Andrej Babiš, a Slovak billionaire, a one-time communist cadre, an ex-agent of the communist undercover police, as well as the Czech finance government minister upwardly to Spring, was fired yesteryear the social democratic prime number government minister Sobotka a few months ago, inward a serial of events that looked similar a farce mainly because Sobotka repeatedly changed his opinions how to bargain with the work named Babiš. The reasons were numerous.
At to the lowest degree at the score of economical morality that Babiš – as well as Sobotka – loudly demand from everyone else, at that topographic point was no uncertainty that Babiš has done likewise many immoral things.
He has done lots of foreign things to fool his one-time trace organisation partners, evade taxation of CZK 1 bonds yesteryear tricks with the rounding to the nearest integer etc. but the most famous wrongdoing is the subsidies for his Stork's Nest, a luxurious farm as well as rural tourist resort I saw a twelvemonth ago. He temporarily moved the companionship owning the projection to his relatives, they secured $2 1000000 of European Union subsidies that were meant to assist little as well as medium businesses, as well as so Babiš – who owns a $3 billion companionship – restored the ownership of his Stork's Nest company.
At the moral level, it's evidently a theft or fraud. At the legal level, the laws may take maintain stupid loopholes that genuinely brand such things legal. But I think it's unlikely. This item $2 1000000 scam is investigated yesteryear some European Union investigators. Finally, the Czech constabulary began to do the same. An hr ago, the the Parliament to vote as well as allow the prosecution of Andrej Babiš as well as his #2 both inward the Agrofert companionship as well as the ANO political motility (these hierarchies are largely copied inward both entities, inward club to brand the clash of involvement to a greater extent than striking), Mr Jaroslav Faltýnek.
Based on the previous pledges, non exclusively the Parliament should vote "extradite": ANO's deputies should genuinely vote "extradite", too. They take maintain ever pledged that this is the exclusively right agency to human activity inward such situations.
Just months ago, Babiš's motility had a dominion inward its statutes that whoever starts to live prosecuted yesteryear constabulary has to go out politics – because they're such cracking warriors against the economical crimes, aren't they? Cleverly enough, they removed that dominion shortly earlier Babiš, their really Führer himself, became a dependent plain of a prosecution yesteryear the Czech constabulary so he doesn't require to resign.
Nevertheless, many Czech parties at nowadays urged both Babiš as well as Faltýnek to resign from the Parliament.
Now, I believe that Czechs – the most atheist acre inward Europe yesteryear far – are by as well as large reasonable inward lots of things. Even to a greater extent than so than some other post-communist nations inward key Europe, nosotros empathise the problems of co-existence of really different cultures as well as the counterproductiveness of the bending of the asylum as well as immigration laws yesteryear the European Union authorities.
On overstep of that, I genuinely believe that Czech Republic has the greatest liberty of speech communication inward the footing – much safer than countries inward the West every bit good every bit those inward the East. While Poland as well as Republic of Hungary are doing many cracking things, I am also somewhat anxious almost the increased command held yesteryear their key political parties – although I don't genuinely concur that something "unacceptable" has already taken house inward these countries. Those changes are clearly a number of the fact that some parties could teach towards or higher upwardly the 40% territory as well as such strength allows parties to do odd things inward systems that usually require coalitions of many smaller parties. Czech Republic has been "lucky" so far – the strongest political party was by as well as large below 30% for quite some fourth dimension (the political spectrum has been sufficiently fragmented inward recent decades) so coalitions were ever needed as well as nosotros didn't take maintain the chance to go or seem "totalitarian" inward this feel – the conflicts betwixt the coalition parties take maintain been a business office of our politics pretty much on every 24-hour interval since the Velvet Revolution. In some sense, it's an payoff relatively to Poland as well as Hungary. And all these key European countries are evidently much to a greater extent than gratis than the Western Europe or the U.S.A. of America when it comes to the political right speech communication codes.
