introducing the portuguese system

recent events in portugal, depicting the present state of affairs in public administration:

A 50-day old baby girl went into a coma after being submitted to a city hospital for the fourth time, showing signs of severe physical punishment, apparently inflicted by her own parents. The 22-year old father had been charged previously on 3 counts of sexual abuse of minors, and 1 count theft. The 20-year old mother shows signs of mental insufficiency. After the first occurence, the hospital witheld custody of the child, given the clear evidence of harmful family environment, but was later forced to release her given that the local institution responsible for child protection issued a release order, stating the the case was under observation, and that it was safe, and appropriate, to return the baby to her family. At the final occurence resulting in the coma, police authorities were informed, and the parents arrested pending investigation. The president of the aforementioned child 'care' institution was questioned on the issue, and stated that "the system has worked".

thank heavens. imagined if it didn't. he might actually have been given a reprimand for it (I was going to say 'fired', but then I remembered that's impossible).

this is my country: the state can get away with murder, rape, torture, theft and overall sheer lack of respect for the people. all that'll happen is the first name of the politicians will change (but seldom shall the last) - for a while. that's the way it's been since there was a so-called peaceful revolution. I know now that a peaceful revolution is hardly a revolution at all.

hey mr bush, when you're pulling your sorry ass out of iraq, do us all a favour and drop a few nukes over here on the way back. the world will hardly notice and I'd be grateful if you sunk this lump of thrash into the atlantic ocean. a few good people would be gone, and it's a pity to ruin such a nice landscape, but humanity would be rid of quite a big bunch of cunts.