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Time to take a stance.
9 years ago
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For a long time I avoided speaking about politics, but now things are going a little too far.
You might have seen some news about Poland on TV. Yesterday we had massive protests against limiting press freedom and breaking law by the ruling party (voting on next year's budget was moved to another room - what is illegal - because a lot of MPs protested against plans to limit journalists' access to parliament building).
But IMHO it's not the worst thing that government does something illegally - it's nothing new in Poland, previous government refused to rise income tax threshold and signed ACTA despite Constitutional Court's opinions ;3
The worst thing is, how harmful ideas this government is able to push through illegally.
Today, on December 17th, I took part in a protest against Polish government's plans regarding "Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence". They want to cancel ratification of this act by Poland, believing that laws against domestic violence are attacking Polish tradition and culture. And believing that this act promotes "gender ideology" - whatever it can be.
If things will go this way and nobody will stop government from doing such evil, Poland will become a place where domestic violence is considered an internal issue of every family, because "children are parents' property blah blah blah", where you can force your child to undergo "correctional therapy" for being gay, or even - like in e.g. Idaho - where you can refuse medical treatment to your child because of your religious reasons, and nobody will give a fuck.
(In fact, the last thing already began - our public TV invited anti-vaccination activists to one of their programmes, to let them spreading their unscientific, ignorant views on vaccines and encouraging parents to dodge public immunisation programs.)
There's maybe less acceptance for violence against women, but still - there are situations when harrassed women are shunned by their conservative faimilies for seeking rescue from their abusive husbands, and have no money to find new home for them and their kids - especially in smaller towns. They need complex social, psychological and lawyer's help - and repealing the act may make providing them such help harder.
And this is not first - and probably not last - thing this government can destroy until next elections.
Earlier, they tried to ban abortion even in case of rape or danger to women's health, but massive protests kept them from doing this.
Later, they changed the assembly law - now, the demonstrations orgainsed by the government and the church will have higher priority to be registered. This time, protests didn't help - just as protests against support in EP for CETA, which is dangerous to our agriculture and food market.
Now, they are speaking about planning to limit access to porn sites. With strict enough interpretation of what "porn site" means, it may turn out that me and other Polish furry artists will have to officially ask our ISP for access to FA.
And lots of ruling party members and supporters speak in favor of returning to compulsory military service for males. To "make men the real men", of course.
As in favor of law banning "homosexual propaganda", similar to the Russian law, too.
Will our protests help in any of the new cases? NOBODY knows. But it doesn't mean we shouldn't try :)
Stay safe, and wish us the same here :) *hugs*
You might have seen some news about Poland on TV. Yesterday we had massive protests against limiting press freedom and breaking law by the ruling party (voting on next year's budget was moved to another room - what is illegal - because a lot of MPs protested against plans to limit journalists' access to parliament building).
But IMHO it's not the worst thing that government does something illegally - it's nothing new in Poland, previous government refused to rise income tax threshold and signed ACTA despite Constitutional Court's opinions ;3
The worst thing is, how harmful ideas this government is able to push through illegally.
Today, on December 17th, I took part in a protest against Polish government's plans regarding "Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence". They want to cancel ratification of this act by Poland, believing that laws against domestic violence are attacking Polish tradition and culture. And believing that this act promotes "gender ideology" - whatever it can be.
If things will go this way and nobody will stop government from doing such evil, Poland will become a place where domestic violence is considered an internal issue of every family, because "children are parents' property blah blah blah", where you can force your child to undergo "correctional therapy" for being gay, or even - like in e.g. Idaho - where you can refuse medical treatment to your child because of your religious reasons, and nobody will give a fuck.
(In fact, the last thing already began - our public TV invited anti-vaccination activists to one of their programmes, to let them spreading their unscientific, ignorant views on vaccines and encouraging parents to dodge public immunisation programs.)
There's maybe less acceptance for violence against women, but still - there are situations when harrassed women are shunned by their conservative faimilies for seeking rescue from their abusive husbands, and have no money to find new home for them and their kids - especially in smaller towns. They need complex social, psychological and lawyer's help - and repealing the act may make providing them such help harder.
And this is not first - and probably not last - thing this government can destroy until next elections.
Earlier, they tried to ban abortion even in case of rape or danger to women's health, but massive protests kept them from doing this.
Later, they changed the assembly law - now, the demonstrations orgainsed by the government and the church will have higher priority to be registered. This time, protests didn't help - just as protests against support in EP for CETA, which is dangerous to our agriculture and food market.
Now, they are speaking about planning to limit access to porn sites. With strict enough interpretation of what "porn site" means, it may turn out that me and other Polish furry artists will have to officially ask our ISP for access to FA.
And lots of ruling party members and supporters speak in favor of returning to compulsory military service for males. To "make men the real men", of course.
As in favor of law banning "homosexual propaganda", similar to the Russian law, too.
Will our protests help in any of the new cases? NOBODY knows. But it doesn't mean we shouldn't try :)
Stay safe, and wish us the same here :) *hugs*
*sighs and hugs*
So even if they will do exactly the same (or be even more corrupted and nepotistic xD), they gained great support from poor people, and they probably will vote them next time, so we will have to go through this shit forever xd
Anyone who refuses medical treatment for their child should be charged with child neglect and "correctional therapy" with child abuse.
So, domestic violence == tradition and culture. Yeah, so is forcing your children to marry who you want rather than who they want and killing them if they don't. That doesn't mean it should be legal or ethical.
Apparently bad governments are common across countries as we also have our own set of problems with them as well.
(no offence to furs who live in Idaho, it's not your fault that this state is well known as a safe haven to Christian Science and other antimedical cults - it's fault of Otter, Heider, and other stupid people ruling this state who support this barbaric law pushed through during dark ages of Nixon ;3)
But knowing "our" ruling party's attitude to European Union (taking money is OK, but fulfilling any recommendations - nope), and seeing what's actually going on here, I seriously can't be sure that there is any border of stupidity this government is not able to cross :D
I'm especially alarmed with that interview with anti-vaxxers in public TV, it never happened before. People here sometimes trust everything they hear on TV or Youtube, and I'm afraid the vaccination rate may drop dramatically, what can cause a future outbreak of serious diseases (as outbreaks of polio and measles among Amish in US). :/
I agree with you, just because someone thinks that violence, abuse, mutilation (like FGM) or neglect is good for his/her child, doesn't mean it should be legal because "parents know better what to do". Being a parent doesn't make anyone expert in every field including medical sciences, I don't know where ultra-conservatives found reason for this crazy view. xd
If only thing PO can offer, is treating people like rubbish POish way instead of treating people like rubbish PiSish way, then I'm not sure if it's a really good alternative xd