{"id":105645,"date":"2024-11-18T16:25:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T22:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=105645"},"modified":"2024-11-18T16:25:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T22:25:16","slug":"105645","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=105645","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

We Are Living in Interesting Times<\/a><\/p>\n

We are living in interesting times. Tulsi Gabbard will be taking the role of Director of National Intelligence, John Radcliffe will be Director of the CIA, Matt Gaetz will (I predict) be the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy will be the Secretary of HHS, and the rumor is that Kash Patel will be Director of the FBI; if Gaetz and Patel aren\u2019t confirmed, the rumor is they will be investigating senators\u2019 federally-funded hush-money payments for the senators own sexual peccadilloes (which is why I predict they\u2019ll be confirmed).<\/p>\n

This reminds me of other interesting times.<\/p>\n

During and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a lot of the Soviet client states own governments collapsed. Sometimes violently, as with Romania or the fission of Yugoslavia, sometimes more quietly, but pretty uniformly, the Soviet-aligned satrapies were replaced by their own people.<\/p>\n

The unification of East and West Germany wasn\u2019t particularly violent, but the Germans on both sides of the Wall were very interested in finding out what The German \u201cDemocratic\u201d Republic was doing, and to whom, during its reign.<\/p>\n

Central to that and one of the largest parts of the GDR government was the\u00a0Minsiterium f\u00fcr Stattssicherheit<\/em>, familiarly abbreviated to the\u00a0Stasi<\/a>. A good summary is at the link (at least now, that is, Wikipedia), but in short, the Stasi arrested upwards of 250,000 people and extended its hooks into every aspect of East German life.<\/p>\n

The ratio for the Stasi was one secret policeman per 166 East Germans. When the regular informers are added, these ratios become much higher: In the Stasi’s case, there would have been at least one spy watching every 66 citizens! 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. Like a giant octopus, the Stasi’s tentacles probed every aspect of life.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 John O. Koehler, “Stasi:The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police”<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After the \u201cPeaceful Revolution\u201d of 1989, Stasi offices were taken over by the German people, while former Stasi officers desperately tried to destroy files and records, unsuccessfully, as it turned out.<\/p>\n

But why did the Stasi collect all this information in its archives? The main purpose was to control the society. In nearly every speech, the Stasi minister gave the order to find out who is who, which meant who thinks what. He didn’t want to wait until somebody tried to act against the regime. He wanted to know in advance what people were thinking and planning. The East Germans knew, of course, that they were surrounded by informers, in a totalitarian regime that created mistrust and a state of widespread fear, the most important tools to oppress people in any dictatorship.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Hubertus Knabe, German historian<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The files were massive and damning. It was no wonder they were trying to destroy them. As I say, they were interesting times.<\/p>\n

Now we\u2019re having our own interesting times. I think we\u2019re in nearly similar times to the German Peaceful Revolution. Oh, I don\u2019t mean to imply that the FBI, CIA, and DoJ were as\u00a0bad<\/em>\u00a0as the Stasi \u2014 I would be very much amazed that there were hundreds of thousands of people imprisoned for Wrongthink.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But thousands? Seems likely. And more thousands were intimidated, charged, and harassed.<\/strong> All of them are in government files that are now vulnerable to being disclosed. Jeremy Epstein’s passenger lists. Records of the FBI agents and informers who were supposed to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer. Records of Crossfire Hurricane and DoJ cooperation with Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, and Letitia James. And most interesting of all, files covering people we don\u2019t know to expect. That\u2019s the way political police work \u2014 they don\u2019t intimidate and investigate and collude with only the people we expect.<\/p>\n

As I say, we live in interesting times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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