January 26, 2023
How to Treat the Securitate Metastasis Effectively, with Only Four Measures
Yesterday, 25.01.2023, there took place in Bucharest the first debate on the project for #TheRevisionOfTheConstitution called #TheConstitutionOfSovereignty, or #TheConstitutionForTheNation.
Immediately after a general presentation of the project and after some discussion on the necessity and the timeliness of it, the debates turned spontaneously to the manner in which Romania may be saved from the Securitate metastasis that rules the country authoritatively and controls society in every one of its sectors — Romania’s major problem these 33 years!
The conclusion is simple: only a constitutional reform can free the country from the empire of the Securitate System, from the domination of the Caste of the *securici*!
How?
By implementing at constitutional level, SIMULTANEOUSLY, 4 SIMPLE MEASURES:
1. The demilitarisation of the intelligence services, which can be done by amending article 118 paragraph 4 of the Constitution and introducing a simple (but effective) sentence: “The intelligence services and those assimilated to them shall be organised exclusively as civilian bodies, under the conditions of the law.”
2. The appointment of the heads of the intelligence services by Parliament and not by the President — a measure that can and must be established at constitutional level by adding a new paragraph to article 119 providing that “The heads of the intelligence services shall be designated for a period of 4 years in a joint sitting of Parliament.”
3. Limitation in time of the term of persons appointed to public offices or dignities — something not provided for in the present Constitution, which can be regulated by introducing a new paragraph (paragraph 3) to article 116: “(3) Appointed public offices, or the offices and capacities for which direct designation is made, for which no competition is organised, may be held for a term of at most 4 years, renewable once only, unless another duration of the term or another number of terms is provided by the present Constitution.” And the already discussed theme of
4. The prohibition upon members of the intelligence services of “belonging to political parties and of holding appointed or elected public offices during the exercise of their function and for a period of 5 years from the cessation of the exercise of those functions” — as I have proposed that paragraph 3 of article 40 of the Constitution be amended and supplemented.
On the necessity of demilitarising the intelligence services I have written repeatedly. In the statement of reasons drawn up for #TheSovereigntyAct I showed two years ago already that “Law 51/1991 on national security is a law prior to Romania’s entry into NATO which provides a series of dispositions of Soviet origin, such as those providing for the militarisation of the secret services.” Therefore, if only for the harmonisation of national legislation with that of our NATO and European Union allies, I said that the total demilitarisation of the services of intelligence, counter-intelligence, protection, special telecommunications and those assimilated to them is imperatively necessary.
Far more than this, the militarised and at the same time secret (if not indeed occult!) structure of Romania’s intelligence services removes them from all control, not only by civil society but by the state itself, and grants them at the same time, de facto, total immunity before any jurisdiction.
This “omnipotence”, and also the impunity of the “military men” of the secret services, have made the members of these services constitute themselves into a veritable ruling caste which exercises total, authoritarian and discretionary control over the apparent leaders of the Romanian state. Unrestricted access to information concerning every aspect of the life of every inhabitant of Romania grants them an unlimited power exercised from the political level to the judicial or the economic, so that in the year 2023 there is no sphere of activity in Romania that is not puppeteered by the caste of the *securici*.
As a “news item”, a businessman who, willy-nilly, inevitably ends up at the table of the *securici*, was telling me the other day that at the economic level a veritable battle is taking place between the clans of the *securici*. Why? For the simple reason that THEY ARE EVERYWHERE, so that inevitably, when one *securici* strikes or fleeces a third company, invariably from there is heard the howl of another *securici*… whence the “competition” and the “fight” between the clans of the *securici*. What is certain is that everything outside the Caste of the Securitate men, everything that does not belong to the System, is irrelevant. Or becomes immediately irrelevant after meeting the systemists.
The demilitarisation of the services, however, is not the only solution to this problem, not the only treatment for the Securitate metastasis that has spread through the country. The measure of demilitarisation must be doubled by the “democratisation” of the services through the appointment of the heads of the intelligence services by Parliament and NOT by the President.
