When the country lives by its laws, and you live by its rules.
It is terrible to realize that you can be completely right - and at the same time completely helpless.
My mother and I are officially registered in our home. we live here This is our only home. According to the law, in order to deprive a person of housing or cancel his alimony, a court decision is needed. Even if we assume the worst - that the courts will side with the officials - it will take at least 1.5-2 months. procedure. papers. Right to protection. the right to be heard.
But officials don't need it.
They don't go to court. They don't prove themselves right. They just come and turn off the gas. Then, if necessary, water. Then light. Because an official is not a person who must comply with the law. This is a person who decides when the law can be circumvented.
And this is the main injustice:
An ordinary person can only act within the law. We write statements, collect documents, wait for answers, go to the courts. And even there, by standing up for our legal rights, we risk receiving a counterclaim, a fine or being accused of anything. Because the system will always find something to cling to - if you are not comfortable.
And the state structure can act completely without law, without punishment and in a permissive manner. She is not afraid of the courts, because the courts are part of the same system. She is not afraid of complaints, because complaints are considered by her people. She is not afraid of publicity as long as this publicity can be suppressed.
While my mother and I try to follow the rules, we are pushed by the lawlessness. They turn off the gas so we don't have to endure it and go out alone. There is no trial. There is no solution. There is no right to protection.
This is not just arbitrariness. It's a system where the official has all the rights, and you only have the responsibility. And even when you are right, you are still guilty - just because you dared to oppose.
I am not writing this to elicit pity. I write so that it stops being silent.