So, we have a government, albeit one led by Little Emil Boc and which includes Elena Udrea as Minister of Tourism. Odds on the same government being in office at this time next year?
Slim and none, and slim is out of town.
Next year is another election year: presidential elections. Traian Basescu is up for re-election and though he is – right now – a shoo-in for a second term in office, that is first and foremost due to a total lack of an alternative.
If anyone has any idea as to who may be in a position to challenge Basescu next year, let us know. Newly unemployed Calin Popescu Tariceanu? Not likely. Bucharest Mayor Sorin Oprescu? Not likely.
No, as things stand now, Basescu has a free run. But a year is a long time in politics.
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Don’t know about you but I was heartened at the weekend by the two attacks on Ion Iliescu at events to remember those killed in the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
Of all the shits in Romanian politics, Iliescu is the biggest. An evil man who was studying and generally jollying it up in Moscow while good men rotted in the prison at Sighet, he stole a country, a revolution, and then – when popular will would have had otherwise – held on to power only by ordering his miners to come and ‘clean up’ Bucharest. Iliescu has no place at any rememberance service for the revolution and it is joyful that his presence is not tolerated by ordinary Romanians.
Iliescu, the self-proclaimed leader of Romania’s revolution and its most dominant post-1989 politician, was a vicious communist who contributed to the imposition of Romania’s communist regime and assisted in its preservation. Unknown to many however are some of the more bizarre lengths Iliescu – who remains an unrepentant communist, still extolling the virtues of 80 per cent income tax to this day – went to in order to ‘defend socialism.’
In the winter of 1968, for example, Iliescu – then a member of the Communist Party’s Central Committee – had a number of Bucharest students arrested for… singing Christmas Carols.
He called their behaviour ‘hooligan-like’ and ‘anarchic.’ “Carol singing” he said, “is a sign that Romania’s students are not well enough prepared ideologically.” He even went as far as to berate the carol singers’ dorm-mates for not showing enough ‘vigilance.’
Though hardly on a par with the murder of more than 100 students in central Bucharest by miners of the Jiu Valley, in June 1990, the 1968 incident is a wonderful example of what an evil man Iliescu was, and remains.
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Part 5: some very very stupid regulations came out from the mouth of Emil Boc on December the 30th of last year. I’ll keep you posted on what happens when I charge against their ordinance in the Constitutional Court. I’m gonna be the first one to attack the Government Ordinance in the Constitutional Court, in the same morning when it’s gonna be published!
I have to say that I was 5 years old when the Revolution came and I cried when I first heard people shouting “Jos Ceausescu”. I was a communist and I remained a communist nowadays as well and I firmly believe that Communism is a much more developed system (ideologically speaking) than Capitalism. People who embraced Communism out of vocation are now in Heaven because that’s what Communism is about: the will of God for his people to be equal.
Obviously what happened in Romania and the Eastern block was not Communism, it couldn’t have been because only a few km away there was the Capitalist devil attracting people with his “goods”. How could people choose to leave a normal life, loving each other and treating each other correctly when the Capitalist devil was showing them naked women on tv, money, the possibility to get rich on other people’s work and other things that are the work of the devil and don’t have anything to do with the call of God to humbleness.
Communism will be back, when it will be back – it will have a fundamentalist component and an ecological component – and it will be a worldwide regime! After the failure of capitalism (if we’re still gonna have what to breath and drink by then), communism will be re-instated around the world together with a single religion addressing only to God and a strict set of rules for protecting the environment.
Part 3: Have you ever wondered why is it that stupid students are always in front when it comes to anarchy outpourings?! Romania 1990 (and before and after), Paris a few years ago, Athens nowadays, it’s only students who behave anti-socially! Sometimes they’re joined by jobless people and stupid people (just stupid, nothing else). Because they don’t have anything to do, they’re very stupid, obviously couldn’t find a place for themselves in this world and they’re out on the streets to unsettle normal people.
All these outbreaks have to be repressed with violence so that people like us who work and pay taxes can go on with their lives. Why can’t they behave democratically and discuss their demands in a civilized manner?! There are courts, there are lawyers, there are democratic methods for handling every situation. No, instead they prefer to turn into animals and affect the lives of normal people around them. You don’t talk to animals, when they become violent animals are supressed with the club, thrown in cages, etc… animals live in the woods because we don’t accept animals living among us people, why should we accept people-turned-into-animals?!?!
Part 2: In 1990 and 1992 the miners did what they had to do. Hooligans were blocking the centre of the city and threatening to discredit the new regime and throw the country into anarchy. Hooligans set fire to Police vehicles, to the Police HQ on Calea Victoriei, to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and to the HQ of SRI. I remember live images on tv (which now aren’t broadcasted anymore because of the mo**** fu***** “anti-communist” leaders like Basescu) when a blue Police car was set on fire and young hooligans who had no jobs (obviously, because normal people were working and didn’t have time to block the centre of the city) stole fuel from it’s tank and threw Molotov cocktails at Police special troops. This was anarchy, civil war!
The miners did what they had to do! If I were in charge back then I would have called the miners as well! The Police simply couldn’t cope with ravaging hordes of jobless hooligans and someone had to do something! People who see things from outside don’t know how it was back then: after 1989 the Police had no power, they were afraid of the gypsies and the law-breakers, newspapers were full of murders that took place around the country because criminals couldn’t be stopped anymore, the atmosphere was of terrible uncertainty! Thank God we had a strong popular force made of honest people, like the miners were back then!
I regret deeply that I wasn’t in charge back then because the repression of those hooligans would have been atrocious under my regime. They deserved a new Tien-An-Men!
You understand from the tone of my writing that I had close relatives working for the Ministry of Internal Affairs (which included many institutions that today are independent, among them SRI) and I’m quite more informed than many other people about the Revolution and what happened afterwards.
Part 1: I’m gonna start my 200 page comment with a logical perspective: The world has been witnessing a financial crisis for over one year now. Banks ran out of liquidities, yet throughout most of the crisis consumer spending hardly ever dropped. The question arises: consumers kept spending money like there was no tomorrow but money didn’t go to local Western markets (obviously, because we can’t find them in the banks!). Then where’s the money?!?! The money is where oil was produced and sold for 146$ a barrel: Moscow, Tehran, Abu Dhabi, Ryiadh. They are the winners of the financial crisis. I sure hope we still have some people with connections in Moscow and I sure hope the informatory network of the former Securitate is still active in Tehran!!! Right now we would need about 100 of Iliescu. до скорой встречи! (to be continued…)