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leahandillyanaFull article: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/08/poland-police-warsaw-protest-lgbt-margo-stop-bzdurom-48-arrested/
Context:
1. For months, cars known as 'hate buses' have been driving through major Polish cities. They had banners talking about how LGBT people are all child abusers, how abortion is murder, how sex ed is grooming, and how women who leave their husbands who abuse them will all end up in hell.
2. At the same time, government have been using state media, now a propaganda tube, to spread hatred towards LGBT people, which seemed to work, as the president was reelected with unprecedented popularity.
3. There were attempts to stop these buses, with people blocking the roads with their cars.
4. In one of them, after the bus was blocked a bunch of people from a meme fanpage of all things, Stop Bzdurom ('stop the nonsense') destroyed the banners, cut the tires, and the group members got into a short fight with the driver in which no one was hurt.
5. The event was used in anti-LGBT propaganda. The meme group was called a terrorist organisation and the minister of justice was lamenting how the knives used against things will be used against people next. He ignored the fact that last yesr there was an actual bomb attack planned against the pride march in one of Polish cities, as well as the fact that the 'patriotic' marchers he so loves have to be stopped by police from jumping with knives out at women standing in counter protests.
6. A member of the group was arrested at home by plainclothes policemen and taken in unmarked car to parts unknown. She was chosen because she is a transfeminine nonbinary person, making a perfect scapegoat. She had her gender legally changed by her new ID card was not issued yet, so in arrest she was placed in male cell and all official media call her by her dead name.
7. To protest all this, rainbow flags were placed on various landmarks in Warsaw. The official meaning was "We live there too, Warsaw is us, Poland is us." It caused a media hysteria. Even left wing politicians called it a devastation that needs to be punished. The landmarks are now guarded 24/7 by multiple policemen and prime minister, an open fascist and eugenicist, placed a grave lamp on one of the statues - again, completely ignoring 5 youing queer people who commited suicide during the hate campaign.
8. There was a march 'celebrating' the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. But the marchers were fascists. Openly fascists, with swastikas and 'white power' and stuff. The women on counter manifestation were charged at and brutally attacked. The women were arrested for disturbing the march, and the men who attacked them didn't face any punishment. A rainbow flag from private window was snatched and torn to pieces. The office of the Green Party was invaded by police because the members put antifascist slogans on its windows and balcony. Somebody shot at the window displaying a poster of Robert Biedroń, gay left wing politician who was a presidential candidate this year.
9. Margot was pre-tried and she was to be moved to an arrest for two months. Thousands protested it. Policemen surrounded the protesters and started physically attacking and arresting random people, 48 in total. They were taken to various places and forbidden contact. They were forced to strip naked and be touched by police officers. Many if not most of the arrested were underage who were forbidden from contacting their parents. Various politicians, inclusing Biedroń's partner and MOP Śmiszek, as well as lawyers tried to contact the people. My friend, a butch lesbian, was arrested the next day for interviening people on the spot and had to strip naked in front of male policemen who pretended not to believe she was a woman.
10. On personal level, on the same day there was a 'family' event I was forced to attend. My 'psychiatrist' (I go to another psychiatrist but he doesn't know it) laughed at the event and together with my father joked about 'shock theraphy' and 'survival of the fittest'.
Context:
1. For months, cars known as 'hate buses' have been driving through major Polish cities. They had banners talking about how LGBT people are all child abusers, how abortion is murder, how sex ed is grooming, and how women who leave their husbands who abuse them will all end up in hell.
2. At the same time, government have been using state media, now a propaganda tube, to spread hatred towards LGBT people, which seemed to work, as the president was reelected with unprecedented popularity.
3. There were attempts to stop these buses, with people blocking the roads with their cars.
4. In one of them, after the bus was blocked a bunch of people from a meme fanpage of all things, Stop Bzdurom ('stop the nonsense') destroyed the banners, cut the tires, and the group members got into a short fight with the driver in which no one was hurt.
5. The event was used in anti-LGBT propaganda. The meme group was called a terrorist organisation and the minister of justice was lamenting how the knives used against things will be used against people next. He ignored the fact that last yesr there was an actual bomb attack planned against the pride march in one of Polish cities, as well as the fact that the 'patriotic' marchers he so loves have to be stopped by police from jumping with knives out at women standing in counter protests.
6. A member of the group was arrested at home by plainclothes policemen and taken in unmarked car to parts unknown. She was chosen because she is a transfeminine nonbinary person, making a perfect scapegoat. She had her gender legally changed by her new ID card was not issued yet, so in arrest she was placed in male cell and all official media call her by her dead name.
7. To protest all this, rainbow flags were placed on various landmarks in Warsaw. The official meaning was "We live there too, Warsaw is us, Poland is us." It caused a media hysteria. Even left wing politicians called it a devastation that needs to be punished. The landmarks are now guarded 24/7 by multiple policemen and prime minister, an open fascist and eugenicist, placed a grave lamp on one of the statues - again, completely ignoring 5 youing queer people who commited suicide during the hate campaign.
8. There was a march 'celebrating' the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. But the marchers were fascists. Openly fascists, with swastikas and 'white power' and stuff. The women on counter manifestation were charged at and brutally attacked. The women were arrested for disturbing the march, and the men who attacked them didn't face any punishment. A rainbow flag from private window was snatched and torn to pieces. The office of the Green Party was invaded by police because the members put antifascist slogans on its windows and balcony. Somebody shot at the window displaying a poster of Robert Biedroń, gay left wing politician who was a presidential candidate this year.
9. Margot was pre-tried and she was to be moved to an arrest for two months. Thousands protested it. Policemen surrounded the protesters and started physically attacking and arresting random people, 48 in total. They were taken to various places and forbidden contact. They were forced to strip naked and be touched by police officers. Many if not most of the arrested were underage who were forbidden from contacting their parents. Various politicians, inclusing Biedroń's partner and MOP Śmiszek, as well as lawyers tried to contact the people. My friend, a butch lesbian, was arrested the next day for interviening people on the spot and had to strip naked in front of male policemen who pretended not to believe she was a woman.
10. On personal level, on the same day there was a 'family' event I was forced to attend. My 'psychiatrist' (I go to another psychiatrist but he doesn't know it) laughed at the event and together with my father joked about 'shock theraphy' and 'survival of the fittest'.
