When I saw the following on Matt Drudge’s page, I was really shocked:

 

OBAMA ORDERS FED WORKERS: SPY ON EACH OTHER...

·  Watch lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors...

·  Odd working hours, unexplained travel...

·  Monitor co-workers stress, divorce, financial problems...

·  Those failing to report face penalties, criminal charges...    

This is exactly how it was in the Soviet Union, 30+ years ago, when I worked there for a little over three years.

The internal part of the Committee of State Security (KGB), dealt with that in a similar fashion.

For like every 30 people there was one official fink, that reported on all their neighbors or coworkers.

They reported on all the bullet points that Drudge had.

If they even came home from work a different way, or at a different time, they were reported.

If the KGB pursued the suspicion further, the person was called into the local office.

They would be presented with the evidence against them, like that they came home later than normal, etc.

Then they had to persuade the KGB that there was nothing to what they were called on.

Even if they convinced them that they had not committed a crime against the state, it still went in their record.

It was a place where everyone was continuously under suspicion, and where people were assumed guilty until proven innocent.

They attempted to always prove their innocence by always staying “off the radar” of the snitch.

The “snitch”/”fink” therefore, had the power of life & death.

They could ruin a person’s life in 5 minutes, even if it wasn’t true, perhaps because of a past grudge, or to steal their spouse.

 

In this manner, the KGB, surpassed the effectiveness of the similar system employed by the Gestapo, 40 years before that.

The Gestapo was feared as much as the KGB, but they failed to be ubiquitous.

The KGB managed to be pervasive in every facet of life in the country.

They also were the same organization that spied externally, as well as internally.

They were therefore the defenders of Communism externally & internally.

Everything was geared towards promoting & maintaining Communism, both abroad, and in every corner of the country.

Therefore every idea that was not aligned to Communism, especially if different, was treasonous.

The KGB wanted the idea of Communism to succeed above all others.

So, they sought to “reeducate” traitors first, rather than having to kill them.

 

A friend that I had made, while I was working in the city of Ufa, had gone through that very thing.

They had sent him to the желтый дом (the yellow house), where his own uncle was the psychologist.

They used drugs, fear, and other strange techniques, to help “recover” him, so that he could be a good Communist, again.

Apparently that is where he developed a severe twitch, and an extremely unhealthy & paralyzing fear of the KGB.

 

Whether I was in Baku, Ufa, Omsk, or Moscow, I saw the same thing in each city.

It was the same fink system of the KGB that kept everyone in line.

And in that manner, truly “Big Brother was watching”.

 

So setting that up in the US, would set a terrible precedent.

All subsequent leaders, regardless of political party, will continue to depend upon this mechanism, and even secretly fear it themselves.

If you have had the opportunity to read the book 1984, then you have a picture in your mind,.

That book seems to encapsulate this way of thinking, like nothing else has.

Once this begins in our country, it won’t go away simply by electing another president, it will become a permanent way of life.

That kind of thing never gets better, it only gets worse, because it feeds on two things.

It feeds on the hunger for power and the fear of man.

                          Gino