ZIUA has reached hot documents showing that key state institutions have been used by a small group of people using the pretext to fight against corruption and criminality. The politicians in power in the 1998-2000 worked secretly to found a National Interforce Unit, which gave birth to the self titled GOC (Central Operative Group). The group was financed for logistics by the Ministry of Finance.
In this group there were recruited certain persons from the main secret services and the Interior Ministry together with prosecutors who continue to hold key positions, even if the political regime changed. The GOC was meant to "prevent deviating behavior by monitoring the action" of high officials and magistrates, to proceed to spying and audio-video interception, to make up "legends" and play in "games and operative combinations". Numerous businessmen and high officials became targets of such means.
The political police system has continued to exist under all regimes. The only difference is that some time ago it was decided that audio-video interception obtained without a warrant might no longer be used as evidence in Justice. But, just as before, it continues to be a terrible instrument for blackmail in the hands of those who are in control of such information.
Impressing set
Once Romania got closer to civilized Europe, every system got to establish more and more pompous anti-corruption structures in order to persuade citizens that they indeed pursued to eliminate corruption and organized criminality. Romania has nowadays got the most impressing set of anti-corruption structures in Europe. But the results are nothing, unfortunately. The reason is that the fight against corruption has been simulated and it has served those in power. Secret services and courts are far from being independent and serving citizens. On the contrary, such structures are subordinate by invisible ways to Presidency and some political groups who select and appoint people to head the respective structures. (...)
In the last year the methods used have grown subtler. As recordings obtained without permission may no longer be used in lawsuits, they have gone on intercepting on grounds of all sorts of warrants released on the names of persons close to the personalities at stake (relatives, colleagues and so on), until the 'target' is entrapped a criminal case can be drawn.
What is most concerning about such activities is that no prosecutor or secret agent has even been accused of the numberless breaks of human rights committed: illegal intercepting, followed by blackmail with the information thus collected.
Razvan Savaliuc
Ziua Vineri 06 Iulie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Friday, July 06, 2007
On principles
I have found it difficult to understand why President Basescu decided to come out in a special edition of a TV show accompanied by two journalists not exactly easy to get along with. As I am aware of the risk I am taking - the President raged against those daring to comment on his statements -, I am now sketching an analysis of his discourse that can help us better understand what Mr. Basescu pursued by such a stormy interview.
Here are the pejorative words Mr. Basescu used most often to describe his adversaries: "control" (6 times), "mafia" (6 times) and "mafia man"(6 times). Words derived from "mafia" were insistently used by his interlocutors too more than 10 times. Then there was "complicity" (4 times), whenever used associated to "control". And there was the "collapse" (2 times) too. Let's mentions two tough words - "gang" and "bluff" -, each of them used just once, but with prominent resonance. As for the good side of his vocabulary, a word as noble as "principles" was used 6 times, with Mr. President himself as beneficiary. "Political ideals" was spectacularly used just once, with the President pitying his adversaries for lacking it.
What conclusions can we reach ? First of all, that the President is still furious because for now he can't make even for the MP's decision to suspend him and therefore he is again addressing the Romanians (used 12 times), in order to consolidate the idea that an impure complicity of the "political mafia", this 3-headed monster (Hrebenciuc, Oltean and Verestoy, each name uttered 3 times), is the only one responsible for the evil in the country and in the world.
As I am a restless blog reader, I believe he needn't tackle it again: complicity, political mafia and occult group mafia are so deeply rooted in the collective mind, which is completely indifferent to the absence of evidence and delighted with Basescu's frequent incantations! It is just that the presidential frustration has this time got a worrying object: the Parliament's unanimous decision to raise pensions and in particular the Tariceanu Cabinet's decision to take responsibility for it and identify resources to cover for the raise. Therefore the President needs to mobilize people against the 322 MPs and the political mafia: the economy of his speech shows President Basescu asked for the "the special edition" out of fury, in order to discredit this decision. He used everything at hand as threat: collapse of the pension system up to the sacrificing of the future - education and highways - in favor of the past, symbolized by the retired. And then the denounced the law as being a bluff. That flaw of logic allowing a poor bluff to cause the system to collapse has passed unnoticed too.
In the last 15 years only those crocodiles who didn't want to didn't shed rivers of tears to sympathize with the fate of the retired. Therefore in vain did Mr. Basescu repeat the word "decent" and its kin 5 times, for such an attempt to disappoint people already despaired is nevertheless deeply indecent. In 1991, the parliamentary majority of the Front for National Salvation passed Law 18 and Mr. Iliescu's attitude at it was bitter, which did not prevent the peasants from continuing to believe, which goes for the present too, that it was Mr. Iliescu who gave them land. I don't know what Mr. Basescu is afraid of, since, just like Sassu, "the fake politician, originating from the Front of National Salvation, then joining the Democrat Party, he stayed in the gang he preferred, the initial one, the Front for National Salvation". Given the PSD rule, the Romanian retired will continue to curse the Parliament and cry with joy that Basescu raised their pensions.
