Libertas implosion generates some amusing Irish press comment

Justine McCarthy - "Last week was a week to be ashamed of being Irish... What weird, perverted people our fellow Europeans must think us"

They came. They saw. They bombed at the box office. And now they're hissing and spewing writs at each other like panicked rats on a sinking ship. Gratifying though it is, the demise of Libertas is an unedifying spectacle. A month ago, Declan Ganley was predicting a landslide 100-seat victory in the European parliament. On 5 June, voters across the continent sent his motley crew packing with their tail and the grand sum of minus-two seats between their legs. One anonymous Libertas source has been quoted saying its Dublin candidate, the beatific anti-abortionist Caroline Simons, was so insufferable even her own campaign workers couldn't bring themselves to vote for her on polling day.

Yippee! Democracy works. Libertas spent money like a Russian oligarch in Tiffanys but the votes could not be bought. Liberating Lech Walesa from the Gdansk history vaults to formally launch the campaign cost a reputed €50,000. The Dutch branch is threatening to sue Ganley over its squandered €350,000 expenditure. If the average Libertas campaign spend was less than that – say €200,000 – and 603 candidates stood under its banner, the total bill works out at a nine-digit sum.

It wasn't just the money, though. The dirty-tricks department went into overdrive. Libertas claimed endorsements by prominent Europeans who robustly denied they were supporters. Those denials got credence from Naoise Nunn's admission that the anti-Lisbon treaty referendum campaign he directed for Libertas last year resorted to "scare-mongering and disinformation". Despite the spondulicks and the phantom Frankenstein of military conscription that purportedly sent Irish mothers scurrying to vote 'No', Europe's voters were still able to discern the yuck factor. To put it more eloquently, as did the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, they recognised a mixum-gatherum of "anti-semites, homophobes and anti-migrants" and said no thank you.

So today we should be dancing on Libertas's grave. But we can't, because the corpse is busy in Brussels rattling its old bones.

Brian Cowen and Micheál Martin pursued the politically advisable, pragmatic and expedient option last week when they browbeat the EU into granting Ireland certain guarantees to fireproof Lisbon Two. Even poor, beleaguered Gordon Brown caved in, knowing it was another of the thousand cuts that will kill him in the end. Last week was a week to be ashamed of being Irish. Not because, once again, we were screeching up to Europe's door with a begging bowl in one hand and a gun-to-the-head in the other. What was mortifying was our exhibition of ourselves as a shower of un-self-aware hypocrites.

Europe, we said, in all conscience (that terror-inducing Irish weapon) we cannot promise to save this treaty unless you guarantee the most valued core principles of our people. Right, said Europe, what are they? Neutrality and the abortion ban, we said. Europe kicked itself under the table, suppressed a chuckle and hatched a concordat.

If neutrality and the pseudo-abortion ban are our two most cherished positions I dread to think what might be the disposable ones. We don't even sufficiently care about either to discuss them from one end of a decade to the next. They are just there – like the midlands and men called Sean. What's to discuss? We have let the neutrality we hold so dear slide into a reflex cop-out inertia rather than hone it as the sort of muscular anti-war stance demonstrated by the Swedes, for instance. We don't like talking about it because of all the historical baggage that comes with it.

As for abortion? This is the apogee of our two-facedness. Nearly two decades ago, the Supreme Court delivered a celebrated judgment on abortion containing a rebuke of the legislature for its cowardice on the issue and still the legislative desert flourishes. Justice minister Dermot Ahern regards the passage of a blasphemy bill as a matter of urgency following a recent Supreme Court ruling but sees no need whatsoever to respond in kind to the X Case judgment. Twenty-six years ago, we passed a constitutional amendment on abortion that has proved to be a legal landmine and governments ever since have been trying to shore it up. The fact is that abortion is legal in Ireland under the X judgment and all the single European acts, Maastricht and Lisbon protocols in the world will not change that.

What weird, perverted people our fellow Europeans must think us when they see us coming, trumpeting our conscience and our anti-abortionism. Not to mention our hypocrisy. Are the Irish not the same people, they surely ask one another, who gave us the Ryan report about the sadistic brutalisation of born-children?

jmccarthy@tribune.ie

Alleged Spindoctor calls Libertas vote loser Simons ‘psychotic bitch’

Ireland's Evening Herald could not resist the spectacle of Libertas's undignified implosion. As reported on the web yesterday the McGuirk/Simons affair has hit the headlines again. This is an added bonus to all anti Libertas campaigners and voters. Expect more in the coming days as Irish journalists rediscover McGuirk's difficult history in political parties and the flame outs he has previously been pivotal to when in them!!! Meanwhile, Ganley is no where to be seen.
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Spindoctor calls Libertas poll failure Simons ‘psychotic bitch’

ATTACK: But anti-Lisbon candidate gives no response to Facebook slur ">

By Kevin Doyle, POLITICAL REPORTER

Thursday June 18 2009

Ganley courts far right anti Semitic radio in Poland

Ganley recently did a secret deal with a Polish bishop in an attempt to get the support of Radio Maryja. Do we really want religion in politics? Should priests have the influence they had when Ireland was a sea of clerical sex abuse? i don't think so. faith is a private matter and should be kept out of political decisions.

As the Fenian Charles Kickham urged in the Irish People newspaper in 1864 in an article "Priests In Politics", priests should stay away from politics and stick to ministering for the spiritual well being of their flocks. They have no place at the centre of a republic's political life. Vote no to Ganley and his secret deals with the far right religious.

Polish Right-Wing Radio Station to Get EU Money

Radio Maryja, a right-wing broadcaster founded by an ultra-conservative Catholic priest, is in line to get €15 million in European Union funding. The money would go to expand a journalism school for the station, which has been accused of anti-Semitism.

AP

Ultra-Catholic broadcaster Radio Maryja, whose Torun, Poland headquarters are shown here, may be awarded EU funding.

A right-wing Polish radio station founded by an ultra-conservative Polish Catholic priest is in line to get European Union funding.

Radio Maryja, which has been accused of being anti-Semitic and anti-EU, may receive more than €15 million in EU funding for a private university, Poland's Minister of Regional Development Grazyna Gesicka said Tuesday. The project has fulfilled all the necessary criteria and will get the EU grant, Gesicka said.

Her statement confirmed an earlier report in the Tuesday edition of the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza that the school was on a list of 350 projects that Warsaw has recommended to receive EU funding. The money will go to expand Radio Maryja's journalism school, the Torun-based Higher School of Social and Media Culture.

