The toolbox Poland

I first published this article on HubPages in 2012, before I got more into blogging and decided to integrate my content.

Polish language does not have a phrase as a “home country”. It has a fatherland or motherland, but Rzeczpospolita has not been much of a home.

Born in Poland — and nobody ever has choice on the time and place to be born — you cannot change your citizenship, unless the President grants permission. There is Polish law to say, the President’s resolve is not to be appealed: Nie możesz się odwołać.

Constitutions have been worldwide to tell people what rights they have. The Polish constitution is yet to say, “you can do it, but only if you are personally allowed”. A parliamentary journal defines, to renounce your Polish citizenship, you need the President’s permission.

European Union should require that all member countries allow citizen freedom of decision on renouncement of citizenship.

I have never loved Poland, and it is not my intention here “to say something unpleasant”. Such has been plainly the fact. I have never declared I would love Poland.

There was no time to get to love the country. I was born in 1970, when Communist Polish were making a show of their absurdities, and I was only 11 when the martial law began. Poland became an ugly country. I was walking to school September 1982, and biological tears were rolling down my face, with tear gas from the day before; it felt unconditional, and it was detached from the circumstance.

I liked school and was quite happy to study also later, but the university time, to be honest, was a lot of work and sometimes self-imposed sleep privation, so there was no time to get to appreciating the landscape.

Winter 1981, Polish soldiers were allowed to carry weapons in city streets and to shoot people, only if someone didn’t want to hand in his or her ID. Another terror was the secret security, civilian, with which Poland had been pretty much a story of national hate since the World War ended. The civilian Humer flogged private parts as a patriot to interrogate suspect opposition. His methods were brought to light decades later.

The narrator encourages to give thought to nationality, opening the Humer report. I’ve done my thinking some time ago: there is no inborn love except for own self — you could say that about other people too — and obviously, there are no “mass individuals”.

There is no nationality blood type or DNA, either.

Abroad, the picture of Poland that comes mostly from the Polish people is that of heroic resistance against neighbors, nations vile and ruthless in their line of business.

For centuries, Poland was Europe’s marching ground — when it was not dismembered and wiped off the map by some combination of Germany, Austria and Russia. It battled the Teutonic knights in the Middle Ages, and Hitler’s blitzkrieg in September 1939 lives on, in the minds of the elderly and the imaginations of the young,
— we can read from as far away as Australia and ■The Sidney Morning Herald.

Undue influence by Polish services

I remember Poland primarily for undue influence by Polish services, mostly military. I emigrated in year 2004, long enough after the ■Round Table to know it had not brought the change it promised. I emigrated permanently. I do not want to be back, and I am resolved to change my citizenship.

Here is some of my picture of Poland, the Rzeczpospolita that never developed the phrase “home country”.

Years 1991-2006, in Poland democratic in promise, operatives of Polish Military Information Services, ■WSI, independently formed — and independently named — The Society for Utmost Irresponsibility “Roll-up”, Stowarzyszenie Najwyższej Nieodpowiedzialności “Rolowisko”.

They were seeking extra money for own personal pockets, and interfered with civilian businesses in a spirit of nonchalance as deep as showing in their emblem to imply a crowned capon for the Polish eagle.

Macierewicz report on WSI had the usual motif, that the “Roll-up” was some Russian influence, but Polish operative milkers have always been chosen by long ancestry, “forefather and forebear” (Polish “z dziada pradziada”), and the “Roll-up” turned out no Russian temptation or ordnance in fact. Poland is the country to take about 50% of your salary with tax — just to look after you, as I describe further below.
■Gutenberg.org: Macierewicz report

WSI was a merger of the Communist ■Internal Military Service and ■Second Directorate of General Staff. These predecessors, in activity self-appointed as well, because there was no constitutional law to tell them to do that whatsoever, partook in death verdicts as well as executions on suspected opposition — inclusive of women. Female citizens of Poland never have been subject to military service, and never belonged under any military authority.

