our former PM is accused of coruption. he suposedly took envelopes of cash (200 grand or so) from a lobyist to work with him during his last days in office. he says he took them after he left office, and whats wrong with taking envelopes of cash anyway? then he didnt pay taxes on them till this guy was arested and spilled the beans... slimy bastard
strat EVERY govt is a disapointment, we just have to try to find the least disapointing.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by _strat_ from Saturday, June 06, 2009 5:53:28 AM)| |  | _strat_ wrote: | | At least he was out. Our (now former) prime minister was accused of corruption more times than I can think of. From selling weapons to buying them. From subduing the national TV to newspapers. All sorts of shit, and he never even got trialed for it.
As far as elections are concerned... They will see me on referendums. On elections - never, ever again. Ive been twice, voted for a head of state and for a government party - both a disapointment.
| | | Head banger wrote: | | we had a convicted pedofile run for city council here. his sister found out and tiped the press off. his wife was still with him and had 5 more kids with him after he got out of jail. I used to live 4 houses from him, never knew.
he tried to blame the press too. dredging up unimportant issues. WTF? got my only letter to the editor published over that. if you cant trust the people you elect, for christ sakes dont elect them. he ended up droping out of the race.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Oh, its not just Portugal, trust me... Not much better here. No paedophiles in the government that I know of, but thats just it... That I know of.
And of course, when a politican screws up on anything - blame the press. It was set up. Commie/Clerofascist journalists (depending on the politicans orientation) set it up. Yup, must be good to be a politician.
| | | DelivererofEvil wrote: | | I don't know how it works in the USA, I don't let the little bits of probably contaminated (by gossip) news from your justice department get to me, except for the big cases.
But I'll give you an example on how that law would be good if applied here in Portugal.
According to our legislation and the way justice is applied and enforced, we have no death sentence and no life emprisonment, our maximum sentence is 20 years. No one even stays for more than 10 since parole always comes in and perfectly good candidates to psychopats come out freely yet again.
For the last... 5 or 6 years we've had a tremendous judicial scandal here in Portugal, involving a pedophilia network that was dismanteled, and which had links to people high up in Political and Entertainment powers. To start with, only the one sicko who had no connections and back up got jailed, since all the others either denied it or have been absolved yet. Few were those that actually saw their freedom diminuished. Christ, PEDOPHILIA should be high up with murder. These people however, will be walking in the streets again soon, one of them has already seen his sentence diminuished.
This raises a question, as I see things:
Why sentence people to a certain time in jail, when the REAL time they spend there doesn't even make to half of what was planned?
I think this undermines judicial authority, who is already limp as it is, without having all the corruption (our biggest richess consumer) weaken it further. Again, I'm talking about Portugal, where our Prime Minister's former Ministry (The Environment, for ultimate irony), BURNED and DESTROYED all documents from the time when he was Minister, back in the 1990s. Then the #%"& comes out inbroad daylight smiling andsaying it's those "bad" journalists (he's been attacking the press as well with law suits, noticing any hints of where this is going?)
I'm sorry for the rant, but I needed to use the moment to tell foreign people what has been going on, to check whether it is me or the country that have gone mad as bats. |
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