[KarlInOhio]

And how much of this surveillance will be used against Frau Merkel's political enemies rather than the enemies of the German people?

[vette6387]

Germany is goose-stepping into oblivion.

[Secret Agent Man]

All this will do is drive out intelligent people to places where this hasn’t happened. If they don’t revolt.

[pepsionice]

Odds of passing with the SPD, Greens, and Linke Party in opposition? It’ll be either watered-down drastically or just fail entirely.

[baltimorepoet]

Crap like this is what makes me hope for a massive Carrington event that destroys technological civilization with EMP.

[Yaelle]

Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière is planning a major limitation of privacy rights in Germany, say data protection groups. Germans will no longer have the right to know what data about them is being collected.

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A long time ago a German friend saw my American phone bill. He was shocked. He insulted America as being so intrusive into our lives that they knew every phone call we made, and exactly how long it lasted. He bragged about how their government (not a telephone co, their government, mind you) just asked for one simple total sum each month.

I wasn’t very astute at the time but I knew this much and told him so with laughter: “Your country (not just a phone company) knows every detail of your phone usage as well; THEY JUST DONT TELL YOU!!”

[AdmSmith]

This is the main reason:

Police launched dawn raids across Germany on Tuesday on about 190 mosques, flats and offices linked to an Islamist group after the government banned the organization, accusing it of radicalizing youngsters.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the DWR “True Religion” group had persuaded about 140 people to join militants in Iraq and Syria.

DWR, also known as “READ!” made no reference to the raids on its website and did not immediately respond to a request for comment. De Maiziere said it had several hundred members.

Pictures showed masked police officers carrying away computers and files from properties.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has come under pressure to harden her line on security after several attacks claimed by Islamic State across Europe, including a bombing and a knifing in Germany that wounded some 20 people in July. She is also under fire for letting in about 900,000 migrants, mostly Muslims, last year.

Some Syrians in Germany say many mosques here are more conservative than those at home, and that they are confronted by Muslims who insist on a literal interpretation of the Koran.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-raids-idUSKBN13A0MY

[Candor7]

Liberal Fascism, the gift that keeps on giving.

[Jim Noble]

It’s a regular Gleichschaltung!

[kanawa]

Back to the future...

[kabar]

I wonder how our laws compare with the proposed German law.

[Jack Hammer]

Ordinary citizens take it in the neck for their government’s policy of moslem appeasement.