■Polish Wikipedia, Executions in the Main Directorate of Information:
Executed in the Main Directorate of Information Masovia
Krystyna Mielczarek (1923 – 1946)
Barbara Niemczuk (1922 – 1946)
Arrested in the beginning of July 1946. Sentenced to death on July 31, 1946. The execution was carried out on August 27, 1946, in the Military Main Directorate, Warsaw.

The military sentiment, or so it looked, was the Polish “noble liberty”. Country laws were as a “holy oracle” — only sarcastically: if the law did not specifically ban or ordain, it “allowed”.

The “little meadow”

The Warsaw “Łączka”, a little meadow, was a secret burial site for people executed or tortured to death during interrogation by Polish special services. The law did not exactly predict on the secret mien in ■Powązki Military “Section Ł”; it was officially an unused part of the cemetery at the time.

Legal prediction did not necessarily make things better in Poland of the years 1945-89: I prefer description in years over phrases as “Communist Poland” or similar. Those would have been to impress people as if there was a new country, whereas it has remained the same place on Earth, with similar ideas and graveyards: “Live and let live” is no motto. On the Polish ■TKM, there is Wikipedia to lay out.

The bill of January 31, 1959, on burial of the dead, granted the right of interment to actually anyone “who willfully took on the task”. Corpse transportation did not require any permit in built-up areas or their 30 kilometers perimeter. People of no medical training could pronounce a person dead.
■ The bill of January 31, 1959, on cemeteries and burial of the dead
Articles 10.1; 11.2; 14.1; 23.

In Warsaw alone, Polish special services had secret burial sites in
♦ Służew, Wałbrzyska street old cemetery, Dolinka district and Saint Catherine parish, the horse races;
♦ Mokotów;
♦ Bródno;
♦ Praga, “Toledo” and November 11 street;
♦ Trojanowo.
■ Exhumations by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance

The picture of Warsaw may psychologically change, if to include the image for the Polish secret conduct. Poland never had court of law, open and public proceedings for its former services, as Germany did. My ■Google Drive has the map.

In standard Polish language, ■łączka is a place for care-free leisure or beginner exercise, as a ■”donkey little meadow” is in English. Year 2016, Polish Institute of National Remembrance announced a meeting at “Łączka”, care-free to adopt the verbal behavior by former oppressors.

Those were Polish people to be cruel on Polish people. ■Adam Humer acted for the Public Security Bureau, a civilian service yet closely to cooperate with Polish military structures. Later, his American birth was pointed out, and at the same time he was called a Stalinist, but his sadistic acts did not result from American or Russian command. Paradoxically, if to blame Russians (Americans were not in the territory at all), it could be only for their not having controlled Humer enough.

N-N, Name Unknown

Anything was better than people with the Polish military information service. They were — sadists by a big S, and murderers by a huge M.
— says Paweł Wieczorkiewicz, a historian; Wikipedia

You are going to be an en-en, was a phrase you could hear in Poland also many years after the Round Table. It was enough you were not inclined for Polish services. The acronym meant “name unknown”, in Polish nazwisko nieznane. It was used in Poland 45-89 for bodies difficult or impossible to identify.

Year 2009, the acronym “N-N” recurred for surveillance. Purportedly it was to mean telephone “number unknown” (Polish, numer nieznany). Polish services claimed they had no idea what phone number they wanted to monitor, but the judge granted a warrant.

The “dummy citizen”

In Poland 45-89, a Bureau B human target was nicknamed a “figurant: ― a dummy, poser, silly, someone who pretends. In colloquial Polish, a term to get along with thieves and their jargon. A surveillance task would be worded as,

Addresses, contacts, and lifestyle; observation to be continued also if the dummy departs | Adresy i kontakty oraz tryb życia; w razie wyjazdu figuranta obserwację prowadzić dalej.

The facsimile here shows a declassified document from 1969, with the words “secret” (Polish, tajne) and “dummy” (figurant) in red frames. It also says the person was taken under observation based on a photograph | na podstawie fotografii.

The operative toolkit

An operative toolkit of Poland 45-89 looks capable of influencing people as well as stone. Polish law did not have specific rules on use of objects as in the picture published by the Institute of Remembrance, whoever to explain such a choice of things.

