Postcard from Slovakia
Some context for the recent assassination attempt on Slovakian PM Robert Fico
Dear Church Leaders (and everyone else)
I am guessing that most people in the UK last week, if they had been asked, “Who is the Prime Minister of Slovakia?”, would not have been able to give the answer: “Robert Fico”.
As it happens, I had seen footage of the Slovakian PM speaking in recent months, and I thought it worth sharing:
Here is one of the most notable examples (four minutes, transcript below):
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Progressive Slovakia and the Opposition, have you seen the statistics on how our deaths from various cardiovascular events have risen because of vaccinations? But you reject it, of course you reject it, you will claim that vaccination was the best thing in the world.
What do you know about how many expired vaccines we have left and how much money has been wasted? What do you know about purchasing medical equipment and tests? You are aware that we have demonstrated very clearly the connection of a company from Trnava to the chairman of one of the opposition political parties. The hundreds of thousands, millions worth of purchases, completely useless.
What do you know about management? What do you know about what was going on in terms of taking various measures which, in our view, increased the morbidity substantially more than was perhaps the case in other countries.
And you all laughed at other states, other countries. You laughed at Russia, where they built on the principle of individual visits to patients by doctors and managed it much better than we managed it here in Slovakia. We have 21,000 deaths, which we link to the fact that the governments that have been here since 2020 have been unable to govern and have looked only at the unnecessary medical devices, and, often vaccines in huge quantities.
I do not even want to talk about the European level anymore. You know I have been very open and I have said it to the President of the European Commission also openly, that those suspicions that are linked to her and to the purchase, in fact, the largest purchase in the history of the European Commission of vaccines, when she exchanged secret text messages with the Director of Pfizer, literally and to the letter.
And when a report was written and issued to the ridicule of members of the European Parliament, which was all blacked out1 and we will simply never know the truth of what role the pharmaceutical companies played and who actually organised this whole circus around Covid.
Under these conditions, ladies and gentlemen, the Government of the Slovak Republic has decided to include a commitment in the Government’s Programme Statement to deal with this issue.
The Slovak public simply needs an answer, needs an answer about vaccination:
what it actually was
why people were vaccinated with various experimental vaccines without any tests
why all sorts of drugs were pushed into people
why there was statewide testing
who was buying, why were they buying, what quantities were being bought, how much money did it cost?
And we’ll end with billions, billions.
You can grin all you want because you don’t even know anything other than showing disrespect for another opinion. You know democracy is about sometimes respecting other opinions. When you are here for the third week talking about the criminal code, nobody is even cursing you, we are listening to you, you are talking, so be kind enough if we have a different opinion, respect it, even if you disagree with it.
Under these conditions, we have decided to create the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary to deal with these issues. We have not only appointed the Plenipotentiary today, but we have also empowered him in terms of obtaining information from various institutions. In particular we will obtain information from the Chief Hygienist. We will ask questions to the National Health Information Centre. We still want to know, based on what is available to us, what has actually happened.
I think that Dr Kotlár, a member of the National Assembly, is sufficiently equipped in terms of information, and I see that he is also prepared to assemble a team. I have asked him that before we make any public statements we first go through everything with the government. And I am absolutely… convinced that this work will lead to results that we will publish. And we will tell the Slovak public what on earth actually happened during covid.
We know one thing today: the previous governments have completely failed… and have 21,000 dead people on their hands, and have made, apparently, a huge amount of money on the unnecessary purchase of various medical devices and vaccines.
Thank you very much.
And here is another (two minutes, transcript again below):
If someone had a different opinion on vaccination against covid, they were dangerous for society. The media wrote openly… I’m quoting now… “That everyone unvaccinated should squeal in pain like a pig”. [And that] you have to use force if someone “rejects the policy of the needle”.
And today it turns out that our free perspective — on past vaccination and the government’s measures to fight against covid, grossly violating human rights — was justified. One study after another… [confirms] the disastrous consequences of massive vaccination with untested experimental vaccines.
…I confirm, as chairman of [this political party] and… as the Prime Minister, that I will support the efforts of some politicians from the new coalition to politically assess what the government [was doing] between 2020 to 2021 [in] fooling around. And also have a look at the financial side of extensive [and] often completely meaningless purchases of medical devices and vaccines.
I also declare very clearly that [this party] will not support strengthening the powers of the World Health Organisation at the expense of sovereign states in managing the fight against pandemics… such nonsense could only be invented by greedy pharmaceutical companies, which began to perceive the opposition of some governments against mandatory vaccination.
According to the constitution of the Slovak Republic, the validity of such agreements in favour of the World Health Organisation requires the consent of the National Council of the Slovak Republic. And I do not believe that the sovereign Slovak political parties will express such approval. [This] party and its MPs certainly won’t.
In the context of these two headlines, a few days apart…
…I couldn’t help wondering to what extent the second is related to the first.
I have outlined some further thoughts in this follow-up post.
[Update 23 May: some more-recent commentary re Robert Fico can be found here:]
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