From:
http://www.goonersweb.co.uk/forum/sh...=1#post4420532
The way people blandly state that such things will never happen here. I wonder how close to home it has to get.
In Germany people are indeed getting a knock on the door based on what they have typed into Twitter or other online services. And it doesn't have to be extreme stuff either. There have been cases where simply disagreeing with something can land you in trouble and having to answer to civil "servants".
Letters, like many people, completely misses the reversal in the relationship between the state and the citizen. It is now taken for granted the state is "in charge" and the rest of us will do what we are told. The very opposite of what government is supposed to be (and still claimed to be). This is okay for many people because they have "nothing to hide". This is of course one of the most pathetic submissions known to mankind.
Servant: I would like to invade your privacy, track everything you do and then track every person you come into contact with too. And I'd like to run all that information across thousands of filters and see if I can place you within touching distance of a bad guy. And I'd like to do that without your permission or even your knowledge (so forget we ever had this conversation). Okay?
Dumb Arse: Sure.
Servant: Cool. So anyway, you are under arrest for having ties to ISIS. Come with me.
Dumb Arse. WTF? This can't be right. I demand...
Servant: You consented to everything, so shut the fuck up, put this bag on your head and step onto this unmarked aircraft.
Could never, ever happen here. Except it already has. Like you say, this will expand to every facet of life. Have you said the wrong things, thought the wrong things, communicated with the wrong people, eaten the wrong things, generated an unacceptable large carbon footprint, read the wrong thing, watched the wrong thing...
Did you see the proposed legislation that could land you in jail for watching "extremist" material online? Up to 15 years behind bars if these lunatics get their way. Then we can have a new saying, "You have nothing to fear if you only watch approved material!"
Sad times. Not because of the bastards running all this, we expect it from them. But because of the majority of complacent and so, so naive individuals who sleep walk the rest of us into it. No matter how many times you warn them all you get back is a wise crack about conspiracy theories - another form of conditioning they are pleased to own.
But, the minority is shrinking at least. As these things become more overt and obvious even fools are starting to scratch their heads and wonder at the nerve of our servants.