Poland 89-and-later continues with the approach. Nowadays there is no bill to regulate the services “intimate activity” where it is reasonable to doubt if that would be attraction to make citizens helpless.

“The citizen has no defense”

Year 2009, ■Henryk Piecuch, a Polish border guard before 89, went public with his observations on the Polish new “intimate service”:

The citizen has no chance for defense. Technology is at such high standards. The matter is only in matching the victim with a proper agent.

Obywatel nie ma szans na obronę. W dzisiejszych czasach technika jest na tak wysokim poziomie. To tylko kwestia doboru odpowiedniego agenta do ofiary.

I translate techika as technologia, because Polish would use metodyka, obeznanie, organizacja, reguła, sztuka, system and some more, for anything without a closed circuit. Polish is not so close with Greek.

■This text is also available in Polish

Mr. Piecuch compared Polish practices of 45-89, where companions of both genders were provided for diplomats and generally VIPs, and evaluated service quality as “skies higher” than the Polish “tender Tom” affair of 2009.
■ Henryk Piecuch for Virtual Poland

The Polish idea was then to have female companions at business talks, operating in an obvious capacity also from under the table, yet Poland did not become a market success. Below, we can see the strongest single factor for the 1989 Round Table: rationing coupons and empty shops. People could not get toilet rolls either.

“Tender Tom”

■Gromosław Czempiński, a colonel with the Polish police 45-89, and later a general within secret security, was not as critical. He praised Tomasz Kaczmarek, the intimate special agent:

… He (“tender Tom”) carried out his tasks excellently. He made two illustrious cases, and that certainly owing to his talent, skills, and service proper training.

… Świetnie wypełniał swoje zadania. Zrobił dwie głośne sprawy. Zapewne dzięki talentowi, umiejętnościom i odpowiedniemu przeszkoleniu.

The tender professional life had been that of the “third republic” policeman, before Kaczmarek joined the ■Central Anticorruption Bureau.

Mr. Kaczmarek stated he was a patriot, which brought him support from the ■Law and Justice political party. “Tender Tom” joined Polish Sejm in 2011. He gave up as a parliamentary in 2015, in context of another scandal.

Intimate behavior for purposes other than consensually attained personal pleasure has a standard name that can be derived from Latin as laid out ■here. A government to subject citizens to ■defect deserves this quote.

Government even in its best state is but necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one; for when we suffer, we are exposed to the same miseries by a government which we might expect in a country without government; our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer — Thomas Paine, Common Sense.

■Common Sense in Polish, free e-book

Microwave technologies

Modern toolbox repertoires may use microwave technologies. Barrie Trower talks about microwave uses on person targets, on people. I have translated some of his account into Polish and subtitled an excerpt, I believe fair use that does not breach on copyright.

■Barrie Trower, The Dangers of Microwave Technology, YouTube
Source video, Interview with Barrie Trower.

“According to his revelations, if microwaves were honestly that harmful we would, by now, have many cases of people becoming seriously ill from the dreaded fiend in disguise the sheeple know as Wi-Fi… Remember to buy a packet of tinfoil hats for the entire family, the man in the straitjacket said so!” — and this is purportedly ■Rational Wiki.

Mr. Trower was with the Royal Navy. The real matter thus would be, is it they take people in crazy — or, it is the Royal Navy most certainly does drive you mad?

It is reasonable to control transmitters also as for Internet, the same as electricity power lines; those have been found harmful, and microwaves can aberrate chromosomes.

I have never cooperated (techno or not) and I wouldn’t like it: there is too much of an area for abuse, in Polish practices.

Life on Earth cannot be about living forever, so it should be about living agreeably. Each and every country is a mortal habitat: do we expect a Polish heaven, another one for Russians, and yet another for Germans?

We may remember Thomas Paine, ■Common Sense:
And by a just parity of reasoning, all Europeans meeting in America, or any other quarter of the globe, are countrymen; for England, Holland, Germany, or Sweden, when compared with the whole, stand in the same places on the larger scale, which the divisions of street, town and county, do on the smaller ones; distinctions too limited for Continental minds. 

