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Brawl on Catch 22
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By Ivelina Puhaleva
There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire Catch 22 on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage.
Now I have come back to it in allusion to a domestic scandal as absurd and senseless, as only a war can be.
While anticipating the European Commission's tap on the shoulder for "a well-done" in the judiciary reform, two of the magistrates' highest profiles clashed in a row.
Bulgaria saw lashing accusations of corruption and insanity between the outgoing chief prosecutor Nikola Filchev and the chairman of the Supreme Cassation Court Ivan Grigorov. What for, you would say?
For personal reasons, observers answered. But obviously both magistrates had felt in the embrace of oblivion that they appear first as judiciary officials and then as personal with their own emotions.
Don't you see echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament? Is it worth to commit political suicide by entering in such ungraceful brawl, while knowing that Brussels ticks away every step - especially backwards - in the country's crucial reforms?
The row, however, caught the public eye in the moment when the Parliament is deciding on the magistrates' immunity - and make constitutional amendments to the status of the prosecution.
Yet, no new law or reform would change the situation, unless people, particularly officials, make a turn towards a new way of mentality and public communication.
The way we think and act is the way we are perceived - and as Yossarian would say: "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire Catch 22 on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage.
Now I have come back to it in allusion to a domestic scandal as absurd and senseless, as only a war can be.
While anticipating the European Commission's tap on the shoulder for "a well-done" in the judiciary reform, two of the magistrates' highest profiles clashed in a row.
Bulgaria saw lashing accusations of corruption and insanity between the outgoing chief prosecutor Nikola Filchev and the chairman of the Supreme Cassation Court Ivan Grigorov. What for, you would say?
For personal reasons, observers answered. But obviously both magistrates had felt in the embrace of oblivion that they appear first as judiciary officials and then as personal with their own emotions.
Don't you see echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament? Is it worth to commit political suicide by entering in such ungraceful brawl, while knowing that Brussels ticks away every step - especially backwards - in the country's crucial reforms?
The row, however, caught the public eye in the moment when the Parliament is deciding on the magistrates' immunity - and make constitutional amendments to the status of the prosecution.
Yet, no new law or reform would change the situation, unless people, particularly officials, make a turn towards a new way of mentality and public communication.
The way we think and act is the way we are perceived - and as Yossarian would say: "It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."
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