Talk:Martial law in Poland
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[edit] Merge with History of Poland (1945-1989)
IMHO this should be merged with History of Poland (1945-1989) - 09 November 2005
[edit] Constitution
Where is the bit in the constitution that says you aren't allowed to declare martial law? --EuropracBHIT 08:48, 25 March 2006 (UTC).
Nowhere... The problem is the way they declared it. They could declare martial law only if Sejm (the Polish parliament) had agreed to it first. And this is not clear yet.
THe other thing is that you don't declare martial law because you're in a bad mood today, otherwise it might lead to repressions (like censorship, imprisonment).
[edit] Fourth Citation
The fourth citation links to a page that does not exist: http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,55670,3250318.html —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.96.229.187 (talk) 17:11, 23 January 2007 (UTC).
- Yeah, typically, no proper reference with article title or anything, only a web address that breaks after a while. Booo! Deuar 14:55, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Translation
I'm a Pole and i don't understand "which translates loosely? as "state of war"". Why "loosely". It translates exactly as "The state of war". (Not in legal mean of course.) Please correct it.
I'm a Pole and there is completely WRONG translation. We had in constitution 2 states:
state of war - stan wojny
state of emergancy - stan wojenny (stan wyjatkowy).
We didn't have any state of war cause, we didn't fight with anyone.
[edit] One-sided summary?
The summary makes a rather one-sided assertion that martial law was a military crack-down of political opposition. While definitely true and source-able, it completely ignores the "other side" view that Solidarity strikes had significant impact on economy and were, from a point of view, nothing short of economic sabotage and threatened (for example) distribution of food to cities or coal to power plants (and it was winter mind you). Or exports, including "promised" exports to the USSR. There's a generic reason why martial law was ruled illegal on constitutional grounds rather than "there was no war" grounds, but this article doesn't even give a hint. If I can find proper sources, I'll try to fix it, but if someone else has good sources at hand please feel free to improve the article yourself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.161.24.89 (talk) 08:48, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
