Criminal penalties for fed workers who don't report on their colleagues is the worst part ... leftists want to create a informer culture like the Soviet Union had and Cuba still has. An American stasi environment.
...... Informers are a major force in establishing governments that rob citizens of their privacy and freedom and assume total control by the use of pervasive Sword of Damocles culture of fear. One only needs to look at recent history. In the communist Soviet Union, it is estimated that the KGB, the spying agency, depended on 11 million informers which was, would you believe?, short of Stalin’s goal to make everyone an informer. Children were instructed to inform on their parents and so they did. In Nazi Germany 90% of all informers were citizens and, as in the Soviet Union, children were taught to inform on their parents which is undeniably, though not yet recognized, already subtlety beginning to happen in our country. The informer system of fear was and still effectively employed in such countries as Fascist Italy, Yugoslavia, Cuba and North Korea. Who knows what’s now going on in other parts of the world.
I spoke to a few “escapees” from the Soviet Union, and their messages said it all. They lived in a world of informers: Children on parents; neighbor on neighbor and everyone on everyone else. When those informed upon were punished rewards were received by the informers. Other “favors” were demanded by the Communist rulers, and you don’t need much of an imagination to guess what some of them were.
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There is a new type of immensely powerful informer. It has no eyes, heart or hormones and lacks feelings. It’s a device called a computer. Facebook is the number one informer in the United States. People discover what other people are doing and relay it to all of their “friends”. I know of numerous cases where sex and unfaithfulness were discovered via Facebook among other transgressions. Now corporations and universities thoroughly examine Facebook postings of potential students and employees in order to pry into and learn more about into their detailed personal lives. Despite this, Facebook participants continue to reveal lots of personal information to their “friends.” Recognition is indeed a powerful human drive.
There is another, huge stealth informer. It’s regulations. We are living in the world of exponentially increasing regulations for everything we do ranging from the amount of water in a toilet bowl to what language is permissible. It is self-evident that many regulations are too onerous for individuals and organizations for they are not productive but destructive in nature. Bottom line, they are bad regulations. There is little doubt that many are now justifiably ignoring the regulations or trying to evade them which has created, in addition to whistleblowers, other types of potential informers many of whom are disgruntled.
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thedecrapitationsociety.com
..... When one adds in the estimated numbers of part-time snoops, the result is nothing short of monstrous: one informer per 6.5 citizens. It would not have been unreasonable to assume that at least one Stasi informer was present in any party of ten or twelve dinner guests.
THE STASI OCTOPUS
Like a giant octopus, the Stasi's tentacles probed every aspect of life. Full-time officers were posted to all major industrial plants. Without exception, one tenant in every apartment building was designated as a watchdog reporting to an area representative of the Volkspolizei (Vopo), the People's Police. In turn, the police officer was the Stasi's man. If a relative or friend came to stay overnight, it was reported. Schools, universities, and hospitals were infiltrated from top to bottom. German academe was shocked to learn that Heinrich Fink, professor of theology and vice chancellor at East Berlin's Humboldt University, had been a Stasi informer since 1968. After Fink's Stasi connections came to light, he was summarily fired. Doctors, lawyers, journalists, writers, actors, and sports figures were co-opted by Stasi officers, as were waiters and hotel personnel. Tapping about 100,000 telephone lines in West Germany and West Berlin around the clock was the job of 2,000 officers.
Stasi officers knew no limits and had no shame when it came to "protecting the party and the state." Churchmen, including high officials of both Protestant and Catholic denominations, were recruited en masse as secret informers. Their offices and confessionals were infested with eavesdropping devices. Even the director of Leipzig's famous Thomas Church choir, Hans-Joachim Rotch, was forced to resign when he was unmasked as a Spitzel, the people's pejorative for a Stasi informant.
Absolutely nothing was sacred to the secret police. Tiny holes were bored in apartment and hotel room walls through which Stasi agents filmed their "suspects" with special video cameras. Even bathrooms were penetrated by the communist voyeurs.8 Like the Nazi Gestapo, the Stasi was the sinister side of deutsche Gründlichkeit (German thoroughness).
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nytimes.com
OBAMA ORDERS FED WORKERS: SPY ON EACH OTHER
Watch lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors...
Odd working hours, unexplained travel...
Monitor co-workers stress, divorce, financial problems...
Track online activities...
Those failing to report face penalties, criminal charges... |
