Letter of the day: elected officials show themselves to be inconsistent

– Elected officials appear inconsistent

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Founex, June 21

The UDC, a political party defending the rule of law, protests against the behavior of the police, because they did… their job. The far right has had, has and always will have the gift of incoherence and the art of variable geometry. This type of party is systematically the first to applaud the work of the police when they use their legitimate violence against delinquents or recalcitrant people and to highlight the fact that if the “victims” of police acts had acted correctly, this would not have happened.

In the case of the UDC elected representatives in Bern, which gave rise to a controversy strongly fueled by the party, the agents were right to consider that the behavior of the politicians concerned, who judged that they did not have to submit to the instructions from the police, could therefore represent a risk for the person(s) they were responsible for protecting. They therefore simply used force that could be described as reasonable and justified. Why is the behavior of these UDC elected officials particularly problematic and serious, whether it concerns the incident itself or the comments made publicly after it?

This is due to the fact that variable geometry is the beginning of the end of the rule of law, of equal treatment, because this principle amounts to applying laws and regulations subjectively, to estimating that certain categories of the population can be above the law, untouchable. Inconsistency is the worst behavior that a committed person can adopt, because it harms the causes defended and undermines credibility by showing the true face of people, the one that is masked under a thick layer of makeup made of false probity. Down with the masks!

Jerome White

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