Post by Jaga on Oct 21, 2007 22:10:47 GMT -7
this is something which maybe promped some Polish young people to go and vote 
The text message spread with viral speed between the cellphones of Polish youths. With national parliamentary elections coming up on Sunday, young people had a clear mission: “Steal your grandmother’s ID,” the text jokingly implored.
The message referred to the conventional wisdom here that conservative older women put into office the governing Law and Justice Party and the Kaczynski brothers — the famous twins with the round faces of aging cherubs who are prime minister and president. Without their identity cards, the grandmothers would not be able to vote. If they did not vote, the government could be driven out of office.
Teenagers guffawed. The governing party fumed.
Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski warned Poles that those who repeated the message “act against you and also against the Polish nation.”
The small Polish Peasants’ Party quickly ran its own advertisement showing a grandmother catching her grandson in the act of snatching her identity card. She tells him he does not have to do it, because she plans to vote for the Peasants’ Party and not Law and Justice.
Young people are trying to get involved in the election here this time, in ways as small as texting or as big as starting efforts to encourage people to vote.
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/world/europe/21poland.html?ei=5087&em=&en=196316e2869574cf&ex=1193198400&pagewanted=print
The text message spread with viral speed between the cellphones of Polish youths. With national parliamentary elections coming up on Sunday, young people had a clear mission: “Steal your grandmother’s ID,” the text jokingly implored.
The message referred to the conventional wisdom here that conservative older women put into office the governing Law and Justice Party and the Kaczynski brothers — the famous twins with the round faces of aging cherubs who are prime minister and president. Without their identity cards, the grandmothers would not be able to vote. If they did not vote, the government could be driven out of office.
Teenagers guffawed. The governing party fumed.
Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski warned Poles that those who repeated the message “act against you and also against the Polish nation.”
The small Polish Peasants’ Party quickly ran its own advertisement showing a grandmother catching her grandson in the act of snatching her identity card. She tells him he does not have to do it, because she plans to vote for the Peasants’ Party and not Law and Justice.
Young people are trying to get involved in the election here this time, in ways as small as texting or as big as starting efforts to encourage people to vote.
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/world/europe/21poland.html?ei=5087&em=&en=196316e2869574cf&ex=1193198400&pagewanted=print
