EVZ EDITORIAL: Linkage in Oltenia. Geoana lights the torch
- Adam Popescu
- 21 august 2008, 04:00
Mircea Marian: "Geoană advised the people of Dăbuleni to take the high school principal in the tips of the forks. A call to linchage which should not be ignored."
The president of PSD has an idea about how the children of the voters from Dăbuleni can pass the Bac exams: threatening teachers with the fork. On the passed days, in a visit in his electoral fief, Mircea Geoană found that none of the students from the high school in the city has not passed the Bac. Immediately, the leader of the PSD identified the cause: PDL, which would have imposed, four years ago, a new director of the school of agriculture. After that, he gave the people a solution: "I, if I would be the parent of a child from Dăbuleni, in this situation, I would go with the forck in front of the high school."
I know that many are saying that this statement is only one of the stupid things which Mircea Geoană produces on a regular basis. From the moment he took the subway "in the opposite sense" and ending with the suggestion that Romania would be a "low rate country", the Social Democratic leader has made every effort to confirm the label that was put on him by Ion Iliescu: "quite silly"
I do not think that a party chairman who at the last election raised almost a third of the votes can be forgiven for this call to violence and linchage. Any unsatisfied parent of his children's notes could understand that the teachers are guilty, so they should be punished with the fork. In fact, this wise solution was indicated to him by the PSD chairman, former ambassador in the US, former foreign minister and a serious contender to the position of prime minister.
I'm one of the devotees of Richard Weaver's theory, according to which "ideas have consequences." The ideas can lead people to act - with the fork against Dăbuleni high school principal, for example. The Romanian politicians got used to trow on the market all sorts of unusual proposals, only to be, for a while, in the attention of the media. Everyone hopes that after a while, nobody will remember their words. Look at the promises of Sorin Oprescu: suspended motorway, deers on the Mall, extra taxes for the rich and more. And now, what does this man want to do? To hide under the rug all the immortal stories he told in the campaign, betting on the fact that the press and the public have short memory. But he won notoriety and maybe even votes through the media attention devoted to such commitments. Other candidates, who may have had more realistic programs were ignored by the public opinion and lost. Therefore, they should not by forgotten, Oprescu and Geoană. Otherwise we will never finish with these electoral campaigns in which we have just circus.
The PSD president must be punished - by the media now, by the electorate, at the next elections - if we want to bring the debates during the campaign in an area of relative normality. How much have the politics evolved in Romania if, in 1996, the PRM leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor promised machine gun executions on the stadiums, in 2000, Traian Băsescu was the one who said that he will execute with his own hand the corrupt ministers and now the chairman of PSD wants the high schools principals, sympathizers of PDL to be taken with the fork tips? One possible answer would be that after 18 years since the execution of the husbands Ceausescu, the politicians have not changed anything but the gun of the crime.