However the European Commission disputed that the funds had been approved. Commission spokeswoman Katharina von Schnurbein told the news agency AFP that the EU's strict ban on discrimination must be adhered to if Radio Maryja was going to get EU money. "We have clear criteria and values," she said. According to sources in the EU quoted by AFP, Radio Maryja's radical stance would reduce its chances of getting funding.

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A spokeswoman for the European Commission told the news Web site EU Observer that the commission could use anti-discrimination rules "to stop the project if necessary."

Radio Maryja was founded by the controversial Catholic priest Tadeusz Rydzyk, who was caught on tape earlier this year making anti-Semitic remarks which were then published in the Polish weekly Wprost. According to the magazine, Rydzyk accused Polish President Lech Kaczynski of being "in the pockets of the Jewish lobbies," and said that if you give them aid, "they will come to you and say 'give me your coat. Take off your pants. Give me your shoes.'" He also referred to Kaczynski's wife as a "witch" for her support of abortion rights.

Rydzyk's recent meeting with Pope Benedict XVI was condemned by international Jewish groups. He has close links to the Kaczynski twins, who are prime minister and president of Poland, and the support of Radio Maryja is thought to have been instrumental in getting the Kaczynskis' Law and Justice party elected in 2005.

Libertas use of Walesa will backfire former Polish President Tusk “I can say with 100 per cent certainty that Libertas will regret this co-operation

Libertas use of Walesa set to backfire, says Tusk

Donald Tusk: says Lech Walesa will ask Irish to support Lisbon

DEREK SCALLY in Warsaw

POLISH PRIME minister Donald Tusk has predicted that Libertas’s recruitment of Lech Walesa in their European election campaign will backfire when he travels to Ireland.

Mr Tusk said the former Polish president had vowed to distance himself from Libertas positions at odds with Poland’s national interests, in particular on the Lisbon Treaty.

“I can say with 100 per cent certainty that Libertas will regret this co-operation – not Mr Walesa,” said Mr Tusk.

“Lech Walesa told me that in Dublin he intends to appeal to the Irish people to support the Lisbon Treaty. That gave me a great sense of relief.”

Mr Walesa’s paid appearances at Libertas rallies in Rome and Madrid caused consternation in Poland and prompted speculation that Libertas hoped to co-opt the Solidarity legend for electoral gain.

Yesterday, Mr Tusk conceded that the co-founder of the Solidarity trade union and a key negotiator of Poland’s transition to democracy in 1989 was notorious for changing his mind in public.

“On the one hand, you are quite right on that, he’s always good for a surprise. He wouldn’t have been such an effective leader in negotiations with the communists if he did not have this trait,” he said. “But on Poland’s fundamental European policy, he has never cheated, he does not change his opinion. That is my personal conviction.”

Five years after joining the EU, the Polish leader said the global economic crisis had made Poland’s planned euro zone entry in 2012 more difficult, but not impossible.

“It’s still quite a likely development, even if it is more difficult than 12 months ago,” he said. “But euro zone entry by 2012 is not a dogma. We don’t have to prove that Poland can do it at any cost.”

The Tusk government has accepted a $20 billion flexible credit facility from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – not to pump into the economy, he said, but to calm recent volatility in the zloty exchange rate.

“It shows that there are ways and means of maintaining our pace,” he said.

On EU affairs, Mr Tusk expressed disappointment at the cool EU reaction to the Eastern Partnership strategy, co-authored by Poland, to give an accession perspective to Ukraine, Turkey and other prospective EU members.

He was critical of member states who cast doubt on Turkey’s EU ambitions, warning that “a key value on which the EU was constructed was an agreement to abide by contracts”. “There can be no Europe without keeping to contracts,” he said.

Mr Tusk was circumspect about US plans to construct a missile defence facility in Poland and the Czech Republic as agreed by the previous administrations in Washington and Warsaw. “We have already signed agreements and are prepared to go ahead with the installation, but we will not do it without the US,” he said.

Unlike his predecessor, Mr Tusk said he was anxious any deal address Moscow’s concerns that the shield poses a security threat to Russia. “For Poland, good relations with Russia are key,” he said.

Whether on transatlantic relations, Georgia or energy policy, Mr Tusk, a Solidarity activist in the 1980s, expressed hope the EU would be able to show greater solidarity in the future.

“Lack of solidarity is a natural state, while solidarity requires ongoing effort and focus,” he said. “If you have your own gas supplies, it’s very easy to do nothing for another country with none that is cut off. Solidarity is not a condition that can be decreed, solidarity is an attitude that comes from sacrifice.”

Ganley lackey and Child/ holocaust abuse denier Hermann Kelly must be squirming now that the report on institutional child abuse is out

Child abuse report, how does Hermann Kelly feel now?

by Hurt Thu May 21, 2009 16:12

The author of "Kathy's Real Story", Hermann Kelly must be squirming now that the report on institutional child abuse is out


The author of "Kathy's Real Story", Hermann Kelly must be squirming now that the report on institutional child abuse is out in the open. Kelly, who used to edit the Irish Catholic and now makes a living doing bits of freelance work, mostly for the Mail, wrote a book that denies the stories of clerical child abuse in institutions. In the book and in his blog and media interviews, Kelly said that the redress board was nothing more than a State ATM for scroungers. He must feel two feet tall now!


The author of "Kathy's Real Story", Hermann Kelly must be squirming now that the report on institutional child abuse is out in the open. Kelly, who used to edit the Irish Catholic and now makes a living doing bits of freelance work, mostly for the Mail, wrote a book that denies the stories of clerical child abuse in institutions. He has also become a pundit of sorts on the topic of child abuse, and is a fan of the "false memory" theory of the "Holocaust deniers" in the debate on clerical child abuse. In the book and in his blog and media interviews, Kelly said that the redress board was nothing more than a State ATM for scroungers. He must feel two feet tall now!
Kelly won't have time to defend his indefensible position these days though, he is too busy working as a propagandist for Euro-hopeful Libertas candidate Raymond O'Malley in Louth. Kelly is thought to be the architect of O'Malley's racist speech where the bearded Ardee man condemned the Polish workers who get PRSI numbers here. Kelly also attends public meetings where O'Malley speaks, and makes contributions from the floor under the alias "Pat Gillick." O'Malley, described by billboard graffitists in Meath as "the IFA reject", was a former pretender to the leadership of the IFA. Farmers in Louth are incensed that he has now turned on them and joined the anti-CAP Libertas.
Kelly and O'Malley; birds of a feather..

