Guest Post by Simon Black
On April 26, 1933, the interior minister for the German state of Prussia issued a decree creating a new secret state police, or Geheime Staats Polizei, abbreviated: Gestapo.
The Gestapo was tasked with stamping out all opposition to Germany’s new Chancellor and the party he brought to power one year earlier.
It operated by collecting tips from ordinary citizens, including even school children. And this network of Gestapo informants changed Germans’ behavior almost overnight.
Even a joke about the ruling party could land you in a Gestapo interrogation room. Talking politics around your children became a dangerous gamble.
According to Erik Larson’s book In the Garden of Beasts, 37% of denunciations “arose not from heartfelt political beliefs, but from private conflicts with the trigger often breathtakingly trivial.”
For example in one case, a grocery store clerk reported a customer who insisted on receiving the wrong change. The customer was accused of tax fraud.
Another man lent a banned book to his friend, and was quickly denounced by his friend’s wife.
The new Chancellor— who encouraged the behavior — was so shocked by the citizens’ eagerness to rat out their neighbors that he remarked, “We are living at present in a sea of denunciations and human meanness.”
That Chancellor, of course, was Adolf Hitler.
The secret police didn’t need wire taps in every home or spies on every street corner. They found an army of willing, eager informants in the general population.
The volume of denunciations was so great, in fact, that the Gestapo actually had to ask people to stop reporting political crimes to them, because they were overwhelmed and found it impossible to process them all.
Obviously Germany in the 1930s is an extreme case, and I’m not saying that the West today is in the same boat. Not even close.
The similarity, however, is how quickly things changed.
In Nazi Germany, the entire culture changed literally within a few months. In early Spring of 1933, people were still civil to one another. By the summer, they were ratting out their friends and neighbors to the secret police.
Similarly, it wasn’t that long ago that people in the west felt free to speak their minds and state an opinion.
Today saying the wrong words can get you fired, cancelled, and your life turned upside down.
For example, lately there’s been a number of so-called “fact checkers,” i.e. self-appointed censors, who are upset about a new app called Clubhouse.
If you haven’t heard of it, Clubhouse allows people to discuss different topics in audio-only chat rooms.
The audio-based content does not allow recording. And that means there is no record of conversations.
As one fact-checker laments:
“…there are no screenshots. There is no way to drag up old Clubhouse posts years later like a user might do on Twitter. There is no way to record conversations—meaning there is no way to prove that someone said anything controversial at all. . . Users on Clubhouse know, or at least believe, that they can openly speak their mind with zero repercussions.”
The horror!
This drives the ‘fact checkers’ bananas. They want people to be afraid to speak their minds. They want people to fear being denounced if they do not adhere to the doctrine of wokeness.
One particularly angry fact checker penned a virtriolic article noting that the Chinese government has already banned Clubhouse.
She then asks the reader, “If Xi Jinping’s administration isn’t ignoring Clubhouse, why should fact-checkers? Why should you?”
Apparently, the repressive Chinese regime is a shining example that the fact checkers think we should all follow.
Just like the West followed China’s lead on imprisoning people inside their homes in the name of stopping the spread of Covid-19, the West should apparently stamp out any platform that allows intellectual dissent.
Of course, intellectual dissent covers a lot of ground these days.
For example, a professor at John Hopkins School of Medicine wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal recently predicting “We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April”.
The author has impeccible credentials; in addition to his MD, he obtained a Maser of Public Health from Harvard, served at the World Health Organization, and was recommended by the American College of Surgeons to become the Surgeon General of the United States.
But the fact checkers don’t think that his view should be repeated.
So Facebook’s fact checkers stuck a “misinformation” label on the article, stating: “Missing Context. Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people.”
Sure, there are scientists who think that herd immunity is a long way off.
But Facebook’s fact-checkers decided for everyone which scientists’ opinions were ‘correct’ and which scientists’ opinions should be censored.
The aim of these people is to put reinforce a specific narrative, and denounce anything contrary to that narrative as “misinformation” or “hate speech”. And anyone who is caught sharing or espousing such views is derided as a conspiracy theorist… or worse.
Accept the opinions they tell you are correct, or be denounced.
What’s incredible is that this culture has emerged in basically less than a year.
The US, along with many western countries, have clearly changed. Freedom is no longer the widely accepted cultural value it once was. It’s been replaced by compliance, censorship, and fanaticism.
If this doesn’t make you start thinking about a Plan B, I’m not sure what will.
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So, Nazis are still evil, (((Simon)))? Good to know.
No plan B. Worldwide problem.
Very true……there were only about 5000 to 8000 total GESATP agents per se……but many good Germans who were more than willing to eat cheese on their fellow Germans….especially when the had a bone to pick with them.
Herman the German was something else…….even after the war…..
No paragraph breaks are annoying.
