Why Daniel Morar deserves the West’s support // Fragmente dintr-un articol despre Daniel Morar aparut intr-o editie din august 2008 in “The Economist”, pentru cei ce nu pot accesa revista online: Below are the five common—but FLAWED—arguments against Mr Morar: 1. First: the West is no better and its criticisms are hypocritical. But the worst features of old Europe should hardly be a model for anyone. Italy’s economy is in a terrible mess; Germany has been nobbled by Russia. And Romania, as a much poorer country, cannot afford bad government. It has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to catch up the lost decades of communist rule and that depends largely on billions of euros from the taxpayers of the richer part of the continent. Corruption endangers that. 2. The second argument is that Mr Morar has made no difference. Corruption is just as bad as it always was. Again, there is a grain of truth in that. But to be fair, dealing with that is not Mr Morar’s job: his prosecutors are supposed to go after high-level corruption, not day-to-day sleaze. His lack of results is notable, but hardly his fault: courts hand down derisorily lenient sentences and parliament preserves the immunity of his top targets. 3. Third: the real story is a battle of political clans, one of which is using the “anti-corruption issue” to attack the other. This has a large element of truth, in that the political grouping headed by President Traian Basescu has indeed used the corruption issue to bash its opponents. And the president’s deplorable way with advisers, plus unexplained parts of his communist-era personal history, when he had a plum job abroad, certainly give his critics some serious ammunition. But that does not mean that anti-corruption fight is a sham. Politics in a free society often involves parties pushing good causes for opportunistic reasons. At the very least the past couple of years have seen an end to the climate of impunity that long characterised Romanian politics.

Why Daniel Morar deserves the West's support // 4. Fourth: the corruption issue is exaggerated. Most Romanians don’t pay bribes and the non-corrupt bit of the economy is what matters. Certainly growth has boomed and foreign investment has been flooding in. Yet those same foreign investors lament the damage corruption does. In particular, corruption in the education system devalues the “currency” issued by schools and universities—they will eventually become meaningless. And it is hard, if not impossible, for public administration to produce a modern infrastructure in a system plagued by corruption. Without that, growth will be throttled. 5. Five: this isn’t about morals. Corruption is just a symptom of bad government. True. It would be insane to start an anti-corruption drive by locking up all the doctors and teachers who take under-the-desk payments. But that is no excuse for leaving things as they are. Better salaries in the public sector are a necessary condition for ending corruption. So is more transparency. But it is also essential to punish flagrant wrongdoers, particularly at the top. Without that, no anti-corruption drive will have any credibility.

Confuzie // Ala cu nupurile se numeste parlamentul romaniei.

Daniel Morar e oare criminal ? // Trebuie sa recunosc ca multe aspecte din activitatea DNA,ca si de la celelalte parchete, sunt foarte tehnice si deseori ezit sa le judec. Sunt foarte mirat insa cand indivizii pe care ii numesc clone mercenare si care dupa stilul utilizat sunt de o alfabetizare sumara ,se pricep asa de bine sa-l trateze pe Morar ca pe un criminal in serie. Cred ca daca acesta ar iesi din rezerva pe care i-o impune functia si l-ar improsca pe Basescu cu laturi in stilul femeii comisar Norica Nicolai, ar deveni imediat un om admirabil pentru bunele clone !