Lech Walesa offers penance over Ganley affair and says he will come to Ireland to campaign for a YES vote in Lisbon referendum

Walesa to convince the Irish about the Treaty
PAP
Onet.pl Wiadomo?ci

[Here is a translation of a Polish Press Agency article that appeared today.]

Former Polish President Lech Wałęsa declared readiness to come to Ireland to persuade its people to adopt the Lisbon Treaty. He said this in an interview with AFP agency - informs PAP (Polish Press Agency) service.

"As a member of the EU Council of Wise Men I should listen to people from Libertas in order to know, what they think and what they are planning. I do not agree with Libertas and only present to them my point of view" Walesa said in an interview published today, referring to criticism relating to his participation in Libertas' congresses.

"I am ready to go to Ireland and take part in the discussion there, alone or accompanied by (the leader of Libertas Declan) Ganley and say: "My dear Irishmen, back up the treaty. This is necessary because it's better to have an imperfect driver than not have any at all. And this treaty we will improve" he pointed out.

He assured that his aim is to "convince Ganley to withdraw from the criticism of the Treaty of Lisbon.

The Irish rejected the treaty in a referendum in June 2008, the next referendum to take place at the end of this year. For the treaty to come into force, it must be ratified by all Member States.

Walesa stressed the need to talk to opponents. "Of course, you can refuse to talk, force anti-EU or antiglobal to demonstrate. However, you can also accept a democratic confrontation, invite them to take part in the discussion to see what they have to say - said Walesa.

"Walesa wondered on the situation of some of the mentioned countries - with only 20 percent of the population taking part in the elections. The question is what the other 80 percent thinks. Really, is there no room for other ideas? Does somebody have a monopoly on truth?" Asked Walesa.

He pointed out that "It is better for the skeptics and opponents to find their place in the European structures instead of manifesting in the streets, throwing stones and burning tires.

He expressed his conviction that the EU should have a president, though he stressed that "what is needed first is to define his powers, areas of his responsibility, for example, relations with Russia and China." He also added that "if we wont have a strong leadership, we will stay an underdog against Russia and China."

Walesa has expressed the regret that Europe does not recognize the significance of the date of 4 June 1989 - "The elections in communist Poland knocked the teeth of the communist bear, and when a toothless bear could no longer bite, we could move on to destroy the Berlin Wall" - he said. "Unfortunately, many people in Europe do not want to keep in mind that it was Poland and the Poles in 1989 that opened the way for the dismantling of the Yalta order and for the unification of Europe." __________________

Thanks to our Polish bureau for the accurate translation

Libertas Spain wants common EU tax and defence

This is a link to the official programme of Libertas-Ciudadanos de Espana in Spain:

http://www.ciudadanos-cs.org/statico/pdf/programas/Programa_europeas_2009.pdf

In it, they make clear their support for a common EU tax policy:

Quote:

13. Política fiscal y social común de la Unión Europea. Libertas-Ciudadanos de España apoya una política fiscal y social común que impida en el seno de la UE el dumping fiscal y social entre Estados y haga posible el establecimiento de un verdadero espacio económico y social europeo. Asimismo impulsaremos la coordinación de las diferentes administraciones tributarias con el fin de combatir el fraude fiscal.

13. Common social and tax policy. Ciudadanos de España supports common fiscal and social policies that would prevent fiscal and social dumping between states within the EU and enable the establishment of a genuine European economic and social space. It also will promote the coordination of the various tax authorities to combat tax fraud.

Libertas have formed an alliance in Spain which is pushing for a common tax policy despite their stated opposition in Ireland to the CCCTB and despite claiming that candidates from other parties support common corporate tax rates.

Some other policies of Libertas in Spain:

Quote:

apoyamos la aprobación por referéndum de un nuevo Tratado o Constitución Europea, clara, breve y legible que incorpore la Carta de los Derechos Fundamentales de la Unión Europea y la adhesión al Convenio Europeo de Derechos Humanos

we support the approval by referendum of a new European Constitution or Treaty, clear, brief and readable, to incorporate the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and accession to the European Convention on Human Rights

Isn't Ganley opposed to the Charter of Fundamental Rights?

Libertas Spain also want a common foreign policy, a common defence, and common immigration and asylum policies, along with free movement of labour:

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8. Una política exterior y de defensa común. La integración de la UE debe incluir necesariamente la política exterior y de defensa. Tener una sola voz supondrá una mejor protección de los intereses de los Estados que componen la UE. En cooperación con las estructuras de la OTAN, la UE debe desempeñar un papel protagonista en su propia seguridad y en la seguridad global. Es necesario unir todos los recursos de defensa europeos para una mejor respuesta ante cualquier emergencia de seguridad.

8. A foreign policy and a common defence. EU integration must necessarily include foreign and defence policy. Having a single voice will mean better protection for the interests of the States that comprise the EU. In cooperation with the structures of NATO, the EU must play a role in its own security and global security. It is necessary to unite all European defence resources to better respond to security emergencies.

Common immigration and asylum policy:

21. Una política común de inmigración y asilo. Consideramos necesario armonizar y unificar las políticas de los Estados en materia de inmigración y asilo en una política común de la Unión Europea que regule la entrada, acogida e integración de inmigrantes. Asimismo consideramos necesario establecer los mismos criterios para la concesión del Estatuto de refugiado y en la lucha contra el tráfico, trata y explotación de personas.

21. A common policy on immigration and asylum. We consider it necessary to harmonize and unify State policies on immigration and asylum in a common policy in the European Union to regulate the entry, reception and integration of immigrants. We consider it necessary to establish the same criteria for the granting of refugee status and fighting trafficking, trafficking and exploitation of people.

Mobility of labour within the EU:

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12. Libre movilidad del trabajo y el conocimiento. Además del apoyo a la tradicional movilidad del trabajo en el seno de los países de la UE, Libertas-Ciudadanos de España quiere impulsar la movilidad de los estudiantes, académicos e investigadores para fomentar las invenciones y descubrimientos como aspecto fundamental de la competitividad de la UE.

12. Free mobility of labour and knowledge. In addition to support for the traditional labour mobility within the EU, Libertas - Ciudadanos de España wants to promote the mobility of students, academics and researchers to encourage inventions and discoveries as a crucial aspect of EU competitiveness.

So in Ireland Libertas oppose freedom of movement, oppose a common tax policy, probably would oppose a common immigration policy, oppose the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and would probably claim to oppose a common defence, at least publicly.

Yet in Spain, Libertas favour freedom of movement, support a common tax policy, support a common immigration policy, support the Charter of Fundamental Rights and support a common defence.

This is not just an individual candidate's opinion: this is official Libertas-Ciudadanos de Espana policy.

