"This is an effort to make from the prosecutor's office thoughts". Karina Bosak about “talk of hate”: you want people to go to jail for their views

– 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 prosecution a real "police of thought" She spoke in the Sejm on Thursday during the debate on the introduction of penalties for the alleged hatred speech by Karina Bosak (Confederation).

The politician recalled that the coalition on 13 December wants to arbitrarily add 4 fresh features protected: age, gender, disability and sexual orientation. She then pointed out that 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 in this task do not have specified possible or justification. They will be straight a tool of oppression for the freedom of speech of each of us on the street, in the press, in the media, in universities, in the net and in schools She stressed.

– The direct consequence of the introduction of extended criminality for alleged hatred speech will be the criminalization of the expression of politically incorrect views containing conservative, free and Christian thesis contrary to the programme of groups representing these fresh features. Their separation in the codex is in fact 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 go to jail for their beliefs. This is already happening in another EU countries, which have continued on the way of expected progress. This is creating a fresh totalitarianism, due to the fact that due to the improvement of social media expressing our views each of us will be able to become a criminal, or will feel harassed Mr Confederate continued.

In the opinion of politics, the fresh law, if voted by the Sejm, will not contact haters who can be prosecuted from another paragraphs, but average citizens who want to think bravely. – What is more, punishing citizens is expected to be more severe than in the current wording of the penal code, due to the fact that you besides want to include these conditions in the catalogue of general directives on punishment. While the offense of insulting or defamation concerns claims that are offensive or untrue for speech of hatred can besides be convicted of telling the fact and regardless of our intentions, due to the fact that it is adequate that individual subjectively considers our comment offensive. This poses a direct threat to freedom of expression and freedom of public debate, which should be a space for free communication, in which the most crucial criterion is to search and express the fact even at the expense of offending others. – she noted.

– Protected groups are most frequently those with the top political influence. We do not want sacred cows – groups whose ideas will be taken out of sound criticism. We request a free, wise, mature and courageous debate. And we have the right to argue about ideas and morality. The Confederate is against this project, and I so request that it be rejected in its entirety “Karina Bosak concluded.

Source: sejm.gov.pl

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