Bart De Wever haalt zwaar uit naar rechterlijke macht na Oosterweelarrest: “Rechters moeten recht spreken, geen wetten maken”

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1. >“Ik vind dat arrest onbegrijpelijk. Het is een arrest dat wetgeving creëert. Het is een schending van de scheiding der machten”, aldus De Wever. “De rechters beslissen hier eigenlijk om 20 jaar praktijk in Vlaamse regelgeving inzake bodemsanering op zijn kop te zetten en te veranderen. Dat heeft enorme implicaties. Niet alleen voor de Oosterweelwerf, maar eigenlijk voor élke bouwvergunning in Vlaanderen waar een historische vervuiling aanwezig zou kunnen zijn. Dat is bijna overal.”

   In short: BDW is playing with words to shift the analysis in his favor. He’s misrepresenting the situation, along with misrepresenting how our legal system works. Because he knows how it works. And he’s saying something opposite to that, so I can only conclude he’s doing it on purpose, using his platform in the media to turn people against the legal system.

   In long: BDW is claiming that because the legal system hasn’t ruled that cleanup of polluted soil is required for the past 20 years, now ruling that it is equals “creating a new law”. 100% bullshit.

   The reality of the situation is that if nobody sues, if nobody brings a situation before the court(including the legal system itself), then the court cannot make a ruling. And as such nobody will be aware of that ruling. And as such will only do the bare minimum.

   He’s basically complaining the court can enforce things. He’s complaining the court is one of the three pillars.

   With this arrest, it’s been clearly stated how the highest legal organ of our country interprets the situation and the laws that apply to it.

   He’s using linguistic tricks to avoid saying: nobody ever challenged common practice, so the law should interpret current life in a way in line with that.

   But that’s not how it works. How it works: if the law doesn’t allow for a certain set of behaviors, and you have been called out on it by the RVS, you either change your behavior or you get the law changed so that it is allowed.

   That’s the procedure. And when you’re on the receiving end of that, that’s not nice.

   Personally, considering the situation, I don’t disagree with the RVS.

   In summary, this is BDW showing his true colors as an ultraliberal, who believes the legal system should exist not to control politics, but to allow politics to serve capital.

   And for anyone yelling “but what about the reality of the situation?”. I say to you: you can’t pretend to be the party of law and order and at the same time want the law to bend to your will in order to wipe away things you don’t like in society, with impunity.

   Then again “the party of law and order” has always been a lie, everywhere in the world.

   Just going to note here how, not too many years ago, N-VA blocked an appointment to the RVS, multiple times, to get in someone more favorable to them. Just an another example of trying to control.

   And as a final tangent: considering his other statements in light of this: what is his real position about the “betonstop”? Inconvenient for those who make money building things?

2. His Calimero complex in full force.