Comments on: Polish MPs wear Guy Fawkes masks to protest ACTA

By: Adam Vanner

Adam Vanner — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:28:00 +0000

someone should tell them that last time someone looked like that in parliament, it sadly didnt end well for them!

By: Pedantic Douchebag

Pedantic Douchebag — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:55:00 +0000

Cool. What’s your theme?

By: Pedantic Douchebag

Pedantic Douchebag — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:53:00 +0000

If you truly did Fuck The World, rampant miscegenation is certainly a likely outcome.

By: noah django

noah django — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:33:00 +0000

oh, hi again. fyi, here in atlanta, I knew a black dude that had the stars and bars as the front license plate to his four wheel drive. and, he had a baby with a white girl. miscegenation, ftw!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:46:00 +0000

I’m far more impressed by the MP in the middle wearing the invisibility cloak.

By: julke

julke — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:06:00 +0000

The dildo and toy gun incident, while quaint, was related to the case of a policeman’s attempted rape, at gunpoint, of an arrested woman. The case didn’t get much public attention until Palikot, in front of cameras, produced the toy gun and a dildo to illustrate how the two should never come together. Sadly, his point was entirely forgotten. All that is remembered is a politician wielding a sex toy.
Not to say that it wasn’t a publicity stunt. But it was a well-intentioned one.

By: travtastic

travtastic — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:50:00 +0000

Ooh, a theme account?!? That’s really witty.

By: Cefeida

Cefeida — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:09:00 +0000

Not as often as this new one. Or maybe I’m just unlucky. It always happens the one time I forget to copy my comment…It would also help if the system paid attention to the little ‘remember me’ checkbox. [/rant rant whine]

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:32:00 +0000

He needs a bigger pot and spoon.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:04:00 +0000

The old system did that, too. It’s a good idea to copy your comment.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:48:00 +0000

On the other, I am pissed off that they didn’t do anything to stop it or to raise awareness of it before it was too late.

This is why Cory is constantly banging on about stopping shit before it happens.

By: yellowcake

yellowcake — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:04:00 +0000

Poles’ response is really amazing, there have been protests in most cities in the whole country. I think it was the most popular “uprising” since the fall of commies. There were single bigger events in Poland in recent history organized by mine worker unions etc. but we haven’t seen a protest in every city in the whole country for quite some time. Some gatherings quite massive (15 thousand people in Krakow, 5 thousand in Poznan yesterday. At one moment bricks started to fly at a ruling party local HQ but people managed to stay peaceful fortunately.

By: Shinkuhadoken

Shinkuhadoken — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:40:00 +0000

Watch Time-Warner, who claims to hold the copyright on Guy Fawkes masks, have the Polish government's website blocked for pulling this stunt without a license.

By: A. .

A. . — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:39:00 +0000

pedants alight– firecrackers in a Polish Spring. Solidarinosc, pax
Romana, all the garbage of empire.
Hot hobbit boner-dollars press against the corporate leg, teasing.
Piracy is no mask, it is the paper outline of a maker.

By: m b

m b — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:10:00 +0000

I suspected that Palikot’s Movement will do something like that. Their leader’s name and surname Janusz Palikot, can be translated as:

Janusz -> Janus (as the Roman god of transitions and change)
Palikot -> (The Smokin’Cat) :D
They are notorious for picketing against the catholic church, pointing dildoes and water pistols at other politicians, threatening to smoke pot in the parliament building, having the first openly gay (and flamboyant) parliament member, and another transsexual one, and holding political debates on a boxing ring.
Those whacky antics, combined with their super-liberal ideas , won them 10% of votes in less than a year.
Things change.

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:08:00 +0000

That’s awesome. My MiL is Polish, I’ll have to forward this over.

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:51:00 +0000

It’s socially and fiscally liberal,

My fellow Americans should read this is as “socially liberal and fiscally conservative.” American and continental notions of “liberal” and “conservative” don’t correspond very well.

(The problem is on the American side where “liberal” has become a pejorative for “Democrat” and “conservative” has come to mean essentially “devout protestant Christian.”)

By: Pedantic Douchebag

Pedantic Douchebag — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000

You must be new to sarcasm.

By: Cefeida

Cefeida — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:55:00 +0000

…Boing boing, I hate your new comment system, if I’m not logged in, it EATS THE COMMENT I WROTE.

What I had written ever-so-eloquently and which I shall try to summarise was: the masked party is one known for being extremely vocal about controversial issues (gay rights most importantly, and various other understated but necessary freedoms, so it’s not surprising they’d stand against ACTA). And now that they’ve won some seats in the parliament, I think it’s time for them to actually do something with the power they have- both the immediate power (ratifying laws) and the rather fortunate side-effects of being an important party now. So far I haven’t seen them do much except shout that something must be done.

But, we’ll see. ACTA is under strict review right now before any ratification happens- let’s hope it doesn’t.

By: abstract_reg

abstract_reg — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:29:00 +0000

You must be new to the internet.

By: VaultAusir

VaultAusir — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:23:00 +0000

The ambassador signed it, but it’s up to the Parliament to ratify it.

By: Robert Baruch

Robert Baruch — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:51:00 +0000

From the article, “Poland’s ambassador to Japan, Jadwiga Rodowicz-Czechowska, signed it in Tokyo.” It sounds like it wasn’t even up to Parliament to sign?

By: Madzia

Madzia — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:16:00 +0000

Palikot and PiS agreeing on something…oh I know why the temperature suddenly dropped, hell is freezing over.

By: Madzia

Madzia — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:13:00 +0000

On the one hand, this is awesome. On the other, I am pissed off that they didn’t do anything to stop it or to raise awareness of it before it was too late. Wearing masks is cute but they’re in the parliament now, they have other means of taking action- and they don’t seem to be taking any, in this or other issues they claimed were important.

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:08:00 +0000

Interestingly I suppose it could also be applied to ‘overthrow the oppressive people that don’t care about local conditions’ but since the people likely to use it would be those most oppressed by the Plantation System as a form of irony… Yea. Tolerance is more likely.

By: jacobian

jacobian — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:05:00 +0000

” Lawmakers for the left-wing Palikot’s Movement”

This is not really a left-wing movement. It’s socially and fiscally liberal, what in the US might be termed “libertarian”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palikot%27s_Movement

By: Zbigniew Kowalski

Zbigniew Kowalski — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:25:00 +0000

USA controls our country. Poland isnt independent country !!!
http://kaczoland.pl/wrzuta/1420/skandal-amerykanie-dzwonia-do-sejmu

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:23:00 +0000

Between this and the joint incident the other day it appears that Poland engages in some pretty forward thinking politics!

Rather than most of the western world which is more about popularity contests and bribes.

By: Pedantic Douchebag

Pedantic Douchebag — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:18:00 +0000

Epic means “large in scale”, and “win” means “victory”. What you’ve posted makes no sense whatsoever in reference to this situation.

By: Pedantic Douchebag

Pedantic Douchebag — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:15:00 +0000

It gives me hope that one day soon, the Confederate Battle Flag will be linked with racial tolerance.