The passionate fight against corruption fad that we see in the Western world today was born just over two decades ago. Like all fashions, this one also did not arise in a vacuum, neither for good governance and much less for the good of the people. It is confirmed month after month, everywhere, that the group that is in power or rather, the few that have power despite being far from the spotlight, uses the so-called fight against corruption to govern, or rather, to destroy the individuals, companies or associations that it rejects. Always supported by indecent measures, they often add more scandalous abuses to the previous ones.

The ruling oligarchies found an easy way to shoot down potential elites – whether economic or cultural – "not authorized" by them. There is nothing better than the word corruption to discredit opponents (by the commercial press), to create barriers to entry for new competitors (by opaque laws), and even to persecute them by confiscation and imprisonment (by judicial authorities). A strange industry of professionals dedicated exclusively to pursuing "corruption" was created. Newspaper editors and commentators become puritanical angels. Prosecutors and judges rise in their careers with the stamp of heroes. Legions of plainclothes police are thrown into the street in search of any handful of poorly explained coins or to compile rumors.

Today, no attentive observer is surprised that the new "universal value", called fight against corruption, is always and everywhere defended selectively, precisely because it was created to protect specific interests and ruin others. Interest groups led by local oligarchs are more comfortable sharing the public pie among themselves while waving the flag of corruption at their opponents. Finding a case that deviates from the rule is a rarity.

The results of this trend have been the destruction of the free market, of chains of production, the economy and the figures of merit. All this has been identified, albeit with fear, by researchers in the areas of Economic Law, Political Sociology and Critical Theory. There are, however, two other dangers that have been always overlooked.

On the one hand, the population tends to get increasingly stupid, since they are constantly entertained with small talk and anesthetized about the real dangers. In the collective consciousness, serious crimes such as gangsterism are pushed into the background. In Portugal, it has reached the point of celebrating the arrest of a politician because of a box of sea bass. A deliberate and systematic process of degradation of the critical, intellectual, moral and ethical capacity of the population is underway, making it totally incapable of defending itself from simple evil neighbors, let alone from the imposition of Sharia sooner or later.

On the other hand, the naïve popular idea that corruption always involves the squandering of public resources by politicians without acceptable ethics, is far from encompassing the fullness of the legal concept. For citizens of merit to be tainted, it is enough to exist, it is enough to work, it is enough to obtain remarkable results in any relevant area, because everything can be interpreted by the new Jesuits as being a supposed advantage, even if in the future or spiritual. The logic of the fight against "corruption" in the private sector has been to place the State as the arbiter of what is good or bad for people, companies or associations, or what their principles should be, their suppliers, or even the merit or quality of the members of the association under scrutiny. Anyone can be a potential target of the described mechanism of criminalization of nascent elites who are not affiliated with or do not want to adhere to the norms of the system self-defined as lawful.

Before, the law punished fraud. Today fraud has taken over the law. International organizations produce constant reports to pressure states and the media to create more regulation and surveillance. The fight against corruption has itself become a public danger, and it is beginning to be imperative to stop the pace of such infamous parasites who, without elevation and without remorse, shake everything, as long as their attempts do not fail and their privileges are not harmed. The ideological enemy is no longer the USSR, but the person who is seen as an obstacle to the "efficiency" of the system. This is the simplistic design of a deadly clowning, with the aggravating factor that this fever makes investigations based on "news" without contradiction, anonymous denunciations, grudges, revenge and everything that the most perverse human mind can achieve becoming more frequent.

Netanyahu's trial

The legal proceedings against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been marked by a series of high-profile delays and political maneuvers that critics and supporters often interpret in conflicting ways. Jewish communities in the diaspora are indirect victims of Israel's pending court case against Netanyahu, as every day they must put up with local elites brandishing ferocious words against what they describe as an evil Jew who perpetuates himself in power through war, to escape the prison that everyone takes for granted.

As an expert in criminal law, for decades accustomed to studying serious topics related to the philosophy and history of law, I am perplexed when I read news about this famous "trial" and about the charges that include receiving cigars in exchange for visas to enter the USA. I fear that the State of Israel is severely infected by the Western virus that has led to the ruin of Judeo-Christian civilization and that it must be quickly purged from the Jewish state if the intention is to preserve it and not destroy it from within.

The ‘Dinim’, ancient, traditional Jewish law, has a wide range that encompasses courts of justice, precise and honest laws and a functioning legal system based on the correctness of its operators, equity and social order. I don't really think that this law is being enforced in the Jewish state if it has been drawn into the fashionable rot already detailed above.

By nature, laws were born for the population, not for specialists, jurists, police and journalists. While in the popular mind, a politician who embezzled resources related to the health, security, justice and other systems is a traitor to the homeland, penal codes tend to include that behavior in the word corruption and, worse, never define this word precisely, to the point that mere social conventions and offers of small gifts between friends appear today to preside over flashy trials.

Last month, the Prime Minister of Israel took to court the famous plastic doll that a wealthy Jewish man had given to his son. Things have reached this ridiculous point all over the world, even in Israel. Did Netanyhau embezzle public resources? According to the prosecution's accusation, no. Very well, case closed. In the classic example of the moral corruption of humanity before the Flood, the earth was devoid of an honest judicial system, with laws and operators faithful to the idea of justice.