Poland continues in its asinine tradition of treating adults like children and preoccupying courts with cases that are more about pride than any legitamite grievence, the ultimate result of which is to limit freedom of speech in the country. This time, the Appellate Court in Warsaw has decreed that Kazimierz Kutz, (pictured at left) a Director and Senator, must apologize to Robert Kwiatkowski, the former director of Poland's TVP public television station. If courts can limit an artist's political speech, how long until they start deciding whether his creative work serves "the public interest"?

The Appellate Court decreed that the Vice-Chair of the Senate (Kutz) exceeded the limits of citicism, and his words regarding Kwiatkowski are false and rude. Kwiatkowski won his civil suit before the Court against Kutz for the artist's interview in "Przekroj," in 2003, wherein Kutz said, amongst other things, that the most probable hypothesis regarding who was behind the 'Rywin Scandal' was the one that placed Wlodzimierz Czarzasty and Robert Kwiatkowski at its' head. Kutz called Kwiatkowski "an example of modern political poison," and a "brown-shirt aparatchik who wants to make a career for himself." He also noted that "the director of TVP Polish Public Television is utterly insensitive to the matter of culture" and "it's more than likely that the director, who is after all from a military family, was simply deprived of culture, sensitivity and aesthetic sense during his childhood." Apparently intent on living up to all of the above, the former director of TVP Polish public tele