Rule of law [What Think Tanks are thinking]

There is no chance of getting a balanced view from this lot. I have read many papers regarding Poland and I do not recall any of them giving a balanced view.

Let me take you back to the Smolensk air crash, in which 96 people died including the Polish president Lech Kaczynski. UK government scientists have now — according to press leaks in Poland — have corroborated the findings of Polish government forensics experts that hundreds of pieces of debris show extensive contamination with residue from RDX high explosives. This explains why passenger door 2 was explosively blown out (embedding 1.5 metres into the ground) 500 metres before the plane crashed upside down. Blown out together with the door were human intestines and small body parts such as hands. People were blown to pieces.

At no times was there the merest whisper of discomfort about this from the same NGOs as cited above or from EU bodies or EU Member States. And yet the satellite images themselves show that the plane was disintegrating in mid-air.

Donald Tusk’s investigators found it was largely pilot error, as was first relayed by his camp within 15 minutes of the crash. You can view a Sky News interview with world-renowned air crash investigator Frank Taylor on this subject. It’s available on YouTube. The plane had recently been overhauled in Russia, with just one Polish security guard in place.

Rule of law issues? None whatsoever.

Next issue is the illegal mass importation of fuel into Poland by the Russian mafia in a scam that cost the Polish state EUR 20 billion. Customs were told by the “independent” public prosecutors that the hundreds of road tankers were to be waved through because it had been authorized at the highest level. ABW (Polish Internal Security Agency) reported direct to Donald Tusk in writing that it was most probably a Kremlin-directed operation aimed at harming strategic Polish interests in the shape of major fuel distributors. Tusk decided to take no action. On average 600 fuel tankers crossed the border daily, tariff-free.

Rule of law issues? None whatsoever.

The property restitution scandal, worth billions. One murder — of tenants’ rights activist Jola Brzeska — took place where the police refused to investigate until all evidence had been destroyed. There was a direct link to the murder of Hélène Pastor in Monaco. To cut a very long story short – in 1989 (unlike in the Czech Republic) the post-Communists refused to return property that the Communists had stolen. 70% of it was subsequently acquired cheaply by the post-Communists, but much remained out of their grasp in the form of social housing. Donald Tusk passed special legislation that enabled a huge property scandal to take place involving falsus procurator representing “living heirs” aged 120+ to regain possession of their property thanks to corrupt city officials supplying fake documents and corrupt judges stamping everything without checking. 50,000 social housing tenants were evicted fraudulently this way by judges in Warsaw and billions of euros in property changes hands for pennies. Even the Liberal Mayor of Warsaw swiped a Holocaust asset worth EUR 20 million. Overturning these decisions is a legal nightmare and the judges are siding with corrupt judge colleagues at every step of the way.

Rule of law issues? None whatsoever. And moreover the news agencies Reuters and Associated Press refused to cover the explosive Jola Brzeska story. The BBC reporter Mark Easton also failed to cover the story.

I could expand evn further, but I think that even with this brief overview you can see how skewed NGO coverage is of rule of law issues in Poland.

Literally, I could provide more insight into rule of law issues if I got together with a few of my friends in a pub and wrote down their thoughts on back of the pub menu. Some of them are far better informed than me.