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September 25, 2007

Poland Goes it Alone

Poland has told the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, of which it is a member, that it does not want monitors at its forthcoming general elections. One of the lamer arguments in favour of the general oppression (bugging, lustracja) in PiS-dominated Poland is that "if you are honest you have nothing to fear and nothing to hide."

Posted by hgrodsk at September 25, 2007 01:12 PM

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