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Please, whenever you read something about German politicians these days, keep in mind that there's an election this fall...
by simfoo 13y ago
Please, whenever you read something about German politicians these days, keep in mind that there's an election this fall...
- PavlovsCat 13y agoThen why isn't Merkel demanding the same?
- LinaLauneBaer 13y agoBecause she is from a conservative party which is more or less "okay" with surveillance. She is not saying the same because she wants to play conservative and differentiate herself from the Greens/Left Party and SPD.
- qwertzlcoatl 13y agoMore or less is inaccurate. They are pushing strong surveillance acts. In fact just today the "Bestandsdatenauskunft" was made law. The law means, “that police and intelligence services will in the future be allowed to obtain extremely personal information about mobile phone users, and do so with the press of a button and without having to face any major legal hurdles”.
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- kriro 13y agoTraditional "Merkelian" politics is basically...wait until stuff blows over and let others make a fool of themselves. Same policy that Kohl followed ("Aussitzen") :) I think this has some potential of losing her the elections though. Mostly because it seems the Greens will gain most from all of this.
- bayesianhorse 13y agoBecause she is actually in power and would have to live with all the repercussions. Oppositional politicians don't have that problem and can talk all day long about what the people like to hear.
- wmeredith 13y agoThis is exactly why all of Obama's pre-election rhetoric about privacy is coming back to haunt him now. It's easy to sell "change" when you don't have to implement it.
- bayesianhorse 13y agoIt also helped that Obama's opponents didn't have a snow flake's chance in hell to convince the voters they would change these issues...