A fearful and frustrated society, dominated by the cult of secret, fundamentally remains vulnerable to the authoritarian skids. Former Senator PNL (National Liberal Party) Eugen Vasiliu considers that in Romania there exists a real cult of secret. Mr. Vasiliu knows what he says. After years of trying to promote a law to rule the access to information, he could notice now, together with us all, as expected, that a law of state secret should be first adopted. The whole spirit of the legislative act and many of the wordings in the text are totally anachronistic, permeable to abuses, pretty close to the severe restrictions in the communist period. It is not quite surprising, after all given that one of the initiators of the law was a former "Securitate" colonel, Stefan David. A very definite expression of the major impact the former secret police continues to have on the Romanian society. Unfortunately, this cult of the secret is deeply planted in the public memory, so many will not be, probably, quite shocked by the most excessive stipulations of the law. This is why the majority of the leaders of the institutions funded with public money or of public interest, form prefectures to police stations, treat the service information as personal gods. Moreover, this kind of mentalities are dominant in the interior of the commercial companies, including the private ones, so things that should be known by the majority of the employees remain kept secret in the chiefs' offices. The proclaiming of free access to public information is one of the most effective mechanisms of protection for democracy and of fight against corruption. The Americans, for instance, have such a law, which severely restraints the category of information considered sensitive for the national security. As for the rest, any citizen has the right to solicit access to information that was not included in that c