Posted on 07/25/2007 11:07:17 PM PDT by tetuhe1898
July 30, 2007 issue - For a European politician, Andrzej Lepper always cut an unlikely figure. Over the years, the Polish deputy prime minister has been convicted of slander and assault. Allegations of an attempted rape of a prostitute (which he refuses to comment on) and taking part in a sex-for-jobs scam (which he denies) have been widely reported in the press. Then two weeks ago Lepper, leader of the populist Self Defence Party, a junior partner in the ruling coalition, was forced from his job over allegations of bribery (which Lepper also denied): a black mark for a government supposed to be leading a moral revolution.
So what's new? True, the latest rumpus threatens to bring down the government, but in recent years Polish politics has regularly provided a troubling show of turbulence. Under the rule of identical twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski—president and prime minister, respectively, and founders of the Law and Justice party—the country has assumed an outsize importance in the affairs of the European Union. Up to 2 million of its young have headed West to take jobs elsewhere in the bloc, while leaders have alienated their EU counterparts with a macho disregard for diplomatic niceties, reviving decades-old grievances and blocking the tidy compromises the Union requires to function.
Such behavior is winning Poland few friends at a time when the EU is still struggling to work through the implications of its grand 2004 expansion and devise a common foreign policy to meet the challenges of a newly assertive Russia (the president ruffled feathers in Europe and Russia last week by signaling approval of a U.S. missile base in Poland during a visit to Washington). While some Poles feel a visceral link to their leaders' prejudices, their fellow Europeans don't.
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Make no mistake, the EU dictators are working feverishly behind the scenes to get these two men out.
They are the only ones left in Europe who are standing against the EU mandated flood of socialism & moral filth.
Sounds like Bubba may have found a cohort with this Lepper character. Should Lepper be driven from office, maybe they could run the “circuit” together. Hopefully they’ll ask Teddy to drive...
England seems to have really gone over the top. Now they are forcing families to give up their children to adoption for all sorts of reasons mainly made up by social workers.
This is sick and perverted.
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