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Posted on 07/02/2013 11:39:08 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
BERLIN -- IN May 2010, I received a brown envelope. It was a CD with an encrypted file containing six months of my life. Six months of metadata, stored by my cellphone provider, T-Mobile. This list of metadata contained 35,83o records. That's 35,830 times my phone company knew if, where and when I was surfing the Web, calling or texting...
The metadata of 80 million Germans was being stored, without any concrete suspicions and without cause...
In the end, the Constitutional Court [of Germany] ruled that the implementation of the European directive [allowing this] was, in fact, unconstitutional...
Given our history, we Germans are not willing to trade our liberty for potentially better security. Germans have experienced firsthand what happens when the government knows too much about someone. In the past 80 years, Germans have felt the betrayal of neighbors who informed for the Gestapo and the fear that best friends might be potential informants for the Stasi. Homes were tapped. Millions were monitored...
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(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
You’d think that Germans would have learned the FIRST time they fell in love with a fascist dictator promising Hopenchange.
250,000+ Germans appeared during Obama’s apology tour. His most recent stop there drew no more than 10,000.
I wonder how many he would draw now...
What say you?
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