[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

This was authored by the leader of the "Romania Mare" party, apparently the second largest political force in the country. It was published in the party's weekly.

Please note that Michelle Guest is really MICHAEL Guest, the openly-homosexual U.S. Amb. to Romania. Apparently he decided to snub a pro-American ceremony over there.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

[Looking for Diogenes]

Sounds like a great group. (They got substantially more votes in the last election.)

Greater Romania Party (Partidul Romania Mare, PRM) - 19 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, 8 in the Senate - is an ultra-nationalistic, anti-Hungarian party, combining fascist and communist principles. Its orientation towards (re) unification with Moldova is one of PRM's main electoral selling points. In its programme for the elections in 1996, the PRM projected two years of authoritarian rule in Romania. On certain economic issues the PRM holds similar views as the Socialist Labour Party. The PRM’s party leader ran for president in 1996. PRM won 4.5 percent of the votes in the 1996 elections. Party leader Vadim Tudor is very popular among the miniers from the Jiu valley. During the latest strikes the miners shouted his name and called him the saviour of Romania. Party-chair: Corneliu Vadim Tudor

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[Ohioan]

I do not pretend to have any insight into Romanian politics. But Romania is not the issue, here. Why do we have an Ambassador in any country whose conduct makes him a natural laughing-stock for anyone who wants to take a P.R. poke at the United States? Of course, this is not the first time, we have sent an Ambassador somewhere, where his real mission appeared to be to make a statement humoring some agitation here at home. But it never ceases to be inexcusable, whichever party is behind it.

As World leaders, we certainly do not need to fawn on anyone. But as World leaders, it ill behooves us to insult others with deviant exhibitionists, or representatives who for, whatever reason, are likely to offend their hosts. A bully struts his offensiveness. True leadership is often inconspicuous, and never sets out to offend for the sake of offending. A simple respect for good manners and traditional decorum would avoid these situations.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site