Libertas Slovakian partners election slogan "Europe will either be Christian or it will not be at all"

15th May: Libertas today announced an alliance with the coalition of the Conservative Democrats of Slovakia (KDS) and the Civic Conservative Party (OKS), whose candidates Libertas will be endorsing for the European Parliament elections in June. http://www.libertas.eu/en/news/news-slovakia/362-libertas-announces-alliance-in-slovakia
The campaign will be under the banner "Europe will either be Christian or it will not be at all" .

This is divisive, xenophobic and again plays shows that Libertas is playing a racist card in its bid for power.

KDS-OKS Campaign for EP Election Inspired by John Paul II's Legacy

Kosice, May 21 (TASR) - The coalition made up of extra-parliamentary Conservative Democrats of Slovakia (KDS) party and the Civic Democratic Party (OKS) is launching its European Parliament (EP) campaign with the slogan that partly draws inspiration from the stances of deceased Pope John Paul II, KDS chairman and independent MP Vladimir Palko said on Thursday.

A slogan that reads "Europe will either be Christian or it will not be at all" will mark the campaign of the coalition that features 13 names on its slate for the elections. KDS-OKS aims to receive at least five percent of votes and one seat in the EP, added Palko.

According to him, KDS is built on Christian principles, and it views with sadness the decline of Christian-oriented parties that are associated in the European People's Party (EPP) in the European Parliament and are in favour of the Lisbon Treaty, despite the threat that it poses for the traditional family.

"We believe that ethical as well as tax issues should be decided on by member states. We aim to co-operate in the EP with parties such as the newly-created Libertas party, Czech Republic's ODS party and the Free Citizens Party, the United Kingdom's Conservative Party or Poland's Law and Justice party," added former interior minister Palko.

The coalition has summarised its election programme in a list of nine "commandments" that, apart from Slovakia's sovereignty and Europe's Jewish-Christian roots, features curtailing of bureaucracy and major changes to the EP.

This is because the EP is governed by a twosome of socialists and EPP that reserves the right to say who is a good European and who is not, depending on one's view regarding the Lisbon Treaty. "This has to be changed by providing more open discussion," noted Palko.

Is the Chairman of Libertas Bulgaria using a false identity to hide organised crime links?

Is Hristo Atanassov, Libertas Bulgaria's chairman pictured above actually Hristo Atanassov Kovachki, seen below on trial in Sofia last year?
If so and it seems very likely, given that they look the same bar a little facial hair and a head crop, then Hristo Atanassov Kovachki has a colouful past.He is on bail awaiting trail on organised crime charges in Sofia. He likes to change his image the below is from the Orgnaised crime and Corruption website.

This is very interesting stuff as Declan ganley set up his first sucessful legit enterprise in Bulgaria after the collapse of the Anglo Adriatic Investment Fund. Kosta Trebicka who worked for Ganley , a fact ganley first denied to RTEs Primetime was murdered in Sept 2008 after he started cooperating with federal Authorities. What always struck me a funny was that when Libertas first tried to address issues raised by Trebicka's death they published a page that stated that Trebicka died in eastern Bulgaria.

Who is Kosta Trebicka?
Kosta Trebicka died tragically on 9th September 2008 while driving his off-road vehicle over mountainous terrain in Eastern Bulgaria.

However international media had clearly reported his death as occuring in Albania.

Albanian witness in U.S. arms probe dies suddenly

Georgi Stoev was murdered in Bulagaria last year when he had written too much about Hristo Atanassov associates. This led the EU to withhold funds from Bulgaia because of organised crime.


http://reportingproject.net/prosecution/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9&Itemid=2

http://images.ibox.bg/2008/09/01/kova4ki/519x346.jpg

Businessman Hristo Kovachki convicted of grave crimes

Sofia Prosecutor's office has summoned as a defendant Hristo Atanassov Kovachki for abuses in extremely high amount and crime cooperation with another person with the purpose of gaining estate benefit, announced representatives of the prosecutor's office press centre.

Hristo Kovachki is on bail in the amount of 300 000 leva (€150 000).

The investigation procedures are being held under the guidance of the Prosecutor's office in accordance with directorate "Combating of organized crime" at Genereal Directorate "Criminal Police".

Until the moment 17 site searches and confiscations have been performed.

Dessislava Filipova, Kovachki personal PR, announced for news.bg that the businessman was in the building of the former GDBOP (now directorate "Combating of organized crime", where he has been interrogated for 15 minutes.

"It was held in good manners", says Filipova.

In her words, all necessary information will be given to the interrogation.

"It's in our interest, that a clear results investigation is held", says Filipova in conclusion.

