The trial of persons involved in these crimes should be public and the punishment should be exemplary; not only for what they have done, but that all who are tempted by such iniquities may know what to expect.

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Such things happened not only in the Gulag or Nazi camps, or in the camps where Putin’s people gather Ukrainian prisoners, but also in orphanages where disabled children were gathered during the time of Ceausescu, and it is happening today, a stone’s throw from Bucharest. This is for all those who explain to us that in 2023 Romania is better than at any time in its past. In fact, Romania stands as always: on the edge of history. In a dangerous balance, in which nothing is certain and from which – if something happens where we have no power – in a few days we can collapse in terror.

What happened in these nursing homes (and most likely happens in others as well) shows the true face of people for whom lying, cheating and stealing have never been equated with sin or crime. These are the “survival strategies” of a population dehumanized by millennia of poverty. This poverty, which has fooled us beyond comprehension, is the only constant in our history. In her name, everyone believes that they have the right to everything, except morality and the law. You want to get rid of the curse of poverty, you want your offspring to live in a different way, and therefore everything that can be useful to you to get out of the pressure of poverty is good: both murder, and theft, and lying, and adultery. It is surprising, but 2,000 years of history could not instill even a shred of morality in this people.

In four years, between 1940 and 1944, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, sometimes in an animal state, by their own people, the “Romanian brothers”, who sent some of them, with absolutely no regard for human life, to the fronts. where they had nothing to do, others were forced into ghettos and camps, some were starved, others were set on fire, others were hunted on the streets, and many, lost in foreign steppes, were not even given clothes. . How many were tried for these crimes?! Then hundreds of thousands of people went to prisons and camps, at home, but more terrible than any foreign imprisonment, tens of thousands of women were left to die without medical care, tens of thousands of children died – literally – of hunger in “the most developed society, known humanity”. How many authors – real and moral – of these horrors were destined?! Finally, how “brothers” did we shoot wildly in December 1989 and fight furiously (and to the death) in three mines that separated us from the civilized world for more than a decade? Who was tried for all this?!

In a country that does not punish crimes, theft is commonplace. And we are talking about “law”, about “legal institutions”, about “judicial practice”, about “procedure”, about “application of law”, about “Higher courts”! It is hard to imagine something more grotesque and sickening in a country where not all people are people and where the law is not the same for everyone. “People” here are only those who have the power to oppress and rob others. Similar tributary lords, whose behavior combines the savagery of the Asian steppes and Levantine villainy, ruling arbitrarily over a mass of serfs who are forced to do whatever their masters ask. This is the real Romania, on all levels. What constitutes a fundamental given of the Christian faith and modern political life: the equality of all people before God and the law, has not yet reached our plains. Our humanity has always had different degrees. From the one who was forced by power and money to rise above others, to the one whose boots are wiped by the powerful and then shoved in their mouths.

The main point is that in a country that claims to be “European” and Christian, everyone accepts this stratification as a “natural fact”. And so our social life boils down to two movements: fleeing along the lines of power and wealth to “insure” yourself against those who only want to rob you and destroy you. And for those who cannot get into the carousel of wealth and power, effective escape from the country is the only salvation – for them and, above all, for their children – from the hell called Romania. Our problem is simple: only the pressure of the great tectonic plates on the edge of which we stand has gathered us into a sequence of crystallization. It has nothing of the clear structures of modernity: respect for the law, human solidarity, openness to the other, honesty in solving our common problems. None of this cuts through the darkness of excitement and meaningless chatter in which we barely move like a thick sludge. We are the fluid magma that the inexhaustible fountain of poverty always throws up to solidify in the only forms it knows: the forms of paid feudalism.

In any country in the civilized world, the inhumane treatment suffered by our defenseless countrymen would amount to a crime against humanity and be punished to the maximum extent permitted by law, without any possibility of parole or retrial. You cannot call yourself a European and treat your countrymen worse than the mercenary armies in Darfur or Goma. Such facts, against which there is vast European legislation (since the Nuremberg trials), are the things that disqualify a country from being part of the developed and legal world. We can criticize Austria, Hungary or Poland as much as we like; nowhere in these countries are state institutions placed at the service of human enslavement and cover for slavery and extermination. In 2023, something like this is happening in Europe only in Romania! I don’t know how others see things, but to me this would be a sufficient point for our country to withdraw – in full – the funds provided through the PNRR. Europe is not in a position to subsidize flagrant violations of human rights on its territory.

I don’t know if we still have a president or if we have a prime minister, but – if they were – they would be the first to react to the abomination. Including becoming an injured party (since Romania’s name is stained with such horrors) in a process that will judge – without agreements – all those involved in the dirty deeds of Volunteers and Smokers. And the Church must stand up for those who mock their neighbor, mock the image of God in man, and secretly mock God. Much more serious than the various “minorities” we point fingers at. And last but not least, who uses such names as the Association “St. Gabriel the Brave”, under whose patronage unspeakable deeds are done, mocks the Name of the Lord. – Read the entire article and comment on Contributors.ro