Cleaning house

From Front Page Magazine:

Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus has resigned after revelations he cooperated with the secret police of Poland's Communist regime. Such clerical collaboration with Communism, an anti-religious movement, is a subject of considerable interest but consider the way the New York Times spun it. Here is the lead from the Times' January 5 story by Craig S. Smith, filed not from Warsaw but Paris:

"Warsaw's new archbishop, Stanislaw W. Wielgus, caught in Eastern Europe's widening witch hunt for former Communist secret police informers, admitted Friday that he had collaborated with the Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa, or Security Service, known as the S.B."

The operative phrase here involves the "widening witch hunt," a curious way to describe a matter of obvious fact, confirmed by the collaborator himself. This was not something invented by New York Times fabricator Jayson Blair.

The only comment necessary is to ask if the Times would characterize the Nuremberg Tribunal a "witch hunt"?

Not long after the Berlin Wall fell I had the opportunity to speak with Vladimir Pozner. I told him that if Russia was going to have a chance to be free it needed a de-communism process like the de-Nazification that followed WWII in Germany.

He disagreed, but I think that events have proven me correct. The Russian organized crime syndicates which are causing so much misery in Russia, Eastern Europe and the world are made up of former KGB agents who would be serving prison sentences, as would dictator wannabe Putin, if there had been a serious effort to bring justice to those who had tormented the Soviet people for so many years.