Neighbors, coworkers, and even families members will once again start spying on and reporting those who think and speak outside the accepted narrative. With East Germany a thing of the past, I suppose this must be happening in authoritarian Russia. No? The USSA, you say?!

The Washington state legislature has passed a bill to create a statewide snitching infrastructure for residents to report their neighbors for “wrongspeak.”
Senate Bill 5427, which passed both the Senate and the House and now awaits

Gov. Jay Inslee’s signature, allows private individuals, including non-citizens and illegal aliens, to reports “bias incidents” to the state attorney general’s office. Each reporting incident comes with a potential reward payout of $2,000.

The bill’s supporters say its purpose is to protect “victims of hate crimes” before said crimes even occur, but at what cost? In essence, SB 5427 creates a tattletale hotline designed to intimidate people in Washington from speaking their minds, especially when such speech might be politically incorrect.

This law, like all those lately enacted to protect the occupiers of Palestine and their cosmopolitan cousins in the GAE, is patently illegal. However, there’s a pattern in this descent into tyranny. Sooner or later, these wicked laws will begin to stick. America had a good run, but it’s over. Americans can blame themselves, their tolerance, their laziness, and their stupidity as the ride becomes truly rough at the end.