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The scum in Cotroceni Palace and the fear of lustration

Of course President Basescu won't believe that I am now bored with writing about his tricks. He said we would have had nothing to write about, had he not been a President! A President-player. He is a bragger as haughty as a peacock and he makes a show of himself. He would do anything to arrest people's attention so that people would think it is him who does and undoes things. He thinks he is the player of all players, but he is just a toy president of the service at the end of the leash. Does anybody really think that one could head the agency in Anvers and not be an agent, an under cover one, like so many diplomacy members were, of the Securitate (Communist Secret Service in Romania)? As for those who may say the Romanian Secret Service is not the Special Security Department and the Foreign Intelligence Service is not the Foreign Intelligence Department, I am reminding them about the demonstrations arranged by the Front for National Salvation in November 1990 in Bucharest, when Dan Iosif was crying out that the Front for National Salvation was not the Romanian Communist Party! In other words, an under cover officer of the Securitate is not an under cover officer of the Romanian Secret Service. He is one used in games played by the 'intelligence', which some intellectuals take for authentic, when they are not participating in tricks.
The unmasking of the (anti) national impostor called Traian Basescu, accompanied by the Democrat Party, is a must. It is a party of the presidential assemble. When Basescu is out of Romania's public stage, we will be able to write about truly important things. But for the time being, we have to cope with the plays of the presidential diversion, either implicitly or explicitly. It means we have to take him into account. Some have to praise him, some to criticize him. Some have to validate his impostorship by claiming it is providential stance. The other have to prove this impostorship.
The target of such impostorship is to dismember the right completely (it started with the National Christian-Democrat Party and it has now reached the National Liberal Party) in order to replace it with a made up left group, the Democrat Party, originating from the Front for National Salvation. It is also aimed at taking over the main topics of the right and compromising them. Basescu and the Democrats sabotaged them successfully when the Romanian Democratic Convention was in power. The campaign against corruption, the return of stolen properties, the condemnation of communism as murderous regime and lustration - all these have been systematically opposed by the Democrats, Traian Basescu the first of them. And the National Christian-Democrat Party got to an end because of surrendering and committing fratricide and also because, when President, Emil Constantinescu was not firm, like Calin Popescu Tariceanu is now.
At stake is not only the rescue and the victory of a political party that made Romania modern, the National Liberal Party. At stake is not only to make the authentic right and left clear. At stake is the very normalization of social, political and daily life in Romania.
President Traian Basescu is obstructing the process of making Euro-Atlantic Romania normal. He was panic stricken when he saw the Liberals were taking the whipped cream of the cake. Liberals' decision to raise pension took him by surprise and the Democrats got into the embarrassing situation of voting for the law, because they were afraid of the retired population, and then they got to criticize it, because they were afraid of President Basescu. He wouldn't agree to the pension raise because he wants enmity. He has shrewdly invoked the uninominal vote against parties and parliamentary democracy. He has publicly mentioned "the scum in parties", overtly insulting them so that he can play the victim of press critique afterwards. Did the press ignore him, Basescu would fall like a dry leaf. The secret services would learn that Romanian society has reached maturity and they would act accordingly. They wouldn't be playing God via the so-called presidents-player. But we are unable of embargo. We are waiting for the lustration law, which, just like usually, Basescu has invoked for bluff. But he is afraid of it, like the devil is afraid of incense. This is why he is doing his best so that it would be forgotten.

