The Price of Exposing Corruption in Poland (and Elsewhere)
It's easier to participate in corruption than to merely do the right thing and oppose it
About 10 days ago we started a series about Poland's patent office and yesterday we wrote about ridiculous salaries while comparing these to what was happening at the EPO under Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos. What they're doing, in effect and without proper scrutiny, is illegal. As we put it yesterday afternoon [1, 2], they "detached the EPO from the Rule of Law in the name of "making money"."
"They did so via illegal rubberstamping of invalid, illegal software patents," a reader then told us.
Yes, they break the law to bring in more money while at the same time paying the staff even less. Worse yet, after we first saw a site about the corruption in Poland we learned that someone from there had been subjected to bullying from a friend of António Campinos, who now relishes in immunity at the corrupt EUIPO. "Currently," one reader told us, "Edyta Demby-Siwek has initiated 5 disciplinary proceedings against me for speaking out about what happened at the Patent Office."
So basically the corrupt officials try to subject those who speak about the corruption to more harassment.
I can relate to this. For merely talking about Microsoft staff strangling women it is me who now faces abusive litigation. Not because it didn't happen. It did happen. It's well documented, but I shall cover this separately.
Apparently talking about facts or speaking the truth out takes more courage than participating in lies. █