Final Word from Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Pavel Blažek, who will be sworn in today as justice minister, told
MFD that he wants to meet with Lenka Bradáčová to see if she
has the integrity to be senior Prague prosecutor. That's like Arlo
Guthrie singing in Alice's Restaurant about whether he's moral
enough to join the army and burn women, kids, houses and
villages, after being a litterbug. For Bradáčová to exercise her
integrity in the "right" way (in Blažek's eyes), she'd need to
continue in the footsteps of Vlastimil Rampula and Libor
Grygárek by burning all the sensitive criminal cases. But that's
not her style, so Blažek will probably have to opt for the long
con. He'll have appoint her to the post because of all the media
pressure, but he'll work at the same time on a law for eliminating
her job and making sure she doesn't take over the new special
anti-corruption squad. If he's really good at his job, he'll even
convince her to support his version of the new law.[Czech Republic Jiří Pospíšil Pavel Zeman]
Glossary of difficult words
long con - an elaborate scheme to rob or cheat someone that is executed over many weeks or months, with the aim of convincing the target that the con artist is a friend and is trustworthy. At the end of the long con, the con artist gets the target to voluntarily take the action the con artist was seeking;
litterbug - a person who carelessly drops litter in a public place.