04-02-2014, 07:20 AM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:It is so reassuring to have confirmation that all branches and divisions of the USG are acting legally and not going after persons using illegally obtained information.... How does this differ from the, for example, Stasi or Gestapo? It reminds me of when I was in university we were very careful to not discuss smoking grass on the phone for fear all phones [I'm talking late 1960s now] were listened in on, and the information would be used against those of us who were politically active more than those of us who were active users of grass or other recreational substances. Nothing has changed but the technology.:: Mind what you say on the phone or in emails....sad to say.
Peter, I spent a couple of hours in the basement of the Stasi building in Leipzig, Germany 13 months ago. It is now a museum and a place where people can comb through old Stasi files. It is also the place where the citizens of Leipzig would hold the candlelight marches for peace. They would stop in front of this old Stalinist building and sing. One night, they just walked in and the Stasi functionaries not having received orders to shoot to kill. Apparently, when the call was made to start shooting, no one picked up the phone, and the regime, in Leipzig fell.
Anyway, the place was creepy and nothing but a place where hundreds of people kept records on other people. The NSA is certainly our Stasi.
The old Stasi location: the Runde Ecke
"We'll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is false." --William J. Casey, D.C.I
"We will lead every revolution against us." --Theodore Herzl
"We will lead every revolution against us." --Theodore Herzl