The Stasi Files

by JASmius


Also known as "ATTAAAAAACK WAAAAAAATCH!!!!!!":

And just think, gentlebeings: This parody is less ludicrously over-the-top than its target:

Yet go onto the new ("Paid for by Obama for America") AttackWatch.com website. It reads and looks like some sort of Stasi file ("file" is their vocabulary, not mine). It asks readers to inform them of criticism of Obama. The format is, I guess by intent, supposed to resemble a government intelligence dossier ("Attack files"), with its blaring black and red headers: "Attack" /"Attackers" (followed by names and pictures of the supposed bad guys)/"Attack Type" /("public statements") followed by check off boxes like "Have your seen or heard this attack?" "Yes/No". It reminds me of of living in 1973 dictatorial Greece, when we all kept silent about the Colonels upon entering the apartment building, lest the government-paid concierge write something down not nice in her black book.

Apparently no one in the administration learned from the spooky tone of the now defunct Journolist. That obtuseness begs the question, what is it with these extra-journalistic efforts to intimidate critics, as if the 2012 campaign will be based around deterrence: e.g., as if: "Beware: if you criticize Barack Obama, your name and picture will appear on our "Attack File". We are watching you, so you watch out!"

So creepier still is the request to snoop around and collect evidence for what the Roman emperors and French monarchs used to call maiestas/Lèse-majesté--supposed crimes against the head of state, by circulating criticism of his authority that might lessen his proper sense of majesty. Indeed, on AttackWatch.com there is a special pop-up window that is reminiscent of Crimestoppers.com that supposedly will help form some sort of a clearing house: "Your email"/"content of attack or link"/"Attack type", "Attach" with a link "Report" that pops up yet another window.

Know what "ATTAAAAAACK WAAAAAAATCH" reminds me of? Azazel from X-Men: First Class. Casting all Republicans as literal devils, complete with horns, red skin, and forked tails. Liberal puerile paranoid fascism run amok.

But I do differ with Professor Hanson on one point. The Regime is not "obtuse"; that term casts The One as being incapable of learning from its mistakes. But in order to be obtuse, one would have to first be capable of admitting error, even in the privacy of one's heart. Barack Obama's megalomania makes such reality-acknowledgement impossible. He believes himself to be the "god" he's been endlessly told he is for his entire adult life, and thus beyond the fallability if mere mortals. He doesn't make mistakes, so he is immutably convinced, and therefore anybody blasphemer who dares oppose him in any way on any issue for any reason is an infidel to be eradicated with extreme prejudice.

"ATTAAAAAAACK WAAAAAAATCH" may be the laughingstock of the Internet, as even the Washington Post has reported, but it's also who and what Red Barry really is. And why he must be deposed next year - with extreme [electoral] prejudice.


[cross-posted @ Hard Starboard]