In fact, the President is the “institution” of the Romanian state most easily controlled and puppeteered by the System. Whence the enormous stake of the Presidential elections, in which, invariably, ONLY A MAN OF THE SYSTEM CAN WIN. Why? Because only the Man of the System must come into the position of controlling, even formally, the System, by appointing the “heads” of the services. This vicious circle can be broken only by granting the right and the “privilege” of appointing the “heads” of the services to Parliament, the institution in which power is (at least theoretically) exercised collectively and which “is the supreme representative organ of the Romanian people and the sole legislative authority of the country.” In this way, not only will the election of the President carry a lesser stake and thereby become less subject to the influence of the System, but at the same time Parliament — appointing the “heads” of the services which (again theoretically) it also “controls” through its specialised committees, and taking part through the presidents of the Chambers in the Supreme Council of National Defence (as we shall show in the coming days) — will exercise power directly in the Romanian state, Parliament thus becoming the prevailing power in the institutional architecture of the Romanian state.
The third measure intended to free Romanian society from the domination of the Caste of the Securitate men is the limitation in time of the term of persons appointed to public offices or dignities. The Governor of the National Bank — in office for 33 years. The head of the Protection and Guard Service — in office 19 years. The president of the Competition Council — in office 14 years. Only three examples of persons occupying key offices in the Romanian state who have made themselves “eternal” in the positions to which they were appointed. Appointed by the System and kept in office by the same System. These “fixed stars” of the “empyrean” of the Romanian establishment are, without doubt, the key persons of the System, the persons indispensable to the System, who confer stability and continuity upon the discretionary power of the Caste of the Securitate men. Therefore one of the solutions for dismantling the Securitate System in Romania is limiting to at most 2 terms of 4 years each any appointed or designated office. Besides, if a person who is (at least theoretically) elected, such as the President of the country, may not have more than two terms, why should a person appointed to an office be able to occupy that office or dignity for an indefinite duration?
The last measure mentioned above among the solutions for combating the Caste of the Securitate men, a solution of which I spoke also on 11 January, is #TheLustrationOfTheSecuritateMen from political life, their removal or unmasking! I said then that this measure cannot be taken except at constitutional level, for the introduction of such a provision into an infra-constitutional law would immediately be struck down and rejected as unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court and by the men of the system sent into that institution as well!
I find myself obliged to repeat: this measure, vital for Romania, can be taken only through a revision of the Constitution! Without any exaggeration: #TheLustrationOfTheSecuritateMen is the only and the last chance of survival for this nation.
In order to give effect to the constitutional norm as proposed for revision, I have proposed the introduction of a new sentence within the same article (all the amendments have been made in such a way that the revision should not have the effect of renumbering the articles of the Constitution): “These professional categories may not belong to political parties and may not hold appointed or elected public offices for a period of 5 years from the cessation of the exercise of those functions.”
This regulation is inspired by the manner in which the institutions of the USA function — our guiding beacon in matters of democracy, is it not? — where no member of the army or of the intelligence services may enter politics or be appointed to public office for 5 years from the cessation of the exercise of the function. So it was with George Bush senior, with Colin Powell, with all those we know of and those we do not. Now… if this is good and right in the USA, why should it not be so in Romania?!? Look, for instance: if we had had this constitutional norm we should no longer have had… Ciucă, who from head of the army (Chief of the General Staff) became, immediately upon leaving that office, president of the PNL and then Prime Minister of Romania, turning this country into a quasi-militarised state.
Not least, such a regulation would prevent the Ciucă situation from repeating itself in future in the case of other “lads from the system”, members of the caste of the Securitate men, who might “resign” from an intelligence service in order to enter a party immediately or to be appointed to a high official post.
All the measures mentioned above, taken together, are the only ones that can free the country from the reign and control of the Services and from the domination of the foreign powers that control them, and are thus the measures capable of making #Sovereignty a reality and not merely a constitutional statement. For we must be conscious that nothing in Romania happens without the will and outside the strict control of the System: not the post-“revolutionary” plunder, not the alienation of resources, not the indebting of the country, not the felling of the forests or the depositing of gold in foreign banks, not the measures of the pandemic, not the forced vaccination… nothing, absolutely nothing has been done without their will, without their helping and “commissioning” “Our Betters and Masters” from outside the country…
If we understand where the evil comes from, we shall also know what “treatment” to apply.
That is why we ask you to take part yourselves in this so necessary debate (DO NOT FORGET — on 08.02.2023 we meet at the Café for the Nation, Str. Petru Cercel no. 1, District 4, Bucharest) and we await your comments and proposals on the version put forward for debate, and your proposals for amending the Constitution, on the Telegram channel https://t.me/+W-oH4Yyxi9pjNTE0.
Read all the amendments (so far) proposed for debate at https://t.me/DanMVChiticNecenzurat/2018.
#ForTheNation
#ToTheVeryEnd
#WeWriteTogether
#TheConstitutionForTheNation
#theThirdRepublic!
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