Lustration law and things made clear

In the malefic politics hierarchy, our life in postcommunism has been more harmed by the occult moves made in December 1989 and in June 1990 by the FSN (Front for National Salvation) members in power than by what happened in the last communist decade. In the last years of the totalitarian regime, the Communists would consolidate their domination in keeping with the system's outlook and no one was expecting something good to happen any more. The political decisions made by Ion Iliescu and his gang in December 1989 and June 1990 compromised the democratization process just when everyone was expecting what was best.
Therefore civil society representatives' claim that the lustration should ban the access to public opinions for those guilty of the events in 1989 and the coal miners' attacks is based on juridical, logical and ethical criteria more than those promoting lustration at any costs for the last years of communism and just for those enjoying high ranks in a bureaucratic hierarchy engulfing the entire society. The plotting of plans for repression, murder, manipulation and the committing of such deeds were facts much more severe than the obedience and profiteering of some people, who had no choice or courage to escape the totalitarian influence. Those involved in the events in December 1989 and the coal miners' attacks in 1990 and 1991 were the second and third hand staff of the nomenclature and the political police services. Although they had the right solutions of the open society at hand, they chose the malefic scenarios because they wanted so. They thought they were allowed to do anything, because they enjoyed support from millions of brainwashed people thinking that the execution of the Ceausescu couple meant the end of the communist dictatorship. They will have to pay now.
Despite the obstacles set against democratization and capitalism by the FSN conservatives, they went on presently. But after realizing how much they had harmed the nation by helping Iliescu and Romania do misdeeds, lots of councilors, activists, ministers, presidents and more chose different ways. The list is long, but their deeds (and advice) have been forgotten.
They stood by Iliescu and Roman in December 1989. If the request to enlarge the categories the lustration law is on is met, it will effect on all the parties. And this is not about surprises of the Mona Musca kind, but about politicians and civil society representatives whose biographies are built on the association with the rulers in December 1989-June 1990. In was in this period that the foundations of the corrupted and clientele-based democracy were achieved. And the system is still alive. Some will even be candidates to seats in the Parliament of Europe. The campaign for a clean Parliament mustn't ignore them.
Although the settling of clearer criteria for lustration is welcome, the state of things is more complicated. If the new lustration criteria get to be applied, this will harm a few hundred of those accomplices in December 1989, as well as in the four coal miners' attacks in 1990 and 1991. The fact that they chose a different kind of politics after these events doesn't delete their malefic association to the rulers of the respective times, since they had a choice, unlike under the communist regime. Now those who will vote for the law will make a choice. And many of them are in that category of the 1989-1991 accomplices. A vicious circle.

Dan Pavel
Ziua luni 13 august 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english