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Prof. Jan Winiecki opublikował w "Financial Times" list dotyczący ostatnich podrygów lustracyjnych w naszym kraju. Tekst jest oczywiście krytyczny.

Zamieszczam w całości, bo nie wiem jak długo sznurek może być dostępny.
"Framers of Polish law are beyond pale of western civilisation
By Jan Winiecki
Published: April 3 2007 03:00
Sir, I would like to express my anger and distaste at the wI ay the national Bolsheviks running Poland these days force people to go through the indignity of the law on "lustration" which came into effect last month.
The measure compels board members and managers of listed companies to confess if they were informants for the secret police during the communist era. The law is unacceptable on both moral and legal grounds.
First, the legal ground for hounding people who for one reason or another, usually under duress, collaborated with communist secret police would exist only if the said police were declared by law a criminal organisation. Since such a law had not been passed, what the Polish authorities actually do is to execute legal proceedings against the transgression of a moral, not a legal, code. Such attempts have been unacceptable in the western philosophical/political tradition since the 16th century.
Next, it is utterly reprehensible that the Polish authorities persecute those who were most often the target of threats and blackmail rather than communist oppressors from the secret police.
Third, as a classical liberal I do not accept any security clearing procedures beyond the public administration - and even then only in security-sensitive parts of that administration. Lustration of academics at state universities is against the autonomy of institutions of higher learning and that of academics at private institutions is against the autonomy of the private sector, which was already established in the west by the Middle Ages.
Finally, it is unacceptable that those people who find the published secret police documentation false, as far as the information about them is concerned, may have as their only recourse civil-code-based judicial proceedings against defamation. Thus it is they who will be forced to prove their innocence, rather than public authorities who should prove their guilt.
Such rules contradict the centuries-old principle of the presumption of innocence. Those responsible for the preparation, passage and implementation of such a law put themselves beyond the pale of western civilisation."
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