Posted on 03/16/2021 5:05:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Have we turned into a surveillance society of the type that used to be common in the Soviet bloc?
Both sides of my wife’s family were broken up during and right after World War II. As a result, she has family in both Poland and Croatia and has kept in close touch with both. We’ve sent our teenage sons to the month-long Polish Scout Camp where they teach the kids fieldcraft and basic survival skills. It isn’t basic training, but the kids build their own camps, prepare their own food, and get ready for another Russian or German invasion. My son’s welcome gift upon arrival was a Fiskars ax.
In the 1970s, when my wife visited Croatia as a teenager, the country was still clearly under communist control. She happened to be there during the Christmas holidays, a celebration that the communist government forbade.
Despite this edict, Croatia has always been a predominantly Catholic country. Therefore, many Croats, rather than abandoning Christmas, tended to celebrate the holiday quietly, out of the neighbor’s sight, lest a non-Christian neighbor inform on them, subjecting them to a police visit and arrest.
When my then-teenage wife learned of this, she loudly exclaimed that she could not believe people could get arrested for celebrating the birth of Christ! Her Croatian family quickly closed the windows and pleadingly “shushed” her to prevent unscrupulous neighbors from hearing the incredulous teen and, perhaps, informing the police.
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How very Cuban
NYSers have been ratting on fellow NYSers for months.
And are just fine with local and state LE being used to put a hurt on their fellow citizens for WuFlu violations.
I have some friends who visited family in NY from out of state for Thanksgiving. They had to hide their car in the garage, lest the neighbors reported them. They spent the weekend in the house, afraid to be seen. It is evil.
Evil is a fitting word for it.
I truly believe this is a combination of leftists simultaneously virtue signaling and hoping that their snitching puts them on a sort of "harvest their organs last" list. Thinning the opposition is also a collateral benefit.
If faced with this situation, I'm reminded of the wisdom imparted by Charlie Daniels in Uneasy Rider.
bkmk
***You have to wonder, what kind of darkness resides in a man’s heart, where he would call the govt to report a “mask violation” or some nonsense like that.***
I have a “friend” in my neighborhood that turns in other neighbors to the HOA for things she thinks are violations. One of them was my next door neighbor, who I have zero problems with.
I have recently decided, after other issues have come up, that this “friend” is now someone I wish to avoid seeing socially. Who needs these people in their lives? She indeed has a dark heart.
However, if I don’t see her socially anymore, in a way, she’s won. I need to be around her once a month just to show her she can’t have her way over me.
We’ve been faced with it. Frequently.
We made like Sgt. Schultz.
Every single time.
Easy calls all. Nothing difficult about it.
As for visiting NYS, I think all our welcome signage to the state ought to come with this warning: Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
Old expression..”killing with kindness” .....”never let them know what you’re thinking”.
“When will it become illegal to say: BIDEN STOLE THE ELECTION!”
Biden isn’t smart enough to steal an election, but “Kamala stole the election”: is another matter.
‘You have to wonder, what kind of darkness resides in a man’s heart, where he would call the govt to report a “mask violation” or some nonsense like that.’
well, not to put too fine a point on it, but on this very website there have been at least two individuals who have openly stated they’ve turned people in for covid misdeeds; and one of these has brazenly bragged about it...
‘I have a “friend” in my neighborhood that turns in other neighbors to the HOA for things she thinks are violations.’
yeah, nothing like a g’dam HOA to cause problems where none exist...
Indeed, the left doesn’t hold monopoly on darkness. Or idiocracy.
I agree, it is shameful that people in a "free" society would even consider turning in neighbors for this kind of BS. I'd add a few possible motivations (recapping your list too):
Fear. Fear that if they don't, someone else will report their neighbors "violations" and that these people obviously knew about it, making them an accomplice. The left has completely cowed these people into obedience.
Virtue signalling. Wanting to belong, wanting to be a part of the side the leftists and their MSM lapdogs have so thoroughly (but erroneously) portrayed as the good guys.
Brainwashed. They may have so completely bought into the BS that they believe they are doing the right thing. These are truly dangerous useful idiots. These are the people that turned over neighbors to the SS, Stasi, etc. with a clear conscious, believing they were doing the right thing for the greater good.
Dickheads. Some people simply like being mean to others. They are small, petty people who need to do things like that to give themselves an artificial sense of power. They are timid and weak, and hide that by reporting mask violations, or neighbors washing cars or watering lawns or other HOA level BS.
That has been my tactic for quite some time, but she is just unpleasant to be around. I’m getting tired of it. It is a small neighborhood card club, and she’s the only real stinker in the group. More than half the group knows it and goes along but I’m tiring of getting along with nincompoops.
Police are funny sometimes. I’ve seen it...They MAY have to respond but, in the end, they are human. I suspect Karen is on some list (a mental one lest that list fall into the wrong hands) and if she’s stopped for a traffic violation or jaywalking etc they’ll throw the book at her.
We all know what the answer is to fellow citizens that side with a tyrannical state. Few of us are to the point where we'll actually voice it out loud. Even fewer, if any are to the point where they actually take action against these petty tyrants. Assign it to fear, complacency, self preservation, or what-not frustration and anger are building. When that dam breaks, it not going to be pretty, especially for the liberal Karen's of the country that think their virtue signaling and the government are going to protect them from wrathful neighbors.
Mike Podhorzer of AFL/CIO is suspected of being the organizer of the fraud. The politicians are just play acting like it did not happen.
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