Biden Administration Adopts a Stasi Tactic

Report on your neighbors and family for opposing the regime. Are You a Terrorist Threat? Do You Spread ‘Malicious Content Online’?

If we’re going to start pointing fingers at “extremists,” what about you? Or me? Who among us is safe from the shadow of suspicion?

President Joe Biden’s administration announced their plans to create ways for Americans to report radicalized friends and family to the government

For you children who are unaware of the Stasi, or Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (The Ministry for State Security), they were the old East German not-so-secret police. 10 Terrifying Facts about the East German Secret Police

Psychological policing of Germany’s population—to root out dissenting voices and prevent people from challenging the government—had been the norm under the Gestapo, Nazi Germany’s intelligence-gathering police. Nazis paved the way by using citizens as informers or denouncers.

In that kind of tattle culture, reporting your neighbors for minor wrongdoing might keep your own family safe. The secret police had so much personal information about each citizen and so much influence over institutions (whether you could get into college, get a job, buy a car) their power was almost absolute—and absolutely unaccountable. They didn’t have to arrest you—they could socially paralyze you.

Somehow that last sentence sounds all to familiar in 2021 America.

And speaking of not remembering... This is basicly what Edward Snowden was warning us about.