Robert Pelikán doesn't speak very often to Respekt, but he chose it as his instrument for making an "outrageous" political statement yesterday about the police and political interference that most voters will probably agree with. The choice of Respekt was brilliant. It is a bastion of the truth-and-lovenik movement, whose adherents for whatever reason tend to believe that the criminals associated with ČSSD are somehow better than the criminals associated with ANO. When Interior Min. Milan Chovanec of ČSSD came out of temporary obscurity yesterday to contradict Pelikán's claim, it was a stark reminder that this is a continuation of the Chovanec-Babiš war over police reform, except that this time it is Andrej Babiš of Agrofert a.s. who risks being arrested, not Radek Pokorný of ČSSD a.s. Careful readers with long memories will recall that Respekt was skeptical from the very beginning of that police reform. Even to Respekt the timing of it stank.