Das Buch Wer mitmacht, hat Recht!

Ever felt like complaining about an election?

Soon you won’t even be able to!
Right here, in good old Germany.

Hell yeah!
Let’s get rid¹ of this nasty law that allows hearing of complaints from the commission overlooking elections.
Why?
“Because it wasn’t really used in the past anyways.”

BEST.
REASON.
EVER.

Let’s get rid of German democracy next.
Guess what:
It hasn’t been used a lot lately!

¹ Deutscher Bundestag: Aenderung Wahlpruefungsgesetz [16/7463]

Germany’s democracy just fell victimg to a classic lemming maneuver.
A formal request (read: “we sued them”) to make the testing protocols (which were the basis of approval for the Nedap voting machines) public was just denied by a German court.
Reasons? “Intellectual Property”.

And that’s even tho they are kown and proven to be as insecure as you can possibly imagine.
That reads “insecure” as in: “let’s accumulate security holes and sell them in an ugly gray box”.
Here’s a page of a Dutch activist group that also proved the blatant insecurities of the Nedap system.

Read the rest of the article after the jump!

There was a very interesting interview with Thomas Kliche a while ago in German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

A large and established part of society is made up of people who believe in authority. These are people who were educated to submit to power, believe in strength, and despise weakness. It is enough if the moderate give up and become silent. Then authoritarians can prevail.

This quote is Kliche’s key point and I totally have to agree. I can see this happening in Germany right now:

• Radical authoritarians currently in power are passing very strict but useless, not to say: harmful, laws
• They sell fake safety at a very high price: we pay with our liberties and privacy
• A lot of disillusioned Germans are more than willing to accept

So, why don’t we hear more from the last few sane folks in Germany?
That is because people are lazy by nature, and people don’t want to get hurt. That’s why so few people actually speak up. The rest either fear getting prosecuted, or, even worse, think it’s too late, or no use at all to say something.