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Citizen Informants
The American Thinker ^ | August 05, 2009 | Bart Willruth

Posted on 08/05/2009 3:23:32 AM PDT by Scanian

In 1930's Germany, the new socialist government of Adolf Hitler (NAZI National Socialist Workers' Party) began indoctrinating children in the quasi-military organization, the Hitler Youth, to inform on their parents should they overhear discussions subversive to the policies of the Leader. As the noose was tightened, local community organizers were appointed to watch their neighbors and were told to report subversive comments to the bureaucrats above them. Neighbors informed on neighbors, some for reasons of patriotism or loyalty, some from fear. A modern inquisition ensued; a terror to free thought and expression. Increasingly harsh penalties were meted out to those who dared to dissent.

The socialist governments of the Soviet Union, Fascist Italy, N. Korea, Cuba, Yugoslavia, and the People's Republic of China employed the same citizen informer techniques. Citizens of those societies were reduced to either silence or whispered discussion only among those they trusted the most. Of course none of those things would ever occur here in the land of the free. But wait...

Now on the White House website posted by Macon Phillips comes an eerily similar request for citizens to inform on their neighbors. It states,

"There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to the end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. 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 flag@whitehouse.gov."

Read this again carefully. The government of the United States is openly asking citizens to report rumors, the contents of casual conversation, and the contents of emails.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: napl; neighbors; rumors; spying
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1 posted on 08/05/2009 3:23:35 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

No need for some govt. stoolie here, I have a whole book of disparaging things to say about this socialist p.o.s. poser and his henchmen the democrat socialists.


2 posted on 08/05/2009 3:26:31 AM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: Scanian

Oh great. Obamah’s Eleventh Commandment: “Thou Shalt Grass Thy Neighbor even as he Grasseth on Thyself”.


3 posted on 08/05/2009 3:28:17 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Scanian

How long will it be before the Communist Indoctrination System (aka Public Schools) starts demanding that our kids turn us in for subversive beliefs??


4 posted on 08/05/2009 3:35:49 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: Scanian
It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak -- 'child hero' was the phrase generally used -- had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police.
(1984)

It's so easy to turn in a thought criminal, comrade. Just email flag@whitehouse.gov!

5 posted on 08/05/2009 3:42:28 AM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd: ON)
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To: Scanian

Read my tagline.
Now proceed to Room 101.


6 posted on 08/05/2009 3:44:31 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Your opinion is doubleplusungoodthinkful. You have been reported to flag@whitehouse.gov.)
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To: Scanian

bump for later


7 posted on 08/05/2009 3:54:50 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter

ping


8 posted on 08/05/2009 3:59:10 AM PDT by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: Scanian
..fishy....?"

Michael Dukakis. " The fish rots from the head first."

9 posted on 08/05/2009 4:00:51 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: Uncle Ike
How long will it be before the Communist Indoctrination System (aka Public Schools) starts demanding that our kids turn us in for subversive beliefs?

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10 posted on 08/05/2009 4:06:38 AM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: backhoe

Proud to say that my kids, ages 10 and 11, will have no parts of any such wickedness. Although public schooled, we have been successful at undoing the mind melding they receive at school. In fact, my daughter did not want George Bush to leave office. She wanted him to President forever. She loves that man!


11 posted on 08/05/2009 4:13:27 AM PDT by RedRightReturn (OneBigAssMistakeAmerica)
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To: Scanian

flag@whitehouse.gov,bet that’s not a safe adderss to send anything to.


12 posted on 08/05/2009 5:08:33 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Uncle Ike

I thought that was already the case. Abolish the public schools, or at least remove your kids from them. YOU can actually educate your kids better.


13 posted on 08/05/2009 5:12:28 AM PDT by MichiganConservative (ObamaCare is socialism. It will do nothing but increase premature, unnecessary death.)
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To: backhoe


Pavel Trofimovich Morozov

Hero of the Soviet Union


14 posted on 08/05/2009 5:18:37 AM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: Scanian
If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.


15 posted on 08/05/2009 5:24:30 AM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Brugmansian
The American People can now see the RAT Party for what it has become, thanks to the Clintons and now the Chicago Machine.

This is not the Democrat Party of FDR, Harry Truman or John F. Kennedy! Hell! It isn't even the Democrat Party of Lyndon Johnson or Carter!

16 posted on 08/05/2009 5:42:13 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Sarah Palin...Unleashing the Fury of the Castrated Left!")
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To: Morgana; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
I just sent Zer0 a PDF of 1984 with the following note:

Dear Mr. Obama,

The attached was written as a warning on the dangers of totalitarianism. Your administration seems to be using it as an instruction manual.

Sincerely,
Slings and Arrows, FreeRepublic.com


18 posted on 08/05/2009 12:51:38 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Yeah, now go on vacation unannounced and scare the heck out of us.


19 posted on 08/05/2009 1:02:52 PM PDT by TheOldLady (I hate Freepathons! PLEASE DONATE NOW! Get it over with!)
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To: TheOldLady

How about if I just kiss off ever getting a job that requires a security clearance?


20 posted on 08/05/2009 1:09:54 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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