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DBoon

(22,800 posts)
22. That's when you have a police state
Tue Feb 27, 2024, 03:29 PM
Feb 2024

Your neighbor annoys you? They aren't patriotic or christian enough? They are kind of weird and keep to themselves?

Just report them to the Gestapo/Stasi and they will mysteriously disappear, never to be heard from again:

It’s been estimated that only 15 per cent of Gestapo cases started because of surveillance operations. A far greater number began following a tip-off from a member of the public. Every allegation, no matter how trivial, was investigated with meticulous and time-consuming thoroughness. It’s been estimated that about 40 per cent of these denunciations were personally motivated. A Berlin stoker reported a prostitute who gave him venereal disease. She was placed in a concentration camp. Gestapo officers were extremely wary of husbands and wives who informed on each other. A housewife in Mannheim told the Gestapo her husband was making derogatory comments about Hitler’s regime. After a lengthy investigation, it emerged that the wife wanted her husband out of the way to continue a love affair with an off-duty soldier. In another case, two married doctors were involved. The wife accused the husband of carrying out illegal abortions. This led to his arrest and imprisonment. The husband claimed his wife had a vengeful motive. The husband had passed on a sexually transmitted disease to his wife, while carrying on a love affair. Her motive was revenge, but he served eight months in prison before this was finally established.


https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/careless-whispers-how-the-german-public-used-and-abused-the-gestapo-1.2369837
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As a founding member of the League of Radical Leftist Vermin....... lastlib Feb 2024 #2
EXACTLY!!! niyad Feb 2024 #3
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They are also on their own enemy list. They will go after their neighbors chowder66 Feb 2024 #7
That's when you have a police state DBoon Feb 2024 #22
Yep. It's the very definition of eating your own. chowder66 Feb 2024 #23
I will reevaluate my life if I am not on the list. LoisB Feb 2024 #8
After writing the following, I will lodge a protest if I'm not on it DFW Feb 2024 #9
I'd be honored if I was on that list Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2024 #10
Is there, in fact, an enemies list? If Myrick knows of its existence and has, in fact, seen his name on it, ancianita Feb 2024 #12
Soon he'll be charging a fee to get on it. Buns_of_Fire Feb 2024 #13
Pretty sure I'm on it maxrandb Feb 2024 #14
Oddly, it's local Magahats who will protect me Kaleva Feb 2024 #15
I'd be honored to be on that list! llmart Feb 2024 #18
You just made the list Buddy maxrandb Feb 2024 #19
I am on there for sure. ProudMNDemocrat Feb 2024 #20
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