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_678567717

Written by OCCRP

Tuesday, 02 September 2008

In an unprecedented move, the EU has withheld funds from new member Bulgaria because the ineffective measures it’s taken against organized crime. Killings, frauds and corruption all seem to go unprosecuted and unpunished. The European Union’s (EU) dramatic action in suspending aid to Bulgaria came after ample warnings that mere commitment to judicial reform was not enough. Monitoring reports based on information from Bulgarian authorities, expert reports by member states, and technical experts and civil society consistently pointed to the failure to act decisively against corruption and crime that led the European Commission in late July to block €825 million in pre-accession funds and to pull accreditation for the two Bulgarian government agencies that manage the funds. The commission’s first monitoring report in late June 2007 concluded that the Bulgarian government was committed to judicial reform and to combating corruption and organized crime. However, it noted weakness in translating these intentions into concrete results. A second report last February concluded that while Bulgarians were trying to bring about judicial reform and was fighting corruption at its borders, more had to be done about corruption within local government. It also called for action against high-level corruption. The latest report found few results to demonstrate that new institutions and procedures established had accomplished anything. And it pointed to disturbing connections between organized crime and top officials in the country. Georgi Stoev Almost no one had been arrested, prosecuted or sentenced – and bold killings continue. On April 7, Georgi Stoev, variously described as a writer, a former gangster or as a chronicler of the criminals, was fatally shot just meters from the city’s busiest boulevard in front of hundreds of witnesses. He died in a hospital some hours later. Over the last couple of years, Stoev had given dozens of interviews to newspapers, magazines and TV shows and published nine big-selling books about the rise of the criminal underworld in Bulgaria since the post-communist transition began 1989. He did not hide his own participation and he revealed titbits about the lives of semi-mythical Bulgarian bandits, popular politicians and show business personalities. Former foreign minister Luben Gotsev was one of his favorite topics. Stoev depicted the powerful Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) member in TV appearances as both a homosexual and the “real godfather of the Bulgarian mafia.” After the last of these programs, Gotsev commented to the Weekend newspaper, “Stoev wrote a lot of nonsense… let him carry it to the graveyard.” Stoev’s loud-and-clear murder diverted attention from another bloody incident just the day before: the murder of 41-year-old businessman Borislav Georgiev in the Luylin district of west Sofia. Georgiev had been director of Atomenergoremont -- a private company that had won more than €20 million in state commissions to repair the Kozloduy nuclear power plant. According to the Bulgarian trade register, Atomenergoremont is entirely owned by the Bulgarian Energy Company, which is half owned by Tradespot Investment Limited, a company registered in the Virgin Islands. The other half of its shares are owned by Radostina Dimova, 38, who figures in all the significant projects and companies of the businessman Hristo Kovachki. Kovachki is known for the support he gave to the newly founded Lider (Leader) Party. Hristo Kovachki “This killing is a threat to me and to all our structures,” Kovachki said. “This definitely sends some sort of a signal, which is unpleasant.” These two murders overlapped with a major scandal in the Interior Ministry of Rumen Petkov, a leading Socialist Party member and one of the faces of the ruling coalition. The ministry had long insisted it was waging a determined battle with criminal groups and corrupt officials. But its squeaky-clean image was shattered when Atanas Atanasov, a deputy in parliament, revealed recorded conversations from a CD he found in his post box at parliament in March. These conversations showed that Ivan Ivanov, deputy director of the ministry’s Unit for Fighting Organized Crime, warning alcohol producers about planned police actions against them over unpaid tax. Ivanov was arrested and an investigation started, but Petkov, who had hired him, insisted there was no need for him to resign. Then Vanio Tanov, the former chief of the organized crime unit, revealed that in December 2006 the minister had met with Angel Hristov and Plamen Galev, two businessmen then under police investigation. Petkov did not deny the businessmen’s shady image, nor that he had met them. But he maintained that he was negotiating in order to avoid their collision with other criminal groups and the creation of a negative image of Bulgaria. In late March the minister told the Parliamentary Commission for National Security that he did not feel guilty about the meeting, although he had not told Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev about it. Stanishev as well as President Georgi Paravanov supported him. But his career could not survive the murders of Georgiev and Stoev. They were the latest of more than 150 people killed over the past five years – and for which no one has been imprisoned. The European Commission demanded to know how much longer unsolved killings would be permitted to continue in Bulgaria. Petkov finally resigned April 13, though he was hardly repentant. “This decision is not a sign of weakness and it is not yielding under pressure,” he declared. Since then, the government has made many promises about renewing a fight against corruption and about changing ministers and deputy ministers. But on July 9, a year ago, citizens got proof of how entrenched organized crime has become in the country. On that day, the Municipal Court of Sofia postponed yet again the sentencing of brothers Krasimir and Nikolay Marinovi. The two businessmen helped put together SIK – believed to be one of the most powerful crime groups in the country. Most of their colleagues from Bulgaria’s criminal world have been left dead in the streets over the past decade, but others have turned into regular and successful businessmen. The Marinovis were convicted with five other men for plotting the murders of businessmen Luzen Gotzev, Nikola Damjanov and Ivan Todorov. Their trial was held up as a symbol of Bulgaria’s resolution to take back the state from the gangsters. But none of the convicted has served time. They have evaded prison thanks to an array of suddenly developed illnesses. Krasimir Marinovi persuaded a judge with the help of a doctor’s certificate that he needed treatment for a spinal disc hernia. A July hearing was reset for October, but then never held. In the meantime, another businessman and BSP bigwig targeted as a potential victim of the Marginite brothers was shot dead in Sofia in late February 2006. Police sources say that the group is connected to the murder of banker Emil Kulev, who in October 2005 was shot while driving his luxury jeep down a Sofia boulevard. No one has been arrested and there are no suspects. Besides owning one of the biggest Bulgarian banks, an insurance company and an empire of big firms in all main sectors of the economy – Kulev was a generous sponsor of the ruling BSP and officially an adviser to President Parvanov, a former BSP leader. He was not the only party bigwig to be attacked. On July 11, 2007, Manol Velev was shot in the head in front of his office in the center of Sofia. He survived, but barely. Velev’s wife, Vessela Lecheva is the chief of the State Agency for Youth and Sport and a member of the BSP High Council. Sergey Stanishev Prime Minister and BSP leader Stanishev called the murder attempt “an impudent provocation against the state.” He saw in the crime an effort by organized crime to rock the state. But he still defended the failure of officials to do anything about the killings. “It’s not true that the Internal Ministry didn’t uncover killing – there are more than 20 resolved cases, but there is need of more efforts, especially in the cases with bigger public interest like that of the banker Emil Kulev and some others,” he said in July 2007. Law enforcement efforts have failed against white collar crimes as badly as murder. Valentin Dimitrov, the former chief of Sofia’s central heating company Toplofikazia, has, according to investigators, millions of Euros in Bulgarian and Austrian bank accounts. He was convicted last fall of the misuse of 27 million leva and of hiding taxes, money laundering and currency crimes. He remains free and has not been sentenced. Because of this case and another scandal involving bribes in the state tobacco monopoly Bulgartabak, Economic and Energy Minister Roumen Ovcharov resigned. He was, however, never subjected to a criminal investigation. In the meantime, 60 percent of Toplofikazia-Sofia subscribers, shocked by the scandal, have refused to pay bills of nearly €95 million to the firm. In another scandal, more than €7.5 million went to a network of Bulgarian and foreign companies from the EU’s Special Accession Program for Agriculture and Rural Development (SAPARD) between 2003 and 2005. In 2006, six Bulgarian men and women were arrested in Germany and Switzerland for their connection to a scheme in which SAPARD money was funneled to businessman Ludmil Stojkov. Stojkov owns steel, tourism and other businesses and was a generous backer of Parvanov in the last presidential election. The scheme involved the export of old machines for food production from Bulgaria to the border between Germany and Switzerland. There, they were masked as new machines and imported back into Bulgaria. Company owners got money from SAPARD to buy new equipment. While suspects including Stojkov were arrested, all were freed and never sentenced.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 February 2009 )

http://reportingproject.net/prosecution/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9&Itemid=2

Hermann (Goering) Kelly, Irish Mail freelancer is secretly running Libertas Raymond O'Malley's campaign in the East

Hermann (Goering) Kelly, from the pro-life movement and all-around ultra right wing Catholic is pushing some of the immigration rants from libertas Ireland according to sources close to Libertas. This is the same guy who writes for the Mail and anyone else who'll take his writings.

