" Certainly the culture of impunity, referring to countries with totalitarian or dictatorial regimes has declined markedly in recent decades. Take, for example, the International Criminal Court (ICC) created in 1998, which enables large judging war criminals like Slobodan Milosevic or Charles Taylor (...)
But apart from the ICC and the most extreme cases she considers, western part of the public perceives an increase of the same culture of impunity in their own societies, which also seem to be increasingly fatalistic about it.
Probably no word better defines the decline of a democratic society is necessarily based on the rule of law, impunity, even when it relates to major crimes, but petty corruption featuring large corporations, perverse dishonesty , daily, insidious which embitter the unhinged character and frustrated citizens.
worse than the corruption, even worse than the abuse itself, is the feeling that the powers that the protagonists are out of reach of any punishment. There is nothing new in history, but probably our parents and grandparents believed, and felt that little by little, these corrupt and cunning would ultimately be controlled and persecuted by law.
We, the children and grandchildren, we are sure otherwise. We believe, as I said a few years ago the governor of the Bank of England, never a smaller number of individuals have done so much damage to a larger number people. Never
the corruption and intrigues "white collar" had reached such a high number of victims, perhaps because there has never been a greater number of consumers exposed to such dirty practices.
And above all we believe that, according to a law called the Fahnstock, we are in a time when every issue worth debating is worth avoiding it altogether.
Does anyone doubt that the worst effect of Wikileaks was not caused by leaks, but by the apathy and carelessness with which it has referred to what was not, should not be a show, but a complaint? " ( The Fahnstock law of GALLEGO-DIAZ SOLEDAD El Pais, Domingo, 13/02/201, p. 17)
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