“No one has any doubts that the migration route through Belarus to Poland is an artificial path created by the Belarusian services.”
There would be nothing special about this statement if not for who made this obvious remark: Marcin Kierwiński, a Civic Platform (PO) politician, the minister of internal affairs in Poland’s left-liberal coalition government.
“We are starting the process of strengthening the barrier at the border,” Kierwiński boasted during an interview with Polish tabloid Super Express, adding, “We have to do this because this procedure of migration instrumentalization will be with us for many years.”
Even in Polish speech, so rich in blunt, expressive, and vulgar words, it is impossible to find an epithet adequate to such hypocrisy and insolence shown by Tusk’s man in the interior ministry.
Kierwiński claims that everyone knows these are not refugees but economic migrants, or “poor people looking for their place on Earth” as Donald Tusk called them while he was in opposition. The interior minister now admits that migrants at the Polish border are there due to the “artificial migration route” created by Russia and the belligerent Belarus, and that instead of hosting them with pizza and surrounding them with love, migrants need to be stopped and the barrier strengthened.
So, why did Mr. Kierwiński and his party, along with its principal, until recently vote against the construction of the barrier he now wishes to strengthen?
Some people, including the previous conservative administration and its voters, have known about the migration crisis for many years and sought to implement measures to address it — no thanks to the Civic Platform.
I am now waiting for a new version of the famous and award-winning film by Ms. Holland, Green Border, (perhaps a so-called director’s cut) depicting a brave Tusk and his team as they defend the borders of the homeland and the Union against Putin’s emissaries.
In the movie, Tusk would presumably seek to frame his government as the patriots saving the country while accusing the traitorous Law and Justice party of plotting and slandering them as much as it can, undermining the good name and purposefulness of state services, and demanding condemnation of Tusk’s brave actions from Berlin and Brussels.
Unfortunately for Tusk, however, such a movie could only be the reality in a parallel universe.