Hermann Kelly is secretly running Raymond O'Malley's campaign in East. It seems that Libertas want to dump some of the blame for the immigration/emigration debacle on his shoulders. however, the Blue card initiative is that Simon's is pushing is also contained in Ganley's Book "The Road To Democracy" written by ageing British agent Bruce Arnold.


John McGuirk is closely working with Simons and O'Malley so is obviously also involved in the race card his pal Richard Waghorne is also working at the Irish Mail .

The editors at the mail should take note.....are you feeling me Enda?

Libertas want to introduce work permits across Europe valid for a maximum of two years. Irish also denied freedom to work North or South without visa

Libertas candidate Caroline Simons has unveiled the new Libertas plan to end freedom of travel in the EU. The new proposals will affect millions of Irish emigrants in Britain, and Europe. Under the new proposals Libertas say that EU citizens will be required to get a Blue Card in order to work in other countries, This will entitle them to work for only two years in another country. If a person is unemployed then they will receive social payments directly from their country of origin only.
Even more bizarrely Libertas state that Irish citizens will be required to get a Blue Card /work permit to work in Northern Ireland if they are from the south and vis a versa.
She made these statements on Irish national radio Today FM matt Cooper show on Friday 15th May. http://www.todayfm.com/Shows/Weekdays/Matt-Cooper/listen.aspx see The Last Word 5pm hour Friday: 15/5/2009 after the news and sport

I'm not twisting anything. Simmons said the proposal would apply "across the board", including to Irish people in Britain:

Caroline Simmons: "We have proposed...a Blue Card system for all EU citizens...".

Matt Cooper: "Would this apply to Irish people...who go to England?"

Caroline Simmons: "Yes..."

Question: "Would someone coming from Newry to work in Dundalk have to apply [for a Blue Card]?"

Caroline Simmons: "...Well if you're going to apply it, you've got to apply it across the board...".

So Simmons has said that it would apply to all EU citizens, including Irish people going to live and work in Britain, and including people from Northern Ireland coming to live and work in the Republic.

That'll really play well in the North West especially!

Well done Caroline!

You can listen to the interview yourself here:
http://www.todayfm.com/Shows/Weekdays/Matt-Cooper/listen.aspx

It's the second segment 5pm (The Last Word 5pm hour Friday: 15/5/2009), about 7 or 8 minutes in after the news and sport.

She explains that a proposal for a Blue Card system across the EU in
Ganley's book would mean that workers would only be able to live and
work in another EU state for two years before their entitlement to
work runs out: after that it would depend on the labour market in
their host country.
http://www.politics.ie/elections/69082-libertas-branded-fascist-party-mep-de-rossa-2.html#post1661847

In their race to the bottom introducing race issues and xenophobia into Irish political life Libertas have also declared that Ireland should be divided and that those in the North can not work in the south without visa. It is interesting that on Libertas candidate in the UK fought in Northern Ireland in the British Army during the troubles, and Libertas Uk is run by a recently retired British Officer Robin Matthews.

Raymond O'Malley the Libertas candidate for Ireland east also wants to halt all immigration to Ireland. Denying Irish people freedom of movement is a new innovation in the \Libertas program for a Nationalist xenophobic racist Europe.

Lech Walesa for Dublin and supporter of Nazis for Libertas meeting in Germany

Lech Walesa says he supports the Lisbon Treaty but will continue to appear at Libertas meetings for fees.

Meanwhile in Germany Libertas will have a meeting addressed by Eva Herman, a German newsreader sacked two years ago for praising Nazi family policies. This comes a day after Irish Libertas candidate Raymond O'Malley has come out against immigration.


Walesa expected in Ireland for Libertas election rally


DEREK SCALLY in Berlin

CAMPAIGN ADDRESS: SOLIDARITY CO-FOUNDER Lech Walesa is expected to address a Libertas European election event in Ireland in the coming days.

The former Polish president has been attacked as a “disgrace” at home for appearing at Libertas events in Rome and Madrid – for a reported fee of €100,000.

As the European election enters its final phase, Mr Walesa’s reported five-city tour is also likely to include an address in Warsaw. Any such appearance will be a controversial one for the Polish icon many of his countrymen have accused of selling out.

“Lech Walesa is a symbol of peaceful democratic changes in Poland and elsewhere in Europe, our ambassador in the world. And now this ambassador disgraces us,” wrote the influential Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper, founded by former Polish dissidents in 1989.

At his second Libertas event, on Wednesday in Madrid, Mr Walesa said he agreed with the Libertas call for a more transparent Europe but that ratifying the Lisbon Treaty was the key to do so. “We must approve Lisbon so that we can change things from inside,” he said.

Mr Walesa refused to comment on claims that he was being paid to attend the meetings.

“Libertas-Citizens of Spain” is a coalition of three minuscule regional parties formed last month and has to date only named three candidates.

One, Miguel Duran, is a controversial character, blind from infancy and who, under circumstances never fully explained, shot from being a 32-year-old professional Braille print operator to head an NGO representing disabled and blind people in Spain. Under his leadership the organisation, Once, became immensely powerful with fingers in many financial pies, and Mr Duran himself became very wealthy.

He went on to become the head of Tele 5, one of Spain’s largest private television companies.

In 1998 he was charged with insider trading and other financial irregularities and was only finally acquitted by the Supreme Court last year.

Meanwhile in Austria, the lead candidate of the late Jörg Haider’s far-right Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ), said Libertas approached the party with the idea of a joint election bid.

“They sounded us out about a co-operation before the election. But we always made clear that we will run as the BZÖ and not under the name of anyone else,” said Ewald Stadler to Austria’s Tiroler Zeitung newspaper.

In Germany, Libertas will today launch a joint campaign with the AUF, a year-old Christian environmental party.

After missing the deadline to submit its own candidates, the AUF’s 11 election candidates have agreed to support Libertas if elected.

The joint campaign will be launched in Frankfurt with a speech by Eva Herman, a German newsreader sacked two years ago for praising Nazi family policies. the Lisbon Treaty but will be paid to speek at another Libertas rally in Dublin.

Libertas run racist candidate in Ireland

Racist Raymond O'Malley of Libertas

The truth emerges at last as Libertas play racist card in Ireland. Raymond O'Malley asks that Ireland close its borders. We must resist this far right party by any means necessary.

Libertas call to close borders sparks race row

By ine Kerr Political Correspondent

Friday May 15 2009

A Libertas election candidate was last night accused of "playing the race card" after claiming Ireland's borders should be closed to stop any future influx of foreign nationals.