Mentality

There is no singular mentality for all people in a country, but an Internet search for mentalność narodowa (national mentality in Polish) will bring some thousand years plus in stories, because in Polish, national mentality means history and faith. There is hardly anything for one guy to feel good in own lifespan.

■ Internet, “mentalność narodowa”

Where it looks like everyone has another business, Reytan illustrates Poland’s ■First Partition being decided by Polish nobility.

The Third Commonplace Thing

The name of the country, rzeczpospolita, does not translate well into a commonwealth, and it is confabulation to translate it into a republic. Polish and back, a republic corresponds with the word republika, not rzeczpospolita.

The first rzeczpospolita was a kingdom. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is to tell Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów. Both countries were feudal, with the Polish king as the head. Lithuania had a prince or duke.

The name rzeczpospolita was coined by Polish nobility, in a time a phrase as pospolita dziewka meant a woman of primitive manners and low conduct. It was not the word dziewka alone to bring the sense. It meant a girl, potentially also one of those Polish feudalists. The adjective pospolita did it.

Today, the word dziewka is hardly in use, but the noun ■rzecz and the adjective ■pospolity have not changed.

The tradition to name the country comes here from the people who partitioned it. Among herbs and other greens, of those named pospolity many are weeds; none would grow everywhere, and only some grow in Poland.

“Panna zbyt pospolita na progi”, a maiden too commonplace for the house, is literature of 2025, yet semantically correct with regard to those nobility views. The book tells about “the blood percent of nobility”, adequately for the nonsense as well. There is more literature, it is enough to search for “pospolita dziewka” with Google Books.

Why monarchy fell in Poland?

Poland never has been truly a democracy. In years 45-89, with its “Little Meadow” — “demo-cracy”,would have been as with a dash, you could live for the time being.

President Gabriel Narutowicz was assassinated on his fifth day in office, 1922, by Eligiusz Niewiadomski, the Prus coat of arms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Before 1772, Poland parliament was occasional meetings of Polish nobles, with no representation by the people and for the people. ■Forays were a habit to raid and take hold of property, without even a shriveled slip of paper, for judiciary legality.

There were no human rights. For a Polish noble, to raid and burn a village was no crime, unless another noble objected. A Polish feudal landlord could kill a peasant, unless they were of worth to another landowner. Monarch interventions were rare, as kings and queens were elected by those very same Polish nobles.

People at large had no citizen status. They were “souls”, and many bonded to the land. If anybody noted on them, it was the church. The people had hardly any education or military capacity.

Polish victory over the ■Swedish Deluge is properly described as Pyrrhic:
Lesser Poland lost 23% of population;
Masovia 40% in villages and 70% in towns;
Greater Poland 50% in villages and 60% in towns;
Royal Prussia lost some 60% of its population.
Source: I. Ihnatowicz, Z. Landau, A. Mączak and B. Zientara; ■Wikipedia, Polish losses during the Deluge.

Altogether, the Polish noble “democracy” brought ■three partitions, and Poland vanished from world maps until World War I:
■The Duchy of Warsaw was not sovereign, and Poland was not its name;
■Congress Poland was actually just another partition; vassal to Russia and smaller even than the Duchy, the area politically was not good enough for a freehold, under the Russian rulers Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III, and Nicholas II — until 1915.

I have never supported royalism, having read a book on Polish history when I was in primary school. I do recommend the free resources here.

Internet Archive

Feel welcome to use my free resources.

The Polish woman

Polish nobility times, a female human being was either a peasant workwoman up for grabs, or kind of a mistress; women who did not want sex could join convents. Discouraged from independence, women had to suffer decisions by whatever slipshod, but a male. No woman could vote.

The list of ■Polish female writers opens late as the 18th century. The women wrote poems, memoirs, and stories for children. ■Rosa Baily is an exception, as a teacher, activist, translator, journalist, history and travel writer, but she was actually French.

