Back in the U.S.S.A

I’ve been making comparisons between the Republicans and the Bolsheviks for some time now and although some of it may be slight hyperbole, the comparison is steadily becoming less of an exaggeration. I refer not only to the American Gulag, the secret trials and detentions and the spying on citizens but to the enormous intrusion of fixed dogma and doctrine into all aspects of life, public and private. I refer to the decreasing level of transparency, the increasing hostility toward pragmatism, science, reason and variant political thought. I refer to the shadowy groups of powerful men whose word competes with law and whose actions ignore it.

Despite their waning popularity, the presence of Party apparatchiks in all levels of government increases, the pursuit of simplistic, utopian Party goals continues and the goal of uniting all branches of government under one party rule so as to eliminate the balances they were to provide; all these things and more continue.

The latest attempt to make the Federal courts another arm of the party, along with the Press, the Congress and the Executive branch is the Republican proposal in Congress to set up a watchdog over the federal courts. To me, it echoes the Soviet Political officers and committees that oversaw all aspects of Soviet life to make sure that everything complied with the Party line.

Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg addressed a gathering of the American Bar Association Tuesday. According to the AP, she called the idea that the Party of Bush should monitor courts to make sure that judges were accepting of party members outside financial dealings with lobbyists of other “A really scary idea”

"It sounds to me very much like the Soviet Union was ....” said the Supreme Court Justice whom the AP writer took pains to identify as not only a “Liberal” but a Clinton appointed Liberal.” The media as an arm of the American Soviet does its job well.

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, announced a plan last week to create an inspector general to oversee federal courts including the Supreme Court. The inspector general would be directed to report any judicial misconduct to the Justice Department. One wonders at how judicial misconduct is defined in the Party dictionary that seems already to define law as the whim of the ruler.

While the Stalinists in Washington set up guardians for the courts they’ve already packed with party hacks and strive to limit the power of the constitution to limit government under the guise of limiting “Judicial activism” America is struggling to recognize what has happened here through the smoke and haze and clamor of patriotic bellicosity, but we have to do it on our own. They own the press.

The Party is most definitely down by the bow and is taking on water, the life boats are being lowered while the fat men in suits climb over the women and children to get out, but the idiot at the helm steers the same course. Will we mutiny or will we lose the ship?