On this date, April 10, 2010, Lech Aleksander
Kaczyński, the former President of Poland died in a plane crash. Detachment
1010 respects and honors him for his Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-life and
Anti-European Union stance. We decided to give him a Post-humors Lech
Aleksander Kaczyński Award for being
against abortion and being for the death penalty.
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński
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“Countries that give up this penalty award an unimaginable advantage to the criminal over his victim, the advantage of life over death.”[Mr. Kaczynski said in July 2006. His coalition partner, the far-right League of Polish Families, wants to change the country’s penal code so that pedophiles convicted of murder will face execution.]
Lech Kaczynski stood alone
in opposing plans to hold a “European day against the death penalty"; said
"homosexuality would destroy the human race"
Kaczynski’s conservative views and forthright
comments made waves in other spheres too, and he occasionally clashed with E.U.
partners over what some Poles saw as attempts to foist liberal “European
values” on the predominantly Roman Catholic country.
In 2007 Poland angered its European partners when
it stood alone in opposing plans to hold a symbolic “European day against the
death penalty,” denying the 27-member union the consensus it needed to go ahead
with the event.
Warsaw argued that Europe should instead mark a
“right to life” day, with abortion and euthanasia on the agenda along with
capital punishment.
When Poland had earlier gone through the E.U.
accession process it ratified a protocol to the European Charter on Human
Rights declaring that “the death penalty shall be abolished,” but Lech
Kaczynski (pictured) argued that giving up the death penalty would give the
criminal relative advantage over the victim. He predicted that the E.U., in
time, would come to realize that capital punishment was justified in the case
of murder.
Even before he became president, Kaczynski was
upsetting liberal interests.
Lech Kaczyński, former president of Poland.
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"Normality Parade"
As mayor of Warsaw in 2005, he refused to issue a
permit for a homosexual rights parade, but when a pro-family conservative group
applied for a permit for a “normality parade,” he gave the green light.
The stance drew strong protests from the
International Lesbian and Gay Association and other advocacy groups, and later
brought a rebuke from the European Court of Human Rights, which said the
decision to ban the first event discriminated against sexual minorities and
violated the right to assembly.
Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother Jarosław
Kaczyński are major figures in right wing, homophobic Polish politics. Jaroslaw
was until recently the prime minister of Poland. Lech had previously been the
Mayor of Warsaw and reached international notoriety because of repeatedly
banning gay pride marches from taking place in the city.
Kaczynski was accused of homophobia when in 2007 as
President he was challenged over this decision, and said: "If that kind of
approach to sexual life were to be promoted on a grand scale, the human race
would disappear."
Whilst on a visit to Britain, The President of
Poland, Lech Kaczyński has spoken out against "gay culture," warning
that it may cause the death of heterosexuality within Europe.
Quizzed on his stance on gay rights by Pink News
reporter Kirsty Wark, Mr Kaczyński said: "I haven't changed my position at
all." Adding: "There always have been and always will be homosexuals
in Poland, they forge careers for themselves, they are active in society."
Controversially, he went on to say: "That's
one thing, but as for what's called 'gay culture', it can never be seen as an
alternative to heterosexual culture.
"If a 'gay culture' were to be an accepted
alternative it could mean that especially here in Europe, our heterosexual
culture would disappear."
When he was Mayor of Warsaw, he, refused to issue a
permit "for a Gay Pride parade. A short while later he issued a permit for
a normality parade," which was denounced by the International Lesbian and
Gay Association as a "demonstration whose main objective was an incitement
to hate and intolerance toward LGBT people."
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