It took a few days, before I recovered from laughter, even though the cause is much more serious every hour. The past few days namely have been preoccupied with a slight mishap of the Slovak border police at the Poprad Airport. In order to train their canine assistants to detect possible explosives among the baggage of passengers, completely against every Slovak law, policemen hid 2 samples of explosives, without even informing passengers. The doggie did its work, ... but the policeman forgot to collect one of the items. The rest is history; or better hot current news, accumulating as we write (or read).
What follows is a waterfall of amateuristic nonsense from the responsible ministries and involved organisations. Under a facade of 'admitting' a slight mistake, contradictory and irrelevant facts are being concocted, making it more than just embarrassing to follow. Up to the point that even the Slovak Ambassador to Ireland is not able to give even a slightly plausible answer during his interview, as he seems hardly to be briefed by his government.
Not only have the Slovak police put an innocent passenger into danger, not to mention what could have happened if an electrostatic spark would have triggered an explosion. The mere fact, that nobody knew what, where, and when to act adequately. One statement runs against another one. Acting too late, too inappropriate.
Maybe this unhappy event will finally open the eyes of those in Brussels, and most of all in Slovakia, to realise what a kind of government of incompetent amateurs are in charge, who show hardly any sign of political decency to take the right step as befits a civilised politician to make; to resign. One cannot stop but gaze in awe. Even chief inspecteur Clouseau and the gendarme de St-Tropez could handle so much slapstick nonsense into one movie.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0107/1224261824246.html
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/government-fury-as-slovaks-play-blame-game-2002752.html
(the other hundreds of entries can be googled) ;-)
MS
Not only have the Slovak police put an innocent passenger into danger, not to mention what could have happened if an electrostatic spark would have triggered an explosion. The mere fact, that nobody knew what, where, and when to act adequately. One statement runs against another one. Acting too late, too inappropriate.
Maybe this unhappy event will finally open the eyes of those in Brussels, and most of all in Slovakia, to realise what a kind of government of incompetent amateurs are in charge, who show hardly any sign of political decency to take the right step as befits a civilised politician to make; to resign. One cannot stop but gaze in awe. Even chief inspecteur Clouseau and the gendarme de St-Tropez could handle so much slapstick nonsense into one movie.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0107/1224261824246.html
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/government-fury-as-slovaks-play-blame-game-2002752.html
(the other hundreds of entries can be googled) ;-)
MS
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