In the 19th century, intellectual progress for a Polish woman was envisioned in erotica. ■Zofia Nałkowska wrote,

Eroticism is not a private matter of the individual. It has its ramifications within all domains of human life and it is not possible to separate it from them by way of contemptuous disparagement in the name of morality, discretion, or yet by a demotion on the hierarchy of subjects worthy of intellectual attention: it cannot be isolated by prudery or relegated to science for its purely biological dimension.

Hundreds of years that reduced women to sex objects, and Nałkowska is considered a feminist in Poland today (!)

■Stanisław “Lucky” Potocki was couple with ■Zofia Witt née Clavone, when she was fanning the bedroom embers for servicemen of nationalities. Some of the Witt or Clavone children joined the tzar army.

■Maria Walewska was an offering. Pregnant by another, she married a man much older than herself, ■Anastazy Walewski. Her son was taken away “for upbringing” and later mentioned in correspondence that urged her to have the affair with Napoleon. She never got to see that son again, though she followed suit.

■Polityka encloses correspondence, reportedly from the ■Temporary Committee:
As long as passions drive people, you will be, Madam, a most formidable power. (…) Would you deem that Esther yielded to Ahasver out of love? (…) Are you not, a daughter, mother, and wife?

In Warsaw, ■Joseph Poniatowski was to come visit herself and her husband, and hand in the note:
Mary, you must go to that man. It is not us, it is Poland entire to demand this of you! I am appealing to your patriotism!
■Polityka o Marii Walewskiej

God too, was invoked for the sake of the alcove:
Oh, what relief that would be to me, if you said that God’s Providence used me as a tool indispensable for our beloved country to be revived. ■Wikipedia forwards Frederic Masson’s publication of Walewska’s memoir. .

Providence did not let itself used.

The Duchy was annulled in 1815, eight years from its beginning. Walewska’s relationship with Bonaparte lasted some 3 years.

■Wikipedia says the Polish Duchy gave Napoleon some 200 thousand people, mostly land force (Otto Pivka, Napoleon’s Polish Troops, ISBN ■9781780965499). Part were dispatched to fight the ■revolution in Haiti, and they did as they were told, though the revolution was about freedom and independence, just the same as the Polish cause.

Biblioteka Narodowa says about 100 thousand Polish joined Napoleon’s expedition to Russia alone. A winter expedition to Russia was an endeavor worth a madman, thus Poniatowski either did not get a message from Poland on that, or he ignored it completely.
■ Biblioteka Narodowa, Heritage France-Pologne

Year 2018, Polish armed forces were counted at 144 thousand 142 people, where you can take away the air force, as no army had it in Walewska times.
■ Wikipedia, Polish Armed Forces

Should intimate service ever be quoted for an ■ethos, it cannot be something covert, ■sub rosa.

Poland after 1922

■Józef Piłsudski overthrew the civilian government in the ■Coup of May 1926. Piłsudski did not become President, he remained a dictator.

The “Chief” earned quite a renown with the ■“Vistula Miracle”: Russians were about to conquer Warsaw, when he resolved to attack from the south, an unexpected side then.

He yet never opened own school for strategies, and the Polish army continued to lag behind in weaponry and staffing, to compare Germans or Russians. The picture here shows the “Pilsudski republic” military at Bzura, in World War II.

Suicide rather than strategy, Polish cavalry charged on horseback straight ahead, against German armored infantry, 4 years after Pilsudski’s death.

The ■Warsaw Uprising of 1944 had no chance to win, and it costed 200 thousand civilian lives. The ■Home Army knew about the Nazi policy of mass retaliation.

The sad act yet befitted the myth of Poland as the ■“Christ of Europe”. In giving the world the show, the rebels did not think if the world would have “bought tickets”. ■Yalta definitely was no standing ovation.

■Wikipedia, Warsaw Uprising, the opposing forces:
3 thousand rebel guns, against enemy 10 thousand armed force to include Luftwaffe.

When in primary school, I wrote critically about the Uprising. My sentiment was that of an ordinary civilian. I am never going to change my mind: citizen lives were of no matter to those people.

Selectively, a movie may illustrate it. ■Kanał by Andrzej Wajda shows two Home Army paramilitaries as they cater to own fame: Future generations will worship us (ale będą nas czcić przyszłe pokolenia), 0:50 in the ■clip here, or some 0:07:18 in the ■source video on YouTube.

