We have not seen so many important events unfold in almost a decade. At the anniversary we can follow plenty of summaries of all kinds of organizations and groups that are in some way linked to the situation at the border, or just want to use a popular topic solely to promote themselves in the public eye. Can you base on that a picture of what has been happening in the last twelve months? Yes, probably. Unfortunately, much less so. The border, similarly to other aspects of our reality, is being appropriated by two dominating narratives that have dictated the political discourse for more than ten years.
Both these visions are, in fact, two sides of the same coin and they both lead us into the abyss. On the one hand, the government, using primitive social engineering tools, is feeding us with the most disgusting, racist propaganda. These narratives completely dominated politics in the last couple of years, leaving no space for any kind of radical perspective.
Further in the text we will explore how the government reacted to changing situation and how it shaped it across last years. Politics of Prawo i SprawiedliwoΕΔ Law and Justice Party regarding migration has been more or less the same since , when the first battle on migrants started. Several days in mud and rain with no way to deliver food or drink.
No one who could make a decision and take responsibility for it. Relaying to the ministry questions like can you give a thirsty person a bottle of water. Full circle. But we knew it was just the beginning. It was a time for human impulses. Later comes something else β normalization of suffering, death, human segregation. What many of us have seen before at the borders between Greece and Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary or in Calais.
And if we add to that power, possibility to excessive violence and impunity, we get a perfect for the state myrmidon. No one who has been at the border will ever wonder again how death camps were created and how genocides start. Implementing the state of emergency was a reaction to how much media coverage Usnarz got. Despite the fact that Polish law allows to implement a state of emergency maximum for three months, the area on the PL-BY border was cut off for ten months, in which people making the crossing in the forests were left on their own.
