Stupid Leaders: Poland Ed.

This article is in line with a current issue: Poland is trying to whiewash its history.

Every country that was occupied by the Germans during the war had its quislings, its collaborators. Especially in Eastern Eurpoe, those collaborators helped the Germans commit mass-murder. Poland has sought to criminalize discussing any hint of tge complicity of Poles in the Holocaust.

Hell, in Poland, it is illegal to criticize the president. Saying that the president of Poland is an idiot is good for three years in prison.

The inescapable conclusion is that, irregardless of its court system or any other trappings of democracy, Poland is not a free nation. Free nations do not pass laws to criminalize the discussion of topics that cause their leaders butthurt.

Though, let's face it, the United States is not exactly a paragon when it comes to this area. We have an entire political party that is based on the false premise that the boys in Grey during the Civil War were fighting for anything other than the perpetuation of slavery. Up until very recently, Texas was teaching the lie of states' rights as the cause of that war. Presidents Adams and Wilson both criminalized criticising them in their respective Sedition Acts, both of which didn't survive the next presidency.

TGF wanted very much to have such a law, but that was too far a reach, even for his bootlickers in Congress.