I’ve included my captions with the clip, because the source omits Mokotów and Warsaw city center from translation, and Nazi damage in the areas is the context for the words. ■The Wola slaughter began in the 5th day of the Uprising, which the rebels also knew.

It’s a beautiful world

I’ve been doing this since I don’t know when: with an unpleasant matter, I look for something pleasurable about this world, simply to balance on things.

The Third Commonplace Thing

The national emblem of the Third Rzeczpospolita is now wearing a crown, added after 1989 by the ■Contract Sejm. Citizens were not asked their opinions. There was no general vote on the matter. Poland is the only such eccentric in Europe, to have presidents with a royalist emblem.

The colors remain the same, regular smokestack, roadside, or barber, that is, red and white. The feudal times, those were explained as hues of warning: little opportunity for lasting diplomacy, business and trade.

“Cursed soldiers”

After the Second War, part the Home Army formed anti-government partisan squads. Those mostly raided Polish border villages of ■Eastern Orthodoxy; murdered, robbed, and became the “cursed soldiers”.

There are testimonies. The Institute for National Remembrance has evidence. Activity by ■Romuald Rajs aka Bury qualifies for crimes against humanity.

■Eyewitnesses accounts about Bury may shock, like some end of the world. A man said he saw “the child inside”: he saw his unborn brother in his dying mother being burned. Of Biblical associations, we can read ■here.

■Świadkowie zbrodni „Burego” — YouTube source video

Regardless, March 1st became the “Cursed Soldiers’ Day” in year 2017. A memorial run was organized through Hajnówka, an athletics occasion where the “Cursed” murdered and burned people. Some received distinctions from president Duda.
■Andrzej Duda for Onet

Hajnówka is hometown to Katarzyna Bonda (her real surname), who also has gathered evidence against “Bury”, ■Dziennik PL.

Duda has spoken about the “Cursed” as if feudalism never had been gone:
In Poland today, very many places of power are taken by people whose parents or grandparents actively fought the Cursed Soldiers, within the framework to establish Communism: in short, who were traitors, he told Polish television ■TVP, and got reported over ■Onet.

The dispute over the Cursed Soldiers is a historical encounter, but it also is an encounter on the governance over souls in our country, if the governance over souls is to remain in post-Communist hands. I say — No.

I absolutely cannot and do not identify myself with people as those with the Home Army.

Another quote from Thomas Paine comes to mind, on the King’s Speech, in his Common Sense.

The speech was nothing better than a formal and pompous method of offering up human sacrifices to pride.

The quote is no exaggeration. Andrzej Duda wants to be the first Polish president to wear the ■royal chain of the Order of the White Eagle. King ■Stanisław August Potocki wore it, and Russian ■Romanovs did, ruling over the Russian partition of Poland.
■ Virtual Poland 2019, The Senate began work.

Duda chosen place of residence is the Namiestnikovski palace, the former abode of the tzar-appointed ■Namiestnik. 

“Blame on the USA”

It was in Poland 45-89 that services developed a line about WWII — there would not have been the War, had the USA intervened, so the USA should be blamed.

If there is anybody to be blamed, it is the USA more than Poland. Had our information been heard, they would have gotten involved early, to oppose Hitler. They are guilty more than us.
■Lech Wałęsa blames the USA for World War II
Jeśli ktokolwiek jest winien, to bardziej USA niż Polska. Gdyby słuchano naszych informacji, to by się włączyli i szybko przeciwstawili hitleryzmowi. To oni ponoszą winę większą niż my.

It can be doubted if Wałęsa, Commander in Chief his time, would have a reasonable idea to get on horseback as for Bzura. Poland had a defense agreement with England.

In year 2017, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance stated that Mr. Wałęsa was a secret cooperative in early 1970s.

“Third commonplace thing” legal standards

Year 2007, the Polish Constitution Tribunal revealed their opinion that law was an abstraction. The tribunal is supposed to act as the Supreme Court does in the USA.
The legislative authority consists in making binding norms for conduct that are abstract and general in character. 

