I have written previously about the Stasi and Homeland Security. You see how this could become like "Leviathan." At one time 2 out of 6 people in East Germany were spies.
Some illuminating material:
1.) Recruits often came from Stasi families. It was generational, so the children would follow in the parents footsteps because they knew how the system worked. From an early age, the children were taught to be liars, snitches, and to spy on their spouses, family and friends. The Stasi would routinely get fathers, mothers, sons, husbands and wives to turn on each other. Think of this in the same way as what Monica Lewinsky said: "I grew up lying, in my family we always lie" this applies to the children of spy families.
2.) Recruits rarely came from those who applied to work with the Stasi. Rather, the Stasi often recruited from those they had under surveillance. In other words, many were informants and criminals. In fact, the Stasi would frequently give criminals a job to work with them instead of serving time. Why did they do this? More than likely it's because many of these people have a high level of psychopathy, but it is also because it is cheaper and they can use the skills of some psychopaths. You have to understand that when a government is being overrun by psychopaths, it will look for them to join their group and enforce their rule on the general public. Doesn't this sound like the CIA?
The Stasi never allowed the citizens to know the country was being overrun by criminals, the public image was that it was always getting "their man." The main job of the Stasi was fighting political dissidents. See here for more information about political dissidents and the websites that have been created by intelligence agencies to find them.
The Stasi called themselves proud "Chekists", once again, emphasizing the connections to Bolshevism and the Cheka.
It absolutely must be mentioned that Jews played a leading role in the development of Bolshevism and the Cheka. They have also played a major role in the development of the new Homeland Security laws. (Did you know the Soviet Union was the second country to recognize Israel? (The USA was the first.) Did you know that the Soviet Union was the first country to "outlaw" antisemitism, whatever that means.
Stasi officers knew no limits and had no shame when it came ot protecting the party and the state. Churchmen, including high officials of both the Catholic and Protestant denominations, were recruited en masse as secret informers. Their offices and confessionals were infested with eavesdropping devices. Even the director of Leipzig's famous Thomas Church choir, Hans-Joachim Rotch, was forced to resign when he was unmasked as a Spitzel, the people's pejorative for a Stasi informant.
Absolutely nothing was sacred to the secret police. Tiny holes were bored in apartment and hotel room walls through which Stasi agents filmed their "suspects" with special video cameras. Even the bathrooms were penetrated by the communist voyeurs. Like the Nazi Gestapo, the Stasi was the sinister side of Deutsche Grundlichkeit (German thoroughness.)