Zoe Petre
Ziua Vineri 06 Iulie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Here are the pejorative words Mr. Basescu used most often to describe his adversaries: "control" (6 times), "mafia" (6 times) and "mafia man"(6 times). Words derived from "mafia" were insistently used by his interlocutors too more than 10 times. Then there was "complicity" (4 times), whenever used associated to "control". And there was the "collapse" (2 times) too. Let's mentions two tough words - "gang" and "bluff" -, each of them used just once, but with prominent resonance. As for the good side of his vocabulary, a word as noble as "principles" was used 6 times, with Mr. President himself as beneficiary. "Political ideals" was spectacularly used just once, with the President pitying his adversaries for lacking it.
What conclusions can we reach ? First of all, that the President is still furious because for now he can't make even for the MP's decision to suspend him and therefore he is again addressing the Romanians (used 12 times), in order to consolidate the idea that an impure complicity of the "political mafia", this 3-headed monster (Hrebenciuc, Oltean and Verestoy, each name uttered 3 times), is the only one responsible for the evil in the country and in the world.
As I am a restless blog reader, I believe he needn't tackle it again: complicity, political mafia and occult group mafia are so deeply rooted in the collective mind, which is completely indifferent to the absence of evidence and delighted with Basescu's frequent incantations! It is just that the presidential frustration has this time got a worrying object: the Parliament's unanimous decision to raise pensions and in particular the Tariceanu Cabinet's decision to take responsibility for it and identify resources to cover for the raise. Therefore the President needs to mobilize people against the 322 MPs and the political mafia: the economy of his speech shows President Basescu asked for the "the special edition" out of fury, in order to discredit this decision. He used everything at hand as threat: collapse of the pension system up to the sacrificing of the future - education and highways - in favor of the past, symbolized by the retired. And then the denounced the law as being a bluff. That flaw of logic allowing a poor bluff to cause the system to collapse has passed unnoticed too.
In the last 15 years only those crocodiles who didn't want to didn't shed rivers of tears to sympathize with the fate of the retired. Therefore in vain did Mr. Basescu repeat the word "decent" and its kin 5 times, for such an attempt to disappoint people already despaired is nevertheless deeply indecent. In 1991, the parliamentary majority of the Front for National Salvation passed Law 18 and Mr. Iliescu's attitude at it was bitter, which did not prevent the peasants from continuing to believe, which goes for the present too, that it was Mr. Iliescu who gave them land. I don't know what Mr. Basescu is afraid of, since, just like Sassu, "the fake politician, originating from the Front of National Salvation, then joining the Democrat Party, he stayed in the gang he preferred, the initial one, the Front for National Salvation". Given the PSD rule, the Romanian retired will continue to curse the Parliament and cry with joy that Basescu raised their pensions.
Zoe Petre
Ziua Vineri 06 Iulie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Ex President's rage
The ex Romanian President Ion Iliescu, an executive president of the PSD (Social-Democrat Party), wants a reply to President Basescu's statements, which Iliescu takes for unconstitutional.
The head of state's words have split the PSD in two sides and enraged Iliescu. The latter is angry that the Romanian President put him on the 'bad guys' list, whereas the PSD group in Cluj was placed on the 'good guys' one. Iliescu insisted yesterday that central party leaders should reply by criticizing Basescu's attitude. PSD sources claim that Iliescu is accusing the head of state of interference in the Social-Democrats' domestic life. But the ex Romanian President's rage hasn't had the estimated effect, as yesterday all party heads claimed it was impossible to reach a decision on it because the PSD president Mircea Geoana was abroad. The Cluj group commented that Basescu's statements were harmless and they shouldn't be taken too seriously.
Party sources explain: "For about a fortnight now Iliescu has been furious that no one is doing a thing and that the party is proving no solidarity with him. First there was the prosecutors who questioned him (in the coal miners' attacks case) and now there is the Basescu issue. He is very angry and he is asking that central leaders should take action, but they are keeping silent". Sources also add that Iliescu phoned several party leaders to ask them for response to Basescu: "He didn't necessary ask for solidarity, but at least for a press release, some response".
The PSD sources also mention that in next week's meeting Ion Iliescu is likely to demand the PSD for radical attitude at Traian Basescu's repeated interfering comments. (...)
Mihai Toader & Roxana Andronic
Ziua Vineri 06 Iulie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
DGIPI officers are dunces
The much-feared agents of the secret service in the Interior Ministry unveiled themselves as if they had been some amateurs. 469 employees of the DGIPI (General Department of Information and Domestic Protection) sued the state and this is how the real names of under cover officers came out.
They risked their cover-ups and even their lives to be paid some holiday bonuses. On the list of the greatest uncovering in Romania there are the two inspectors heading the DGIPI: Constantin Darna and Neculae Plaiasu.
