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Pastor Chojecki was sentenced to 8 months of community work for criticizing the Catholic Church and President Duda!
On June 10, the District Court in Lublin issued a judgment in the case of Pastor Pawel Chojecki, editor-in-chief of Against the Tide TV, who has been tried for, inter alia, insulting the religious feelings of Catholics and insulting President Andrzej Duda. The pastor was sentenced to eight months of restriction of freedom in the form of 20 hours per month of community work and reimbursement of the costs of the trial – more than 20 thousand PLN. The judgment is not legally valid. [Article]
Pastor Paweł Chojecki commented on the court's decision: “That the Polish State will punish me [now] for my beliefs and words…. I have not experienced something like this in my life. I don’t think any pastor in Poland has been convicted of criticizing the dogmas of another church. Since God has given me the role of the first, I accept that. The judge also sent a clear signal to those who criticize the Catholic Church and the power of Law and Justice to be very careful about the words, because they will share my fate.” The pastor announced an appeal against the verdict. [Article]
Att. Andrzej Turczyn, defending Pastor Paweł Chojecki, commented on the judgment: “This judgment will have an impact on what can be said in Poland. I think Poles should learn that the times are coming, that it will not be possible to say what one thinks.”
Also, Michal Hara, the head of the Legislative and System Department at the Ombudsman’s Office, Artur Nowak, defender of victims of pedophile priests, Dobromir Sośnierz, the member of Confederation, Krzysztof Kilian, professor of the University of Zielona Góra, editor Eli Barbur, as well as former priest Jerzy and rapper Mikołaj "Mikser" Mądrzyk, commented on the court’s verdict.
Meanwhile, Paweł Machała, also a pastor of the New Covenant Church in Lublin, initiated an extraordinary bicycle action of support for the persecuted Pastor Chojecki: "TOUR de FREEDOM - freedom of speech for everyone!” On a specially prepared bike with a trailer with the logo of Against the Tide TV and the hashtag #SupportPawełChojecki, he plans to travel through the whole country.
Covering hundreds of kilometers every day for at least 3 weeks, he is meeting people from different corners of Poland and asking them about what freedom of speech is for them and what it should look like in practice, and what they think about the verdict for Pastor Paweł Chojecki.
[What the pastor is accused of] [Pastor Chojecki's statement and appeal]
[Movie who is Pastor Chojecki] [#SupportPastorChojecki]
[Report from the first trial] [The trial – continuation] [The trial – prosecutor’s demand]
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VII Congress of the viewers of Against the Tide TV "Poland and the World After the Chinese Pandemic"
On June 3-6, we held the 7th Congress of the viewers of Against the Tide TV. The congress was inaugurated by pastor Paweł Chojecki, entrepreneur Michał Fałek and att. Andrzej Turczyn.
This year too, we have had the opportunity to listen to lectures given by distinguished guests from all over the world.
- Art Thompson, former head of the John Birch Society, the world's largest anti-communist organization, gave a lecture entitled "How to Save America After Joe Biden's Presidency."
- In an interview with Eunika Chojecka, Gen. Hodges touched on topics related to the current global power structure, Nord Stream 2, Joe Biden's presidency, US relations with Poland, Russia, and China.
- Hanna Shen, our correspondent in Taiwan gave a lecture entitled "The world after the pandemic seen from Asia – about propaganda, Beijing's alliance with Berlin and the truth about the pandemic".
- Manyan Ng, head of Epoch Times Europe, and Elmer Yuen, an anti-communist activist and businessman from Hong Kong, gave a talk entitled: "Pandemic as a part of China's war against the West."
The culmination of the congress was Saturday's debate "Poland after the Chinese pandemic", which was attended by several individuals from the world of politics, medicine, media, and science. The debate was divided into three thematic blocks: ECONOMY, HEALTH, and SOCIETY.
- The ECONOMY block, led by Eunika Chojecka and Michał Fałek, had guests like MPs Dobromir Sośnierz, Lech Antoni Kołakowski, Andrzej Sośnierz, Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski, and att. Andrzej Turczyn.
