#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #POLAND #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Poland, FA: MODERN SLAVERY IS UNFORTUNATELY WELL - Anna (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Modern slavery is actually not much different from that of 20 or 100 years ago,

it is systemic, hedged with paragraphs, and at the same time quite not obvious.
In times of democratic fog, the delusion of self-determination, media overwriting
reality, this is a sad and disturbing phenomenon. The mainstream media is now
writing hysterically about the planned next year's military training for 200,000
Poles, and it's no surprise to us - we know that it has been working the same way
for decades, over the last dozen or so years with a slightly lower intensity,
probably for financial reasons that no longer matter. ---- Military coercion is
not synonymous with compulsory service in the army, it is not always a call to
the war front, it may have a different character, but it is always the same:
forcing a citizen to perform specific actions against his will, subjecting
himself to rigorous inspection under the threat of punishment , donating your
time or property for the defense of the state. It's not work, it's slavery and
plunder. A dictionary definition suited to this situation could sound like this:
"Slavery - a social phenomenon whose essence is a relationship of dependence,
consisting in the fact that a certain group of people (slaves/conscripts) is the
property of other people, groups of people or institutions (the state, its army
), which can dispose of them freely."

Currently (December 2022) there is still a lot of talk about Russians who left
their country by tens of thousands before being drafted into the army, which is
almost synonymous with being sent to the Ukrainian front. The service of the
newly mobilized on the battle line, according to some estimates, gives the
average life of the so-called "mobików" up to 12 days of stay at the front. This
is systemic, mass murder. And fleeing from being drafted into the Russian army is
now perhaps the most massive desertion since World War I.

Almost nothing is said about repressions and threats against Ukrainian
(potential) conscripts, and this is by no means a marginal phenomenon. There are
probably tens of thousands of people who deliberately did not return to Ukraine
from abroad for fear of conscription into the army. Despite the establishment of
a provision prohibiting men of military age from leaving the country, many
thousands of them also left - legally, through bribery, connections or illegally
through the so-called "green border". It is not for us to judge or inquire why
they did it - they did it primarily because they do not want to be slaves.

What is the situation in Poland? Not too cheerful, because compulsory military
service has never been abolished, only its substitute, civilian form was
introduced in 1988 (longer than traditional service, so it is only another form
of imprisonment), and universal conscription itself was suspended only in 2009
until further notice . No other regulations imposing obligations and restrictions
and penalties for non-compliance have not changed:

mandatory registration of pre-conscription workers, also for women studying in
fields consistent with the qualifications that the army is interested in - the
obligation applies to women educated in the following fields: medical analysis,
pharmacy, medicine, medicine and dentistry, nursing, psychology, medical rescue,
veterinary medicine, pharmaceutical technician, veterinary technician,
rehabilitation, radiology, laboratory diagnostics, IT specialist, ICT specialist,
navigator, translator. Women who have registered for military qualification are
already subject to military service under general rules. ("A candidate who
receives a summons but fails to appear at the military commission and fails to
provide a reason may be fined or restricted from liberty")
Keeping military records for all registered - your data will never disappear from
military databases as long as you can be used for military purposes ("Public
administration bodies are obliged to provide personal data free of charge for
processing in military records.")
In the Act on the universal duty to defend the Republic of Poland (the last
changes adopted in 2021 entered into force in April 2022) there are still
provisions on compulsory military service, lasting 9 months, for persons under 35
years of age, while alternative service is provided for 18 months.
Obligatory training for people who have been summoned to participate in them - in
the event of failure to report, the staroste or the president of the city orders
that the person appointed by the Police be forcibly brought to the indicated
military unit, pursuant to the provisions on enforcement proceedings in
administration (Article 61). Whoever, being intended for training or exercises in
civil defense, evades them, shall be subject to a fine, the penalty of
restriction of liberty or imprisonment for up to one year. Whereas Art. 228,
concerning the evasion of the duty of military service, provides for a penalty of
imprisonment of up to 2 years.

At the end of the military training, the conscript is forced to take a military
oath - "Refusal to take the military oath, in accordance with Art. 341 of the
Penal Code, shall be punishable by military detention or imprisonment for up to 3
years.
 From 2021, there has been a change in issuing military booklets - currently they
are issued only after taking the oath. But this document is still hedged with
various prohibitions and obligations.
The obligation to perform military service (active or in reserve), to the extent
specified in the Act, applies to Polish citizens from the day on which they turn
18 until the end of the calendar year in which they turn 60, and those holding
the rank of non-commissioned officer or officer - 63 years of age (these degrees
are obtained by university graduates after training)
Military service may also be performed by dogs and horses owned by the state
treasury, as well as contract dogs
Soldiers (including reserves) are subject to a penalty of secrecy, also after the
end of service in the army
There are also provisions on personal and material benefits in peacetime,
concerning not only citizens but also entrepreneurs: "Persons with Polish
citizenship who have reached the age of 16 and have not exceeded 60 years of age
may be required to perform personal benefits consisting in performing various
types of ad hoc work for the preparation of state defense or combating natural
disasters, liquidation of their effects and crisis management. (...) The
obligation of personal services may also include the obligation to use simple
tools, and in relation to persons performing services consisting in delivering
documents of appointment to military service and summons to perform services,
hereinafter referred to as "couriers" - also owned means of transport. (...) The
obligation to provide personal benefits may be imposed in connection with
military exercises, as well as for the purpose of delivering and servicing items
of benefits in kind."
Aren't these the laws that brought slavery practices into the legal system?
Explaining this by serving the homeland is the same as not so long ago it was
called serving the party, the pope, the emperor or the queen (may her land be
heavy). See what the journalists on duty write about the military oath: "It is
the commitment of soldiers to states and nations, it is the source of their moral
strength. Pursuant to the provisions of the Act, every soldier of the Armed
Forces of the Republic of Poland takes the military oath. It's total gibberish!

Despite huge expenditures on the development of volunteer uniformed formations
(apart from professional military service), i.e. the National Reserve Forces and
the Territorial Defense Forces, the authorities do not intend to abolish
compulsory military service. At the same time, Russia is perfecting conscript
control mechanisms to prevent such mass escapes as happened a few months ago. It
will involve, for example, employers who are to report on their employees, and
will also expand other administrative control systems to make tracking of people
who may be drafted into the army more accurate.

Whether or not we subjectively feel safer through compulsory military service is
no excuse for slavery.

https://federacja-anarchistyczna.pl/2022/12/13/nowoczesne-niewolnictwo-ma-sie-niestety-dobrze/
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