But some things almost the Czechs' political attitudes are exactly shockingly wrong. In particular, Andrej Babiš is notwithstanding expected to win the Oct elections with some 30% of votes – it could live a flake less or a flake more, nobody knows for sure now. His political motility of the Führer type volition almost for sure live the strongest go instrumentalist inward Czech politics (so far it's #2 according to the composition of the Parliament but for many years, his ANO was at the overstep inward the surveys). It's probable but non quite sure that he would notwithstanding require coalition partners as well as it's unknown which ones he genuinely prefers. An ANO-communist coalition looks rather terrifying to me.
But I only can't take maintain whatsoever sympathy or empathy for the processes within the brains of these 30% or so voters of Andrej Babiš. He's done some of the ethically worst things that people were doing earlier 1989. His path to wealth both inward Slovakia every bit good every bit Czech Republic where he escaped at some betoken is suspicious as well as total of bizarre tricks hot to trounce his one-time trace organisation partners. He's been getting billions of crowns inward subsidies for rape – used for biofuels – as well as other things. And so on.
More seriously, he wants to dismantle the Parliamentary organisation every bit nosotros know it. He wants to abolish the Senate. He wants to trim down the number of lawmakers inward the House. He has said that he basically wants to ban the lawmakers from talking likewise much inward the Parliament. He wants to abolish the municipal "Parliaments" as well as brand sure that the mayors convey all the power. Discussions as well as negotiations are exactly "babbling" for him, non work. And he exclusively wants the accountable people to "work" – i.e. mindlessly human activity without discussions. He is convinced that the authorities – most probable himself – must take maintain the right to monitor every fiscal transaction that occurs inward the country. He is enthusiastic almost imposing $20,000 fines for little businesses every fourth dimension they brand a little fiscal or bureaucratic sin. He bought overstep newspapers, apparently convinced that they would render him with the monopoly over the data inward Czechia. It hasn't worked so far for him – but some of these failures are due to his having 22% exclusively inward the latest elections so far – they may alter when he's given 30% or more. I think that Babiš is intrinsically far to a greater extent than authoritarian than Orbán, allow solitary Kaczynski.
Some of Babiš's opinions are notwithstanding sane – he is critical of volume migration, he is sometimes against the adoption of the Euro etc. – but all these things are exactly a outcome of the consensus inward the public. When it comes to questions that don't direct deport upon his power, he only copies the opinions from the majorities of Czech voters. He exclusively has sensible opinions almost things inward which an overwhelming bulk of the Czechs has the same opinion. What is the added value? There is none.
Babiš constantly whines that he has destroyed his life yesteryear entering politics, he doesn't genuinely desire to live there, as well as so on – but is apparently unable to figure out that he may go out politics if he doesn't similar it. He constantly repeats that everyone else is a thief, he spreads all unsubstantiated as well as nasty accusations y'all tin can listen inward the cheapest pubs of Czechia, as well as so on, as well as lots of primitive plenty people dear it because they don't hand a damn almost substantiation, evidence, or the truth value of their accusations, afterward all. They exactly audio practiced as well as the to a greater extent than materials someone says against republic or the neighbors who are wealthier than they are, the better. All this whining as well as accusations is sort of analogous to the feminists' demeanour inward the U.S.A. of America except that the preferred shape over hither is notwithstanding some form of a proletariat, although this proletariat is vastly richer than it used to be. But Babiš only notwithstanding finds 30% of the Czech citizens who are rather enthusiastic almost him. It's perverse.
If he's arrested, I am pretty sure that almost all these 30% of voters volition remain faithful to him as well as he may fifty-fifty increment the support. Czechs literally dear some other criminal, Mr Jiří Kajínek. Two decades ago, he almost for sure killed Mr Štefan Janda, a 26-year-old businessman, close the Bory prison theater hither inward Pilsen. Janda wasn't a saint yesteryear himself etc. but at that topographic point be numerous witnesses that confirm that Kajínek was the shooter – a hired gun. He received a life inward prison theater sentence. Even if he weren't the killer, he had done lots of criminal things inward his life that are known. And he has repeatedly escaped from prisons. Try to approximate the probability that the killer was someone else if someone so perfectly suited for that job, with these amazing extra abilities, was apparently seen yesteryear several independent witnesses.
