Re:gestapo wtf (Score 1)

You would expect the Dutch to be slightly more attuned to this.

You would, except that the morons that lead us don't get it and the voters don't either. They fail to see the link between ever expanding government powers and a fascist state. Every year on remembrance day, people from our government march to the monuments to exclaim with a tear in their eye and a strangled sob that the holocaust should never be forgotten. Then they go home and work on organizing the next one.

The problem is that even the "good" people in government never realise that THEY are the danger. They keep on extending laws trying to fight things they consider threatening, not realising that they are creating the worst threat themselves. It was the german government that started WW2, not a "terrorist", not Marinus van der Lubbe and not a sex offender (actually, I'm not familiar with Hitler's habits on that front so I can't be sure).