Only if you want to see how tyranny is made:
"Polish scandal may push up elections" New York Times June 20, 2014
Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland warned Thursday that he might be forced to call early elections if a scandal over secretly taped conversations of senior government officials continued to escalate.
“If the crisis of confidence becomes too deep, perhaps the only way out will be early elections,” he said in a hastily organized news conference on the morning of a major national holiday, the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi, when government offices are normally dormant.
The news conference came after a tense scene Wednesday in the offices of Wprost, the weekly newspaper that published transcripts of the conversations last weekend. Polish security agents raided the paper’s offices and demanded the personal laptop of the top editor, Sylwester Latkowski, saying it might contain the evidence they need in their investigation of who made the illegal recordings.
The editor refused and called on other Polish journalists for support. After a standoff that lasted for hours, the security agents left without the laptop.
Tusk criticized the raid and said it had been conducted without his knowledge. He also indicated that he may reconsider whether to dismiss his interior minister, Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz, who was recorded on at least one of the tapes and who is in charge of the investigation.
Interesting that the article never exactly tells you what was said.
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Oh, they must not have heard the tape yet:
"Polish opposition aims to remove bank official in tape flap; Pressure mounts after failed vote of no confidence" by Piotr Skolimowski and David McQuaid | Bloomberg News June 27, 2014
WARSAW — Poland’s opposition will start a legislative procedure to remove central bank Governor Marek Belka after Prime Minister Donald Tusk survived a vote of confidence triggered by a scandal over leaked recordings.
Looks like sausage and politics are made of $cums and bums.
With less than one-third of Parliament’s 460 seats, Law and Justice will seek the legislature’s support for the motion to bring the governor before the State Tribunal, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the opposition party’s leader, told reporters in Warsaw on Friday. Kaczynski didn’t say when it will be filed and whether it has the support of other parties in Parliament.
The opposition is trying to ratchet up pressure after the ruling coalition won a confidence motion in Tusk’s government by 34 votes late Wednesday. Poland’s longest-serving prime minister since the fall of communism 25 years ago has sought to douse the crisis sparked by secret recordings of officials, including ministers and the central bank governor.
What, they don't like all their information and communications being swept up?
How deliciously ironic in the early 21st-century. I love $tinky $au$age hypocrites.
‘‘This scandal showed the truth about this government and we’ll keep bringing it up until elections, whenever they may come,’’ Kaczynski said. ‘‘We won’t let it be swept under the carpet.’’
Acting like a blogger.
An absolute majority of lawmakers must support the motion for it to pass. Tusk’s coalition controls 235 votes in the lower house of Parliament, 32 of which belong to the Peasants Party.
Wow, Peasants have their own party in Poland?
The special tribunal, which is empowered to rule on constitutional questions, reviews activities of state officials.
Law and Justice also filed a motion for what’s known as a constructive vote of no confidence in the government, which may be put for a vote as early as next month, he said.
Belka said in an interview published Wednesday that he wasn’t planning to step down as central bank governor and vowed to keep the scandal from knocking monetary policy off track.
So what did he say?
Przemyslaw Kuk, a central bank spokesman, declined to comment on Law and Justice’s motion, saying that a statement may be published later Thursday. Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska, a government spokeswoman, wasn’t available to comment.
The rift over the taping scandal is jeopardizing the political stability brought by Tusk, who in 2011 became the first Polish premier to win a second term since 1989. He’s said the recordings were carried out by a ‘‘criminal group’’ intent on destabilizing the country.
That's going to be tough after he went to the trouble of having the previous guy assassinated and Poland is such a big link in U.S projection power forward into Russia.
Warsaw prosecutors charged two more suspects with complicity in illegal eavesdropping, according to a statement on their website. There was a lack of evidence that they participated in organized crime alongside two men who were charged earlier, it said.
Hate to say it, but it is looking like Jewish mafia pressure is being brought to bear.
Tusk argued Wednesday that he needed the vote of confidence to be certain that he had a ‘‘mandate’’ to be effective in talks at a European Union summit on energy security in Brussels Thursday.
The crisis erupted on June 14 after Wprost magazine published secretly recorded and expletive-laced conversations of central bank Belka discussing with Interior Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz steps to boost the economy and help the government win elections.
The suspects detained are linked to coal distributors and importers, Tusk said Wednesday. The scandal must be viewed in the ‘‘context’’ of the unrest in neighboring Ukraine and the trading of Russian gas, he said.
It is as I suspected. Which state intelligence agencies would be able to get their hands on that recording, and why the vagueness regarding what is at the end (or bottom) of it all?
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I still don't know what is in there, do you?
