Gabriel ANDREESCU: The campaign against MISA has the character of the communist campaigns in the 40’s
I suggest to separate the “Gregorian Bivolaru” subject from the MISA case. I met Gregorian Bivolaru in the middle 70’s. I had practiced Hatha Yoga with him at the Student’s Club near the Politehnica for 2 years. I have even visited him at his home several times. There you could find yoga literature, so hard to find in that period. He also had books about Tantra, sexy magazines that he used for exercises. Almost every time i visited him in his small flat I could meet there someone from the state security. That means that the yogi’ s activities were watched closely by the state security. After graduation i broke all connections with Bivolaru. I have vaguely heard about him being arrested for mystical activities, for owning pornographic material and then about being confined in a psychiatric hospital. He was presented as an ex common prisoner and this is indecent.
After the revolution i have heard again about Gregorian Bivolaru: about the foudation of MISA, about its succes and also about its opponents. It seems that Bivolaru has spread the rumours that he escaped from the prison by the means of his paranormal powers. Later on the MISA member focused to avoid the collision of a meteorite against the earth. Then I discovered his propaganda against the free masonery . A cheap appetite for obscure fights. What this has to do with yoga? Nothing. At last, his birthday’s celebration by his loyalls with collective devotion seemed questionable. All these don’t make of Gregorian Bivolaru a nice character for me.. The way he interprets yoga can be the subject of disscutions or public critics. But it doesn’t raise his right of being initiated and of activating in MISA.
Actions and intoxications related to MISA happen for 10 years by now. But never before the intervention of Gendarmerie, Prosecutor’s office and Romanian Information Service had such proportions. This is one of the most serious violation of democracy afther the miner’s strike. Today its obvious that, 10 years after the falling of communist system, no one can be safe. The descendents of the ex state security people can strike again with the same power, today, in 2004, as they used to do during the transcendental meditation.
The brutality of the action started on march 18 has exceeded the imagination. Over 300 gendarmes accompanied by prosecutors have attacked 16 buildings where MISA members were living, simultaneous. Despite the fact they could enter the buildings without obstacles, they broke doors and windows. They hurt people from the buildings, put everybody down with guns near their heads. The signatures for the declarations of those residents were taken under the pressure of beating and the declarations were dictated by the prosecutors. Personal objects were taken from the people, without even mentioning these objects in the Report of the Search, a report that should contain a list of all these. After the restraint, the defenders were not allowed to contact their clients. Everything that is written here means the denial of the most elementary rules from the Code of Penal Procedure. But this brutality is not everything.
One of the most repulsive action was shooting by these intervention agents of people found with few clothes on and putting the investigated people in unpleasant situations. Those images were later sent to the media and used to manipulate the public opinion. The syringe of a doctor was filmed and showed on tv, suggesting that she was taking drugs. This is a case described by the victim in her grievance (PNE): : It was about 9 am?while I was in the toilet?.I had no time to stand up from the wc, that masked and armed gendarmes broke the door. They took me from the wc without allowing me to pull my panties on and drag me using force in the offices area, all this time being filmed by the cameraman that was with the Prosecutor. They forced me to lye down with hands at my back, but still I was not allowed to pull my panties on, and they were still shooting. Next to me on the floor was already lying the driver of the firm, I.M?.”
The shoots with the two people were then sent to media. The media and mostly the tv stations were used to intoxicate the public opinion. They made it with direction and many times the pleasure of the hunter chasing the hunt was obvious. Many pictures and especially the pictures of some people found in the MISA archives were protected by the law. The comments made of the yoga practicants and Bivolaru some monsters. The information ?also false- that Bivolaru vas taken to the Police by a group of people was a clear invitation for the people to react. The obsessive images of the gendarmes troops attack mixed with first page declarations against MISA can be compared only with the campaigns made of communists in the late 40’s. In fact, what to accuse the MISA members for? Yoga? The fact that some of them use the urinotherapy. Ridiculous! Maybe using sex in Tantra Yoga by some of them? This is a private matter. None of this pictures presented on tv does not exceed, from the sexual exhibitionism point of view, what happens every day on the Romanian tv screens.
The fact that 3 people had been arrested for minor offences (if it will be proved) can only prove the ridiculous of the accusations. At last, the amazing story saying that Gregorian Bivolaru was arrested while he was trying to cross the border to Hungary ” on the opposite way” seems to treat the audience as very stupid. Many journalists from newspapers already dropped the subject after the grotesque of this whole story was becoming obvious. Mixing the Bivolaru case with the runaway of the PSD politician Gabriel Bivolaru started to wake the people up to reality. We probably are only in the middle of the events. On Tuesday, the protest of about 10.000 MiSA members with slogans : “Save the freedom of conscience! and ” Say no to calumny! ” has shown the fact that today people are not only lambs to sacrifice on Easter. Everything looks grotesque, confuse and unexplainable. Enough people understood we are watching a show directed by OTHERS. As Rodica Culcer says in her article in the last number of ” 22″ magazine : “We live, in fact, in a huge Big Brother show- but not the one from Prima Tv, it’s the one imagined by George Orwel in the 1984.
“If u want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face? for ever. ” George Orwell from Nineteen Eighty-four
