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Victor Negrescu: Back to reality

Published Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 13:51
by negrescuvictor (814 views and 1 comments)

Today I faced a horrible event – one colleague of mine got beaten in the street because he looked at the wrong car. Victim of an assault, he couldn’t react or call the police because he was too scared that the guy could get his home address – he seemed very dangerous and with a lot of money.

How can you face brutality? How can you fight what’s illogical with logic? This is today’s main problem. This event brought me back to reality and unfortunately don’t have a perfect answer to this problem. What’s the solution for violence? If I take the example of violence in suburbia I can explain it by the lack of integration and the social exclusion. The home violence is explained by psychological reasons that we all know and even the hooligan violence is explainable by the group feeling and mentality. But this… free and hard violence is unexplainable.

I’m tempted to say education is the answer, but he surely didn’t learn this at school. I’m also tempted to say that the solution is to put cameras everywhere and to be more radical but this only scares not stops violence. One thing is for certain – Romania is not a dangerous country, not at all, but unfortunately today’s Romanian society is too concentrated upon TV life and media selling news and forgets about these problems and the true solutions to resolve them.

Unfortunately as well, is the fact that left doesn’t have a true solution to violence, crime and insecurity even if these problems are everywhere. How can I explain to this person that the left wing, that involves humanity and respect, has the solutions to his problems when a right winger is surely going to propose to him an immediate and harsh action against criminals. My solution is on the long term, but the problem and the pain is now … has the left a solution for this?

A fact is certain: Europe has to find a way of building up a common legal system based upon common laws and ways of punishing vandals and criminals all over Europe. A criminal that leaves a European country has to be searched all over Europe by the other countries so they get punished for their crimes. In the same time Europe has to build up a support system to the legal and security systems of the countries facing problems by helping them respect the law and most of all help the citizen.

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