A growing number of Canadians, including several young children, have been arrested or detained by U.S. immigration authorities over the past two years, according to newly released government data obtained through a U.S. federal court case.
Stasi was the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit of the GDR. It kept tabs on everyone and everything, decided if you were a citizen good enough to be allowed to go to college, decided if you were allowed to be in certain positions, spied on you with technology, friends, neighbors. They captured citizens they thought were a danger for their government, they killed people they deemed spies, they let people vanish over night.
This ended 1990 when the Berlin wall fell. It’s been some time, but it’s something you learn in school over here. And I would expect people to see parallels. But no, some have nothing to hide.
That’s very interesting and something I will have to do further reading on. Our closest parallel would probably be indigenous reserves and residential schools (read: assimilation schools). I was taught it but I think that may have just been partially where I grew up and a specific teacher that really put care into the subject. Anyone older or who grew up in other parts of the country (Alberta) even today probably don’t learn anything about our horrid past (and present, reconciliation is a goal, not reality).
for now
who can say what mundane topic could be necessary to hide in the future
Years after you’ve submitted the data.
The worst thing is, we’re in Germany. Stasi wasn’t that long ago.
Oh boy that adds another level of irony for sure.
“and once again”
Stasi was the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit of the GDR. It kept tabs on everyone and everything, decided if you were a citizen good enough to be allowed to go to college, decided if you were allowed to be in certain positions, spied on you with technology, friends, neighbors. They captured citizens they thought were a danger for their government, they killed people they deemed spies, they let people vanish over night.
This ended 1990 when the Berlin wall fell. It’s been some time, but it’s something you learn in school over here. And I would expect people to see parallels. But no, some have nothing to hide.
That’s very interesting and something I will have to do further reading on. Our closest parallel would probably be indigenous reserves and residential schools (read: assimilation schools). I was taught it but I think that may have just been partially where I grew up and a specific teacher that really put care into the subject. Anyone older or who grew up in other parts of the country (Alberta) even today probably don’t learn anything about our horrid past (and present, reconciliation is a goal, not reality).