Cuffed, but in robes. The Court of Justice is becoming an authoritarian

A characteristic feature of the various proceedings, arrests, charges and – what is very crucial – elimination from the election game, directed present in many countries in right-wing politicians or anti-establishment forces, is not that the charges are full sucked off the finger. Although they besides happen – due to the fact that this is precisely the communicative of alleged irregularities in the construction of the "two towers" which led to a terrible interrogation without the lawyer of the sacred memory of Barbara Witrzypek by "Erynia" – “the goddess of vengeance” by Ewa Wrzesozek and lawyers associated with Roman Gierty.

However, most cases contain the root of genuine abuse, misconduct or legal controversy.

The problem is that 1 can get the impression that they are highly exaggerated, overstretched, simplified or concern matters that, although formally breaking the law, have so far been simply accepted. And proceedings are conducted as if they had to end in conviction, and the conviction is frequently announced much earlier – by politicians or in the blood-thirsty press.

Romanian variant in the game

This is precisely the case in the case of a judgement for the Marine Le Pen, which has been accused of ordering European Parliament-paying assistants to work for its party. It is simply a common practice, besides among Polish MEPs.

However, the head of French nationalists was extraordinaries, and it seems that the immediate ban on public office is far more crucial than the prison sentence.

As you can see, the words of the prominent French politician Thierry Breton, who late threatened that the "Roman option" – and thus the judicial blocking of the anticipation of starting forces hostile to the present establishment – could be applied in another countries.

Breton primarily meant Germany and any kind of effort to delegalize AfD, possibly Poland, where the Romanian method would prevent the return of the Law and Order to power. However, as it turns out, in his country the Romanian variant was applied earlier.

Although patterns do not flow from Europe. The six months before the U.S. election, Donald Trump was convicted of curiosity—as though his "hush money", i.e. paying for the silence of adult movie star Stormy Daniels, was mistakenly booked.

Trump was besides accused that he had not paid the taxation on the "gift" and that he had falsified business documentation on the matter. Doubtless, in a moral or ethical area, Trump is hard to defend, but let individual effort to find a akin conviction in American history.

However, it must be acknowledged that the US courts in this case have decided on a judgement that will not straight disrupt the conduct of future presidential elections, where Trump is to be 1 of the 2 main candidates. The French court, let alone the Romanian Constitutional Court, went precisely the other way.

Prison for laziness?

It is hard to overlook matters that are happening in Poland today. Without doubt, the Law and Justice Authority should be audited and judged for possible irregularities. But now a brief question for Readers: why was the Euro-Parliamentary immunity of Maciej Wąsik and Mariusz Kamiński revoked this week? What's the charge? Well, they are accused of voting in the Sejm after a judgement forbidding them to do so—a judgement which any lawyers admit and others do not.

This communicative is curiosium and it is hard to read it differently than as an component of political revenge or elimination of opponents.

Other things look weird. Darius Matecki's right-wing policy was to drive "false employment" into custody. The case should be examined – like another doubts related to Matecki – but erstwhile was the last time for not going to work taken into custody? most likely in Stalinist times, due to the fact that then everything was brought under sabotage.

Using the courts and uncovering different hooks for opponents to destruct them has not been invented here and not in our time. Depending on the historical trend, an uncomfortable leader could be charged with witchcraft, heresy, conspiracy with the enemy, counter-revolutionism, bad leadership – but the people were the easiest to always accept corruption charges and it always appeared in the background.

For a long time, however, this kind of widespread abuse has not been accepted by Western political culture. The “colonization” of the planet of life through the law years ago began to complain about the leftist, ultimately, philosopher Jürgen Habermas. It was he who pointed out most clearly that law as an institution is replaced by law as a means of management and influence.

Over the next fewer years, laws and lawyers are starting to replace democracy more and more. And erstwhile they have a problem with it, they do this role, which was erstwhile performed by uniformed militias, attacks on tv towers, and forged boots marching on city capitals.

Viktor Shinelik