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Date Posted: 12:25:54 10/18/07 Thu
Author: Johnny Reb
Subject: Re: so much for democracy
In reply to: michael 's message, "Re: so much for democracy" on 11:33:25 10/18/07 Thu

>All these 'Emergency' measures have a bad habit of
>hanging around, being "adapted" for other uses and
>gradually becoming the 'norm'. And so we slowly slide
>towards a highly monitored, controlled and punished
>society. I think I read about such a world in a couple
>of books many years ago, but I think they were
>probably written by terrorists.

i agree 100 %.

i'm just waiting for the government to put "brave new world" and "1984" on the list of forbidden media (yes, there is such a list legally existing! d-uh! democratic country my ass...). man, these writers were visionaries, i had to read the books at school and thought "what a strange fiction, but this will never happen because we live in a democracy". i was too naive then.

it is frightening. it is like a competition between britain and germany about who will have established the perfect fascist surveillance state first. it is stomach-churning, and we are not paranoid if we keep a very watchful eye on this and do something.

i am ashamed to say that the only topics where the majority of germans will wake up and revolt against the "elected representatives of the people" would be 1. a drastic raise of the beer price, 2. a speed limit on the autobahn and 3. the admission of turkey in the european union. and i'm not even sure about the last point.

currently there are about 150,000 germans emigrating annually which is the highest mark since 1945. nobody wants to pay more taxes than swiss citizens but receive less service in return than u.s. citizens do. lucky are those being able to pay taxes as they hold a job. a nation of overqualified and underpaid wage slaves, being kept under surveillance, deprived of their constitutional liberties and taxed into starving.

a nightmare about to come true.

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