Obama’s Stasiland

Liam Scheff writes that President Obama’s putsch of socialized medicine has left many of us grabbing for the US Constitution, looking for the clause where the Federal Government is granted the right to force citizens to purchase a government product.

We can’t find it. Because it’s not there.

We’re asking, “How did this become law? Where are we headed?”

From the dreaded Wikipedia:

Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 persons in an effort to root out the class enemy. In 1989, the Stasi employed 91,015 persons full time, including 2,000 fully employed unofficial collaborators, 13,073 soldiers and 2,232 officers of GDR army, along with 173,081 unofficial informants inside GDR and 1,553 informants in West Germany. In terms of the identity of inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (IMs) Stasi informants, by 1995, 174,000 had been identified, which approximated 2.5% of East Germany’s population between the ages of 18 and 60.10,000 IMs were under 18 years of age.

What happened when the Berlin Wall went up? The private sector died. Government became the sole employer. And the function of government was to invade, infiltrate and control the lives of the people. How did they do it?

They made everyone collaborators – against each other. (Story here)