The Hidden Benefit of Secret Police

It could be a world first, I’ve yet to check with the Guinness Book of Records, but I’ve uncovered a significant benefit to having secret police.

Looking in detail at the activities of the East German Stasi I discovered that between 1950 and 1989 they employed 274,000 people. And that’s just the full time employees, not counting all those informants, who could legitimately be said to be part time employees.

As at June 2010 the Australian Bureau of Statistics said 598,600 people were unemployed in Australia. Clearly all we need to halve unemployment is to enlarge ASIO to Stasi sized proportions. And of course, if politicians are to be believed, everyones security would be enhanced to a level never seen before.

Terror hasn’t a chance.

Posted by Carlton Duston on 3 Aug 2010 | 0 comments
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