan of the Shields of the East, on Podlasie we immediately noticed the marked minefield belt. erstwhile we yet met with representatives of the Ministry and the Army on the subject of the TW in Hajnówka in late autumn, as with doubts about expropriations, we heard about that we were working for hostile misinformation by spreading specified rumors. Mines were to be the final last resort, spread out possibly only if all the signs in the sky and on earth indicated that there would be an effort to invade land from beyond the east border. Now we hear from government representatives that the situation at the border is already so seriousThat you should consider mincing.
I live precisely 7 kilometres from this border, and I admit I had no thought the situation was so serious. No 1 here signals anything like this, we inactive have no training, we have not received any information on the situation of crisis, possible evacuation, etc. civilian defence remains a fiction on paper. So I am amazed to hear that the time has come for mines, due to the fact that if the seriousness of the situation requires it, then in fact, we should be packed and carried by buses somewhere further into the country.
To mine the border in the current situation would mean killed or mutilated migrants (who will be treated by local border hospitals), torn chaotic animals, accidental casualties among local civilians. It does not substance whether the mine belt will be 20 or 100 metres long and how far from the border line it will run (its interesting path, after whose land – in Hajnówka the deputy minister of the Take assures that there will be no expropriation, and the Shield of the East will in no way interfere with the lives of people, even those whose homes stand respective decades from the border). The information about mines alone will simply hit the border communities and wider Podlasie. It is not just about tourism, but about any chances of development, investment, economical and demographic reflection.
Unfortunately, I have a bad feeling, due to the fact that in a situation where society is constantly subject to strong stimuli of fear, a meaningful discussion is not possible. Neither the substantive voices of experts, nor the voices of border residents of municipalities and districts will be heard. Newspapers are about to order polls or mines, and we will learn that about 80 percent of Poles and Poles want to mine the border, due to the fact that they will feel safer. At least for a while before a fresh threat comes along, and fresh emergency measures will be needed to deal with it. And of course, it's best to place them not where those 80 percent of all the supporters of fences, fences and minefields live, but at the border. In this 1 place that carries with it the fantasy of an iron curtain to the sky that our inactive lovingly reigning president desires. And seemingly he's not the only one.
