. The repercussions and the fear of being jailed prevent any future participation in political dissent. That is how the Marxists win.
With the help of technology, technocrat corporations have enabled those in control of our country to find out everything there is to know about each and every citizen.
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, against the climate change industry, or anything the social media company owner(s) 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 medicine 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, 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 also confiscated the earnings of famous athletes.
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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