The commonsense elements that the Romanian Government introduced in the package of reforms to retirement conditions for magistrates and the level of special pensions in the justice system have provoked a furious backlash from magistrates’ associations.
With the nonchalance of the drunk caught in the act, who claims that he is only drinking water from the vodka bottle, we learn, from recent press releases and statements, that the privileges that are blindingly obvious are not privileges at all, and that the core of the discussion is not about large sums of money and almost royal rights, but about the independence of the judiciary and Romania’s democracy.
There is no dialogue, only a ‘fist in your mouth’ style politics.
The approach of the Superior Magistrates Council other entities in the justice system is essentially as perverse as can be, since it hides the pecuniary garbage under the more regal rug of immutable “principles”.
But what magistrates are doing, manipulating the discourse on this topic, is nothing new, in fact it has become a fashion in the today’s wider world – from East to West.
Perhaps the most “criminal”, odious and disgusting example in this regard is Russia.
In a world where the so-called alternative truth has become tsar, king and emperor, reality has enslaved to this. And the word is the slave of the speaker, of his character and of his interests, no matter how petty or even criminal they may be.
In the European Union, “the political system based on democratic principles, such as competition, the free expression of the will of the people, rights and freedoms, has become a thing of the past”, and “European countries are turning into totalitarian regimes”.
Hard as this may be to believe, these words belong to one of the vice-executioners in Moscow – Vyacheslav Volodin, the State Duma speaker.
Volodin, a true lackey of the Kremlin’s geopolitical narrative, talks about democracy and freedom like a virgin capable who’d blush at the slightest thing. The fact that the moral cave in which he lives, is Russia, which he serves and where he makes his pronouncements, is a historical case-school study of a criminal state, absolutist regime and tyranny on steroids, this seems like a mere detail; And nowadays, the details barely exist.
Of course, even Volodin’s boss, the dictator Vladimir Putin, did not hesitate to innocently pronounce that “the dictatorship of Western elites (which) targets all societies, including citizens of Western countries.”
As his spokesman said, Dmitry Peskov once lamented, with the delicacy of a chainsaw, that “there is no freedom of expression in the West”.
At the other end of the world, in the inverted universe generated by the Big Bang MAGA, the Trump-Vance duo spits the same kind of flames – democracy and freedom of expression are going to hell in Europe – as they themselves have become the chief and unparalleled arsonists of the venerable American democracy – purging inconveniences, censoring them, blowing up both the principle and the infrastructure of the no less venerable separation of powers in the state.
Under the rhetorical shelter of virginal morality, traditional values and, in general, of high democratic “principles”, Putin nonchalantly pursues his autocratic, criminal and imperialist agenda. And in the same way, Trump and Vance are transforming America into something that, if they don’t get tired, and carry on in the same way, will soon make America an unrecognizable place, that is regretted and a lesson to be learned.
Our magistrates really have someone to learn from, and to be inspired by to carry out their unfair fight with the most unjust tools.
Certainly, given the school they attended to become magistrates and given the very nature of their profession, they are accustomed from the beginning to the delicate art of rhetoric and the immortal technique of sophistry.
The misfortune, however, is that many of them have become accustomed to exploiting this type of knowledge to the detriment of the society that, in reality, they should be serving.
