Re:Romania is developing its own culture of protests
by adrian_b on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @10:37AM
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The increase in the number of ECHR cases during a year suggests absolutely nothing about the government of that year. Almost all such cases are about trials that have a long history. Trials that have begun 10 years or more ago and that are not solved yet, are not uncommon. So whatever abuses are the subject of complaints, they might be the fault of a government of many years ago. As ECHR is reached after exhausting all other means, it is almost impossible for an ECHR case to refer to an abuse happened during the same year.
Re:Romania is developing its own culture of protests
by rootlocus on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @10:29AM
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Are you comparing abuse of political power and stealing public money with "selling, cultivating or possessing cannabis"? Because, if we want to relax jail sentences, corrupt politicians should not be the first ones to benefit from it.
http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Speech_20170127_Raimondi_J...
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-drugs-law-idUSBREA1B...
"they won't give another executive order in the middle of the night when no one is looking ?"
It has become self evident to me that we need a Donald Trump so maybe our fellow Romanians get back into reality.
EDIT: P.S. The echr source talks about the problem but discussion have taken place. Also i it find a bit alarming that the case creation rate has increased so unpredictably. I quote "Firstly, with regard to Hungary and Romania, for which the number of cases increased by 95% and 108% respectively in 2016". What does this suggest? I remaind you that 2016 was a year in which Iohannis's technocratic government ruled