Communism Ended Its Disastrous Run as a Police State with the Berlin Wall Falling. Will We See the Curtain Fall on Bushevism?

Last night we saw the gripping Academy Award winning best foreign film, "The Lives of Others." It’s an absorbingly bleak movie about how individuals in East Germany were under a 100,000 person police-state apparatus known as the Stasi.

A loyal socialist playwright and his actress lover become the victims of a personal plot carried out by the Stasi at the request of a senior party member in love with the actress. Taking place just a few years before the collapse of the Soviet Empire, it details the creation of a government apparatus to "legally" suppress the residents of East Germany on behalf of the "security of the state."

The results of a Stasi surveillance and entrapment assignment called "Operation Lazlo" are irreversibly destructive to lives, to art, and to the most basic of human rights – the right to love.

Those who find it alarmist and sensational to compare the Stasi to what Bushevism – and its loyal party members – are continuing to try and achieve in the United States are naïve at best.

It would take a book to review the list of government authorized (and unauthorized – as recent revelations from the FBI have revealed) efforts to both monitor Americans and use the courts to achieve the political goals of solidifying a permanent power base for Bushevism.

But without recounting a list of particulars dating back to the theft of the 2000 election, we wanted to recall just two of the literally thousands of revelatory incidents that reveal the true intentions of Bushevism to create a police state akin to the control of the Stasi.

In the ongoing flap over the recent U.S. prosecutors fired because they would not use their offices to achieve partisan electoral goals on behalf of Karl Rove and Bushevism, the man who carried out the political hit jobs, D. Kyle Sampson, urged that an obscure "Patriot Act" provision be used: "Sampson, who is testifying voluntarily after stepping down as Gonzales’s chief of staff two weeks ago, told former White House counsel Harriet Miers, Gonzales counsel and White House liaison Monica Goodling and others in a September 2006 e-mail that the Patriot Act provision would allow the administration to ‘give far less deference to home-state senators and thereby get (1) our preferred person appointed and (2) do it far faster and more efficiently, at less political cost to the White House.’

More significantly, he reasoned in another e-mail that if they didn’t use the provision, what’s the purpose of having it?

Of course, the real and symbolic significance of this behind-the-scenes effort to subvert the role of U.S. prosecutors in order to make them extensions of a Bushevism state party infrastructure is that the White House and DOJ assured Congress that all the "war on terror" provisions were necessary – and would only be used – to pursue terrorists.

But from Stalin through Franco through Hitler, the term "enemies of the state" have been consistently used on behalf of "isms" to secure legal authority to assume indefinite control of the governmental power structure. (For Hitler, it was the "Enabling Act" after the controversial "Reichstag Fire," which some historians conjecture was a set-up job by the Nazis to get the "Enabling Act" passed.)

In "The Lives of Others," the Stasi are scrupulously attentive to following East German law at the time. The followers of Bushevism have been conscientiously having Congress give them the authority to create a police state infrastructure through the passage of laws in the name of "the war on terror," when their real intended targets are Americans who present obstacles to achieving "100 years of Bushevism."

Our second case in point (among thousands) is Alberto Gonzales’s testimony many moons ago after the discovery that the Bush Administration was illegally wiretapping on Americans – without permission of the FISA Court. The White House, of course, claimed that it had the legal authority to conduct the surveillance.

When Gonzales appeared before a Senate Committee to answer questions about the eavesdropping (the primary surveillance technique at the center of "Lives of Others," only now it is more sophisticated), he was asked by a Democratic Senator if the wiretapping was ever used for political purposes. Gonzales did not respond "no." In fact, he basically said that he could not answer that question.

To our recollection, no one ever followed up on what was a key issue as to the motivations behind the Busheviks demanding that Congress give them unprecedented surveillance powers.

One can only assume, given their intention to create sanctioned vehicles to ensure the winning of elections and to monitor the conversations and actions of Americans whose only suspicious behavior is that they oppose the ruinous reign of Republican one-party rule, that these powers are being used less against "terrorists" and more against us.

Because it is a cardinal rule that "isms" define people who oppose them as enemies of the state, since the state is considered the ideological core and personal power base of the "ism," whichever "ism" it might be.

Democracy, however, is gloriously and invigoratingly not an "ism." It is freedom. It is a belief in the inherent ability of humans to decide the destiny of their nation – and their world – on the basis of equality.

Democracy, as the theft of the election in 2000 (which was the beginning of the latest, more dangerous stage of Bushevism) showed, is the enemy of Bushevism, as it is the arch foe of all "isms."

The appointment of Supreme Court justices who believe in nearly dictator-like (unitary authority) powers of a Republican President (including signing statements, the brain child of Sam Alito in the Reagan Administration) is all part of the police state jigsaw puzzle that Rove and Cheney’s office have been assembling since January of 2001.

When Scalia issued his infamous order to stop the Florida recount in 2000, he brazenly claimed that all the votes shouldn’t be counted because it might show Gore winning and therefore damage Bush’s reputation when he assumed the presidency (our paraphrase).

A Bastard administration, born of an electoral mugging, the Busheviks haven’t stopped to take a breath in their efforts to legalize their institutionalization of Stasi-like powers.

They aren’t people who care if they experience a few tactical defeats. They have the executive branch power and they only know two things: are you in power or out of power?

Despite all the uproar about the replaced DOJ attorneys, the new Bushevik hacks are still in place, just waiting to conduct sham investigations and indictments of Democrats to try to influence the 2008 elections, including at the presidential level. (The Rove protégé who was put in place in Little Rock is clearly there to legally stalk Hillary Clinton, should she get the Democratic presidential nomination.) And then there are all the loyal Bushevik U.S. prosecutors who weren’t replaced to add firepower to a partisan DOJ political use of our legal system.

"Isms" don’t care about threats, about investigations, about polls. The loyal adherents to "Bushevism" are still running the government and don’t plan giving that up soon.

They are like a steamroller operator who doesn’t stop for a lunch break.

Karl Rove is feeling fit and happy enough to do an insulting white man’s "rap" before the Washington Correspondents Dinner, as the D.C. lapdogs laughed uproariously at the offensive antics of a man who should be serving jail time, not smugly performing a modern day minstrel show.

The Berlin Wall fell and tens of millions were liberated.

In America, the Wall is rising.

The East Germans have enjoyed freedom for nearly 20 years now.

It is ironic that this great nation is moving ever closer to the world of the Stasi, just as democracy flourishes in what was once the Iron Curtain.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL