Kissing Goodbye The Securitate Files

We are no children anymore and yet like children we were treated to stories about making public the dealings of the communist intelligence services. Several months down the line since it started with renewed zest, we find that we are not at all further a field.

We are no children anymore and yet like children we were treated to stories about making public the dealings of the communist intelligence services. Several months down the line since it started with renewed zest, we find that we are not at all further a field.
No one really wanted the Securitate files opened, since all those that held key positions after 1989 had, in their turn, their own files in its archives.

The general public was very little interested in what was there to be found out, and if the current media hoopla would not have occurred, it would not have even noticed such an issue was pending.

So, the 17-year long procrastination of the public exposure of the Securitate was in fact as long a time in which that hidden information was used by those holding the files to blackmail the political elite, to get revenge, to stage public executions, to draft scenarios.

Now it becomes clear that Romania as a whole would have been better off if that debate would have never started. At all. Ever.
The former intelligence officers and their informants would have continued their lives as usual, as they do now.

This is why I strongly believe that this sham of a public disclosure should stop. Now. I mean debate-wise, because in earnest the disclosure never started.
One cannot issue a decree on it, and yet it would be highly advisable to at least avoid the topic after January 1st, 2007.

It really is useless attempting to go any further. It passed too long a time since the 1989 regime change.
The files which were supposed to be erased - they were. The people whose collaboration with the Securitate was supposed to become public - it did.

That some Romanians worked for the Securitate as officers, informants, collaborators or snitches is of little relevance to most Romanian voters today.
It may even turn so that people would take a vote in favor of the former Securitate people, just for spite, succeeding thus in validating once more their past.

This is why I think we should kiss goodbye the opening of the Securitate files.