"We, senators, have a duty towards the new generation: to answer whether Poland’s symbol will be a prison garb or a white rose," said Senator Jan Rulewski during the Senate debate on the Supreme Court bill. The Civic Platform senator participates in the debate dressed in a prison garb. When speaking, he even used a metal cup such as those used by inmates. As the committee’s minority rapporteur, he spoke in favor of rejecting the Supreme Court bill.
Rulewski, the committee’s minority rapporteur, underlined that on behalf of Civic Platform senators it was his duty to present the motion to reject the Supreme Court bill. "This is a minority motion, but it’s also a motion of the hundreds of thousands Polish people who supported it. It’s also a motion of hundreds of professors, employees of the legislative department, and spokespersons. It’s also a motion of all our friends in Europe, who never wish to see border posts on the Oder River again," enumerated the Civic Platform senator.
"Poland is slowly, yet systematically turning into a penal institution"
"In our opinion, Poland is slowly, yet systematically turning into a penal institution. I don’t have to remind, in particular to Senator Mamątow, that the introduction of martial law began with suspending the law, followed by voices of dura lex, sed lex. And it only ended after 10 years, when normal law spoke out for its laws," stressed Rulewski.
"In February, following the introduction of the martial law, General Jaruzelski awarded pay rises to teachers, increased buying-in prices for peasants, and yet everything followed the usual course," noted the senator, former member of the anti-communist opposition in the People’s Republic of Poland.
"The penal institution today is mostly represented by the raging prosecutor, who calls himself the Minister of Justice. Poland today is not represented by Themis, but by prosecutor Ziobro. A person of an unknown identity, background or function. Poland today are police cordons, divisions of police officers denying the right to speak to all those who have the right to speak out. Poland today are battue hunts broadcast by public television," assessed Rulewski.
"Poland today is what one of my neighbors asked me: ‘Are you not afraid, Janek?’ Poland is governed by a prosecutor and by fear," he added.
"If you’re loyal," "if you’re ready to denounce"
"These acts are first and foremost oriented towards fear. Towards depriving people of their autonomy. Towards making them afraid, turning them into cowards," commented the senator. "What do we see there? We see a minister, who went so far as to push his fellow president out of controlling the rules of the game in the Supreme Court. We see a mower, which is meant to cut out all judges from the Supreme Court," he stated.
"Do excuse me, it gives these judges a choice, or namely three choices. The first one: if you’re loyal, perhaps we’ll include you in the new court. The second one: if you’re ready to denounce, you’ll probably be in our court. The third one: people who today don’t know how to act, in spite of having enjoyed our trust for so many years," he enumerated.
"You may decide that [Donald] Tusk is not a Pole"
"Article 1 of the Constitution clearly states that the Republic of Poland is the common good of all its citizens. Yesterday, during the demonstrations, did the authorities see the Republic of Poland as the common good of all? Do you engage in dialogue or do you put police cordons and steel barriers on the streets?" he addressed Law and Justice politicians.
"You may decide that [Donald] Tusk is not a Pole, and refuse him entry into the country, but what are you going to do with those hundreds of thousands of people? Put them on proscription lists? Are these the prospects for the new generation, the generation of people bearing roses? We, senators, have a duty towards the new generation, to answer whether Poland’s symbol will be a prison garb or a white rose," he stressed.
Źródło: tvn24.pl/tłumaczenie Intertext.com.pl