Roxana Iordache
Ziua Luni 16 Iulie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english

Plotter Theodor Stolojan

-- Theodor Stolojan, now a president of the PLD (Liberal-Democrat Party), is trying hard to hide the activity he had before 1989. In today's newspaper you can read about his true face. Theodor Stolojan, now a president of the PLD (Liberal-Democrat Party), is trying hard to hide the activity he had before 1989. In today's newspaper you can read about his true face.
Theodor Stolojan was a deputy chief of the currency operations department in the Ministry of Finance until 1986. From this year until 1989 he was a general chief of the institution, which was directly subordinate to dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and also a source coordinating his currency.
According to his attributions, Stolojan was to approve or disapprove of all operations performed: the special currency operations in a bank account belonging to the Securitate (Communist Secret Service in Romania), and currency operations of the Communist Party. It is to be mentioned that in late 1989 in the latter bank account there were $ 139 million.
After the 1989 Revolution Stolojan was involved in the redirecting of the money still to be found there: $ 19 million, after Romania had paid its foreign debt. Still the PLD president's involvement in it is kept secret.
Coordinated by colonels
Before 1986, Stolojan collaborated with the AVS department in the Foreign Information Office. He was employed as "expert adviser" and coordinated by reserve colonels Andronic and Anghelache. In the 70s he was also present in the list of the Institute for World Economics, an under cover institute of the UM 0920. His double membership became visible years later too. After he left the World Bank, after having been a prime minister of Romania, there was comment on his involvement, in exchange for money, in sending confidential information to British company Solomon Brother.
"Medicine provider"
After having been dismissed from the currency operations department together with deputy minister Vasile Iuga, he became a general inspector in the State Income Department, headed by Nicolae Sandulescu. When dismissed, Stolojan had a nervous breakdown and spent some time in the Mental Hospital in Predeal, Romania. His health troubles are well known. Together with the fact that he could be blackmailed because of his communist past, they made him 'renounce' his candidacy in the presidential elections in 2004 and allow Traian Basescu go for it instead.
There are persons who worked together with him in the ministry who claim he used to ask for money in order to facilitate currency exchange operations that would be justified, in agreement with the respective persons, as "medicine providing". (...)
Traffic of influence
Theodor Stolojan has been a user of traffic of influence for years. Apart from famous cases such as ALRO Slatina and RAFO, a few years ago Stolojan persuaded Viorel Catarama, Crin Antonescu and Calin Popescu Tariceanu into supporting Roma-origin Anghel Sandu, a mafia man, to buy a gas station in Dolj at an advantageous price. Later on Anghel Sandu fueled substantial funds to the National Liberal Party in 2000, meant for the electoral campaign. Had Stolojan been elected a President of Romania, he would have got protection for the illicit business he was in.
Controversial businessman Petre Paul Tardea is another character in ties with Stolojan. The businessman paid Democrat officials (1-3 billion ROL) for an eligible place on the electoral lists of the Liberal-Democrat alliance. Friends of Tardea say he gave enough money to both Valeriu Stoica and Theodor Stolojan, at that time a president of the National Liberal Party, in order to become a MP and represent the district of Gorj. (...)

Mihnea Talau
Ziua Luni 16 Iulie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english

Promulgate or resign

The leaders of Romanian Liberals have asked the head of state to promulgate the pension raise law or resign. Varujan Vosganian, a Romanian minister of economy, has overtly demanded the Romanian President Traian Basescu to quit unless he agrees to the pension raise, decided by the Cabinet in power. The minister argued yesterday that the budget was able to cover for this measure, claiming that any opposite opinion, the President's included, was ungrounded. He commented: "It is clear to me that Mr. President is angry that the pension raise idea isn't his. The budget law for 2008 will show if this decision is possible or not. If the Parliament passes it, but the President doesn't promulgate it, I think he should resign. Unless the Parliament passes it, it is us who should quit." According to the minister, if the system is able to fuel raised pension in 2008, it would manage to do the same afterwards, because of a reliable economy growth, as expected.
Liberal Teodor Atanasiu announced his party wanted extraordinary session on it to be held and the Social-Democrats joined the initiative. Social-Democrats Viorel Hrebenciuc and Ioan Stan have recently threatened the President that, unless he promulgated the pension raise law, they would open procedures to suspend him. (...)

Anca Hriban & R. I. P.
Ziua Luni 16 Iulie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english