STASI, FBI, NSA - Distinguo

It is mere coincidence, but chilling none-the-less.  From AN EPIDEMIC OF FALSE ACCUSATIONS at Instapundit.  Not mistaken accusations.  Accusations which were fraudulent from their first utterance and intended for ideological or financial gain.  

The original article is by Matt Walsh.  The two cases are complex so best read there.  A sample:

Last night, in response to a post from Elon Musk, Trevor Bauer said that it appeared that his accuser’s lawyers had access to all of this evidence the entire time. Bauer wrote that, “Speaking specifically about the video of her laying in bed next to me with no marks on her face the morning after she claims I brutally attacked her, an email containing that video was sent to her attorney Bryan Freedman before the hearing in 2021 and it was never turned over to us. Perhaps that’s why he insisted on adding his name to the released parties section in the settlement agreement.”

Both of these are outrageous examples of grifters going after successful people out of greed or pique.  The media and the clerisy are fine with unsubstantiated accusations as long as it only harms opponents of the established narrative.  Due Process and Truth are not part of the equation.

The very next Instapundit link is FBI NOW INVESTIGATING HALF THE COUNTRY.  It includes a link to Stasi Files: The Lives of Others | Journal Reporter on YouTube.  The Stasi being the old East German secret police notorious for spying on an enormous percentage of the East German population.

At 6:10 minutes you have from one of the researchers. Emphasis added.  

It [the files] gives her a peek into thousands of lives in East Germany.  She says she's often surprised by what people are capable of, denouncing others, making false accusations.  And that the Stasi of course then used that information to interfere in the lives of individuals whether it was imprisoning them, ending or hindering their professional careers, sowing discord in families.  She says it always surprising to her that people are like that.  

In the US, the tidal wave of false accusations are a combination of financial greed and ideological desperation.  It is so hard to be a radical seeking to fundamentally remake America when no one actually believes the nation is violently misogynistic or systemically racist.  Of course you have to manufacture false accusations in order for there to be an reason to embark on the erstwhile remaking as a totalitarian utopia.

In East Germany, false accusations were public policy based on the self-interests of the authoritarian Communist Party.  In the US, it has mostly been ideological desperation and pure greed and financial grift.  But increasingly the past ten years, the powers of government are being brought to support false accusations even when they are known to be false.  We are nowhere near the Stasi but the similarities are becoming disturbingly more apparent.