A fan of "honorable" illicit acts dictates from the background the rules of the game in the Romanian transition For some time, we have assisted to a new spectacle: in different places of Romania, tens of gendarmes encircle trains with commuters, stopped in the fields, evacuating and threatening the "illegal travelers" going to work or home, as usually, bribing the ticket inspectors. The spectacular method by which railway police tries to oppose "illegality" rises several problems and offers a pretext for a bigger discussion. Here are the problems. First of all, in the human "fold" created by the gendarmes, I have never seen the bribed inspectors. In politico-philosophical terms, this means that the citizen is always the one to blame, never the state official. On the one hand, we can see hundreds of people fined and chased in the field; on the other, we notice that the guilty ticket inspectors are a pretty rare thing: a national campaign launched by the former Transportation minister, Traian Basescu, ended in three guilty persons. Secondly, stopping the trains in the fields affects the rights of the ones who properly bought their tickets and are delayed to their destinations, forced to wait for the police spectacle to end. This also contributes to the consolidation of the state's power: it is acknowledged the right to the arbitrary intervention and impunity when it affects civil rights. It is the same when it comes about abusive warm water providing cease. Thirdly, the type of intervention - spectacular, basing upon the power of the example - let us think of the model of medieval justice; it has nothing to do with the systemic, rigorous, constant, impersonal intervention, typical to a democratic state. How could be explained this phenomenon, of the illegal travelers? The "opinion leader" Cristian Tudor Popescu, can be heard using his eternal explanation: dissolution o