A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
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...
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