Romanian Public Protests

[edyzmedieval]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.642eaed50ad6

http://www.euronews.com/2017/02/01/r...graft-offences

Tens of thousands of people have been marching lately in Romania to protests the decriminalization of offences such as graft and abuse of power in public conduct, not to mention corruption. This would literally bring out a considerable number of prisoners, and it would also close the current investigations on a considerable number of politicians within the country, hence the uproar.

The revolt brought out tens of thousands of people in bitter cold, which will soon make it even bigger as the law was adopted late last night (at midnight), in secrecy.

A little info from Romania, since you might have noticed a considerable number of news lately about it.

[Montmorency]

Anything to do with the reported success in recent years of anti-corruption prosecutor Laura Codruța Kövesi?

[edyzmedieval]

Eeeexactly.

In short, a lot of politicians have been convicted of corruption, and in some cases, huge amounts of money have been funneled from state contracts to party members. Some of them are in jail, a lot of them have cases brought upon them by the DNA (Directia Nationala Anticoruptie - National Anticorruption Directorate) which is led by Mrs. Kovesi.

The DNA has been a serious scare for many of them, and in many cases the DNA is regarded as one of the success stories of justice and anticorruption in Eastern Europe. The New York Times even featured an article about Mrs. Kovesi. - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/w...ta-kovesi.html

The politicians are really desperate, and it shows. The way that the law was adopted last night (at midnight!) without any proper approval from the Superior Council of Magistrates (which is required by law) and then put into the official law monitor at 1:30 AM (!!!!!!) shows the magnitude of desperation.

[Greyblades]

I wonder what flavour of lynching they will choose; will they drag a guillotine out of the closest napoleonic museum, find the country's largest tree and longest length of rope or will they simply raid a rather shady army surplus store and take the political class to the closest wall that needs a new coat of paint.

[Husar]

I wonder what flavour of lynching they will choose; will they drag a guillotine out of the closest napoleonic museum, find the country's largest tree and longest length of rope or will they simply raid a rather shady army surplus store and take the political class to the closest wall that needs a new coat of paint.

https://youtu.be/-IArFepCDF0?t=266

[Montmorency]

https://youtu.be/-IArFepCDF0?t=266

She said "assassinate", not "execute".

[Greyblades]

https://youtu.be/-IArFepCDF0?t=266

There's a difference between a revolutionary lynching and a wingnut's assassination dream.

Romania includes Transylvania, does it not? So Hollywood tells us that it has to be a goodly sized mob with farm implements and torches -- I wonder if they will still require the mob to dress Bavarianesque and speak in a mix of lower class Brit and stereotypical German accented English?

Ah of course, Transylvania, the sharpened spike business is bound to boom.

I can see the Turks flinching allready.

[CrossLOPER]

https://youtu.be/-IArFepCDF0?t=266

There seems to be this demographic of doughy dudes with patchy facial hair running their own "real and unbaised" news network on youtube, complete with a totally unnecessary ticker. Their reporting seems to include a breathless non-sequitur for each news report, devoid of any sort of deep analysis and focused on promoting outrage in their base. They seem to offer minimal knowledge on the subject, either because they mistrust experts, or the experts they contacted are unwilling to go down the path of career suicide. Now, I have them all in my feed because I forgot to open up a private window in firefox before viewing one of them. Thanks Husar. Thanks.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I wonder what flavour of lynching they will choose; will they drag a guillotine out of the closest napoleonic museum, find the country's largest tree and longest length of rope or will they simply raid a rather shady army surplus store and take the political class to the closest wall that needs a new coat of paint.

Romania includes Transylvania, does it not? So Hollywood tells us that it has to be a goodly sized mob with farm implements and torches -- I wonder if they will still require the mob to dress Bavarianesque and speak in a mix of lower class Brit and stereotypical German accented English?