Updated 4.7.2024: Tomáš Pecina "Are we living the last months of Czech democracy?", published on 30 May 2012 on the website http://slepeckahul.pecina.cz
"The state and state structures were not built according to a solid plan and in respect for the democratic system of values. The police are fatally corrupt, the judicial system is dysfunctional, the country is ruled by a mafia of extortionists, usurers and fraudsters against whom a decent person cannot find a defence and therefore has no reason to identify with the state and defend it if he himself is confronted daily with the indifference of the state."
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Dr. Damjan Prelovšek - art historian and expert on modern architecture, expert on the work of architect Jože Plečnik, Ambassador of Slovenia to the Czech Republic 1998-2002, member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, writer and photographer.
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... So it was clear that he was involved in the process of visa trafficking and that he should stand before the disciplinary committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, not Jana Chaloupková. She refused visa applications to keep dangerous people out of Europe. But then State Secretary Miloslav Stašek was rooting for Lorenc and also hoped that Lorenc's close friend Miloš Zeman would appoint him as ambassador to the US (he is today). The consul had nothing to offer against this. Only honest service to the country and the EU, which was not important. So the Secretary of State imposed disciplinary proceedings on the whistleblower. This, along with further action against the Consulate, confirmed that not only was she not interested in dealing with visa fraud correctly, but that she was encouraging it and possibly orchestrating the destruction of a whistleblower and exemplary public servant. Everything has been turned on its head. Yet the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive literally prohibits the imposition or use of disciplinary measures, reprimands and other sanctions. ...
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