How America Is Turning into Stasi Land

by Margie Laupheimer Earthhope Action Network



Barack Obama a.k.a. Barry Soetoro wants you to snitch on sites and people who don't Like Obamacare. Mr. Obama is a dictator. This should be clear to anyone who follows the news without buying into the hype.

The following quote is from the White House blog:

Barry Soetoro (Barack Hussein Obama) Wrote:

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

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Maybe it's just me, but is this starting to sound a lot like the East German Stasi? Here's a little bit about the Stasi.

Stasi Operations
from Wikipedia
Further information: Eastern Bloc politics


Stasi quiet camera that could take pictures through a 1mm hole in a wall

Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 persons in an effort to root out the 'class enemy'[3][4]. In 1989, the Stasi employed 91,015 persons full time, including 2,000 fully employed unofficial collaborators, 13,073 soldiers and 2,232 officers of GDR army[5], along with 173,081 unofficial informants inside GDR[6] and 1,553 informants in West Germany.[7] In terms of the identity of inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (IMs) Stasi informants, by 1995, 174,000 had been identified, which approximated 2.5% of East Germany's population between the ages of 18 and 60.[3] 10,000 IMs were under 18 years of age.[3]

While these calculations were from official records, according to the federal commissioner in charge of the Stasi archives in Berlin, because many such records were destroyed, there were likely closer to 500,000 Stasi informers.[3] A former Stasi colonel who served in the counterintelligence directorate estimated that the figure could be as high as 2 million if occasional informants were included.[3] Stasi efforts with one agent per 166 citizens dwarfed, for example, the Nazi Gestapo, which employed only 40,000 officials to watch a population of 80 million (one officer per 2,000 citizens) and the Soviet KGB, which employed 480,000 full time agents to oversee a nation of 280 million residents (one agent per 583 citizens).[8] When informants were included, the Stasi had one spy per 66 citizens of East Germany.[8] When part-time informer adults were included, the figures reach approximately one spy per 6.5 citizens.[8]


Stasi garbage can with hidden surveillance equipment

Full-time officers were posted to all major industrial plants (the extensiveness of any surveillance largely depended on how valuable a product was to the economy)[9] and one tenant in every apartment building was designated as a watchdog reporting to an area representative of the Volkspolizei (Vopo).[8] Spies reported every relative or friend that stayed the night at another's apartment.[8] Tiny holes were bored in apartment and hotel room walls through which Stasi agents filmed citizens with special video cameras.[8] Similarly, schools, universities, and hospitals were extensively infiltrated.[8] After the mid-1950s, Stasi executions were carried out in strict secrecy, and usually were accomplished with a guillotine and, in later years, by a single pistol shot to the neck.[10] In most instances, the relatives of the executed were not informed of either the sentence or the execution.[10]

The Stasi had formal categorizations of each type of informant, and had official guidelines on how to extract information from, and control, those who they came into contact with.[11] The roles of informants ranged from those already in some way involved in state security (such as the police and the armed services) to those in the oppositionalist movements (such as dissidents in the arts and the Protestant Church).[12] Information gathered about the latter groups was frequently used to divide or discredit members.[13] Informants were made to feel important, given material or social incentives, and were imbued with a sense of adventure, and only around 7.7%, according to official figures, were coerced into cooperating. A significant proportion of those informing were members of the SED; to employ some form of blackmail, however, was not uncommon.[14]

The Stasi's ranks swelled considerably after Eastern Bloc countries signed the 1975 Helsinki accords, which Erich Honecker viewed as a grave threat to his regime because they contained language binding signatories to respect "human and basic rights, including freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and conviction."[15] The number of IMs peaked at around 180,000 in this year, having slowly risen from 20,000-30,000 in the early 1950s, and reaching 100,000 for the first time in 1968, in response to Ostpolitik and protests worldwide.[16] The Stasi also acted as a proxy for KGB to conduct activities in other Eastern Bloc countries, such as Poland, where the Soviets were despised.[17]

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America the beautiful is now America the giant ugly prison camp.

Source: Earthhope Action Network
Photo collage: gretawitt50.blogspot.com changed from vertical to horizontal by me

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