The other day. Roger L.
Simon posted a piece at Epoch Times
that should frighten any of us. America is turning into – or has already turned into -- a police state:
Many, particularly those on the right, worry the United States is
turning into China, but we are a Western nation coming out of a (mostly)
Western tradition.
I believe we should be as much
concerned, if not more, that we are beginning to resemble East Germany with its
State Security Service (Staatssicherheitsdienst), better known as the Stasi.
As Wikipedia reminds us:
“One of the Stasi’s main tasks was
spying on the population, primarily through a vast network of citizens turned
informants, and fighting any opposition by overt and covert measures, including
hidden psychological destruction of dissidents (“Zersetzung,”
literally meaning “decomposition”). It arrested 250,000 people as political
prisoners during its existence.”
I was reminded of this Zersetzung
and its psychological destruction of dissidents—soon we may all be classified
that way, if not already—by a photo I received this morning from a (necessarily
anonymous) friend who works at the Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,
among the most prestigious hospitals in the country.
With his/her permission, I am
sharing it with you.
This person photographed an
announcement taped to a wall at the hospital that read: “Implicit Bias
Anonymous Reporting System.”
Beneath these ominous words was the
usual digital code symbol automatically connecting a cellphone to the “system,”
as if the hospital were a restaurant during COVID providing a hands-free menu
for your convenience.
In other words, it was a convenient
posting for how to snitch on your friends and colleagues for their “implicit
bias,” whatever that is. (I’m probably exhibiting some just by writing this.)
I asked my friend, who has known
the hospital well for many years, whether this could be a joke, but was
vehemently assured it wasn’t. Joke or not, it gives a clear idea of where the
powers that be at that hospital—and many others, I would wager—stand.
My friend tells me that staff gets
“constant political crap” from the chairwoman of the hospital for showing bias
against “protected minorities,” whatever that means—although they observe the
Hippocratic Oath and treat all patients the same anyway.
You could call this growing
atmosphere Stasi Lite—maybe we should name a beer after it—not to mention a
good way to keep potential dissidents in line.
. . .
We must be on watch if it happens
to us. This Stasi-like existence is working on our minds, consciously or
unconsciously.
We may be used to it already to
some degree because of Big Tech, but this is more than one turn of the screw
further. With Big Tech, although they know all, or most of all, about us,
they’re only interested intermittently. Sometimes they ignore us, as long as we
keep our digital heads down.
The State Security Service—be it
Chinese, East German, or American—is always interested.
So be careful if you have, in your
past, present, or future, any “implicit bias,” let alone “explicit bias,”
because that could mean, as we know … just about anything.
Read the full article here.
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