America Is Embracing The Secret Police Culture Of The NazisMichael Snyder Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union never had facial recognition cameras, enhanced pat-downs, automated license plate scanners, voice recognition software, mobile backscatter vans or drones in the skies. In America today, every single form of electronic communication is monitored by shadowy government intelligence agencies. All over the globe, the emerging Big Brother electronic surveillance grid becomes more pervasive with each passing day. Never in the history of the world have citizens been monitored so closely by their own governments. But is all of this surveillance actually keeping us safer? Of course not. Just look at what happened in Boston. But every time another tragedy strikes, our politicians tell us that the answer is to tighten security even more. If this continues, eventually security will become so tight that it will choke all of the life out of this country. Much has been written about the abuses on the federal level by the TSA and the Department of Homeland Security, but this is not just a phenomenon that is happening on the federal level. Sadly, the truth is that Americans are embracing the secret police culture of the Nazis in local communities from coast to coast. This sounds very similar to the See Something, Say Something program set up by the federal government a few years ago. We are being trained to spy on one another, and nobody seems too concerned that this is exactly the same type of thing that used to happen in East Germany during the Cold War. Arent we better than that? We have become so consumed with fear that we now even consider little girls to be terror threats. How bizarre is that? Everyone involved in treating that precious little girl like that should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. And in the name of security, we are turning public schools all over the nation into prison camps. When I was growing up, I never heard of schools holding terror drills. But now they are a regular part of school life. Sometimes teachers are not even told that a drill is happening and they think that it is real. For example, check out what happened the other day during an unplanned drill at a school in Oregon Can you imagine that? Can you imagine having armed men storm in and thinking that it is real? If I was one of those teachers that had blanks fired at them, I would immediately resign. What kind of nation are we becoming? We are becoming a global embarrassment. And how are we supposed to protect our children from all of this? Even if you dont put your kids in the public schools, the police state may still come and grab them from you. The following is from a recent article by Simon Black Is this how we want to live? Do we want to live in constant fear with the government constantly watching every single thing that we do? Isnt that the exact opposite of what our founding fathers intended? Even as you read this, the government is watching you. The truth is that governments around the world have Internet surveillance capabilities that are far beyond what most people would ever imagine. In an article entitled The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution, Googles Eric Schmidt explained that all of the technology for an incredibly intimidating police state is commercially available right now And in fact governments around the world, including the U.S. government, have been caught using such spy software to spy on the Internet behavior of private citizens But we will never see this kind of behavior change until people start demanding it. And even after all of the horrible abuses that have been publicized over the past several years, one recent poll found that 43 percent of all Americans are still answering yes to the following question Obviously we still have a long way to go. Meanwhile, the emerging Big Brother police state gains a little bit more ground with each passing day. This article first appeared here at The Truth. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here. 