The DGIPI chief Petru Albu did not address the court because he had just taken over the department from Virgil Ardelean, known as The Fox. The latter is now gone and he left the agents unpaid and on the verge of revolt. The trick may have been plotted to discredit the new officials.
What is certain is that the agents' stupidity jeopardized some missions and even the lives of some who made fools of themselves for some extra wages.
Cristian David, the Romanian interior minister, is sorry that an intelligence service chose this way to argue for their right to bonuses. According to the minister, the initiative has been "awkward and unprofessional". The list of the agents complaining to the Bucharest Court of Appeal was on the courtroom's door. And now in can read it in today's newspaper too. (...)
Razvan Savaliuc
Ziua Joi 05 Iulie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
They risked their cover-ups and even their lives to be paid some holiday bonuses. On the list of the greatest uncovering in Romania there are the two inspectors heading the DGIPI: Constantin Darna and Neculae Plaiasu.
The DGIPI chief Petru Albu did not address the court because he had just taken over the department from Virgil Ardelean, known as The Fox. The latter is now gone and he left the agents unpaid and on the verge of revolt. The trick may have been plotted to discredit the new officials.
What is certain is that the agents' stupidity jeopardized some missions and even the lives of some who made fools of themselves for some extra wages.
Cristian David, the Romanian interior minister, is sorry that an intelligence service chose this way to argue for their right to bonuses. According to the minister, the initiative has been "awkward and unprofessional". The list of the agents complaining to the Bucharest Court of Appeal was on the courtroom's door. And now in can read it in today's newspaper too. (...)
Razvan Savaliuc
Ziua Joi 05 Iulie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
One boring character: Traian Basescu
A 2-hour interview with President Traian Basescu on Realitatea TV station, Tuesday, July 3, 2007 A.C. Hosts: Robert Turcescu and Emil Hurezeanu. From 10:00 p.m. to 12:00 p.m. A useless show. Uselessly gifted journalists, that is unable to ask questions. A useless, powerless, unimaginative and pointless character. A President who can do no more than speak. And his accent is visibly Russian.
Traian Basescu is a worn out President. In 2-hour prime time he could have said all he wanted to, if he had something to say. But he proved he didn't. It is only during electoral demonstrations that he feels at ease. When in his President armchair, he manages to do one thing only: break the Constitution a little, to quote the Constitutional Court. He did it by offending parties, officials, press and parliamentarians.
No news: assail against PM Tariceanu, critique of the parliamentary majority, stigmatization of Liberal Bogdan Olteanu, speaker for the Chamber of Deputies. Not even today has the President apologized for calling Olteanu "a villain" in a Pro TV show. Disdain for the PSD (Social-Democrat Party), the main party in the opposition, advertising for Viorel Hrebenciuc and Verestoy Attila.
I could see a tired and bitter President lacking resource. I think he was a bore to everybody. He no longer developed on corruption, the favorite topic of Romanians fond of God's whip. But he criticized the mechanism of representative democracy, the negotiating, which he called "complicity", and belittled the role of the press in democracy, taking the press for a parasite on politicians.
What President Basescu actually did was express the very same message again: He is the right man for governing the country through a government of Democrats, with a puppet-PM and parliamentary majority of the single party kind. He made a mistake when talking about the Democrat's ascent to the government and said "I would govern..." He is certainly relying on Romanians' wish for a new Ceausescu, but one "to give" them more money.
And President Basescu dropped a brick when analyzing the new pension law because: 1. The MPs voted for it unanimously. 2. He isn't brave enough to say 'veto' at the promulgation, but he is threatening he will ask the resources should be specified, which he can do only if returning the law to the Parliament, which he won't dare do. It would be like penalty for himself and populism for the Parliament.
President Basescu criticized other people for what he appreciates in himself: backstage plotting. What a pity that his elite hosts didn't fire questions! They should have taken up issues such as the following: the phone calls from Daniel Morar, head of the National Anti-Corruption Department, prosecutor Tulus's interest in the way a senator, even if Verestoy, voted. Why did he criticize PM Tariceanu for having informed him about the judiciary abuse of prosecutors in the case of Patriciu, since he showed presidential sympathy for Paszkany, the man in Cluj, for the latter had informed him in a similar case ? More issues: the records illegally taken from the archive of the Information and Protection Department in the Ministry of Defense and the house, supposed to be returned to the rightful owners after having been confiscated by the Communists, now inhabited by the parents of justice-maker Monica Macovei, the house on Mihaileanu Street, the parking area belonging to Dorin Cosos, Casuneanu's business with the concrete pavement, the cheap and good electricity of his brother Mircea Basescu, the thousands of Euro his daughters get every month from contracts on the city lights, the Anvers record, the 13 Presidency advisers who resigned, the presidential sanctions against Antena 3 TV station and more. And in the end there is an announcement for you: did the press not made President Basescu popular, President Basescu wouldn't exist.
Roxana Iordache
Ziua Joi 05 Iulie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
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