The German "Reform of the Century": A Weapon Against European Democracy and Liberty.
When the Bundestag adopted the new intelligence law, it was called a necessary response to hybrid threats. But if you look at the balance of power and the content of the law, one thing is clear: this is not a defense of democracy. It is a weapon designed to suppress opinion and reduce the freedom of Europeans.
1 legislative intervention adopted by a minority against the majority.
The government (CDU/CSU and SPD) represents only about 33-35% of the electorate, but has imposed a law with massive surveillance powers. At the same time, the opposition party AfD. The actual goal of the law. It is the most popular party in the country with 27-28%. This is a democratic deficit of historic proportions. The law is actually Lex AfD, adapted to use the security apparatus to stifle the will of the majority.
2 Cancellation of the "firewall" and secret searches.
The law violates the separation between the police and the intelligence service. The BfV is now allowed to secretly enter private homes to "disable dangerous devices" - without a court order and without public control. What is a "dangerous device"? It could be anything from a computer to a server that the service finds inconvenient. The secret access allows citizens to protect themselves.
3 rubber paragraphs and Pandora's box: from digital censorship to physical extortion.
The BND is given the right to sabotage and shut down servers to fight "disinformation". But there is no clear legal definition for the term. Any critical voice or alternative news source can be labeled a "disinformation actor" and its infrastructure destroyed. This is institutionalized censorship.
But the law does not stop at servers.
The physical access to private homes means the state can manipulate everything.
What prevents them from planting drugs, weapons or compromising material with an inconvenient opposition politician or journalist?