wake up, romania!!!!
there’s a pack of wolves out pillaging the country and they must be stopped!
as a former communist country, romania got rid of its dictator 22 years ago and has ever since longed for peace and quiet. that peace and quiet associated with civilized countries, where people can just go on with their lives and pay taxes and the political class will sort the rest out.
but romania is not a civilized country. we are a herd of hopeful sheep lead by a pack of hidden-agenda wolves. for the past 22 years, we went from one version of this scenario to the next and i’m stunned to find out that today, we are worse off than a few months ago.
i spent yesterday evening in the street with some hundreds of people angered by the political situation in romania. the people currently in power are blatantly disregarding common sense, the principles of democracy and the national constitution itself just to arrange for a better personal future.
this power-starved kleptomaniac lot will ruin the little romania has managed to achieve during the past few decades. it’s outrageous to see a country of 20 million ruined by the unscrupulous few who are breaking every law and principle for a nest egg.
we can’t have a say in our own country? they want us to shut up, buy a plane ticket and never look back, but i’m still not sold on that idea. this is my country, too! it may not be much and it may not make me proud too often, but it is still my choice if i leave or not! and i won’t, for now.
the shameless scruple-free bastards taking over this country must be stopped – they ignored the constitution, they re-assigned public institutions so that they can control them better, they made system modifications so that they can escape legal consequences. it’s beyond horrific and it’s happening now in an european country!
the world is boiling with protests and we will go join the big angry party: see you all in the streets, romanians!
PS: for more info, you need to instant translate this, this and this. they said it much better that i will ever do. read on!
11 comments
androgynbeauty says:
Jul 4, 2012
Well, I see a little different what’s going on in Romania these days. It’s true, I’m not living there but from my perspective, I only see how the new majority in Parliament tries to change some of the directors and leaders of institutions that are politically dependent of the old majority, some of them incapable to do their jobs. So, I personally see how the old majority’s people are replaced by the new majority. The bad thing is that, in the first place, leaders and directors of so called ‘independent’ institutions were politically installed by the party of Basescu. Now, as Basescu’s power is going down, those politically installed chairmen, directors, judges are revoked. In my opinion the new ones should be let to start their jobs and see the way they’re doing it instead of accusing them before. Everyone has the right to presumption of innocence.
little-aesthete says:
Jul 4, 2012
what about this? http://www.gandul.info/politica/parlamentul-se-reuneste-azi-in-sesiune-extraordinara-pentru-suspendarea-presedintelui-traian-basescu-surse-usl-9812176
androgynbeauty says:
Jul 4, 2012
I only think that president Basescu made a lot of mistakes and his intervention in the government’s job, his interference in all the power aspects of Romania’s leadership, the cynicism proved when he announced the salaries and the pensions cuts, made the majority of Romanians to be against him, even to hate him profoundly. USL, as the only party opposing Basescu, had a lot to win due to the president’s mistakes and now they can suspend him, it’s even a duty to do that (because of the pressure of their electorate). The large majority that USL can bring to vote is a guaranty that their actions are supported by the population. That’s not necessary the good decision to be applied, as the majority can be fooled (as it was twice by the president Basescu, in my opinion), but that legitimates the USL’s actions regarding the president.
One more thing: all that complains are the result of the PDL’s people too afraid to loose the power they had many years in a row. I wouldn’t be too hysterical by that… everything is changing in a matter of years.
pop says:
Jul 4, 2012
wrong…i guess you dont see the fact that old communist faces are being procecuted, and try by all means to save their own hides with stupid media massmanipulation. We arent talking about new politicians in that the new power is trying to install but old farting geezers that just wont give up and let this country have its peace. instead our wealth is being sold for a mere buck that doesnt end up in the peoples pockets anyway.
androgynbeauty says:
Jul 4, 2012
Romania will never return to communism, this is only a tool to foul people (as the church use the fear of doomsday or as it was used in USA face to the soviet communism that will invade America, or more recently, the fear of terrorism used by the government to cut civil rights, that’s bogus but can manipulate people). USL propose a lot of young politicians and people like Iliescu have now reduced voices in the party. Moreover, Basescu was a communist, he collaborated with the communist security, but his mistakes as the president of Romania are the problems and the reasons why the majority wants him out.
little-aesthete says:
Jul 4, 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d'%C3%A9tat
andrei says:
Jul 4, 2012
Sure, a former prime minister gets 2 years in prison without the possibility parole and is dragged in the night by police like a common thug with a prosecution file that lacked any solid evidence other than ‘logical connections’ (their words, not mine). But hey, he’s from the Social Democratic party and the peasants with torches and pitchforks demand blood.
And yet no-one seems to care when Basescu uses state funds to sponsor his daughter’s election campaign, or when his chief lackey Udrea builds her condominiums out of EU ‘regional development’ funds, or when Videanu hosts auctions for contracts with the state with only 1 bidder, what a shock, his own company, or when Anastase steals votes in Parliament in plain sight. I’m sure you didn’t mean THEM when you said ‘pillage’.
You really don’t see why these bastards, and moreso the people who kept these bastards out of court (because prison is too much to ask for) shouldn’t be swept away?
little-aesthete says:
Jul 4, 2012
this is not our own back yard. the laws are there to be reinforced. everything that is happening today will lead to a loss of face for romania and we can’t have that. if u care to go once again over paragraph 2 in the post, you will notice my exact stand on what u r discussing.
and don’t get me started on the nastase “suicide” circus…
Tudo says:
Jul 4, 2012
1. changing People’s Attorney;
2. Restricting the power of the Supreme Court – curtea constitutionala
These are all illegal acts and are attacks to the Public Romania Institutions by USL.
silvia says:
Jul 31, 2012
I don’t know where is this picture from.
in last winter (a very cold winter), every evening, many people protested:”Basescu down!” But there was no fight.
People are discontent of Basescu in many ways. Romanian people didn’t ellect him, but the votes from abroad gave him advantage.
If you see him speaking , you can see that he is not a serious man, he lies with a cinic smile, he is surrounded of noncompetitive ministres, but of the corrupte ones…
Please forgive me, I’m not the adequate person to juge the politics, bat I don’t like Basescu at all
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