In a move right out of communist East Germany, news has broken that the DHS’s Homeland Intelligence Experts Group wanted to turn mothers and teachers into informants who rat out their neighbors for “domestic extremism.”

The since-disbanded panel was trying to collect information on Americans and “get into local communities in a non-threatening way.”

And at one meeting, suggestions on how to do this included re-classifying political dissent as a “public health” crisis. Or, they could always get corporate America to snitch on their employees!

If that’s not the Stasi, Glenn warns, what is?!?