- In the HEALTH block led by the Tymoteusz Chojecki, prof. Krzysztof Simon, MPs Andrzej Sośnierz and Dobromir Sośnierz, doctors Tomasz Karauda, Małgorzata Kubicka-Frączek and Włodzimierz Bodnar and entrepreneur and att. Mariusz Michałek.
- In the SOCIETY block were: prof. Michał Łuczewski, dep. Dobromir Sośnierz, pastor Paweł Chojecki, att. Andrzej Turczyn, and Jan Pospieszalski and Hanna Shen. The last part of the debate was led by Kornelia Chojecka.
The congress ended on Sunday, June 6 with a summary and comments from the participants and questions answered by pastor Paweł Chojecki and Michał Fałek.
President Andrzej Duda responded to Pastor Chojecki's trial
Just before the announcement of the verdict, President Andrzej Duda spoke on the trial of Pastor Chojecki. Pastor Chojecki's defense attorney asked the President of Poland to state his position on whether he was seeking to punish Paweł Chojecki for the act alleged against the pastor by the prosecutor in Lublin. In response to the letter from att. Andrzej Turczyn, the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland wrote: "The President of the Republic will not make statements or assessments in the scope and form requested."
Elmer Yuen: "Poles, you have no independence!"
Elmer Yuen, an anti-communist activist and businessman supporting Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, also appeared on our TV. He presented the current situation in Hong Kong, after the destruction of the last free newspaper "Apple Daily" by the Chinese communists. He also referred to the global policy that communist China is conducting. He stressed that the Wuhan virus is a very good example of Unrestricted Warfare. Although this war began by accident, it exposed our complete lack of preparation. He also noted, "What if they intentionally started the warfare? What is the world going to do? We are totally unprepared. And then, in your country, you still have people who want to do business with them and make some money. What a joke! I cannot understand it."
"It’s the legalization of communism" - Dobromir Sośnierz on the amendment of the rules on administrative proceedings, including the reprivatization
MP Dobromir Sośnierz, a member of the Confederation expressed a clear negative opinion on the revision of the Code of Administrative Procedure. He told us: "It's not just about reprivatization. All matters relating to administrative decisions, even the most scandalous ones, from communist times, will thus be stuck. So it is recommunization – the legalization of communism, everything that the communists have done."
Pedophilia and sex scandals in the Catholic Church – a claim for PLN 3 million in damages from the Diocese of Bielsko-Żywiec
In June, Janusz Szymik, a victim of pedophile priest Jan W., filed a lawsuit for damages demanding 3 million PLN from the Diocese of Bielsko-Żywiec. "The amount is adequate to the suffering I have experienced, am still experiencing, and will be experiencing," Janusz Szymik told us.
Jan Pospieszalski on the state of the media under Law and Justice
We talked to Jan Pospieszalski, a journalist and columnist whose program "Warto Rozmawiać” (It’s worth talking) was taken off the air on state TV in March 2021. He commented on the state of public media in Poland: "It is a matter of public media being intended to serve society, all of us, to be a means not only of communication, information but also of building a community, of transmitting culturally important content – and there is still a problem with this."
It’s already been 5 years of The Family ER!
It's been five years since the first episode of The Family ER show aired in 2016. What were the beginnings and first programs, what inspired us, what were the benefits of involvement in this project, and what are the plans for the future? The answers to these questions were given in an interview with the originator Kornelia Chojecka and the statements of guests and presenters.
WHAT’S NEW:
In June, new sports broadcasts appeared on our TV:
- Comments by Mateusz Lis on the performance of the Polish national team at the Euro 2020 European Championships.
- "Who are our Olympians?" - interview with Tomasz Barniak, a world runner-up in canoeing.
WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON:
- We are making changes in the organization of television and the church, which are related to the development of the project, as well as to the recovery from the epidemic
- We are preparing a Polish-American language and cultural school
- We are preparing for the summer camp of the church so that it will bear fruit in the form of renewing the motivation for a zealous and loving service to Jesus
Each subsequent month is a hard fight to achieve all our goals. We have ambitious plans for the future. The achievement of these goals largely depends on your commitment and your contribution to supporting the Against the Tide project.