by John Galt

“Dunk your little head in the water and lift your little tail.”

– Stasi, the Untold Story of the East German Secret Police by John O. Koehler, 1999, Wordview Press

Ah if we could only hear a drunken officer utter those words now. Unfortunately we are closer to the 1950 beginnings of the MfS rather than the end of an era of secret police brutality and indifference to the freedoms of the citizens of our own nation. Before I tie this all together, I shall quote some statistics and information from page 8 in the first chapter of the same book titled Revenge Versus the Rule of Law:

The people’s ire was running equally strong against the regular Stasi informers, the inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (IMs). By 1995, 174,00 had been identified as IMs, or 2.5% of the total population between the ages of 18 and 60. Researchers were aghast when they found that about 10,000 IMs, or roughly 6% of the total, had not yet reached the age of 18. Since many records were destroyed, the exact number of IMs probably will never be determined; but 500,000 were cited as a realistic figure. Former Colonel Rainer Wiegand, who served in the Stasi counterintelligence directorate, estimated that the figure could go as high as 2 million, if occasional stool pigeons were included.

The shocking numbers may seem foreign to most Americans as that seems like a low number but let us continue with one more excerpt from the book before I tie a duck’s tail and your freedoms which are now more endangered than any time since World War II. One more excerpt from page 9:

The Soviet Union’s KGB employed about 480,00 full time agents to oversee a nation of 280 million, which means that there was one agent per every 5,830 citizens. Using Weisenthal’s figures for the Nazi Gestapo, there was one officer per 2,000 people. The ratio for the Stasi was one agent per 166 East Germans. When the regular informers are added, these ratios become much higher: In the Stasi’s case there would have been one spy watching 66 citizens! When one adds in the number of part time snoops, the result is nothing short of monstrous: one informer per every 6.5 citizens.

Astonishing figures for a Cold War relic which by modern standards seems primitive in its efforts yet drastically effective. Thus this begs the question; what happens when you introduce our modern technology into a police state environment with the seeming approval or condescension of the population? The Patriot Act was first enacted to help deal with the real threat of Islamic terrorists but now that the act has been extended twice, once by President Bush and once by President Obama, and the legislative branch of government seems to have little if any desire to put a bridle on this out of control central government. Thus you must begin to ask the question, what would the Stasi, or MFs, do with the internet, public cameras, unlimited ability to monitor telephone calls without using excessive manpower, and the power to monitor selected financial transactions right down to the minute you key your PIN number into a keypad.

This has been hashed and rehashed for decades now with the media on the right and left, along with the politicians, using it to their advantage as needed. The problem now is that the model, analyzed and dissected by Western intelligence sources and the counterparts still residing in power in other Communist nations realized that the efficiencies within automated monitoring and infiltration within an expanded technological network were so efficient it was almost equal to having real time intel on the enemies and perceived enemies of the state. I used the term “perceived” because that is often the route selected when political opponents are reclassified as enemies of the state. This is where the horror of modern technology meets the perfection of the MFs model and the average citizen often entraps themselves in a blistering emotional activity which ends poorly for the dupe but with a bonus for the enforcers.

The idea of rewards for scalp hunting is nothing new; the Native American Indian population engaged in this practice as did the inhabitants of our wild West under the guise of the bounty hunter. When this principle is applied to a modern internal security apparatus though, the goals typically are to ensnare some dupe into performing an activity in direct violation of the law in the name of attacking the regime’s policies or standing. This could be via a meeting at a “local” movement, the tried and true internet baiting programs, or worse the use of contrived groups to lure dopes into meetings in person and then eggs them on to engage in illegal activities. I must simply warn that none of these programs are something that happens overnight nor are contrived in isolation. Thus if you think it sounds too good to be true, if you think that “wow, this person is my ideological twin,” if you think that you can trust someone 1000 miles away who is a nameless, faceless, icon or avatar but you refuse to trust your family members or best friend down the street, then you are a prime candidate for these predators.

Be careful as to who you discuss these passionate matters about personal liberty, freedom and our nation’s future with. Think only of the Constitutional points and never, ever promote violence or activities that could endanger not just your freedom, but your life. History has a way of teaching us what is coming and the excerpts above about the East German Stasi should provide you with a road map to America’s future, if not all Western powers. When civilizations are in great decline or disrepair, drastic actions are taken by their governments to stem the tide and blame assigned. This means you could be at risk should you elect to put yourself out front by associating with radicals who make public pronouncements about direct action which is both ineffective and illegal. There is a time and place for all actions and reactions but to think “this is it” is both unrealistic and foolhardy. Take a deep breath and step away from the keyboard rather than putting out emotional declarations and intents. And watch who you associate with in the blogosphere and message boards as with this technology available at their fingerprints they have a technical ration of probably 1 agent per 1.5 citizens when distributed using the powers created by our taxpayer funded supercomputers. Remember what Sun-Tzu said in the Art of War about the employment of secret agents:

5. Now there are five sorts of secret agents to be employed. These are native, inside, doubled, expendable, and living.

It is safe to assume all five are being employed now by those in positions of power to insure that “their” enemies are suppressed and exploited using their emotional reactions and actions.

As to the original quote from the title of this essay?

It was a the singing refrain of the drunken East German spymasters calling their agents home on the radio after the East German government fell. Ah, to hope and pray we hear that song uttered by drunken agents about little ducklings from our agencies one day, and the American people are once again allowed to rule their own country, as the Founding Fathers had envisioned.

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