Criminal Code: Article 58

During these dark days, when it appears that America is in peril of plucking both eyes by ignoring the history of socialism, it is most interesting as this writer documents the chronicles of life under “O” to bear witness to yet another stark parallel between “The Gulag” and the story of “O”.

Solzhenitsyn details sections of the Soviet criminal code in this chapter.  Included in the journal is an accounting in excruciating exactness of Section 58.

A few points that seem pertinent to current events “leap” off the page.

Section 3 covers ” ‘assisting in any way or by any means a foreign state at war with the U.S.S.R.’ “.

Now, while not at “official” war with the United States, Venezuela is in a position where it can be argued that they are in (at the very least) a trade war.

Chavez has called our President “the devil” which I would suppose is in keeping with how Panetta’s daughter feels about the matter (and what of Panetta?).

What strikes me here in this new American socialist regime is that by the standards applied in that paragon of socialism, the U.S.S.R., this administration would be guilty of breaking its own rules.

Another example that just “lept” from the printed page to the pixelated screen is Section 7.  (AIS) states that it is

applied to subversion of industry, transport, trade, and the circulation of money.

Eight hundred billion dollars are now being applied to all the above.

Industry has been “subverted” by an overwhelming government control of Banks and lending, which also encompasses “the circulation of money”.

Transport is being affected by this maniacal “greening” of America.

Free trade is obvious.  All anyone can talk about is this “buy American” clause and doing away with NAFTA.  Just brilliant.  You’ll take your toys and go home – and by the way, STARVE.

The world is a market place.  Has been since ancient times.  It was a market place in the time of Christ.

People simply traded with one another.  It is human nature.

What is it about the modern American totali-socialists that make them want to go against nature at every turn?

It is only natural when collusion exists between nations (OPEC) that a free and open market would try and find an alternative, like say, drilling here at home.  But what does the Democrat want to do?  Build solar panels that could not power a child’s toy car, much less a modern, industrialized nation and all its infrastructure.

But digression creeps again, like this ugly monster socialism.

By the standard of modern socialism (the U.S.S.R.) the people in power in America today would be guilty of breaking the very foundation of their “craft”.

It is curious, but the fact remains that the same thing happened in the U.S.S.R.

The author (AIS) goes on in the chapter to discuss how under section 8 that if

a husband killed his wife’s lover, it was very fortunate for him if the victim turned out not to be a Party member; he would be sentenced under Article 136 as a common criminal, who was a “social ally” and didn’t require an armed escort.  But if the lover turned out to have been a Party member, the husband became an enemy of the people, with a 58-8 sentence.

So, essentially, if you are in with the right people,  you will not go to the Gulag for a “tenner” as AIS describes it (ten year sentence at hard labor).  You will be released to your own recognizance (to quote the myriad of Television programs which love to use this line).

I suppose one could say that if you are “in” with the right people in America today, you will benefit from the 800 billion dollar expenditure (I’m only quoting Madam Pelosi here; that attitude of “get used to it”).

Some mandate.

One can not help but wonder if America has become totally blinded by its total abrogation of all things historical, all things moral and all things Constitutional.

Both eyes seem to have been plucked from its “ingore-ance” of the past.

It is hoped that rather than a physical loss of sight through a loss of the eyes that perhaps this is another malady that may one day restore its sight, such as a temporary coma, or crossed-wiring in the brain.

I suppose it is audacious to only hope for something as “minor” as a coma.

Ah, to hope perchance to dream.

Is that coffee I smell?