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In reply to the discussion: Germans illuminate message on US embassy [View all]Californeeway
(97 posts)It's the same reason why comparisons to Hitler and the Nazis are so stupid.
If you didn't murder millions of innocent people, you haven't earned a Nazi comparison.
I think to compare current US spying with what the Stasi did is to lessen and cheapen what actually happened in East Germany.
also, baseless hyperbole only undermines your argument.
If young Liberals would spend two minute reading up on the Stasi:
[link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi|
They'd realize how inappropriate the comparison is.
"The Stasi perfected the technique of psychological harassment of perceived enemies known as Zersetzung a term borrowed from chemistry which literally means "corrosion" or "undermining".
"By the 1970s, the Stasi had decided that methods of overt persecution which had been employed up to that time, such as arrest and torture, were too crude and obvious. It was realised that psychological harassment was far less likely to be recognised for what it was, so its victims, and their supporters, were less likely to be provoked into active resistance, given that they would often not be aware of the source of their problems, or even its exact nature. Zersetzung was designed to side-track and "switch off" perceived enemies so that they would lose the will to continue any "inappropriate" activities.
"Tactics employed under Zersetzung generally involved the disruption of the victims private or family life. This often included breaking into homes and messing with the contents moving furniture, altering the timing of an alarm, removing pictures from walls or replacing one variety of tea with another. Other practices included smear campaigns, denunciation, provocation, psychological warfare, psychological subversion, wiretapping, bugging, mysterious phone calls or unnecessary deliveries, even including sending a vibrator to a target's wife. Usually victims had no idea the Stasi were responsible. Many thought they were losing their minds, and mental breakdowns and suicide could result.
does that sound like anything going on in this country? Did Obama break into your place with his Stasi hoard and move your furniture around? Jesus.