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USA – The Fomenting of a Self-Policing State of Paranoia
“In communist East Germany , one in every 100 citizens was an informer for the dreaded secret police, the Stasi. They either volunteered or were compelled by their government to spy on their customers, their neighbors, their families, and their friends.”
Ron Paul
Careful fomenting and managing of fear and suspicion in a society enables a government to circumvent the need for, or augment already existing, government enacted monitoring and regulating of people’s behavior and attempts at influencing inner processes of thought and sentiment formation.
Under the guise of national security opponents are silenced, due process denied and an unofficial state of semi-martial law – rules are uncertain as to what the government can and can not do without - can be gradually more and more built into the legal framework protecting citizens from tyrannical exercise of government powers.
