With the
help of AI, scouring our social media platforms facilitated by the development
of the Internet, bureaucrats and unelected controllers spend no time to worry
about how to collect information and build dossiers on all citizens to keep them
submissive and compliant.
There is no
freedom of speech on social media platforms. Simple posts are removed under the
guise that it violates “community standards,” i.e. any post with a prayer, or
that uses the word God, posts against Marxism and wokeism, posts
criticizing the woke Olympics, posts against the globalist digital currency, against
global communism, or anything the social media platform owners dislike.
There was a
time when the Soviets and their communist satellite countries in Eastern Europe
and around the globe had to spend a lot of time, money, effort, and manpower to
control the populations living under those police states.
There were
many ways to control their citizens: fear,
beatings, jail, torture, death, starvation, small wages, gun confiscation,
money confiscation, land theft, house theft, savings theft, inadequate medical
care, empty stores, empty pharmacies, taking children away, no job promotions,
denial of travel, higher education, and denial of basic human rights and
freedoms.
Gen. Ion
Mihai Pacepa, who defected to the west but was once Ceausescu’s right hand, wrote
in his book, Red Horizons, about the conversation between the dear
leader and his wife Elena, who was unhappy that their communist underlings
could not find out who wrote an anonymous letter sent to Radio Free Europe in
Munich, criticizing the cult of personality of the dictator and his wife.
She
suggested that the dictator should fire everyone and then should bring in the
army. Irritated, Ceausescu asked his wife how the army could find out who wrote
the letter. She answered sternly and grimly, “If they can’t figure it out, then
they’ll just shoot every other suspect.” All it took in the communist regime was
to be a declared suspect and you died without the benefit of a trial.
If that
suggestion was not extreme enough, the dictator ordered that in three months’
time all Romanians’ handwritten samples had to be collected, starting with
children in first grade. Retirees and housewives were to be forced to fill out an
absurd form to obtain their handwriting samples.
He also
ordered samples of every typewriter in use at home or in offices around the
country which then had to be registered with the Security police. He decreed
that renting or lending a typewriter was also forbidden to all Romanian
citizens, and the police had to authorize ownership.
When the
dear leader was told by one of his minions that such an order would be unconstitutional
for private citizens, Ceausescu responded, “Did the Constitution make us, or
did we make the Constitution? We made the Constitution. We will change it if we
have to.” Law, order, human rights, and the lives of all citizens were worth
nothing to the communist dictator and his wife.
Ceausescu’s
behavior had a Soviet precedent. When Khrushchev wanted to institute the death
penalty for speculators, he was told by the public prosecutor general of the
Soviet Union, Roman Rudenko, that the law did not authorize the courts to do
that.
Khrushchev
responded, “Who is the boss, we, or the law? We are masters over the law, not
the law over us – so we must change the law, we must see to it that it is
possible to execute these speculators.”
The Presidium
of the Supreme Soviet issued a decree introducing the death penalty for the
crime of speculating.” Why were there speculators (often from the lower ranks of
the Communist Party or their informers) in the first place? Because the economy
was horrific, people were starving and would pay high prices to speculators to
buy food and medicines on the black market.
Communists
had no qualms about eliminating people from the opposition or even their
friends who became too competitive and thus inconvenient; they manufactured
crimes to dispose of them. Countless individuals of the communists’ inconvenient
friends and of the opposition were thus sentenced to death or “disappeared” in
gulags.
Not even
famous people escaped the control of Ceausescu’s communist regime. The famous
Dr. Aslan, the founder of the first geriatric institute, who made money abroad in the 1970s in the west with her Gerovital
pills and cosmetic creams, was not allowed to keep any of the money she made in
foreign currency.
Gen. Pacepa
described in his book the event when Aslan was arrested at Bucharest airport
with $800 hidden in her hair bun. The communist regime was infamous for confiscating the
earnings of famous athletes as well.
It seems
that today, in our country, it does not take a whole lot to become a suspect
and displease those in control; all one must do is contribute money to the non-communist
political side, vote for a non-communist candidate, or attend a peaceful rally.
The repercussions and the fear of being jailed prevent any future participation
in political dissent. That is how the Marxists win.
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