Kamensky Punished in Home Country,  Slovakia

Bank Account Cleaned Out by Government

By Robert WINKLER
The Desert Independent

January 31, 2010

A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER -- Readers, I received the following letter from our cartoonist, Marian Kamensky today. It seems the the government of Slovakia, where he has lived until just recently, has punished him for his political commentary through his cartoons by emptying his bank account. Marian has fled to Austria.

Dear Bob,

Please excuse me, when you in the last weeks did not receive my cartoons!

But I have just a very great problems with our half bolschewiki - half nationalism Slovakian department. I made in the last year 2009 many political caricatures for the investigative Slovakian TREND magazine about our premier minister Robert Fico.

http://www.humor-kamensky.sk/coversuk.htm

In the attachment is my last TREND caricature of Slovakian premier minister Robert Fico of November 2006.In this November I got cancellation by this magazine. I attached my caricature of 2009 of Slovakian chairman of the constitutional judgment Stefan Harabin.

On January 13, 2010 the State of Slovakia took all my money. I am out of Slovakia. I am just living in Vienna in Austria. My asylum flat is cold, without heating and we have just a deep winter. I am absolutely down. Please read in the attachment the perfectly translation of this article, what published the greatest Slovakian newspapers PRAVDA about my fall:

Click HERE for English translation using Google translator.

Click HERE for original.

The greatest Slovakian private TV MARKIZA made yesterday a reportage about the very dirty act of Slovakian state. In the next two weeks will the second greatest TV in Europe, the Germany’s ZDF (first TV is London’s BBC) make a reportage too.

Marian