Raymond O'Malley, who is running in the European elections in the East constituency, said the



borders should be closed to the 10 accession states as long as Ireland's high unemployment rate persists.

The Libertas candidate claimed over 29,000 PPS numbers were handed out to foreign nationals since January of this year.

"I think we've got to stop it. I think we have to look after our own people," Mr O'Malley said.

Asked if "barriers" should be put up, Mr O'Malley said: "As long as we've this rate of unemployment, yes."

Given the current economic difficulties and the rising unemployment rates, no additional foreign nationals should be given residency, he argued. However, those already resident in Ireland should be allowed remain.

"They're here. They're very welcome and they'll have to stay," he told 'The Last Word' with Matt Cooper on Today FM.

"There's been a funnel effect because Ireland was only one of three EU countries that allowed the accession states to have free access to our labour market."

Last night, his constituency rival, Fine Gael senator John Paul Phelan, accused Mr O'Malley of "playing the race card".

Outrageous

"I was shocked at his outrageous statement. This is fantasy economics by Libertas. To try and blame foreign nationals for our economic problems is completely missing the point," he said.

Defending his remarks last night, Mr O'Malley said that with 400,000 Irish people out of work, it is no longer "sound policy" to issue PPS numbers to foreign nationals.

"Our immigration policy is hurting the domestic economy, placing vulnerable people -- especially asylum seekers -- at risk, and allowing our EU partners to ignore their legal obligations," he told the Irish Independent.

- ine Kerr Political Correspondent

Libertas personal unhappy and leaving as "Libertas attracts too many right wingers and religious fundamentalists."

Over the last few months I have kept up correspondence and received great deals of information from people inside the Libertas groupings both in Ireland and throughout Europe. I have fully appreciated the idealism and hope that many of my correspondents have expressed and i have often taken their concerns on board when ameliorating the blog contents as they were not the architects of the Libertas scam.
Below is an email I received yesterday

Hi People,

just to let you know that after thoroughly observing Libertas I am no longer with them. The final blow: in Germany they have teamed up with a "Christian" party, which is just ridiculous.

There are some good people in Libertas, and I still agree with the goal of making Europe more democratic, but obviously Libertas attracts too many right wingers and religious fundamentalists.

I still think the wording of your blog is not adequate. They are surely not Nazis and it makes your blog much less credible and convincing.

All the best
XXXXXXXX

I am aware that many people involved with Libertas are not Nazis but many are. I also receive emails from people who say of Le Mouvement Pour la France, aka Libertas France

MPF is also full of racists, even they hide it and have mock internal
rules against xenophobia.

So what can we do ? keep on keeping on.
Stop Libertas now before it is too late.

Fight the lies that Libertas and Declan Ganley state as facts

Declan Ganley uses every opportunity to say that 80% of Irish law comes from Brussels well it is a lie. Here are some facts about Libertas and Declan ganley's misuse of information and Big Lies.

Fight the Lies

The Irish people deserve an honest debate on this Treaty, we promise that our campaign will base all our arguments on the facts, and will reference all our statements.

We don’t believe in attacking people personally, but we have zero tolerance for anyone who lies to the Irish people in this campaign. When people make false statements, we will respond immediately with the truth

LIE: Unelected Brussels bureaucrats make up to 80% of laws.

THE TRUTH:EU law is democratically agreed by our elected representatives, and represents less than half the laws implemented in Ireland each year

See our Research

• New research demonstrates definitively that Libertas’ claim that “Unelected Brussels bureaucrats make up to 80% of laws” is completely false.
• Gen Yes’s team of researchers have analysed all legislation from the last 17 years to show that on average, the real proportion of laws that comes from Brussels is less than half of what Libertas claims. In a year-by-year analysis, not once does the amount of legislation coming from Brussels rise even as far as 50%. Furthermore, not one single EU law can be passed without approval from our elected MEPs or our elected politicians in the European Council.
• We analysed the texts of Irish Acts and Statutory Instruments between 1992 and 2009, that period covers 588 Acts and 10,725 Statutory Instruments.
• We analysed the texts of these 11,313 pieces of legislation for any mention whatsoever of European legislation (Directives, Regulations, Council Decisions). If there is a single mention, we have counted that Act or Statutory Instrument as “European” which if anything will overstate the proportion of legislation that is “European”.
• 
• Results:
• Of the 588 Acts, 114 contain at least one reference to European legislation (19.39%). Of the 10,725 Statutory Instruments, 3,050 contain at least one reference to European legislation (28.44%). Of the total of Irish legislation from 1992 to 2009, then, only 3,164 out of 11,313 Acts and Instruments contain any reference whatsoever to European legislation - 27.97%.
• This is the maximum possible amount of Irish legislation that could possibly be related to “Brussels legislation”. Further analysis would reduce this total, because some Acts/SIs will not in fact be implementing EU legislation, but only making some reference to it, or only part of the legislation text is implementing EU legislation, while the majority of the Act/SI implements purely national legislation.
• Looked at year by year, it can be seen that in no year does the amount of Irish legislation in any sense ‘containing traces of EU’ rise as far as 50%.
• One final point is that the claim may refer to EU regulation which is
  directly applicable without requiring an Act/SI. Even if we include
  these regulations (3,009), the amount of legislation in any way
  “European” only reaches 43%. Nearly half what Libertas claims.
• Methodology:
• The advantage to our methodology is that - first and foremost - anyone can repeat the exercise themselves. The Acts and Statutory Instruments for the period are all available online.

LIE: EU laws are made by unelected elites.

THE TRUTH: Every EU law has to be approved by either the people’s directly elected MEPs, or by the elected government representatives of the member states. That means no law can be passed without approval by your elected representatives. The Treaty increases the Parliament’s power further.

LIE: The EU wants to introduce conscription in Ireland.

THE TRUTH: There is no EU army, and there is no move toward conscription. Very few countries have conscription in their national armies, and many of them are phasing it out.Furthermore, close to one fifth of EU countries are neutral states, like Ireland.

from Generation Yes

Caroline Simons against euthanasia but hates the old

Despite her objections to people having a dignified death Caroline Simons of Libertas thinks it is not a good thing to be working at the age of 69. On Tonight with Vincent Browne last Thursday she slammed Phroncais de Rossa Irish Labour Party MEP for being 69 and still politically active. Sha also made fun of his Irish language surname. Watch the show
Should people who are slightly oolder go off and die on their own or remain active contributors to society. Simons and Libertas obviously think the old are useless.

