This week (9 June)....there was the official presentation of the Saxony Verfassungsschutzbericht 2025 report (basically....the yearly report on terrorism or extremism) in the German state.
So.....the Saxony’s Interior Minister....Armin Schuster (CDU).....made the comment that threats were now going on....with the right-wing extremist scene.....getting down to Kindesalter (juvenile folks). Examples given....kids of 10/11....participating in protests.
He wants a status change....he wants the authorities to critically examine whether the age limit for collecting and storing personal data by the Verfassungsschutz should be lowered to 12 years.
Yeah....so if you said some BS at age 12....you'd have a digital folder started, and kept (for years/decades).
Naturally, some folks said this sounds very DDR-like (old East Germany).
I paused over this. You can imagine Johan and George...sneaking over to the police after school, and ratting on little Karl....that he uttered anti-society comments....remarkably....now having 16 pages of material against his character.
Society being able to survive 'crap' like this? I have my doubts.
In some funny way....as much as people think old DDR dissolved away.....it simply waited, and got consumed into modern-Germany.
Eventually, everyone in Germany will have a secret report.
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