Even more annoying? Making every sentence a paragraph.
Nah. No paragraph breaks are worse. No breaks make the author look like some ranting ‘tard on a comment thread. Of course when all an author writes is a bunch of run-on sentences, a paragraph for each sentence might work. Anyways…
After the Gestapo, there was the Stasi in E. Germany, so progress was made…
Lone Wolf – Snitches get stitches.
So, in the midst of a Communist insurrection in Germany, rampant degeneracy, exploitation of the common people who were forced to turn to prostitution to survive a Depression, running street battles with Bolsheviks, major financial fraud and scams, and complete cultural collapse, the average person found a reason to call an authoritarian traditionalist police unit that was determined to “clean house” from top to bottom to stop the chaos?
Shocker. I’m baffled too.
And those people were ‘informants’?
I’m fucking surrounded my Marxists and Communist sympathizers in Boston, and I would pick up the phone in a fucking heartbeat if there was a traditionalist police force I could call to stop the Communist takeover of the country.
Use as many biased words as you like, Simon, like ‘informant’ and ‘denounce’, I completely understand the need for the phone call by the ‘average citizen’.
Look around you, right now. You wouldn’t call the Gestapo on trannies reading to children at the library?
You wouldn’t call the Gestapo on Desmond is Amazing dancing at a gay strip club?
You wouldn’t shut down this Black Lives Matter bullshit?
You wouldn’t want the Gestapo to raid a media organization lying about the facts?
You wouldn’t want the Gestapo to seize the film studio that made Cuties?
You wouldn’t want the Gestapo to seize the Marxists involved in the election theft?
You wouldn’t want the Gestapo to seize the tranny that said that little girls are kinky? As I remember it, Stucky wanted to kill him.
You wouldn’t want the Gestapo to have raided Jeffrey Epstein’s house, seized him, and seized his assets?
You wouldn’t have wanted the Gestapo to have put the fear of death into all the black men who rape and kill White girls?
You wouldn’t want the Gestapo to shut down the ADL, SPLC, and Common Core?
Germany prior to Hitler was a cultural, societal, and financial dumpster fire extraordinaire, and elements within society were fucking throwing gasoline on it. Traitors within Germany were stealing the land and assets of the German people, not to mention their decency,economy, and wealth.
We can see now how the entire narrative of WWII has been written to cloud the Truth and color the facts.
Wait until there is a complete Communist takeover and financial collapse in this country where your pregnant wife has to go prostitute herself on the street for rich foreigners and then tell me that having men willing to use force to restore order and traditionalism is wrong.
Tell me then that those societal firefighters should not have attempted to put out the moral fires any way they could.
Tell me when you are losing your house because you can’t pay your mortgage and you find out your son’s teacher has without your consent put your son on puberty blockers.
Weak men make hard times.
Hard times make strong men.
Maybe those were the strong men of that time.
Maybe those phone calls were like today’s comments on the internet, calling attention to something you want stopped.
Or maybe some obscure bullshit anecdotes about asking for the wrong change will fool you from noticing the absolute crisis the nation was in thanks to International Bankers and Communists.
But hey, never mind my opinion, I’m dying to see what you will do in the coming months.
I’ll just sit here and eat my popcorn.
Carry on.
yoji phoenix- Did you see the angry mob on youtube that tore down the BLM statue of the female kneegrow warrior? Yup, they rolled it down the street and threw it in a lake. Somebody sure as shit called the We IZ HAD ENOUGH POLICE. 🙂
It isn’t obvious our friend wants to be called something else?
Glock- It isn’t easy being green. Whatup with your identity?
this writing is familiar but better than what i seem to be comparing it to–
good points all,and not a bit of finger pointing at groups–
keep it up–
I’d suggest you practice with your weapon of choice ( if they allow more than a sling shot where you live) that will serve you well . Buy ammo and well, Bourbon will be better to sip on rather than eating popcorn .
Most of what you hear about covid-19 is pure BS intended to control you.
Read this if you want the truth!
I would vote for a benevolent dictator now; I wish Trump had some balls and not turned the country over to the communist.
Balls? Would you settle for a few hairs on his ass?
We are now the National Socialist Democratic Peoples Republic and seeing Biden’s actions and appointments, The End of Sane America was the stolen election of 2020 and the total collapse of the Blue Kakistocracy is probably in 2022, with no possible rescue from the NWO GOP for damned sure..
Damn, Jr. You might have caught that run-on sentence virus from me. 😉
Never fear, someone will always be listening to whatever you say.
Back in the day I had a senior co-worker who’d take notes at work, much of which consisted of keeping tabs on his fellows. The info was typically taken back to a paranoid boss who’d use the info against his own people. Snitch would play the pious man quite often and a couple of times I took pleasure in outing his being a busybody.
Worst thing was the a-hole didn’t deny it.