Well, it doesn't matter. Kajínek became a sexual practice symbol for a huge number of Czech women. The tales almost his innocence take maintain go so powerful that the Czech president Zeman – who previously promised non to utilization pardons at all – decided to pardon Kajínek. If y'all require to increment your approving charge per unit of measurement that dropped inward recent months, why don't y'all exactly pardon the most famous killer inward the country? Well, if Zeman decided to avoid pardons, it's bizarre to pick the exclusively exception who may really good live the most rigid killer inward the country. You know, I've heard almost really specific witnesses hither inward Pilsen. I tin can notwithstanding imagine that something was different, that constabulary did it for some mysterious reasons, that the witnesses are lying for some reasons I can't see. It's possible. But why would a sane impartial somebody start to piece of work on these rather unlikely assumptions?
There only be some types of villains – who are genuinely bad – which go much to a greater extent than pop inward Czech Republic than whatsoever hero ever could. It's sick but it's true. Babiš – who got married on his Stork's Nest some weeks agone (the married adult woman has used his surname for a decade, anyway, as well as they take maintain kids together) – became some other villain that Czechs discovery irresistible as well as I am afraid that it volition proceed fifty-fifty if he were placed inward a prison. He volition evidently scream he is innocent or something similar that as well as most of his stupid sheep volition purchase it. This guy has grown to a large plenty fish so that he as well as his supporters basically desire to dismantle the whole post-Velvet-Revolution organisation as well as his rhetoric oft confirms that.
I hope that nosotros won't run into some novel Bastille-style commencement of a novel communist revolution when this jerk is violently liberated from a prison.
Babiš already told Reuters that the prosecution was the "last desperate travail of the corrupt organisation to take away him from power". I guess it implies that ane time he gets to power, he wants to live unremovable. If this is his plan, I sincerely hope that some of the owners of 800,000 legally held weapons inward Czech Republic volition beg to differ.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 joke of the day: The wealthiest Czech, Mr Petr Kellner ($10 billion), bragged inward PRC that at nowadays he is so rich that he could purchase Czech Republic including the people. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 homo inward a cluster of people surrounding Kellner, Mr Babiš, said: "But I am non selling, Peter."
Czech, Czechoslovak presidents as well as prisons
While y'all must take maintain understood that I am genuinely non a Babiš's fan, it seems to me that the Western readers volition think that the association of a overstep pol as well as prisons is something absolutely insane that exactly can't tumble out inward an otherwise civilized country.
Well, it's non genuinely the example inward our country. Lots of our presidents take maintain spent years inward prisons as well as it doesn't hateful anything that would live likewise wrong or that would house us inward Central Asia – these arrests of the presidents are mostly testimonies of our rather vibrant 20th century history.
The founder of Czechoslovakia, Prof Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, was never successfully arrested but that's exclusively because he traveled a lot piece creating Czechoslovakia. In 1915, an Austrian-Hungarian arrest warrant against him was issued so he stayed abroad (Geneva etc., he went to the U.S.A. of America inward 1918) but his American married adult woman was inward Czech Republic so she was imprisoned. So it's questionable whether y'all could count Masaryk every bit a prisoner.
His successor as well as large ally, Dr Edvard Beneš, who was forced to oversee both the Munich treaty as well as the communist coup, has never been arrested. In Beneš's case, the Austrian-Hungarian authorities likely didn't fifty-fifty number an arrest warrant because it was hopeless but Beneš's married adult woman was arrested because of the secessionist activities of her husband.
