ENEMY OF THE STATE PART FIVE: REMEMBER WHO THE REAL ENEMY IS (PART TWO)

The eternal question must be asked once again: who is the real enemy? Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and co. would not hesitate to pin that title to the NSA. Others would point the finger at Snowden and Greenwald, while Snowden is instead an enemy of the people and perhaps even an enemy of God – and not quite the enemy of the United States. Who then, is the real enemy? Or rather, what is the real enemy? The answer is quite simple. Captain Grzegorz Piotrowski, Leszek Pękala, Waldemar Chmielewski and Colonel Adam Pietruszka. Who are these four men, and what on earth makes them the true enemy of the United States? In truth, these men are not the literal enemies of the United States, but rather the epitomic representation thereof. These men are the murderers of Father Jerzy Popieluszko. Take a step back for a moment, and go back in time to the days of communist Poland, to the days in which the government sent militia men armed with lead-filled batons and water cannons and mobilized in tanks, to the days when Father Jerzy Popieluszko was still alive. Fr. Popieluszko was, at the time, one of the few brave enough to step up and try and put an end to the tyrannical rule of the Polish communist regime. In a statement that applies not only to what Fr. Popieluszko saw as his mission but also that speaks for all that he did in the name of the bringing the truth to his fellow sufferers in Poland, Fr. Popieluszko said, “The role of a priest is to proclaim the truth and suffer for the truth, and if necessary, even die for the truth.” And Fr. Popieluszko did just that. After giving sermons attracting thousands of fellow tormented Polish men and women oppressed by the communist regime while also giving hope to a nation of oppressed people, the four aforementioned men – Captain Grzegorz Piotrowski, Leszek Pękala, Waldemar Chmielewski and Colonel Adam Pietruszka – were sent out by the Polish government to murder the humble and truth-telling priest. They did so, brutally murdering him on the 19th of October of 1984. Millions came to his funeral to remember the man who gave his life for the sake of bringing the truth – the condemning, harsh, and essential truth of the oppressive world in which they were living – to his Polish people. The world, approximately thirty years after his passing, has yet to forget the name of this messenger of the truth. The anniversary of the horrific death of this saintly man is coming up this October. There is even a documentary recently released accounting for his life and death entitled “Messenger of the Truth” (For more on the documentary, see here: http://www.messengerofthetruth.com/). And in spite of all that, there are still people trying to bring shame to not only this man but all others like him, who have died for the sake of freedom for a real security state. These men are none other than Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald. Snowden and Greenwald constantly cling to the excuse that they did all that they did in order to protect Americans from the government who was violating their rights, from a surveillance state. What they fail to see, or what they perhaps choose not to see, is what a real surveillance and security state is. What they are ignoring is the haunting tale of Fr. Popieluszko, of a man who gave his life in trying to put an end to the oppression of the real surveillance state. What they are blocking from their view is the image of the oppressed Polish men and women being beaten with lead-filled batons, being sprayed with water cannons, being beaten just because they sought the truth alongside Fr. Popieluszko. What they do nto want to understand is the sharp contrast between a real surveillance state and what they call a surveillance state in order to save their own skins, all the while the NSA is trying to protect its own citizens from the terrorist threat. What they do not see is the truth. May God bless Father Jerzy, may He allow him to rest in eternal peace, and may God shield his eyes from the shame that these men try to bring to him – the quintessence of God’s truth on Earth.