“Let’s be clear – you want people to go to prison for their views”

MP Karina Bosak in the Sejm, 19 December 2024.

– The fresh law proposed by the government will be a modern censorship of those who have the courage to think and search fact in the themes that are inactive the subject of debate.

The thought of regulating the debate with a penal code is simply a violent intention and creates with the prosecutors actual police thoughts. You want to arbitrarily add 4 fresh protected features – age, gender, disability and sexual orientation.

From media reports, we know that the subject of sexuality and sexuality is now flowing across all areas of social life. We request an open debate on this, in which votes for and against will be cast. The rules on alleged hatred crimes are a post-war solution. The description of the alleged protected features was due to the experience of war and the possible to origin bloody conflicts against religious, racial, national and cultural backgrounds. The reasons added by this task do not have specified possible or justification. They will be a direct tool of oppression for the freedom of speech of each of us. In the street, in the press, in the media, in colleges, online and in schools.

The direct effect of the extended criminality for the alleged hatred speech will be to criminalize the expression of politically incorrect views containing conservative, freedom and Christian thesis – contrary to the programme of groups representing these fresh features. The separation of them in the codex is actually entering left-wing views into the law and involving law enforcement to force them all over society.

Let's face it-- You want people to be punished and sent to prison for their views.. This is already happening in another European Union countries, which have continued on the way of expected progress.

It's creating a fresh totalitarianism.Because due to the improvement of social media, expressing our views, each of us will be able to become a criminal or feel sedated. due to the fact that this law will not primarily affect those typical haters who can be prosecuted from another paragraphs, but will affect average citizens who want to think bravely.

Moreover, the punishment of citizens is to be more severe than in the current wording of the penal codebecause you besides want to enter these conditions in the catalogue of general directives on penalties. While the offense of insulting or defamation concerns claims that are offensive or false, For speaking hate, you can besides be convicted of telling the truth And regardless of our intentions, it's adequate that individual subjectively finds our comment offensive.

This poses a direct threat to freedom of expression and freedom of public debatewhich should be a space of free communication, whose most crucial criterion is to search and express the truth, even at the expense of offending others.

Protected groups are most frequently those with the top political influence. We don't want holy cows, groups whose ideas will be taken out of honest criticism. We request a free wise, mature and courageous debate. And we have the right to argue about the thought and the morality.

The Confederacy is against this project, and I so request that it be rejected in its entirety.