The planet hating Libertas candidate is typical of the xenophobic hate fuelled candidates Libertas are running in Europe.

Launching a strong attack on Labour's outgoing Dublin MEP, Proinsias De Rossa, Ms Simons said he is "a man who has been 15 years in the European Parliament and who next year will be 70 years of age".

Asked to explain why she had highlighted Mr De Rossa's age, she denied she was discriminating against older people, adding: "I want to make it clear that Libertas is a new party with energy, vitality and ideas."

Irish Times

She was saved by uber spin doctor for the far right planet haters Declan Ganley who blustered forth about the ultra Catholic blind candidate the party was running in Spain.

Libertas No way

Libertas candidate in the UK is unregistered EU lobbyist plus Libertas Irish candidate has taken €28,427 last year in EU farm subsidies

Libertas candidate in the UK is unregistered EU lobbyist.
Despite the fact that Libertas Chairman Declan Ganley said, “It is completely unacceptable that the lobbyists in Brussels will be left to regulate themselves. The fact that thousands of lobbyists who influence the policy that affects everyone in Europe are doing so without having to identify themselves or declare their interests is indicative of the lack of transparency in Brussels as a whole.”
Libertas UK candidate Margot Parker is just such an unregistered EU lobbyist.
According to her own website

Margot is a Director of Eurocom-Consult, a well-known and respected figure in EU parliamentary and lobbying circles, particularly in relation to the promotional, marketing, food and fragrance industries.

According to her Libertas blog Margot is

No stranger to the European parliament, Margot has been personally involved in lobbying in the EU in both Brussels and Strasbourg

Furthermore Libertas Irish candidate Raymond O'Malloy was also an EU lobbyist on agricultural matters.

These contradictions are typical of Libertas.

Likewise Libertas leader Herr Ganley also condemned the Common Agricultural Policy as a weapon of mass destruction. But Raymond O'Malley received €28,427 last year under the single farm payment scheme.
According to The Sunday Times

Declan Ganley, the Libertas founder, called EU subsidies “offensive to the dignity of farmers”, but Raymond O’Malley, one of his party’s candidates in the European elections, claimed €28,427 last year under the single farm payment scheme.

O’Malley, who is running in the East constituency, is a former vice-president of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) and owns a beef farm outside Ardee, Co Louth.

Although Ganley has previously described the common agricultural policy (CAP) as a “weapon of mass destruction”, O’Malley insisted there was no conflict between him and his leader.

A vote for Libertas is a vote for lies and contradictions, the far right and planet haters.

Libertas candidates in Poland support Death penalty and hates gays and lesbians and human rights

Declan Ganley may talk a lot but who his friends are speaks volumes.

One of the Libertas candidates in Poland, Wojciech Wierzejski:

Quote:

W trakcie sprawowania mandatu radnego, eurodeputowanego, a następnie posła, wielokrotnie krytycznie wypowiadał się o osobach orientacji homoseksualnej i działalności organizacji LGBT. M.in. w 2004 "ze względów higienicznych" odmówił podania ręki organizatorom Parady Równości. W tym samym roku opublikował na swojej stronie internetowej "listę gejów i lesbijek"[1]. Jego działania i wypowiedzi były krytykowane, m.in. przez Amnesty International i Human Rights Watch, które oceniały je jako nawołujące do łamania praw człowieka[2][3]. W przedterminowych wyborach parlamentarnych w 2007 bez powodzenia kandydował do Sejmu. 6 marca 2009 przejął obowiązki prezesa Ligi Polskich Rodzin, po rezygnacji Mirosława Orzechowskiego[4]. 19 kwietnia tego roku zrezygnował ze wszystkich funkcji w partii. Potem został kandydatem KW Libertas w wyborach do Parlamentu Europejskiego.

During his term of office as councillor, MEP, and Member of Parliament, he was repeatedly criticized by [...] LGBT organizations. These include in 2004 "for reasons of hygiene" he refused to shake the hands of the organizers of the equality parade. In the same year he published on his website a list of gays and lesbians [1]. His actions and statements were criticized, including by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, who evaluated them as calls for human rights violations [2] [3].

In [the last] parliamentary elections in 2007 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Sejm [Polish parliament]. On 6 March 2009, he took over as President of the League of Polish Families, after the resignation of Miroslaw Orzechowski [4]. On 19 April this year, he resigned from all functions in the party. Then he became a Libertas candidate for the elections to the European Parliament.

[1]: http://miasta.gazeta.pl/warszawa/1,34889,2104433.html
[2]: http://www.amnesty.org.pl/fileadmin/user_upload/docs/Polska_Raport_Roczny_AI_2007.doc (MS Word document)
[3]: http://www.hrw.org/en/search/apachesolr_search/Poland
[4]: http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1342,title,Miroslaw-O.-z-zarzutami-Wierzejski-p.o.-szefa-LPR,wid,10918448,wiadomosc.html?ticaid=17fe1

This is what he said when he became President of the LPR:

Quote:

Pan prezes złożył rezygnację, w związku z czym, ja, zgodnie ze statutem, faktycznie pełnię obowiązki prezesa, ale żadne ciało mnie nie powołało

The President has resigned, and therefore, I, in accordance with the [party] statute, effectively fulfill the responsibilities of the President, but no body has appointed me.

Another unelected leader of a political party?

Another wacky Libertas candidate from Poland, Anna Sobecka:

Quote:

Była autorką pomysłu o dodatkowym opodatkowaniu obywateli nieposiadających dzieci, a także pensji dla matek, które zrezygnowały z pracy na rzecz wychowania dzieci.

She was the author of the idea for an additional tax for citizens without children, as well as salaries for mothers who gave up a job to look after the education of [their] children.

Quote:

W wyborach parlamentarnych w 2007 po raz czwarty uzyskała mandat poselski. Kandydując z listy Prawa i Sprawiedliwości w okręgu toruńskim, otrzymała 15 180 głosów. W 2009 została zarejestrowana jako kandydatka partii Libertas Polska do Parlamentu Europejskiego.

In the 2007 parliamentary elections she gained a parliamentary mandate for the fourth time. A candidate for the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość* [Rights and Justice party] in the district of Torun, she received 15,180 votes.

In 2009 she registered as a Libertas Poland candidate for the European Parliament.

*Among the policies of this party is 'przywrócenie kary śmierci' ('the restoration of the death penalty').

So someone elected for PiS, a party which supports the 'restoration of the death penalty', is running as a candidate under the Libertas name.

In addition, she's proposed a tax on citizens without children and wants working women to be paid to give up their jobs and stay at home to look after their kids.