Blinken Dresses Down America’s Polish Colony — Must Adhere to “Shared” Values to be Determined by the US
"Our shared values are our mutual security"
“We are deeply concerned that Poland’s parliament passed legislation today severely restricting the process for Holocaust survivors and their families, as well as other Jewish and non-Jewish property owners, to obtain restitution for property wrongfully confiscated during Poland’s communist era,” Blinken said in a statement on Wednesday.
He urged Polish President Andrzej Duda not to sign the bill into law “or that, in line with the authority granted to him as President, he refer the bill to Poland’s constitutional tribunal.”
We are troubled by legislation passed in Poland severely restricting restitution for Holocaust survivors and owners of property confiscated during the Communist era, and draft legislation that would gravely weaken media freedom. Our shared values are our mutual security.
— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) August 11, 2021
Critics say the law, which introduces a statute of limitations on claims for the restitution of property, would make it harder for Jews to recover property seized by Poland’s Nazi German occupiers during the Holocaust and kept by the country’s postwar communist rulers.
Mr Blinken – 2 clarifications.
1. The US requires that Poland return heirless property owned by Jewish people killed during the war. Such an act would be unlawful.
2. Yes, I also find the new media legislation unacceptable although the US owned TV station is utterly biased.— Zbigniew J (@Z_from_Poland) August 12, 2021
“A comprehensive law for resolving confiscated property claims is needed to provide some measure of justice for victims,” Blinken said in his statement.
“Such a law would benefit many Polish citizens, as well as people who were forced to leave Poland during and after World War II and who subsequently became naturalized citizens of other countries,” he added.
“Until such a law is enacted, the pathway to compensation should not be closed for new claims or those pending decisions in administrative courts,” according to Blinken’s statement.
To be more precise – It is worth remembering that Jan Karski came to you and asked for help, providing information about the Holocaust. And Poles had to help the Jews themselves, risking their lives for years – I recommend the story of the Ulma family.https://t.co/G5eFaNPlRU
— Patryk Jaki – MEP (@PatrykJaki) August 12, 2021
Earlier this year, the Polish legislation drew an angry response from Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who labeled it a “disgrace.”
Israel in June summoned Polish ambassador Marek Magierowski to express its “deep disappointment” over the Polish bill. [Fairly rich of Tel Aviv to complain in the light of the state of Arab property (and graveyards) in the Jewish settler state.]
Magierowski responded to criticism with a series of English-language tweets defending the bill and saying that it would put an end to “wild reprivatization,” uncertainty and the prospect of eviction for families who “legally acquired their homes.”
The amendment to the Polish Code of Administrative Procedure: an explanatory thread. With some historical background and – this time – in English. #WW2 #Restitution #Holocaust ⬇️
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— Marek Magierowski (@mmagierowski) June 28, 2021
Imagine a house in Warsaw. Burnt out and abandoned in 1945. Before the German occupation six families had lived in this place. One of them was Jewish. Some tenants perished, some were deported to concentration camps, some others fled the persecution.
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— Marek Magierowski (@mmagierowski) June 28, 2021
Shortly after the war the house was nationalised by communists. Two new families moved in. Then three more. Some of them had lost their own property in eastern Poland, now part of the Soviet Union. And never received compensation.
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— Marek Magierowski (@mmagierowski) June 28, 2021
Births, weddings, funerals. Precarious lives under communist dictatorship. Generation after generation.
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— Marek Magierowski (@mmagierowski) June 28, 2021
Then comes freedom. In 1990 local authorities offer the remaining occupants a deal: you can purchase your flats, at a reasonable price. Most eagerly agree. New sewage system is installed. Roof mended, windows replaced, furniture updated.
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— Marek Magierowski (@mmagierowski) June 28, 2021
Then comes a surprise. In 2005 a law firm representing prewar proprietors suddenly pops up. They demand for the premises to be vacated and returned to the legitimate owners.
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— Marek Magierowski (@mmagierowski) June 28, 2021
Lots of similar claims – predominantly in Warsaw. Some of them straightforward and transparent. But many others dubious, to say the least. Some ownership certificates are missing, some documents are forged. Fertile ground for egregious real estate scams.
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— Marek Magierowski (@mmagierowski) June 28, 2021
The so-called “wild reprivatisation” leads to utter chaos. Mafia-like entities control large part of the real estate market. Organised white-collar crime thrives.
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— Marek Magierowski (@mmagierowski) June 28, 2021
After 45 years of communist rule, and more than 30 years since democratic transition, people who had never had anything to do with the war and the Holocaust, now face eviction from the properties they had legally acquired and invested in.
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— Marek Magierowski (@mmagierowski) June 28, 2021
They live in fear and insecurity. Hundreds of pending cases and hundreds of families who do not know whether the apartment or the house they live in is actually theirs.
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— Marek Magierowski (@mmagierowski) June 28, 2021
In 2015 the Polish Constitutional Tribunal issued a ruling which basically put an end to these predatory practices. Now it is being implemented in the Polish Code of Administrative Procedure. A 30-year, non-discriminatory statute of limitations has been imposed…
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— Marek Magierowski (@mmagierowski) June 28, 2021
… the longest possible according to Polish legal system. The administrative procedures will be terminated. Nevertheless all interested parties will still be entitled to file civil suits and obtain compensation, in a fair procedure before the court of law.
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— Marek Magierowski (@mmagierowski) June 28, 2021
Poland’s foreign ministry in late June called in the chargé d’affaires of the Israeli embassy in Warsaw amid bilateral tensions over the proposed new rules.
