Tuesday, December 18, 2007

X-mas glittery for children

This morning Ivars Godmanis uttered that he wants to have a new Latvian government sworn in the Latvian parliament already this Thursday. There is no sense for such urgency if there is a will to solve problems that caused demonstrations and ever increasing dissatifaction in society.

Wednesday's Diena openly confirms my pessimistic predictions about short longevity of this government. Yesterday the Saeima postponed the possible passing of the manatory property and income declaration law AGAIN. In addition the Head of the Saeima Budget and Finance Committee OPENLY states that he is not only AGAINST such law, but that such law is only curbing basic freedoms and not needed in Latvia at all. At the end of his utterance he predicts that pasing of such law would bring Stalinist tyranny back into Latvia. I somehow fel that I have heard such comparisons somewhere. Aye, Goeorge Orwell in his ''Nineteen eighty four'' has famous quote from country named Oceania - "freedom is slavery, igorance is strentgth & war is peace". Sad, very, very sad............

After such pronouncements the whole government formation does not look like a process for sustainable liberal democracy, but as paternal father clobbing X-mas glittery for his children....

Update will DEFINITELY follow...

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