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Originally Posted by mapuc
- "I'm not a crook, so I don't mind the authorities spy on me"
So say a huge percentage or the citizens
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Nevertheless it is an extremely dangerous attitude, which has enabled many dictatorships and tyrannies in nations unfolding because people refused to make a stand against their increasing claims for totalitarian powers and controls on the ground of just this assumption: I do nothing wrong, I obey their laws, and so I have nothing to fear.
The point is: laws can be changed. And they get changed according to the needs of those wanting to protect their power and agenda.
Pooiunt alos is: state terror doe sniot care for the quresiton of innoicence and guilt. It terrorises andiomoly chosen victims,. to intimadte them all. Stalin once said to his police leader: "we do not exceute enought people. Arrest more people and execute them." He understood the profound basis of state's power.
And in case somebody wonders: no, it is not nice at all, I fully agree. Power is power, and nothing else.