June 13th 1990 is the day when the West's kind attitude towards Romania turned into a real shock. It is ten years since hordes of mine workers "were making a clear sweep" of the "crooks" from the University Square that had been contesting the Iliescu regime for two months without an end. In ten years nothing has been done in terms of justice. Ion Iliescu, the main actor of the events, is comfortably smiling, waiting for the Romanians to elect him again in the top state position. In Romania it's a common thing to find that justice is in politics' service. "The current power made a political compromise choosing to put off the mine workers' movement case in 1999 not to tear the coalition apart", said a magistrate the other day while playing the true political analyst. This is the most serious sign of the crisis: a representative of the legal system speaking the language of abnormal with the most natural looks in the world. We have to accept that justice in Romania is moving slower and the case needs a lot of work. Still, in a democratic society there are other forms of objection. The most significant one in this respect should be Ion Iliescu's exclusion from the political scene, by political option. The fact that in Romania not everybody understands that in 1990 and 1991 Iliescu resorted to the methods Nicolae Ceausescu had used less successfully in 1989 is surprising. The repression combined with the action to mobilize people against opposition, censure, misinformation (through "Adevarul" and "azi" newspapers and the Romanian Television, as well), the adoption of the communist-like rhetoric are just some of them. Under the circumstances in which Ion Iliescu was enjoying popular support the defense mechanism designed by the communists worked perfectly during Iliescu's time. Yet, Iliescu's image is almost untouched in Romania. The public opinion is inert, speechless and