Opinion (José Lúcio / Judge): A shadow gives rod cake.
Not straightens, of course. Stubbornness in straightening the shadow of a crooked stick is obviously not evidence of wisdom. However it is not uncommon thing in politics.
José Lúcio
(Judge President of Beja County)
So happens in those situations repeatedly announce measures that leave untouched the problems it intends to solve.
They go by years and decades to talk about the magnitude of the problem and the urgency of the solution and going to see the end of that eternity the essential remains unchanged. The changes, reforms, the measures, how discourses, They never reached the essential. All walked around the shadow, and the rod continued pie.
In Portugal this observation is of particular acuity. We walked there endless time to discuss them with the same issues. Look at the proclamations and programs of all the revolutions of the last two hundred years.
I particularly touching hair, I remember often the impression it made me reading "Portugal Contemporary" Martins de Oliveira. I was very young, and he believed that there would be new things in the world. astoundingly, the country's political life of my youth came to me in the same habits and addictions to what had been over a hundred years before. Contemporary Portugal was already in "Contemporary Portugal"!
Since, the similarities only accentuated. The parties, the politicians, the corruption, Blank ideas and ideals, everything suggests Portugal nineteenth century described by Oliveira Martins. There are people in Eca character gallery that identified every day in the news, and criticism of Guerra Junqueiro the parliamentary system of government and appear today as well-aimed as in his time.
Today, I am less young, I believe it is entirely true observation Salazar: "Men change little and then the Portuguese almost nothing". And exasperates me finding. Not that I would like to see less Portuguese Portuguese (identity is what identifies us, as would the other). But, damn it, unless it were possible to find solutions to old problems and move decisively to address the new.
These generalities help you better understand what is going on with our sector, the Justice. On a smaller scale, It is the same phenomenon. We walked for decades to hear about the justice reforms, and they appear there, constantly, Packed by that magical belief surrounding the Gazette (it is believed that the letter of the DR is stronger than the world, and who dominate the DR dominates reality).
So, is legislation on legislation, reforms and contrarreformas, changes and reversals, codes in series and revisions to tens, alphabet soup regularly brushing the frantic. As background, reality laughs and remains.
However, at the same time, budget on budget is more blatant disinvestment in the area of ​​Justice. In people, in equipment, in infrastructure. All this is essential, and assumption for the rest. It may seem negligible thing, or at least some exciting, dealing with buildings, computers, paper, or even the careers of staff - but without it does not help launch good words curtains.
The regulatory framework can be bright, but does not replace the need to take care of the underlying reality. Laws may be many, beautiful and wise, but if the courts are doomed to work in decrepit slums, and with little material obsolete, and there us little, tired and unmotivated, to strive to fulfill as well against all odds, then hardly the concrete administration of justice will help to give the judiciary the prestige and own authority of one of the branches of government.
(Text written under the previous rule to spell AO1990, by the author's option)
