June 1, 2022
The Reason the Sovereignty Act Had to Be Rejected by the Coalition of Betrayal?
PSD–PNL–UDMR–USR are amending the Securitate laws and giving unlimited powers to the Securitate men:
“The Securitate men become gods…
The underground state has decided. It is suddenly surfacing. It is making its status official. The status of an omnipresent and omnipotent power. The employees of the militarised force institutions, and especially those of the Romanian Intelligence Service, are turning into gods. Not that they were not so already. But the law they are determined to promote installs them in that posture openly. It is in fact a legislative package. The Securitate laws.
Naturally, Romania needs a new set of Securitate laws, which are officially called the national security laws. The norms by which the militarised secret services operate, and especially the SRI, as well as those governing the activity of services belonging to other force institutions, were for the most part made on the hoof more than 30 years ago. Far surpassed by contemporary realities. On this count, Romania does indeed need new regulations. Modern ones. Such as to bring into accord with the Constitution, with the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure and with other organic laws the practices already established in the work of these services, many of which are at present unlawful but dictated to some extent by the need to function. And, in this context, the bomb went off.
The secret services, which constitutionally are not and cannot be initiators of laws, have prepared a substantial package of legal norms, a legislative package concerning national security. They then placed this legislative project in the hands of the political decision-makers. In a few days — from what has been learned, as early as next week — the Government of the four-star general Nicolae Ciucă will deal us a veritable blow with the club. It will discuss, approve and send to Parliament the new legislative package.
But why is it that since yesterday, since this information exploded in the press, several journalists and analysts have hastened to express themselves in unequivocal terms, to the effect that a grave breach of fundamental human rights and liberties is being prepared, an unprecedented abuse by the force institutions headed by the SRI, taking advantage of the international conjuncture and of the herd effect upon a population which, living an acute feeling of fear, feels the need to fall in behind those who, by conjuncture, have come to be its leaders?
The text of the whole legislative package has not yet been made available to public opinion. It probably will be next week, once it leaves the Government. But passages from this legislative package have been revealed. Among other things, we are witnessing a few extremely dangerous innovations in legal matters. For instance, it is envisaged that, in future, the arrest of an SRI employee or a search of his home, whatever the nature of the offences of which there are sound indications that he may have committed, may not be carried out under the procedures of the Criminal Code. The employees of the secret services — which, I repeat, are militarised institutions, a unique case in Europe — however grave the offences discovered by prosecutors and however urgent their intervention ought to be, will no longer be liable to be searched or arrested, not even in flagrante, without the prior notification of the director of the Romanian Intelligence Service. Or of his counterparts, in the case of other services. What is more, a written approval will be required, produced by none other than the High Court of Cassation and Justice. That is, by those magistrates in regard to whom we have already produced evidence that they were trained on European money earmarked for the family — hence by diversion of funds — by SRI employees, in the institution’s own backyard. Lastly, it is envisaged, again under this draft law, that all cases of this kind be investigated only by a restricted group of prosecutors designated in advance. And where, in order to carry out an arrest in flagrante or to complete the legal procedures, searches or entries into official or clandestine premises of the institution are indispensable — to refer exclusively to the SRI — the prior approval of the head of the Supreme Council of National Defence is required. That is, of the President of Romania himself. The madness is that this legal regime would also be extended to the undercover men. Which means, neither more nor less, that the prosecutors designated for such situations — probably designated by the SRI as well — would have access to a series of pieces of information to which not even the director of the institution has access. That is, to the complete list of the undercover men.
In all this legal tangle, another great unknown appears. When they steal, SRI agents do not steal alone. From everything that could be seen and learned these last 30 years, they commit their offences together with, or through the intermediary of, certain businessmen. Who are not necessarily undercover officers. Will these too benefit from the same legal regime?
But things go further still than we can imagine. Under this legislative package, every citizen and every commercial company is obliged, upon a mere verbal request, to help the SRI employee, furnishing him with any kind of information and any kind of support requested. Otherwise, citizens and managers will be breaking the law. In that situation, SRI employees may “use law-enforcement techniques”. And what might that be? Let us translate briefly. They may proceed at once to detain the person or, to give an example, to requisition his car. They become a kind of gods.
The icing on the cake consists in making official the right of the secret services, above all the SRI, to own and run autonomous public corporations, associations of a professional, social, cultural, sporting, recreational or humanitarian character.
This week, this filth is under discussion in the governing coalition, and I specify that I have lifted only one corner of the carpet that hides it. Once the coalition leaders agree, the draft normative act goes to the Government, which assumes it. After which the intention is to push it through Parliament at speed.”
Via Sorin Roșca Stănescu
“The Republic of Securistan
Bitter thoughts between the lines
“To err is human, but to persist in error is military”
In 1989 people shouted and died for LIBERTY!
In 2022 dictatorship is being legislated!!!
Yesterday’s Securitate has rebranded itself in the name of state security!
Which state? What kind of state? Whose state?
I lived through the age of the protocols... and I saw, as a judge, how all our work was reduced to a mockery by the signatures of certain service chiefs and magistrates... all in the name of the fight against corruption!
Whom did it serve? And what were the costs?
We put fundamental rights in chains and told ourselves that Jesus too suffered and endured... Why should we not endure?!
The age of the protocols and of those who instilled the fear of speaking, of protesting, has passed... or so we believed
At short intervals we “wake up” again with some... contrivance by which an attempt is made to legislate the protocols!
We have new people at the Court, we are no longer playing in the second division, is that not so?
The “draft law” (the screenshots are taken from the site Luju.ro) defies not only common decency but the very idea of the rule of law!
If it is adopted, the state of law becomes, officially, a state of standing to attention!
Glory to state security!
Romania, put out the light! Energy has gone up in price! Light the candle and listen to Free Europe! Ah, forgive me! Europe itself has not been Free for a long time!
They have defeated us!”
Via a true judge,
Mrs Mădălina Elena Dârdeci
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