Obama’s shameful campaign to criminalize officials in the Bush administration is reminiscent of Stalin’s purges of his opponents in 1936-38.

Through the office of Attorney General Eric Holder, President Obama actively supported a witch-hunt aimed at destroying the careers of Bush administration attorneys who provided legal advice about the limits upon interrogating captured Islamic terrorists.  Hating President Bush wasn’t enough.  It was necessary figuratively to spill some blood.

Between 1936 and 1938 Stalin staged public trials of of Soviet military and political leaders whom he regarded as rivals.  All of the trials resulted in convictions and executions for alleged treason.

American liberal-progressives at the time applauded the show trials as necessary to stop opposition to socialistic progress toward perfection of human nature and political society.  In fact, liberal-progressives continued to defend the trials until after the fall of the Soviet Union and revelation of KGB documents.

The common good, an abstraction called “humanity,” as defined by Stalin or American intellectuals, always trumps individual rights.

Parenthetically, this appears to be Obama’s attitude as he renews the effort to force passage of National Socialistic Healthcare, in the face of voters’ revulsion.  Liberal-progressives, it seems, still believe fervently in the superiority of their own minds and in their right to rule the rest of us, precisely the mindset of liberal-progressives during the 1930s.

What became widely known only after the fall of the Soviet Union was that the Moscow show trials were staged in the same way as the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility’s attack against Bush administration lawyers.  There wasn’t even the pretense of objectivity.  Defendants were first judged guilty, then evidence was rigged to portray guilt, and exculpatory evidence was suppressed.

Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility is a direct descendant of the Stalin regime.

In an op-ed article on the Wall Street Journal, one of Justice’s targets rebuts the Office of Professional Responsibility’s Moscow-show-trial tactics.

Thomas E. Brewton

Reference: My Gift to the Obama Presidency