Prague Post Follow-up: Czechs Are "Spineless"
Like you, I watched the television news last night -- in addition to checking out the instant replay in this morning's papers -- about the Kroll audit initiated by Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg into the shady financial dealings of Minister for Regional Development and leader of the Christian-Democrat Party Jiri Cunek.
While locals might be used to this, I believe these sorts of scandalous accounts come as quite a shock to newcomers to the Czech capital, even those who are apprised well in advance of what's to come, those with a fair degree of "entry preparation," so to speak.
Just looking at the smug photos of Cunek this morning in the newspapers, then reading the obfuscating Q&A he did (in Czech) with one of MfD's (Mlada Fronta Dnes'/Today's Young Front) correspondents, makes you wonder what kind of a legacy he's leaving for his kids.
Rather than shrivel up into a coil (like a snake) and hide himself under the nearest Moravian stone -- like precisely whaat would happen where the democratic movement is slightly more progressed -- he waddles about Parliament, swinging his big stick like a phallus.
It makes me sick.
I know it makes you sick too...problem is, you're in a position to do something about it and what are you doing?
ps my blog title follows closely on an op-ed piece recently done up in the Prague Post.
While locals might be used to this, I believe these sorts of scandalous accounts come as quite a shock to newcomers to the Czech capital, even those who are apprised well in advance of what's to come, those with a fair degree of "entry preparation," so to speak.
Just looking at the smug photos of Cunek this morning in the newspapers, then reading the obfuscating Q&A he did (in Czech) with one of MfD's (Mlada Fronta Dnes'/Today's Young Front) correspondents, makes you wonder what kind of a legacy he's leaving for his kids.
Rather than shrivel up into a coil (like a snake) and hide himself under the nearest Moravian stone -- like precisely whaat would happen where the democratic movement is slightly more progressed -- he waddles about Parliament, swinging his big stick like a phallus.
It makes me sick.
I know it makes you sick too...problem is, you're in a position to do something about it and what are you doing?
ps my blog title follows closely on an op-ed piece recently done up in the Prague Post.