Poland is running an ad campaign to counter the propaganda being churned out by the refugee drama “Green Border,” which “shows a family from Syria and a woman from Afghanistan thrown back and forward across the border by brutal guards indifferent to their suffering, as activists struggle to try to bring them to safety.” Poland’s view is that the propaganda film “dishonours those who are protecting their country.”
How about a film that shows Saudi Arabia firing guns and explosive weapons, killing hundreds of Ethiopian genuine refugees at the Yemen border last month? Turkey has done the same. In 2016, Turkish authorities were also shooting at asylum seekers to keep them out. In 2018, Turkey was again shooting at refugees to keep them out. And in 2021, Turkey fortified over 600 miles of its land border with walls to keep out Afghans.
Poland and Hungary have stood apart in legally protecting their countries’ sovereignty, borders, and national security, even through years of EU bullying.
Days ago, Poland warned the EU that it must close its borders in the face of a “migrant surge,” pointing out the crisis on the Italian island of Lampedusa that saw between 5-6 thousand African migrants arrive on 100 boats.
“Poland’s govt to run ad defending migrant policy before screenings of critical movie,” Reuters, September 21, 2023:
WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s government plans to run adverts ahead of some screenings of the prize-winning refugee drama “Green Border” to defend its treatment of migrants crossing the frontier from Belarus, a minister said on Thursday.
Directed by veteran Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, the film has drawn a furious response from conservatives in Poland ahead of its release in Polish cinemas on Friday.
The black-and-white film shows a family from Syria and a woman from Afghanistan thrown back and forward across the border by brutal guards indifferent to their suffering, as activists struggle to try to bring them to safety.
Migration has emerged as a main campaign theme ahead of the closely-contested Oct. 15 elections, with the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) saying only its government can ensure border security.
It says the film’s depiction of what happens to migrants crossing into Poland from the east dishonours those who are protecting their country.
Deputy interior minister Blazej Pobozy called the film “disgusting slander”.
“In arthouse cinemas throughout Poland, screenings will be preceded by a special ad about elements missing in the film”, he told reporters.
“Our ads shows the context of the hybrid (border) operation and the course of this operation and what solutions we have introduced to secure the safety of Polish women and men.”….
Ray Jarman says
May God bless Poland and its leaders. If these sub-humans are truly asylum seekers, why are they not content within Belarus? It is just like these animals storming our (US) southern border who are already in a safe country, Mexico. The West is having war declared upon it and the leaders are too stupid and masochistic to protect themselves. I believe that they are stupid enough to think they will gain supremacy over Islamists and other entities that have as their goal to destroy everything good. As George Carlin stated, thousands, if not millions of species have disappeared during the lifetime of the earth. Man is well on its way to self-destruction.
loek says
I object to your calling the people coming to Poland “sub-human” and “animals”
I don’t think it is warranted to call people like you did. But then maybe you were writing from your golden throne with a golden pen.
Rob (Robin) Blair Harris says
If you’re explaining, you are LOSING
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So what are the Poles supposed to do?
Wellington says
Not really and I’m with Infidel’s rhetorical query here. If one is explaining why some kind of error is wrong (and taking in Muslims en masse into any Western nation has wrong written all over it), why does this add up to losing, and most especially if followed by action, which Poland compared to so many Western nations like the UK, Germany and France, has been doing for many years now?
Your turn if you care. Give it a shot.
somehistory says
Citizens are entitled to know what their government is doing. And why. Informing them is the way to go.
Shema says
The poles have actually been doing for the most part everything they really need to do for years to protect their language, culture and borders.
It was a pleasure to visit a few years ago and see the stark contrast between Poland and Germany. This is the rare occasion where a government is actually doing something correctly.
May the party in charge not be corrupted from within.
James Lincoln says
Shema,
Yes.
And moving forward, tourists will flock to Poland – and avoid Germany like the plague.
garry pollack says
when they see the Reality (as oposed 2 cinematic fiction/manipulation!) of moose-limb migration/invasion in the West they wud B foolish 2 have any other policy!
Christopher Watson says
We in the UK are seeing our country being ruined allowing in these ‘refugees’ (or invaders to use a better description) giving them residense in hotel rooms, money, food and health treatment and far more than most of our own pensioners recieve. Our own government is falling over backwards to allow these invaders everything they want, Our Christianity is being usurped in schools and our freedom of speech has been reduced in many ways. We no longer recognise our own land. We know there is a move to reverse BREXIT. It is obvious that would happen. Starmer will attemp to retun our country to the one-party-state that is Brussels (or Berlin).