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Paid E-mailing
Even before the existence of the Iron Curtain, the secret services were a separate species, cloak-and-dagger
organisations, of whom nobody really knew what it meant to be a secret agent. In times of the declining Euro,
secret agents are becoming even more secretive. In times when everybody shadows each other, it is assumed that
secret agents are mostly sedentary computer freaks with bad backs, who are paid to read other peoples’ e-mails –
at least this is supposed to have been confirmed amongst the British. And we know that what one person is doing,
many more are doing too. To this extent, the encouraging thing about this news is that secret agents are apparently
lowly-qualified dullards, whose payment is not really a matter of concern. After all, everybody can read E-mails.
The disturbing thing about this news is that there are obviously people who do this job. Are they young, and need
the money? Are they curious, and need the kick, we ask ourselves? And as already said, in times when nobody trusts
each other, all information is important to politics. We can only hope that these unqualified readers recognise
these false reports which our now-transparent citizens sometimes produce. In any event we know: As long as everyone
is spying on each other, nobody will bother to criticise anyone else. Let us be thankful for this peace. And let us
be thankful that democracy and the rule of law are so well protected. In times of the end of the Euro, nobody can
hold it against the secret services that the battle lines are no longer as clear as they were in the era of the
Iron Curtain. Then, only a few people were dangerous, but now it is everybody! Let us also be thankful that
politics is unable to defend itself against this popular misuse. After all, this is what politics is there for,
isn’t it?
Mr. Snowden recently sent a report, which claims how much espionage burdens the
state budget of the USA.
Unbelievable amounts. If we assume the normal German thoroughness and the delusions of grandeur, which also burden
the empty German nation coffers with loans at the drop of a hat, we must assume that vast sums of money have gone
to the Interior Ministry. In times when nobody has anything any more, everyone likes to keep an eye on everybody
else. This must weigh heavily on the bad conscience of mismanagement!
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