People and Politics | A Right to Forget? How former Stasi agents continue to harass their victims

It has been almost two decades since Communist East Germany collapsed, together ith its system of spies and informants. Now, many of the former secret police agents want the files closed. They sue individuals, newspapers, exhibition curators, and even the government office in charge of the files whenever the names behind aliases are revealed. They say its time to draw a line under the past. They contend their privacy is being violated. And German courts sometimes even rule in their favor. We show examples of this campaign of intimidation and talk with experts on media rights and with staff from the agency that processes the Stasi files.

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[xander7ful]

It is unbelievable to me that the perpetrators have the gall to ask that their deeds be forgotten when they did so much damage to other people's lives. I am a Targeted Individual in the United States and the same tactics are now being used here against a small minority of us. And according to one TI, the powers that be will extend this system to the whole population.

I hope he wins his case.

[amsterdam78]

@stap0510 The average Marxist also donates a large amount of money and time to causes that actually help the less fortunate, even if they are less fortunate themselves. The average Marxist is also anti-N. Korea, seeing it as a deformed workers state, and built on an amalgamation of Stalanism and Maoism. Often Capitalists hold up states that are not even Marxist as examples because they call themselves communist, even if their form of communism was re-written to suit the needs of its own rulers.

[amsterdam78]

@stap0510 Actually, we are smarter then you. The average Marxist cares for the working class, is not homophobic, pro sexual equality. We have also read more, for example I own 1265 books written by a whole range of authors, and I have read most of them. The sale of Das Kapital in Germany has gone up 300% over last year, as they see the economic situation in the world collapsing.

[stap0510]

@amsterdam78

Well you can always go live in North Korea.

People have romanticized image of their younger years.

The of that period however so something more odious:

A police state.

One in three people who spy on each other. People who can't trust each other.

A screwed up economy.

And so on and on.

But again: your kind of people will continue to argue all day long, because you're just not that smart.

[amsterdam78]

@stap0510 I made a pop video on East Germany, and have had over 10,000 personal messages from Eastern Germans who wish the DDR never feel, now that they have had a taste of Capitalism, the only East Germans that dislike the DDR live in the Western part of the country or abroad.

[amsterdam78]

@stap0510 The Berlin Wall was not torn down by the East Germans, if you look at all the pictures the wall is falling west with the graffiti on it. East Germans didn't want an end to socialism, just an end to Stalinist policies. The re-unification was a deal made not by the people, but by it's leaders. Listen to the audio talk on Marxist(dot)com on the fall of the Berlin wall, by someone who was there and actually even had a Stasi file on him. These are facts.

[stap0510]

@amsterdam78

Oh that's why citizens form the DDR tore down the Berlin wall?

That's why in Eastern-European countries there were revolutions from among the people against communist/socialist oppression?

Let me guess: you're going to argue with me till the end of times because your to think to come to terms with reality and those nasty things called facts.

[amsterdam78]

@stap0510 I was born in the DDR, My father was in the Volkspolize, and my mother the SED. This is all about capitalism counter-revolution, they see right wing policies failing so they try and slander the DDR.

[stap0510]

@amsterdam78 This his nothing to do with capitalism.

And this is obviously coming from an leftwing idiot like yourself.

Thank god the DDR is gone.

[etmac88]

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