Warsaw. Judges suspended by decree, gates locked and chained, police standing guard outside the building, the opposition calling it a straight-up coup, the court itself calling it a coup, and the President having to turn his plane around mid-flight and rush back from Africa because his own country’s highest court was being taken over while he was still in the air.
Tusk waited until President Nawrocki had left the country before making his move to take over the Constitutional Court. I’ve seen politicians arrested for a lot less.
Thousands of people are out there right now holding rosaries and praying, only to be branded extremists for standing outside their own court. And Tusk, the man who spent years living in Brussels before coming home promising to restore the rule of law, now says it will be painful and there’s no other way. In other words, you’ll do as you’re told.
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This is exactly what they mean when they talk about the rule of law. What they really mean is the rule of Brussels. The same EU that spent years lecturing Poland and Hungary about judicial independence, while the European Court of Justice comes up with doctrines as it goes along.
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Poland voted for border control over quotas and national interests over being dragged into someone else’s endless war with Russia. Brussels never accepted that. They simply bided their time, found a compliant puppet in Tusk and started dismantling anything that looked like an independent Polish state.
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To them, national sovereignty is nothing more than a temporary inconvenience on the road to ever closer union.
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This isn’t partnership. It’s occupation by paperwork and coppers. And if they can pull this off in Warsaw, with police outside the country’s highest court and judges suspended, don’t think for a second they wouldn’t try the same thing here if they had the chance.
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