Now, the State President of the Protectorate of Bohemia as well as Moravia, lawyer as well as translator Dr Emil Hácha (he translated Three Men inward a Boat to Czech, alongside other things) whose pathetic wellness as well as little physique symbolized the Czech submission to the Germans, was arrested for collaboration with the Nazis inward May 1945. He died the next calendar month inward the prison's hospital.
Our initiatory off working-class president Gottwald hasn't lived inward a prison theater but his successor, Mr Antonín Zápotocký, was arrested for a strike or so 1920, as well as for an attempted emigration to the Soviet Union through Poland or so 1940. He spent the years upwardly to 1945 inward the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
His successor every bit a Czechoslovak president, Mr Antonín Novotný, was arrested betwixt 1941 as well as 1945 – inward the Malthausen-Gusen concentration campsite – for his communist activities.
His successor General Ludvík Svoboda – the president during the Prague Spring as well as so upwardly to 1975 – was fighting difficult during the Second World War so he didn't take maintain whatsoever fourth dimension for prisons but almost twenty of his relatives were inward prison theater during the Second World War.
His successor, the final communist president Gustáv Husák whom I recall rather good as well as whose incentives for newborns take maintain encouraged me to live born inward the initiatory off place, was arrested yesteryear his communist comrades inward 1951 because despite his beingness a commie, he was also charged every bit a Slovak "bourgeoisie nationalist". He got life inward prison theater inward 1954 – but that was exclusively practiced luck because both Stalin as well as Gottwald died shortly earlier the verdict, inward 1953, otherwise he would take maintain gotten the decease penalty. In 1960, he was freed yesteryear Novotný's amnesty every bit presently every bit the intense de-Stalinization of the 1960s was getting started.
Well, his successor was the initiatory off modern democratic president Václav Havel. As y'all may guess, the sequence of the jailed president doesn't genuinely halt here. In total, Havel has spent five years inward Czechoslovak prisons for his writing politically wrong things – as well as for his capitalist ancestors. He became a president exactly some 2 months afterward his latest term inward the prison.
After a long time, Václav Klaus was the president who had had nada to do with prisons, although most of the Czech people may desire to shipping him into one. One of his latest decisions every bit a president was a large amnesty – many people abhor it fifty-fifty though it was a rather criterion seem of the leader's mercy as well as many other presidents as well as kings earlier him take maintain issued comparable amnesties. The electrical current president Miloš Zeman hasn't been jailed, either, but many of his comments almost prisoners as well as his pardon for Kajínek are related to prisons.
If y'all brand the statistics, y'all volition run into that "a Czechoslovak or Czech president has been arrested at some point" is a 50-50 proposition. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 clear bulk of the Czechoslovak or Czech presidents were either arrested or had their immediate relatives arrested. Most of the arrests were politically driven – as well as they may live understood every bit events that assist someone's political star to rising if he manages to survive. The work with Babiš is that his prosecution isn't political inward whatsoever way. He is basically every bit apolitical a criminal every bit y'all tin can get.
After all these leaders who take maintain fought to alter the footing – suspension the monarchy as well as flora Czechoslovakia, undermine Nazism, rebuild Czechoslovakia, essay to avoid the communist coup, essay to accelerate the communist coup, soften the communism as well as teach inward to a greater extent than independent of the Soviet as well as international forces, initiate the Prague Spring, normalize Czechoslovakia every bit a territory occupied yesteryear Soviet as well as other fraternal troops, flora Charter 77 as well as assist to abolish communism, liberalize as well as privatize as well as democratize Czechoslovakia, peacefully dissever Czechoslovakia etc. – nosotros are waiting for a overstep leader who has made his fortune mainly yesteryear trading šit, literally. After he entered politics inward 2011, he began to merchandise šit figuratively (mostly fabricated dirt against all other politicians). He is expected to live prosecuted for a theft of the coin equal to five lives of Czech average salaries, but it's notwithstanding less than 0.1% of his wealth. Some people take in Babiš every bit a semi-God. Sorry jako, he is a slice of inexpensive filth from my betoken of view.
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