Władza ustawodawcza polega na stanowieniu wiążących norm postępowania o charakterze abstrakcyjnym i generalnym.
■Verdict K 55/2007

Year 2015, the Law and Justice party evidently took the law for abstract, making own appointments to that very same judicial body. The party argued, the previous appointments were wrong. The European Union did not agree.
■Constitutional Court crisis 2015 — Wikipedia

Fundamental human rights — The right to live

Year 2002, ■Gazeta Wyborcza published a material on Łódź paramedics and doctors who terminated emergency patients with injections of Pancuronium, a curare mimetic, to get bribe money from a funeral company.

The court verdict resolved that “skin hunters” took 12-70 thousand PLN and murdered 5 people.
■ Wikipedia about Łódź
■ The “skin hunter” movie on YouTube

At that time, a funeral in Poland was about 5 thousand PLN. To get a picture on the Polish zloty in Łódź, a single bedroom flat of some 30 square meters was about 106-117 thousand PLN there.

In business, money that would not calculate for investment, cannot calculate for bribes. The court gave verdicts for 5 murders and 14 cases of exposure to life threatening factors.

An amount of up to 70 thousand PLN is too much money, to promote burial for 19 bodies; moreover, the state threw in for the cost of 5 thousand, and no law imposed the funeral home.

A Swedish documentary indicated there might have been even 20 thousand victims. Wyborcza estimated the corruption scale for some 4 million PLN.

Polish hospitals to use Pancuronium were legally required to record the substance supply and use. Pancuronium was not allowed for patient self-administration. There had to be a medic’s signature. Polish law required autopsies for bodies of people who died within 12 hours, in hospital or on the way to it.

Reportedly, all “skin hunter” victims were emergency patients injected on the way to hospital; therefore, dead within the 12 hours. The discovery of the dealings was yet described as a leak, as if the hospital had no monitoring for medical assets, procedures, or autopsies.
■ Wikipedia , Skin Hunters, Discovery

Despite inconsistencies as above, only four persons got sentenced. One paramedic got 25 years, another a life sentence, two physicians got 5 and 6 years, but both were to be allowed back in the medical profession after 10 years.

The right to property

Early February 2014, the Polish government decided to transfer about 51% of the Pension Open Fund (■OFE) into the social insurance fund ■ZUS, a government pocket. The authorities took over 153 billion PLN citizen cash, to reduce the public debt.

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union was published in 2012.
■European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights

Everyone has the right to own, use, dispose of and bequeath his or her lawfully acquired possessions. No one may be deprived of his or her possessions, except in the public interest and in the cases and under the conditions provided for by law, subject to fair compensation being paid in good time for their loss — European Union Fundamental Charter, Article 17.

The Open Fund allowed money sharing between spouses, or payout after death. ZUS terminated those financial entitlements.

Before they retire, Polish workers have to pay 18% income tax, 9% obligatory health insurance (even if never sick), and about 19.5% obligatory pension fund. All the pockets belong to the government, and the contributions are altogether 46.5% of the earnings.

The right to decide

Poland never ratified the 2002 European Convention on transplants. In 2005, the parliament passed a law that has everyone for a donor. Citizens may register their objections, yet the family have the final say. It is enough a family member states the person spoke with them on the matter.

In the fields of medicine and biology, the following must be respected in particular: the free and informed consent of the person concerned, according to the procedures laid down by law — Article 3, European Union Fundamental Charter.

The right to environmental protection

The Upper Silesia Industrial Area, especially its central part, is an area of advanced environmental degradation. Benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) is proven to be cytoxic, genotoxic, carcinogenic, teratogenic, and immunotoxic, says research published by the ■Polish Journal of Environmental Studies.

In simplest of words, Silesian air infringes on human form already before birth, poisons bodily cells, and plays havoc on immunity as long as you breathe it.

A high level of environmental protection and the improvement of the quality of the environment must be integrated into the policies of the Union and ensured in accordance with the principle of sustainable development — European Union Fundamental Charter, Article 37.

