Today, when, based on a dispersed constitutional control, judicial control of police activities towards participants in peaceful public gatherings is simply a rule, not a non-standard judicial excess, it is worth reminding how and by whom it happened. Paweł Kasprzak was most likely the first to say publically that the evil and violating constitutional rules of authoritarian power can and must be opposed actively and that it is the work of conscious citizens. And as Kasprzak said, he and others just did. Without forgetting the function of the judges to whom we owe the fact that our decisions defend our right to peaceful public gatherings, let us remember that this would not have happened had it not been for the citizens who chose to defy consciously, to stand before the court and to bear the consequences of their choice. In 2016, erstwhile they started, the consequences of civilian disobedience were not obvious. The only thing apparent was the arrests and charges. In Paul's case, over a 100 in fresh years. It was Paul and his like who made the proconstitutional explanation of the regulations and the dispersed constitutional control a regulation in the courts today, not the exception. That's what citizens do.
Paul, if he becomes a Member, will not put his hand in creating a law against civilian liberties. He'll do anything to prevent specified a law from being passed. It will not be, depending on the result of the election, the voice of the ruling majority or the opposition minority. He'll be the hard voice of the governed. Our voice.
Radek Bashuk, lawyer, citizens of Poland.
