@Walter Hinteler,
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Frank Apisa wrote:
I used the word "only?"
Or did you just add that in order to have your comment make sense?
Neither. It happened due to a literal translation of colloquial German. (Mostly, I don't think in English but in German.)
But honestly, whatever the reasons are that US-agencies spy on our chancellor, our government, 320 leading persons and normal German citizens' email and phone calls - I really had never before got the idea that by such my liberties can be secured.
But actually, this really avoids that when wake up in the morning, we suddenly live in a Nazi country, a communist state or are governed by terrorists.
I don't think you do, Walter.
I think you live in an incredibly beautiful country.
Of course, my feelings in that regard are fashioned by a relatively brief stay in Bavaria...which I hear is one of the most beautiful parts of Germany.
I think all of our freedoms are intact...but that there are dangers right now that require that extreme measures be taken. And part of those extreme measures is intimidating to people who place such a high value on personal privacy.
I am not such a person...so my comments here are influenced by the fact that I am not.
Our technology almost guarantees that personal privacy will be less and less available with each passing day. And that, of course, means that the privacy of countries in general will be less.
We can moan and groan all we want...but the future is already here.
In my opinion, "the best of all possible worlds" will be much, much closer to the world of George Orwell...than the world of the founding fathers of the US.