When I was leaving Poland in 2004, ■Kłodnica waters were black and thick with industrial waste. An air monitoring research showed abundant airborne pollutants already in 1994. Cumulative risk of malicious cancer was estimated for Silesia at about 20%, ■Bulletin 2010.

An ecology report for 2014 estimated the number of pollution fatalities in Poland at 46 thousand and 20 people. Brussels environmentalists are critical, but in Poland this criticism has been interpreted for censure on Polish products.

When the European Parliament voted on cadmium limits for soil enrichment in 2017, Polish media would complain about European favoritism for Russian sources, yet Onet would not provide data to justify the phrase “prohibitive limitation”.
■ Onet PNG image, Resolves unfavorable to Polish chemistry
Niekorzystne rozstrzygnięcia dla polskiej chemii

“It is unlawful, but it is good, if Polish”?

Year 2017, twenty of European Union member states agreed to create the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO). Public prosecution could work without individual complainants bringing the legal matter to court.

Poland declined. Prime Minister Beata Szydło said the office would only duplicate other institutions in Poland, which was a lie. The Law and Justice Party voted against Polish participation.

“They must be joking”

It has happened a few times so far, that looking at the Polish reality I thought “they must be joking”. It happened in year 2015, when I saw a clip about the Polish leftist (■SLD) candidate for President, Magdalena Ogórek, a woman to have met all requirement for the colloquial Polish phrase, “a blonde with big eyes” (as different from a woman of wit).

Well, SLD derives from the Polish United Workers Party, PZPR, and there was the Central Committee. You did not have country Presidents. You had party first secretaries, who were all male. Here’s ■short clip about Ms. Ogórek.

“Stork the wrong place”

This must have been my case, the stork probably had flu, and ornithologists recognize flu as a factor of influence in all flying animals.

Polish “national love” has happened to be invoked as a factor for adaptive accommodation, yet if there has ever been anything universal about the feeling known as love, it is that everyone in a way loves oneself. This can be a good idea, if considered wisely.

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If the Polish culture results from the discord you can see between religious teaching and life, especially of Providence or destiny versus the Polish historic reality, where God wouldn’t have looked to many Poles on September 1st 1939; or if it is a backlash of practice for profit by government, ■quangocracy to be another name then — it must be the state treasury to limit on “national loving”, any time and anywhere on Earth.

A republic

A republican form of government has been of proved merit, for living with reasonable ideas for affect, of course. A charter of rights is very important too. We may compare the French republic (though ■the President fancies the title of an Andorran prince, it is not an office by the French state):

■The French Declaration of Rights is a solemn declaration of rights natural, nonexpendable and sacred, of a human being. I have made ■my translation because the ■generally available text in Polish would be making motivation as by French people all too astounding.

Polish ■Wikisource lays out, civil liberties in France have been reserved to members of religious communities: you can do all that does not harm your bliźni, and the word belongs with profession of faith.

Another such astounding case would be Americans, to imply dynasties in the preamble straight. ■Polish Sejm has this reference.

The translator used a phrase that means “our children and our children’s children” in Polish, naszego potomstwa, whereas the proper form is nam potomnych, our posterity (my translation is ■here, in bilingual posters too; I have been planning the Constitution for the grammatical article and speech part in my grammar, ■here).

For my ideas and criticism on the Polish Constitution, feel welcome to read the ■Constructive Criticism. I want to change my citizenship anyway.

Polish soldiers’ oath might be used to say that no change is possible, because Rzeczpospolita is named there. However, the sense of the word is Poland, the country; soldiers do not have to define or understand Rzeczpospolita otherwise than Poland.

Poland can be a real republic, and not a paragon for mistranslation: the practiced translation for the Polish-Lithuanian Rzeczpospolita was Res Publica Poloniae, omitting Lithuania from the Latin, affirms Wikipedia on the tradition.

Language

I keep my affect for language. It is by no means guilty of the culture, and I would be a linguist wherever I would have been born.

■Emily Dickinson’s poetry, my edition with a reasonable amount of dashes
■Emily Dickinson’s poetry in my translation to Polish

■This text is also available in Polish.