A victory against corruption! ^ ^

This has been going on in Romania for past couple of days:

http://imgur.com/gallery/l3lpr

As one of the posters from imgur pointed out:

"If Romania had the population of USA and we kept the percentage protesting to the total population, this would be 9.32 million people."

...if U.S. would follow this example - you might get close to a victory of your own. You guys sure seem to need this as well - right now... ?

Thank god the people won this time.

Let's hope that the conservatives in the U.S. understand that Donald John is not serving America.

Posted by neves
This has been going on in Romania for past couple of days:

http://imgur.com/gallery/l3lpr

As one of the posters from imgur pointed out:

"If Romania had the population of USA and we kept the percentage protesting to the total population, this would be 9.32 million people."

...if U.S. would follow this example - you might get close to a victory of your own. You guys sure seem to need this as well - right now... ?

aw that's so cool.

The vampire myth is not that far from reality. In Romania - we call them Politicians... since they've been sucking the blood of this country for more than 2 decades... -_-

If you don't fight back and turn a blind eye, that's like saying - that you're ok with what's going on... That's what encourages abuse. And when it comes to political corruption - it takes a large crowd to make a point (small groups are easy to push aside and ignored). Tho, I haven't seen a crowd so large since the revolution from '89 when Romanians brought down the old government. We had many similar protests up to this point, but those were formed of a smaller group (around 100.000 max) and maybe that's why - they didn't prove to be so efficient...

Posted by tiziani
Yeah I heard about it, all over Romanian cable tv.

You watch Romanian TV? ^ ^

Reminds me of the Revolution in Egypt. The world is teaching us in the United States something. People are waking up and mobilizing. It is both a sad and wonderful time in history.

Forgive my ignorance but I haven't been following this.

What exactly is everyone protesting?

Im soo soo happy the people won!! Great job!! Wish people in my country would do that too 🙂

Posted by Deedee86
Forgive my ignorance but I haven't been following this.

What exactly is everyone protesting?

Here's a short article which covers more points in depth:

http://time.com/4660860/romania-protests-corruption-problem/

Short story: abuse of political power - meant to favor the officials...

"The country's ruling coalition made a decree — or executive order — on Jan. 31 to decriminalize abuse in office by officials, if the sums involved were less than around $ 48,500. Ordered without any input from parliament, the decree would have stopped all investigations for pending corruption offenses, freed officials imprisoned for corruption, and blocked further investigations related to those offenses from being brought to justice."