Comment by techcode
1 day ago
There are a lot of assumptions in that general observation, right?
Not just that you need experience in order to deal with these unsavoury/dishonest/crook characters.
But that you even need to deal/compromise with them at all, that doing so would lead to a better outcome ...etc.
And also not to mix up the other meaning of "dealing with".
The biggest thing that the Student movement rallied around was dealing with previous government and various public and private sector corruption that it instigated/facilitated - in the bringing them to justice/rule of law sense.
Part of dealing with someone might be just making sure that you associate with them. Also dealing with criminals often means imprisoning them or killing them (depending on how dangerous they are).
The politicians, be it President, Prime or other Ministers, or just members of the parlament - usually don't directly put criminals behind bars.
That said back in 2003, so ~2 years after the previous student protests in Serbia that brought down Milošević - Serbian Prime Minister was assassinated.
Officially the assassination was done by criminal gang that had ties with previous government - that just so happened to also be (former) members of the special antiterorist (military) police.
And it is said that he was assassinated because he was doing things (setup special investigation/prosecution) to fight organized crime.
While some of the current students might not know about all that. Older people, the ones that are now discussed/proposed as ministers and such - definitely know about.
> The politicians, be it President, Prime or other Ministers, or just members of the parlament - usually don't directly put criminals behind bars.
Obviously. I would have thought that it would be obvious that it is delegated to the various security services.
> Officially the assassination was done by criminal gang that had ties with previous government - that just so happened to also be (former) members of the special antiterorist (military) police.
Well, bringing the rule of law didn't work out for him, did it?
He should have made sure these people were tracked down ASAP and killed. To have law and order, you need to have order first.