US ‘deeply troubled’ by bill that ‘threatens media freedom’
Blinken also said on Wednesday that the United States was “deeply troubled” by legislation passed by the lower house of Poland’s parliament “that targets the most watched independent news station, which is also one of the largest U.S. investments in the country.”
“Poland has worked for decades to foster a vibrant and free media,” Blinken said, adding that “this draft legislation would significantly weaken the media environment the Polish people have worked so long to build.”
“A free and independent media makes our democracies stronger, the Transatlantic Alliance more resilient, and is fundamental to the bilateral relationship,” his statement said.
The United States is concerned by legislation passed by the Polish parliament today on property restitution and media freedoms. They are incompatible with our shared democratic principles and values. https://t.co/dI8s9tdUem
— Ned Price (@StateDeptSpox) August 11, 2021
“Large U.S. commercial investments in Poland tie our prosperity together and enhance our collective security. This draft legislation threatens media freedom and could undermine Poland’s strong investment climate,” it added.
“Poland is an important NATO Ally that understands the Transatlantic Alliance is based on mutual commitments to shared democratic values and prosperity,” Blinken stated.
He argued that “these pieces of legislation run counter to the principles and values for which modern, democratic nations stand.”
“We urge the government of Poland to demonstrate its commitment to these shared principles not only in words, but also in deeds,” the statement concluded.
Polish lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favour of a contested bill that seeks to prevent non-European owners from holding controlling stakes in domestic media firms.
The legislation, which strengthens a ban on companies from outside the European Economic Area controlling Polish broadcasters, passed with 228 votes in favour, 216 against and 10 abstentions in the lower house of Poland’s parliament late on Wednesday.
It will now go to the upper house, the Senate, for further debate.
During an emotional session of parliament, opposition MPs decried the bill as an attack on media freedoms and an attempt to gag TVN24, a US-owned news channel critical of the government.
Critics have also warned that the controversial new regulations could harm US investment in Poland and sour Warsaw’s relations with Washington.
Polish rules similar to those in other EU countries: gov’t spokesman
Government spokesman Piotr Müller told reporters that Poland was bringing in rules similar to those in other European Union countries.
“We have the right to regulate issues related to ownership in a way the Polish parliament deems appropriate,” he said.
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said last month that the bill aiming to tighten foreign ownership rules for media firms was a “perfectly normal” legislative move.
Deputy Prime Minister Jacek Sasin has said the proposed new media rules are designed to provide “tools to protect the media market from an aggressive takeover by Russian or Chinese capital.”
He told reporters last month that the “mass media should not become a mouthpiece for spreading views that may threaten Poland’s security.”
Poland’s governing conservatives have long argued that foreign entities own too much of the country’s mass media and distort the public debate.
Source: Radio Poland
Entirely Polish bussiness…
What a cock sucker!
“…..property confiscated during the Communist era,”
confiscated during the Nazi era surely?
What about the Indian land brutal confiscation. Slime jew…
And Palestinian Lands STOLEN by the Israelis ???
shared values? only values amerikans cherish are money worship, LGBT, theft
“Tsarist Russia is more free and just than amerika where corporations rule and robbery and thievery is made official”. Vissaron Belinsky
You also have shared values with Americans, you are a Zionist.
rat driver fascist racist—call names like typical childish American’t….you are despicable mestizo trash LGBT that swallows any CIA SPERM ..obviously you are an inferior racist—in Russia we do not sanction anti-semitism—we do not believe we are inferior to Jews—you obviously are
0.2% Jews in USA—40% nobel prizes awarded to amerikans are Jews….rat driver — you are uneducated backward village monolingual submissive atheist trash!
I am simply continuing what you started little child.
Is this not what you want?
Perhaps you will change your mind since you are a female minded homosexual.
Okay Igor Grom.
You seem to be hot for me; fucking faggot!
Dual US-Israeli Citizen Blinken is doing what he does best.
EXACTLY!!! Slavish devotion and servitude to Israel is a element in US Foreign Policy that dominates the USA. Dual Citizens are an obvious Conflict of Interest. Yet it is allowed!! Sleazy…
Blinken is a Jew,ignore him
…F Blinken. F The Zionists and their constant manipulation of people’s fear, anger and emotions. F The Illegitimate US Junta. Never elected.
The usa should start to show a good exemple by retyrning the Indians property…
Get dual citizens out of our government
Quote, “Poland’s governing conservatives have long argued that foreign entities own too much of the country’s mass media and distort the public debate.” Unquote.
Bang, smack on target. If it’s O.K. for the U.S. to have similar laws, why is it wrong for the Poles ?
AT some stage the Poles will realize that the Jews can never take enough, that the U$ is a Jewish colony, that Blinken is a Jew, and that Poland is screwed unless they team up with Russia/China, and dump the JewSA (sorry about the run on sentence).
How many Polacks does it take to recognize they’re being screwed?
I almost spit my llunch up over ‘shared American values’ and freedom of the press. I am sick of jews and their garbage. I dont really know anyone who does have shared values with them. How about al the stolen land and genocide that can be laid at their feet.
Poles tend to be observant Catholics and nationalistic–they do not share amerikan celebration homosexuality nor the amerikan hatred of families..it is expected they will clash with perversities admired by rat driver and other homosexuals in the angloshere
I’m Serbian Orthodox you flamer.
I’m sure Blinkin will back a Law making sure all those Japanese Americans and Aleuts from the Aleutian Islands , get their lands back – Right ?
Blinken is a duel Israeli citizen running our government. Fire all duel citizens in government.