Germany Fuels The Rise of Stasi 2.0

Germany supercharges the domestic intelligence apparatus:

“Germany remains a safe country with a strong police force, with well-organized security agencies… We are good [at security], but we want to be better.”

Germany’s interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, has recently unveiled a long list of anti-terror measures: thousands of new police officers, billions of euros for the security services, better cyber intelligence and faster deportation of foreign criminals.

This was, of course, in one sense about reassuring the German public. It is not the first time the government has announced anti-terror measures. But it is also the response to what are thought to have been the first terror attacks on German soil inspired by so-called Islamic State (IS)…

Recent polls suggest around three quarters of Germans are worried by the threat of terror. The co-author of one study, Prof. Manfred Schmidt from Heidelberg University, was quoted as saying: “People used to worry about money, health and the environment. This has been replaced by terrorism and extremism.”

The Stasi was an impressive domestic intel apparatus. About 1 in 25 citizens were actively spying for the government, and reporting bad-thinkers – long before the digital revolution when people were still recording on spools of magnetic tape.

Now imagine what the Stasi would have been like with modern technology. Cameras and microphones, almost invisible, linked over wireless and digital networks, constantly recording everything everywhere. Databases automatically saving every communication, digital record, currency transaction, and piece of data, from locations, to text messages, to contacts, that travel over any form of technology. Automatic plate readers, toll booth payment systems, credit cards, and so on, all recording locations at various waypoints with hidden scanners. Cameras throughout the cities running facial recognition, logging individuals and making their foot travel searchable on a moment’s notice.

Imagine Stasi 2.0.

This is the most infuriating aspect of the migrant wave to me. Idiot liberals import Muslims as fast as they can and mistake the moderate number of attacks for a measure of how safe it is to do so.

In reality, behind the scenes, there is a government machine of incredible power and authority building. Since its mission is to prevent Muslims living in the country legally from launching attacks, by necessity it evolves the ability to invade the lives of any citizen to a degree nobody would believe possible. It grows to an extent nobody would ever believe.

By that point it is a leviathan, looking for reasons to justify ever increasing budgets. So it begins expanding its scope of operations, to encompass major crime, minor crime, and finally anyone the government decides it may not like.

The machine has to be massive by now, and even still, migrant killers are so numerous that many still slip through the net. Imagine what will happen when the collapse takes down much of that machine, and it can no longer keep the migrants under control. Suddenly the flood gates open at the exact moment the resource restriction begins triggering the real waves of radical Islamic attacks. And by then there are so many Muslims, because everybody thought it was safe to import them, that it takes a full scale war to eject them.

Turmoil is coming to Germany. My advice to the Germans who oppose the government’s policies is to focus on getting a handle on the extent of their surveillance state now. Because if all they think is coming is a simple reboot of the Stasi, they ain’t seen nothing yet – and that machine will be targeting them more than the Muslims as the collapse approaches.

Bet on it.