Political Gobshiteism Reaches New Low

The Inevitability of Parliamentary Skullduggery
The Polish parliament has a lot of eejits in its midst, and Artur Zawisza is certainly in the top ten. Usually it would be the reserve of extreme right-wing MP's from the League of Polish Families to come up with the most ludicrous notions for legislation, but it seems like Zawisza who recently left the governing Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc (Law and Justice) party to help establish the more right-wing Prawica Rzeczypospolitej (Right of the Republic)is putting himself in pole position for the 2007 prize of political absurdity. Trying to out-right the right usually makes you look like a right fool - and Zawisza's battle against the devil in short skirts and low tops is an indication of the levels of crapology that have befallen the parliamentary scene here.

Lead us not into Temptation.....
....but put in chains all those who dress outside the 'Zawisza canon', amen! The conservative Catholic lawmaker has proposed the introduction of legislation against "sexual temptation" which may include penalties for wearing miniskirts or heavy make-up as well as low-cut or see-through blouses. This of course begs the question, just how mini is mini, how heavy would the make-up have to be, and whether a woman with erect nipples in winter time could be persecuted for breaching the no see-through blouse stipulation! Yes, this man has truly gone totally fucking demented.

Cover your Bust - Buy a Burqa
According to Monday's edition of Newsweek Polska magazine, he is on a crusade partly to eradicate the vice trade along Poland's highways, by restricting working girls preferred items of clothing. Newsweek Polska added that he has been lobbying the Justice Ministry for some months to introduce such a bill. However even Zawisza admitted that the plans could ignite confusion, commenting:

"It could well happen that a good-looking young girl could be arrested on her way home from a disco," he said, insisting however that he trusted in the abilities of police to distinguish between "respectable women and those with loose morals."

Ladies and Gentlemen of Poland, it's time to lock up your daughters, purge their wardrobes, and head to Afghanistan to get a couple of burqas to cover them up from head to toe. Yet, on a more serious note, how in the name of knee-length skirts can such assholes get elected when they have such ridiculous concepts of infringing people's basic right to dress in whatever manner they choose. Why can we not get an MP to come up with a bill that would restrict people from wearing clothes which were made through exploitative labour? Well, I'm not going to even bother answering that question cause if you don't know the answer then you need to study the dynamics that make the global capitalist market go tick-tock.

A short digression if I may. Artur Z. is an unrequited neo-liberal marketeer - another reason to puke at his political status. And while we are on the topic of clothing, I'd suggest that many of us would detest the truth behind clothes labels if it were part and parcel of our critical mindset and shopping purchase criteria - we look at whether we can iron it, wash it at 40 degrees, etc. but few of us shop around to buy ethically, albeit one may find it is a difficult if not near impossible experience. Second-hand is probably the way to go. The country I hail from is facing an election at the end of this month - the choice: Pepsi and Coca-Cola; Nike and Adidas; South African oranges and Ecquadorian bananas; neo-liberals and, well, other neo-liberals, or in less commodity terms of reference - Zawisza and Rokita. A false choice, if ever there was one.

Orwellian Desexualisation Police
The sooner Zawisza returns back to the boy scouts from whence he came the better for all of us. Come to think of it, would his new law mean that Polish tennis players would have to wear trousers whilst playing? Would swimming stars have to don out in swim suits that show no flesh apart from tootsies, neck and head? Maybe he should put a clause in to stop women from shaving their legs in order to stifle sexual temptation? Or even better, set up a Sexual Temptation Detectives (STD's; pun intentional) - I'm sure the fascists from ONR and All Polish Youth would be the first enthusiastic recruits to cleanse us from our impurities.