After being silent for almost a month, President Nicuşor Dan felt it was time to babble. Or rather, he found the opportunities to do so. Two days ago, he participated in three events, during which he delivered three speeches. We will not stop at the one delivered at the meeting at the Cotroceni Palace with Romanian diplomats, but we will analyze how Nicuşor Dan discovered collective guilt and self-righteousness in the speeches addressed to young magistrates and young Orthodox Christians.
In both speeches, the country’s president called for responsibility, courage and decency, but in both he moved on to judging people en bloc and dividing society into moral categories.
Addressing the young magistrates, Nicuşor Dan said: „Regarding the justice system, a few observations. The most important – the justice service is a public service. It is addressed to the public and is measured by the public, and the most important indicator is people’s trust in the justice system. And if this trust is what it is today, 25%, it means that all of us together are doing something wrong and it is something that all of us together must correct. There is another relationship that will take us some time to balance: the relationship between the justice system and politics. Because first it was politics that neglected, after which some excesses occurred on the other side, I am referring especially to the area of salaries, and after which, most seriously, a campaign of blaming the entire professional body began.”
The formula „we all do something bad together” sounds responsible, but it is used in a convenient way by the country’s president, who instead of identifying the real culprits for the low trust of citizens in the justice system, blames everyone. If everyone is guilty, the blame no longer belongs to anyone precisely. The competent magistrate is placed next to the incompetent magistrate, the independent judge next to the politician who attacks the courts, the rigorous prosecutor next…
