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In reply to the discussion: Get One Thing Clear: NSA Domestic Spy Op Is FASCISM [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)By the time the Wall fell in 1989, one out of every four people in east Germany was spying on the rest of the East Germans. And of course, just being an East German actor, actress, painter, writer, journalist or any other form of creative person ensured you got spied on.
Meanwhile the infra structure in East Germany suffered tremednously, while in West Germany, where public monies were spent on education, and infra structure, so the economy in W Germany was booming.
I am pretty confident that those who approve of the Surveillance and Totalitarian State are business people and not creative types. For instance, Wozniak, the more creative side of Jobs/Wozniak, recently commented that the USA now resembles the old Soviet Union.
Of course, given what happens to an economy when most of the money goes into Totalitarian spying and massive court systems to imprison people, the economy becomes wretched for everyone but those like Di Feinstein who have contracts to implement the spying!