Posted on 06/01/2016 11:03:47 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Those who prefer their mobile phone to remain anonymous are in for a shock in Germany, as ministers agreed on Wednesday to require anyone buying a pay-as-you-go SIM card to present ID.
“You could buy a prepaid phone today in the name of Donald Duck,” Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said after the weekly cabinet meeting.
“Knowledge is power. And we want to oppose terrorist organizations powerfully,” he went on in a press conference defending the new anti-terror law that the rule falls under. […]
“The new anti-terror package mixes up widely varying enlargements of powers for the security services that cut deep into basic rights and aren’t in any way limited to the fight against terrorism,” Green party digital rights spokesman Konstantin von Notz and interior policy spokeswoman Irene Mihalic said in a statement. …
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When faced with a choice between turning your country into a fascist police state, or telling the Muslims to go home...
This is the rationalization for every police state that ever existed.
Doing this without EU approval? Oh wait, Germany is the EU!-) Deutschland über alles:-)
“Knowledge is power. And we want to oppose terrorist organizations powerfully,” he went on in a press conference defending the new anti-terror law that the rule falls under.”
Clue-
Stop importing jihadis by the millions.
National Socialism meet EU/German liberal fascism: welcome the new boss same as the old boss.
What’s the big deal? I had to do the same thing in Russia.
And what the government wants is that Power.
...And the key top stopping Jihadis is to clamp down on the law abiding white people, akin to gun control here at home.
But not to vote! That would racist!
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Aren’t pre-paid phones a component in building remotely detonated bombs?
Oh that will help prevent the newly-arrived savages from slitting your throats! Just kick them out!
Liberals will choose the fascist police state every time.
Sounds like a great black market opportunity
Yet no ID is required to get in the country.
It’s just part of the police state, they want to be able to track you. I’m surprised they don’t make a having a facebook account mandatory and it’s creation part of the screening process.
But I bet they are not giving away free 0bamaphones with free minutes and data plans!
“Knowledge is power. And we want to oppose terrorist organizations powerfully,” he went on in a press conference defending the new anti-terror law that the rule falls under. […]
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This is what happens when you flood your country with terrorists. You get to treat everybody like a terrorist, which is what Big Corrupt Government wanted all along.
Your last remark would make a great tagline.
Perhaps they are intentionally importing them to justify the police state they crave imposing on the country.
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