Băsescu knows best

Băsescu has finally spoken.

For the first time after being completely silent.

I was expecting him to announce his resignation.

But he isn't.

Yes, I am one of those people who claim that the Referendum was nothing but an attempt to politically speculate the drop in popularity of the president.

Speculation accompanied by filthy propaganda, full of lies, by stimulating hate, amid the popular discontent.

I claim that the USL has confiscated the popular discontent, for its own political benefit, without any intention to improve our life: its only goal - the complete takeover of power, the absolute control of the institutions of the state.

Yes, I claim that imposing the Referendum did not abide the rules of democracy.

Yes, I claim that "the Antonescu alternative" is trash.

I am not fond of Băsescu, but I reject lies.

Lies, propaganda, hate.

Speculative as it was, the Referendum did however, take place.

By hook or by crook, Băsescu is back in Cotroceni.

What happens now?

Do we go on undeterred?!

There was a referendum, for God's sake!

We can't pretend it didn't happen, the Referendum was hammered in a reality which we are now living in.

Approximately half of the electorate voted for Băsescu to be dismissed.

We have to carry that with us.

Whereas before the Referendum, dealing with the presidential protests, the argument of the elections of 2009, it can't be used this time.

What moral right does Băsescu have to still speak to the nation?

What legitimacy does the president have?

Who is going to listen to him?

Those who didn't vote in the Referendum?

And the others, who did, what are they thinking?

They may have been the victims of lies and propaganda - but irrespective of that they may have been, they are citizens, and they have expressed their will, you can't possibly know better than them, you can't go and decide for seven million citizens, you can't go and tell them "Listen to me, I know better!"

What exactly does Băsescu know better?!

In his first speech after his return to Cotroceni, Băsescu said he knows better about all this Europe and Euro business.

"Meeting the requirements for entering the Eurozone becomes a priority", he said.

Really?!

How does he know?

Well, he claims he knew all this stuff since back in 1999.

Aha!

Well, you know, Mr. President, 1999 was 13 years ago...

So?

There was a crisis in America...

So?

That crisis entered Europe...

So?

The Eurozone is not doing so well...

So?

OK, what I meant to say was that the situation of the European community at the present time no longer resembles that of thirteen years ago and right now, there is no one who can know whether it is better to join it, or to run away from it as fast as we can; I wanted to say that our access to the Eurozone should be the subject of a referendum, a non-speculative Referendum, an absolutely honest referendum, because the change of the national currency is not a decision that it is up to the president on his own.

But, OK, if you don't catch my drift, Mr. president, then I need to inform you that there recently was a referendum and seven million people voted for your dismissal; I'm not sure you understand that?...

Băsescu seems to be on a mission:

"After eight years of experience, I think that the European Union has no other chance of survival than through an accelerated integration process. No member state, whether it's Greece, Portugal, Romania, France or Germany, can withstand globalization except through integration. The road to a more powerful integration is the solution".

Băsescu wants to save Europe.

The reasoning is easy to follow: some bugaboo called "globalization" is placing Europe at risk of becoming merely the third largest power in the world, and Romania is part of Europe and we will fall with it, to the third place in the world, so if we help Europe to save its place in the world, then Romania will save its own position in the world.

Mr. president, I respectfully want to tell you that as an ordinary citizen of Romania, with a right to vote just like everybody else, I am not really interested in our position in the world, but in our irrigations.

I am interested in working and being rewarded appropriately, when my work is useful, I am interested in not being robbed by the authorities of the state through laws and their hostile interpretation, I am interested in getting a fair trial and being protected from the bad guys.

If I don't get those things, I just don't give a damn what our position is, or Europe's, or that of Planet Earth in the Universe.

If you want to save Europe, Mr. president, you're free to do it, but as an individual, not as a president of the country, because there has just been a referendum loc - you know?, about seven million people asked you to leave...

I have a suggestion: resign and get yourself a job as one of the cardinals of Pope Benedict, because he is the one who wants a World Government.

You could be useful.