Polish ecologists still under surveillance…

A let­ter, sent to all Pol­ish police head­quar­ters about an order to inves­ti­gate and gath­er infor­ma­tion about oppo­nents of build­ing the bypass through Rospu­da Val­ley has already been cir­cu­lat­ed around the Inter­net.

A let­ter, sent to all Pol­ish police head­quar­ters about an order to inves­ti­gate and gath­er infor­ma­tion about oppo­nents of build­ing the bypass through Rospu­da Val­ley has already been cir­cu­lat­ed around the Inter­net.

Although every­body laughs at the fact that the police are wast­ing their time keep­ing ecol­o­gists under sur­veil­lance the case is quite seri­ous because the pur­pose of this police action is defined as: “to gath­er infor­ma­tion about pos­si­ble dan­gers to pub­lic order and ille­gal sab­o­tage acts from orga­ni­za­tions which show their aver­sion to gov­ern­men­tal enter­prise”.

For the time being, it is not entire­ly obvi­ous what they are look­ing for and how this infor­ma­tion is going to be used by them but most prob­a­bly jour­nal­ists from www.zieloni.org.pl will also be under police sur­veil­lance (although we do not have any sab­o­tage plans, we show our “aver­sion” to gov­ern­men­tal project) that is why we’re going to observe con­stant­ly their plans and inform you sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly. Below you can read the let­ter to the police head­quar­ters.

The same let­ter was sent to all police head­quar­ters in Poland (a copy of the let­ter is avail­able from the web­site http://adamwajrak.blox.pl)

From: The Crime Divi­sion of The Police Head­quar­ters in Jele­nia Góra
To: The Police Head­quar­ters in Jele­nia Góra

TELEGRAM nr MJ-B-5421/38/07

On account of the orders includ­ed in doc­u­ment no WK II 146/06 from the Chief of the Police Sta­tion, Kon­rad Kor­na­tows­ki, dat­ed 19 Feb 2007 about the plans for build­ing the Augusów bypass (Pod­lask­ie province) I would like to ask to order sub­or­di­nate police­men to direct work of per­son­al sources of infor­ma­tion (and to recruit new ones) to gath­er infor­ma­tion about pos­si­ble dan­gers to pub­lic order and ille­gal sab­o­tage acts from orga­ni­za­tions which show their aver­sion to gov­ern­men­tal enter­prise.

All the infor­ma­tion should be sent to SMI WWK KWP in Wrocław (with “Rospu­da” in the sub­ject of the report) and The Crime Divi­sion from The Police Head­quar­ters in Jele­nia Góra should be informed at the same time.

One copy was made.

(sent via fax)

Writ­ten by JL

VICE GOVERNOR
of the Crime Divi­sion
The Police Head­quar­ters in Jele­nia Góra

Chief Inspec­tor Artur KRAWCZYK

[a com­ment by the author of the post] I am not sure what it sup­posed to be: is it a joke or should I start to pan­ic that we are under sur­veil­lance. I won­der what they are going to do with this infor­ma­tion and for what and where they are look­ing… It’s mad­ness! So far I count on free flow of infor­ma­tion and that they will restrain them­selves when they see that every­body has read these let­ters.