Posted by
Brian Peters on Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:50:41 PM
On Tuesday, the White House posted a blog that asked supporters to report "fishy" information they come across about the health insurance debate. The appeal was made at the end of the blog, which showed a video that countered a set of online clips that made it look like Obama wanted to eliminate private coverage.
"There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there," the blog concludes. "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 flagATWhiteHouse.gov.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/06/critics-accuse-white-house-playing-big-brother-health-care-debate/
Let's see, what other Nation's asked their people to report on their fellow citizens for 'suspicious' activities?
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) How the KGB dealt with 'opposition' from their own people.
One of the KGB’s chief preoccupations during the Cold War was the suppression of unorthodox beliefs, the persecution of the Soviet dissidents, and the containment of their opinions. Indeed, this obsession with "ideological subversion" only increased throughout the Cold War.......The KGB routinely searched the homes and monitored the movements of prominent dissidents in an attempt to find incriminating documents......The KGB also tracked down writers who published their work anonymously abroad.....The KGB employed multiple methods to infiltrate the dissident community. It planted agents who appeared to sympathize with the dissidents’ cause, employed smear campaigns to discredit the more public figures like Sakharov, and prosecuted dissidents in show trials or harassed the more prominent ones.
The German Democratic Republic
one of the most notorious tactics of the East German secret police force in an effort they say is intended to crack down on violent protestors at the upcoming G8 Summit, according to the BBC. The German police force is collecting scent samples from individuals it suspects will cause trouble, which will be used to allow police dogs to find the individuals in a large crowd of people.
The tactic was infamously used by the East German Stasi, which was known for breaking into people’s homes to steal unwashed underwear and for grabbing sweat samples from chairs where citizens were interrogated.
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.
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( Dear reader...read the following very carefully about the Stasi of East Germany)
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.
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B.E.V. can cite People's Republic of China, Iran, Nazi Germany as more examples where the 'Government' encouraged it's citizens to report on each other. What has happened to the United States of America???
From George Orwell's 1984: "One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people. One day he will disappear."
Now does that sentence sound familiar? Does this sound similiar to words the White House and Speaker of the House are using towards 'The People' as they use their right to free speech to express how distressed they are, how much 'fear' they have from the Obama Government?