Is Germany getting like East Germany?

Monday, February 16. 2004

Is Germany getting like East Germany?

After reports about pupils who don't want to go to school are led away by the police and thus forced to go school, the German minister of inner affairs, Otto Schily, introduces SMS investigations, which is nothing but a version of East Germany's system of private persons spying at their neighbours and neighbourhood, adapted to new technologies.

Although I live in Austria, it makes kind of worried: it seems like the German government slowly wants to build up a state of control and repression. How local governments react to alternative opinions could already be seen here a few days ago. What makes me really worried about this is that Germany is not too far away from my home, basically in the middle of Europe, and yet introducing such unethical methods that I would only expect from dictator-governed 3rd world countries.

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