The Gestapo, the Stasi and the KGB all rolled into one

"This employee snitch policy for the Federal government is intent on making all government employees spy upon one another, like loyal communist East Germans before 1989. Das ist die neu Stasi. Failure to report someone suspicious is now grounds for termination or for release from a contract. And we aren't just talking about people who are read-on for SCI here. We are talking about all Federal employees."

I thought we lived in the United States of America.  Not a Communist or Socialist country where paranoia runs rampant.