Commissioned fuss, real fear?

Marian Miszalski

The proxy of the families of six Smolensk victims put forward to the public prosecutor the motion to question the Minister of National Defence Bogdan Klich (who is a professional psychiatrist). In February 2010, almost three months before the plane crash at Smolensk Minister Klich made a document in which he wrote that the aircraft equipment, which was at the disposal of the unit responsible for official visits and which was subordinate to him, was not suitable for use. The question arises, ‘why was this ‘equipment’, which ‘was not suitable for use’, at the disposal of the Chancellery of the President when he wanted to visit Katyn?’… It is not the only question to the Minister who – by the way – was not in the famous ‘Shadow Cabinet’ of the Civic Platform, and consequently, whose appointment arose understandable curiosity and concern of the more sagacious commentators because it was a too important function to be given to laics; in addition, the reasons for his nomination being unclear. There is another important question, ‘Why didn’t this visit receive proper, extraordinary care, considering the fact that ‘the equipment was not suitable for use’?...
It is hard to say whether the prosecutor’s office will accept this extremely relevant motion or will acknowledge it as of little importance (‘The policeman, in duties of office well-grounded’, answers Telimena in ‘Master Thaddeus’, when the poor district officer had to recognise her house dog as ‘pregnant doe’ being commanded by he Tsar’s Jaeger-master Kozodusin). It is very likely in the contemporary ‘democratic legal state’, governed by the Civic Platform…
Therefore, it was good that honest MPs created a parliamentary committee, which would deal with documentation and – not ruled out – and which would explain many frustrating, outrageous and unclear circumstances of the crash at Smolensk as well as the circumstances preceding the crash, the aversion of the government of Donald Tusk to take over the investigation and finally, the official investigation itself, with is full of ambiguity and contradiction.
Yet one can see that the Civic Platform is very much afraid of this committee. At first, some parliamentary Civic Platform clown for special tasks wanted to join the committee, having in mind one aim: to discredit its functioning. When he was refused to join the committee (and then compress and caress, and understanding that you are an idiot – as Konstanty I. Galczynski wrote about similar cases of tomfoolery) the leading politicians of the Civic Platform resorted to the repertoire that they learnt from ‘the older brothers-politruks’ from the former Democratic Union: to wonder whether this committee is needed, that it will not explain anything but will only ‘politicise’ this tragedy; to talk balderdash, almost the same, which they were ordered to talk against the vetting, decommunisation or against the trials to tell the truth about the ‘round table.’ The favourite repertoire of these propagandists-political commissars includes vilifying and discrediting courageous and competent people; those who have strong characters: they are most afraid of these people because they are their oppositions. Consequently, when they failed to put their clown for special tasks into the committee so that he would discredit it, they began attacking the chairman of the committee Mr Antoni Maciarewicz, saying that they would accept anyone but him… Well, he got to know the ‘environment of the Workers’ Defence Committee’ well; he has spotless, long involvement in the opposition movement during the period of the Polish People’s Republic; he is an experienced politician, the former minister of internal affairs; he has large knowledge of the secret services of the Polish People’s Republic and their roles in today’s Poland…Undoubtedly, he is better in this role as the chairman of the committee than e.g. Minister Klich in his post, than ‘the main advisor in economic matters of Prime Minister Tusk’, Michal Boni, who has a degree in cultural studies, or the leading commissars of the Civic Platform who we can watch on TV speaking hatred about everything that disturbs this condition of possessing of ‘the elite of the «round table».’
Well… As Julian Tuwim wrote, ‘How many cats are out of the bag, how many activists came out of…’, one knows of what. Those will speak most loudly against the truth and honesty: they must deserve and ‘be visible in the media.’ Otherwise they would not exist at all…
Recently Prof. Zdzislaw Krasnodebski wrote in ‘Rzeczpospolita’ what millions of Poles would like to say, ‘The truth is simple and shocking: the moral and political responsibility for the crash at Smolensk falls on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his government, and especially on the Minister of National Defence Bogdan Klich and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski.’ Nobody will hold them morally responsible in this world but they have a terrible fear of political responsibility. For those ‘total thinkers’, let them pretend to be liberals, all things constitute politics and politics seems to exhaust their interests totally. Therefore, there is not much space left for the truth and morality…

"Niedziela" 35/2010

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