Polish News: Ganley to finance Libertas Polska compaign himself.

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[FutureTaoiseach]

LPR are not part of Libertas. Ex-LPR figures by definition left for a reason - perhaps because it was too rightwing.

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[mccafferty cat]

It's legal, and imho a more honorable course of action to fork out your own money to promote your election campaign

So in other words, rich people should always have an advantage when seeking public office?

[myk]

It's legal, and imho a more honorable course of action to fork out your own money to promote your election campaign rather than selling political favours like some Establishment parties do. I can understand the Establishment not taking kindly to someone muscling in on their turf - they are like a cartel, conspiring to maintain the closed-shop of the two and a half party-system.

It is posts like this that leave me amazed that you have a high reputation on this forum.

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[mccafferty cat]

It is posts like this that leave me amazed that you have a high reputation on this forum.

High reputation? That's news to me. The guy is a jibbering imbecile.

[FutureTaoiseach]

Which was too rightwing? LPR or Libertas?

LPR. And MC, the wealth of the Establishment parties will ensure it will be a level playing field in these elections. I have no objections to anyone - rich or poor - establishing a party. Issac Butt was a wealthy lawyer who founded the Home Rule party. Choice is not a bad thing, unless your part of the tired old two and a half party system, which imho has failed this country.

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[cactusflower]

******************Link?

The links you requested, Clanrickard:

Mr Gutkowski is deputy chief of All-Polish Youth, a radical group attached to the far right League of Polish Families, famous for attacking gay rights marches in Poland. Mr Soini is founder of the anti-immigrant True Finns party, which has five seats in the Finnish parliament.

Gutkowski represented Libertas in its attempt to register with the EU as a pan european Party.

Think tank threatens to sue Libertas over name - The Irish Times - Tue, Feb 03, 2009

The League Of Polish Families (Liga Polskich Rodzin) can trace its roots to the National Democracy movement of the second republic of Poland, from 1919 to 1939, which is characterised by the Stephen Roth Institute as having been "hardline anti-Semitic". LPR leader Roman Giertych's grandfather was an active member of National Democracy.

The party has links to Radio Maryja, a Polish Catholic radio station owned by the Redemptorist order and run by Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, a controversial figure with extreme views on social and political issues who is nonetheless influential, especially among older Poles.

LPR also has a youth wing, All-Polish Youth (Mlodziez Wszechpolska), which has admitted being involved in attacks on gay rights marchers.

Witold Zygulski, news editor of the English-language Warsaw Voice newspaper, said the All-Polish Youth, many of them skinheads, was a "very aggressive, radical group".

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The main event of the weekend, "The March for Tolerance," drew 1,500 people, a surprising figure given the steady drumbeat of hate and fear in the preceding weeks.

"The atmosphere soon became charged" at the march, reported the French daily Le Monde on May 10th. "While a handful of indifferent cops looked on," marchers ran the gauntlet of passersby and counter-demonstrators screaming "Murderers!" "Let's send the fags to the hospital!" and "Perverts, get out of Cracow!"

The march "was blocked at the bottom of the Wawel castle by a few dozen thugs who then proceeded to 'chase the homos' all the way into the old town's central plaza. No doubt considering that it was bad for business, the police then stepped in to prevent further violence," Le Monde concluded.

The Campaign Against Homophobia, Poland's largest gay civil rights group, which organized the march, identified the attackers as members of All-Polish Youth, the militant arm of the League of Polish Families, the main far-right party. The Campaign said that the attackers numbered "about two hundred" and that they pelted marchers with firecrackers, eggs, bottles, rocks, and even acid. When marchers tried to take refuge in restaurants, the owners didn't let them in, Sylwester Gumienny, a Campaign activist, told reporters.

"Glasses and bottles on tables outside restaurants started flying at police officers and everyone else," Gumienny added. "Confused tourists did not know what was going on. Mothers with children were trying to flee the scene. Then the police started shooting in the air to calm down the situation... The fights between hooligans and police lasted till late in the evening. They arrested 20 [of the] most aggressive of them. Two people are in the hospital, one with a face burned as one of those Nazis threw a bag with acid into a crowd."

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