On Apr 29, 2016, at 1:55 AM, grarpamp wrote:

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On 4/29/16, Александр wrote: In the 60's/70's it was "the communist threat/spying for the bloody russians", now it's "child porn/terrrrorism"... they change their masks (that always seem so "beautiful"), BUT they can't change their ugly faces.

The "distrust, spy on, and rat out your neighbor theme" is always popular, be it for commies or whatever. A handful of years ago they recruited postal workers for that role too. Now...

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/28/letter-details-fbi-plan-for-secretive-an... Of the plans put forward by the federal government to identify and stop budding terrorists, among the least understood are the FBI’s “Shared Responsibility Committees.” The idea of the committees is to enlist counselors, social workers, religious figures, and other community members to intervene with people the FBI thinks are in danger of radicalizing — the sort of alternative to prosecution and jail time many experts have been clamoring for. But civil liberties groups worry the committees could become just a ruse to expand the FBI’s network of informants, and the government has refused to provide details about the program. The Intercept has obtained a letter addressed to potential committee members from the FBI...

This sounds exactly like how the inform-on-your-neighbor system worked in Stalinist regimes and in fascist Germany before that. There were never enough actual secret police to keep an eye on everyone - the system relied on the willingness of average citizens to vociferously out their neighbors and friends who may have spoken or implied a line of thought outside the state approved ideology. -- John