If I see the root of hope in something, it is that the regime, along with its "insubordinate" propaganda, seems to not realize the opposition so much that this propaganda hits the barrier with a blind ball. They can only convince the convinced, but they will no longer gain fresh followers.
This propaganda is frequently about attacking opposition leaders – that Kiev is specified and Rzeplinski is different, and Lis is different. They most likely think we're just like them.
They think we're going out on the street, too, due to the fact that any CEO or Padre Direttore is calling us. If they can compromise them, their appeals will halt working on us. I think that's how they image it.
Of course, this can't work due to the fact that for me, as for a large part of the opposition, personality doesn't matter. I do not mean that Prof. Rzeplinski is any kind of my beloved leader – I mean that the Constitutional Court should not be subordinate to the president or the Parliament.
The same with public media – it is not that I peculiarly value Tomasz Lisa. I don't watch it 'cause I'm bored with this kind of publicity. I mean, public media should not be subject to the government.
Finally, it is the same with defending democracy. I don't think she's in danger due to the fact that Matthew Kiev convinced me to. Personally, he wouldn't even convince me to buy an iPhone. I believe that it is threatened due to the fact that the Law and Justice have been breaking various democratic principles from the start, specified as consultation of laws or vacatio legis.
My beliefs are independent of who's in charge. If the organization Together came to power, I would besides want its activities to be restricted by the Constitutional Court, and no substance how much I would like to see the "Szpro live" program, I would not want the host to be brought to Voronica in an alizarin folder.
I go to these demonstrations reluctantly due to the fact that I don't like going to demonstrations at all. The very thought of choral chanting passwords contradicts my individualism.
Why didn't I go to demonstrations erstwhile Platform was doing something I didn't like? And I didn't like quite a few things, even though the blog people can remember my very critical lyrics in “Gazeta” and on the blog about the power boost, let alone my views on economical policy.
Only, at least in erstwhile governments, I did not feel threatened by my right to compose critically about them. Or in the law to support opposition groups specified as Greens or Together.
So I felt that I had this comfort, that I could protest by tapping my keyboard. But I don't gotta go to manifestations due to the fact that I truly hatred it. Now I've lost that comfort.
All constitutional freedoms – freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of assembly and so on – are only worth as much as the Constitutional Court can defend them. By subjugating the Court, the power has already taken distant these freedoms from us, due to the fact that now there is nothing to prevent the adoption of laws contrary to them.
That's why we gotta protest. And to be glad they don't realize the reason for the protest, so the regime's propaganda can't do anything.
