I will say this to Kirsten though.
The Illiberal Left are okay with Suppression of Free Speech as long as they are the ones doing the Supressing of opposing ides.
East Germany wasn't a Warning.
It's a Goal.
They want to be the ones on top.
German historian Hubertus Knabe-
…the Stasi often used a method which was really diabolic. It was called Zersetzung, and it's described in another guideline. The word is difficult to translate because it means originally "biodegradation". But actually, it's a quite accurate description. The goal was to destroy secretly the self-confidence of people, for example by damaging their reputation, by organizing failures in their work, and by destroying their personal relationships. Considering this, East Germany was a very modern dictatorship. The Stasi didn't try to arrest every dissident. It preferred to paralyze them, and it could do so because it had access to so much personal information and to so many institutions.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hubertus_knabe_the_dark_secrets_of_a_surveillance_state/transcript
Good post. And now china has the secret personell files of every federal employee.
Great quote, excellent post. Stasi - an ugly resemblance to the Obama, Climate, PC Left apparatus.
Destroy reputations, publicize their mistakes, pull up divorce decrees on non-compliant climate researchers. It is all there, because they can never win on facts.