October 5, 2022
Has the Securitate Sided with the People?
Has Romania changed since yesterday?
The national event of the year was, without doubt for me, yesterday’s speech by the director of the SRI, Eduard Hellvig. By his declaration he seems to have made a visible movement of the compass heading of national security policy — a change made in prime time, evidently, as in seamanship, so that it should be seen from afar by the overwhelming majority of Romania’s population, which has begun to hold sovereigntist convictions.
“In this world, nationalism ought not to be merely the preserve of extreme discourses or approaches, but also a kind of instinct possessed by those of democratic, liberal mind, who today have the mistaken tendency to draw away from subjects such as patriotism or traditions.
(…) I believe that support for democracy can coexist with attachment to traditional values, religion, elements of national identity.”
(…) I do not think there should be so great a separation between national pride and support for universal democratic principles. Thanks to these principles, European societies have managed to become the model of development to which so many millions of migrants aspire. And the cultivation of national pride should not be left solely to the approaches of extremists or populists. As a personal opinion, I believe that a moderate, balanced nationalism ought to be reassumed, redefined and recultivated also by those of democratic and balanced mind in the Western states, including in the Romania of the future.”
What is more, the Director of the SRI also touched upon themes I have been signalling for many, very many years, and acknowledged the sins not only of the past but also of the present of the institution he leads, admitting even that he is aware there is much mistrust in society as to the number of “undercover men” and their agenda in various strategic sectors, giving assurances that since the beginning of his mandate their activity has been carried out “strictly within the limits of the law”:
“I know the sins of which the institution is accused, some of them real, others unjustly attributed to us. I know too of the problems generated by certain former SRI officers positioned either behind all manner of people or gravitating around state companies. I can tell you that we are aware of these problems and will do everything in our power to solve them,” declared Eduard Hellvig.
(…) “Politics and intelligence-gathering must not overlap. Too often, however, the mistakes of the past affect the conduct of those in the present as well. Too many politicians, in the preceding decades, grew used to receiving ‘indications’ or ‘suggestions’ about what they were to do. Politicians are elected by people to think with their own minds, invested with their trust to take decisions about how Romania will look in the future, not merely to put out the fires of the present and apply plans devised by others. Even so, too many want others to take decisions in their stead; too many actually expect to receive suggestions from the services. We shall not consolidate democracy until we encourage every institution to assume the mandate it has, without abuses and without excesses.”
Why have I given you all these quotations from the SRI director Eduard Hellvig?
So that you may see how significant his change of attitude and direction is in relation to the position he expressed in 2014, when he said that “A return to nationalism would be equivalent to the end of the European Union, with everything that means for its citizens — from the abolition of borders and the aspiration to a better life, to the essential democratic freedoms, first of all that of expression.”
After 8 years, and after tens of percentage points of the population have swung from embracing the progressive-globalist current towards the sovereigntist-conservative one, the position of the SRI director and of the institution appears to have pivoted… in other words, the Securitate, the System, appears to have gone over to the people’s side…
Is that so? Well, it will be simple to see whether these are merely political — politicianly — declarations, or whether they really are national security strategies that will actually be implemented in the SRI’s activity.
For example, it would be a good beginning if the System’s infiltrators in the press stopped labelling as “Putinist” and “enemy of the people” every person who supports sovereigntist-conservative policies. Another good step would be to permit access to the mainstream media, closed for years to any individual who voiced opinions contrary to the System and to Globalism.
In fact, a very good sign would have been for the services not to have poked their tail into Sunday’s protest, not to have divided the masses of people, not to have set them at one another to the very edge of a brawl… yes, that would have been a good sign! But it was not so. The System could not restrain itself and remote-controlled the pseudo-leaders of the “sovereigntists” in such a way that the people should see that the “sovereigntists” are capable neither of unity, nor of political vision, nor of viable solutions for the Nation… but only of scandal, shouting and stadium chants. That is to say, that they are not fit to take power, to take the reins of the country. That is what they wanted. And they achieved what they set out to do; the Securitate has once more fulfilled its globalist role and discredited for a long time to come not only every idea of protest and street movement but also that of a union of the sovereigntist forces. To be sure, it had material to work with… but the System’s activity was transparently visible in the concertedly dissonant action of the feeble parliamentary opposition in discrediting the idea of protest and of a sovereigntist movement.
Yes, until yesterday the System’s activity remained visibly in support of the progressive-colonialist forces, which can be seen too in the concerted action of the “press” in these last days to denigrate another conservative pillar — the most important one! — the Church, through the avalanche of revelations concerning the involvement of certain churchmen in all manner of sexual scandals.
In short, all this happened until yesterday…
But all this was before yesterday’s speech by Hellvig. From today… everything will change!
Will it?
As a lawyer I am accustomed to give precedence to the presumption of good faith, and I shall do so even in the case of Mr Hellvig, director of the SRI… But this good faith can and must be proved. And the first proof, as I have said, would be an end to the persecution and denigration of sovereigntists and conservatives, and of churchmen too.
Then, more complicated and longer in the doing, would be the extraction and bringing back “to barracks” of all those infiltrated into the press, into the business world and above all into the judiciary!!!
Equally important, indeed essential, would be the removal of the SRI and of the other services from the legislative process — for yes, many, indeed most laws are written by the System’s men.
And finally, the supreme gesture of normality would be to bring Romania’s intelligence services up to NATO standards, that is to say, to demilitarise them…
In other words, Mr Hellvig would have to follow point by point the provisions of Chapter IV of #TheSovereigntyLaw… the one that Mr Hellvig’s own men denigrated in the press and rejected in Parliament. But that too was before yesterday.
And yet I truly want to believe in the sincerity and good faith of the SRI Director.
And I am waiting to see:
Has the Securitate really gone over to the people’s side?
However that may be, we of #TheCoalitionForTheNation shall go #ToTheVeryEnd!
And whatever the Securitate does, we shall #GiveRomaniaBackToRomanians!
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