THE MANIFESTO OF JUSTICE AND DIGNITY – FINAL RESPONSE TO THE AUTHORITIES
Hello everyone,
I am sharing with you today a formal communication sent on January 30, 2026, to the local municipality. This email serves as a firm stand against bureaucratic indifference and a reminder that public officials are here to serve the people, not to rule over them through fear or intimidation. I will keep you posted and provide an update as soon as a response is received.
Before you read the content, I have a question for you: Have you ever dealt with such institutions or similar situations? How did you handle it? By sending this manifesto, do you think I have acted correctly for the community I live in, or not? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
To: The Mayor
Cc: The Local Council and the County Prefect’s Institution
Mr. Mayor,
In the absence of a response within the imperative deadline I requested and in the face of the dry document you issued under number 467/22.01.2026, I address this manifesto of truth to you. What you are reading now is not just an email; it is the documentation of a lack of respect that cries out to heaven. The fact that you chose to respond to three desperate complaints through a mere “typing machine,” after the critical deadline had passed, is not just an administrative deficiency, but a proof of cruelty.
Behind the legal codes you cite with surgical coldness, you forgot to include the most important ingredient: the soul. You ignored the fact that the citizen writing to you was a person on the brink of collapse, a community member who had buried his mother and was asking for help, not mercy. Your response was “encrypted” in bureaucracy, without a trace of intimacy or empathy for a person in crisis. You prioritized the image of an abusive official, but you pushed a human being's survival to the limit.
Even if you tried to “cover yourself” with paragraphs before the law, you failed before morality. A community is based on support, not on blackmail disguised as politeness. A lawyer of truth would tell you that your silence until 11:00 AM was a weapon of psychological pressure. Therefore, this message will flow below as a story of pain transformed into dignity, a story I compel you to read in its entirety, because it represents the voice of all citizens in the local municipality who do not have the courage to cry out.
To: The Mayor
Cc: The Local Council and the County Prefect’s Institution
Mr. Mayor,
I address this final communication to you not only in the spirit of an administrative complaint but as a document of moral and civic position, a necessary conclusion after a period in which I was forced to carry out an asymmetric dialogue with the institution you lead. I decided to write this extensive message because, in the face of a cold and impersonal typing machine, as the municipality proved to be in its response, the citizen's only weapon remains the clear word and the documented truth.
I. ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMANITY AND BUREAUCRACY
I want to be clear from the beginning: I am not a “serial complainant” or someone looking for trouble out of boredom. I am a 33-year-old man who was forced by tragic circumstances—the loss of my mother on October 13, 2025—to interact with a system that should have been my support, not an obstacle. The principle I live by is one of absolute simplicity: be fair with me, as I am fair with you.
If I am respected, I know how to offer respect. If I receive professionalism, I know how to give public thanks, as I did without hesitation in the case of Mrs. Rodica. However, if I am humiliated or blackmailed by an official who believes the town hall is his own estate, I will fight with all legal means. I did not ask for charity; I asked for dignity.
II. LACK OF CONSIDERATION AND THE INSTITUTION’S “DRY” RESPONSE
I bring to your attention a fact that denotes a total lack of respect for the time and needs of a citizen in crisis: I sent three detailed emails, full of legal and human arguments. I requested a response by 11:00 AM on the day I was supposed to sign the documents, to have a guarantee that I would not be harassed again.
How did the municipality react? Through absolute silence until the moment the request had already been factually resolved. Your official response, no. 467, arrived only the next day—a sheet of paper from a printer that seems written by a machine, not a human. It is a dry document, citing laws that I myself pointed out to you, but which cowardly avoids admitting the abuse committed by the employee at the Taxes and Fees department. To claim that the employee was “polite” when he conditioned a social right on the payment of taxes is an insult to my intelligence and the reality I lived. This attempt to “wash” the image of an aggressive subordinate demonstrates that, for you, protecting the administrative apparatus is more important than the citizen's justice.
III. THE CONTRAST BETWEEN OFFICIALS: THE STANDARD VS. THE ABUSE
In the same building, just a few offices apart, I encountered two different worlds. On one hand, the professionalism of Mrs. Rodica—an official who understood the urgency of my disability file, who contacted me, and who worked efficiently. On the other hand, the “overlord” attitude of Mr. Gabi, who thought he could use a signature on a document as a lever for blackmail.
This discrepancy is unacceptable in a public institution. It is not normal for a citizen to enter the town hall with fear, wondering which official they will encounter: the one who does their job or the one who will humiliate them. Professionalism must not be a lucky exception, but the mandatory rule for every office in this municipality.
IV. A FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE OF THE COMMUNITY
If I chose not to remain silent and to write pages of complaints, I did not do it only for myself. I managed; I fought and obtained my rights. But I think of the elders in the village, the orphans who have no voice, or the people who do not know how to read a Penal Code. What happens to them when Mr. Gabi or others like him tell them that “nothing will be signed for them anymore”? Those people go home crying, freeze in their houses, or are left without medicine because an official decided to act as the law according to his own whim.
The change I asked for is for all citizens of this community. I want this precedent to remain in the institution's archive as a warning: citizens have begun to know their rights. We are no longer in the times when the town hall was a land of personal whim.
V. CONCLUSION AND MORAL ASSUMPTION
Mr. Mayor, I ask you not just to file this email, but to read it carefully. A long message is hard to read, but it leaves time for reflection. Think about the responsibility you have. An institution that lies to cover up the mistakes of an employee is an institution that has lost its moral compass.
I hope that in the future, no signature, no field report, and no legal right will ever again be an object of negotiation at the municipality's offices. I ask for a real assumption of the fact that you are there to serve the community, not to dominate it through fear and bureaucracy.
I hope that after reading these lines, you will understand that respect is earned through justice, not through stamps placed on dry responses.
In closing, Mr. Mayor, I urge you to look beyond titles and offices. We live in the same community and, ultimately, we should help each other, not place obstacles in each other's way through bureaucracy and attitudes of superiority. A strong community is one where the citizen and the official are partners, not adversaries.
I have learned that respect before institutions is not obtained through silence, but through courage. For a long time, people were afraid to complain, fearing that they would not be helped in the future. The reality I have demonstrated is the opposite: when you refuse to be stepped on, the system begins to treat you with the due consideration.
It is not about harming someone, but about doing good for the community. Today, access to information allows us to no longer be victims of bureaucracy. If I managed to transform a painful experience into a precedent of dignity, it means others can too. We do not ask for favors; we ask for normalcy. In a civilized community, the official signs and stamps because that is his duty, not because he is doing us a favor.
MANDATORY READING VALIDATION PROTOCOL
Mr. Mayor, to confirm that this manifesto was personally read by you and is not being administratively ignored, I request that, within a maximum of 15 days, you send an official confirmation by email, signed and stamped, containing the correct completion of the following fragments randomly extracted from the text:
- "...is a dry document, which cowardly avoids admitting..." (please complete the next 5-6 words from the text).
- "...because it represents the voice of all citizens in the area who..." (please complete the next 5-6 words from the text).
- "...an institution that lies to cover up the mistakes of an employee is..." (please complete the next 5-6 words from the text).
The lack of this validation protocol in your response will be considered proof of bad faith and contempt, in which case I will address the County Prefect’s Institution.
With dignity,
Erik Pytar
READER CHALLENGE:
Do you know what the exact words are that the Mayor must find and use in his official response 15 days from now? Based on the text above, can you guess which 5-6 words are missing from those three points? Let's see who can identify the "hidden" truths in this manifesto!