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I give you something to choose from:

a) In your life you will be killed on a certain day, but you don’t know the date when you will die, neither that you will die whatsoever.
b) You don’t live at all.

If those two options were presented to you, i’m pretty certain you would go for the first one. You might ask yourself what the hell i am talking about? Eating meat.

I’m really annoyed by those pseudo pro-life people who eat no meat and annoy me with how immoral it is to eat meat. You you eat no meat, fine, but don’t try to talk me into it.
Because i eat meat, some animals have to die, but those animals would never live in the first place if there weren’t people like me who will eat them later. This huge amount of cows, pigs and the like would never be alive. And that is a very disturbing fact for those pseudo pro-life plant eaters. More so, some of them claim that we can live just by eating plants. Maybe we can, but there have been numerous cases where children die, because their parents don’t give them meat. Here is a very funny thing to think about, we all know we must die, unlike most/all animals, but we don’t know the date. Now, and this is just a possibility, maybe God eats humans. If God exists and created us in the first place, would you now think that God is evil.

I for one take it like this: I know that animals die for me and i am grateful to every animal who dies because of the way i choose to live. I think that each animal should be treated with respect and have the right to live a good life. But the same way, if animals could think like this, the least they could do would be to thank me, for i am the reason they live. If this is the same for God and us, like it is for us and animals, i’m very grateful to him, for the life he granted me.

Now, if you excuse me, i gonna grab a burger with 3 layers of meat.

You might know of Wolfgang Schaeuble, the present Minister of the Interior of Germany. You might also know of his quest for creating a police state in Germany, he would deny this of course. Nevertheless, he said openly in an interview, that if it has a chance to prevent an act of terrorism, the presumption of innocence should not be applied.

In my view, i would rather die by a terrorist attack, than living in a state where one is guilty unless proven otherwise. Even more, a democracy should be stable not because the state knows of everything about its people, but rather that the people should know everything about the state. Also the head of the state should listen to the people and give them a clear presentation of what is happening in the world from a neutral point of view. Currently, the head of our state seems to have stopped listening to the people and tries to actively alter what the people have to think. After each election, the new elected government should try to do what has been promised in the election. SPD promised the VAT (value added tax) should stay at 16%, CDU/CSU said 18%. Now, both are forming the head of state, one would expect 17% VAT as a compromise, but instead we got 19%.

What does this show us? I would say the head of our state stopped listening to the people, some might say they intentionally lied to the people, so they would be elected and can do what they want afterwards. This cycle seems to be repeating itself, like what was said about the toll system for the German autobahn. Our government said the data collected would be only used to collect the toll. After the system was implemented, it was decided that the data will also be used for localization of criminals, with following reason:
Now that we have the data, why shouldn’t we use it…

And this is where i go back to the top of this post, Wolfgang Schaeuble and his quest for a police state, as i would say it. We already got a law where certain data will be collected and stored for 6 months when using any sort of telecommunication, only to be used for the pursuit of serious crimes. From what i know of our current government, after a certain period of time, this data will be used for any kind of crime. There is another thing going through the press right now, the so called “Bundestrojaner”, or state trojan. Wolfgang Schaeuble wants to permit online searches of a target computer by the police with the means of trojans, only for infiltrating terrorist networks of course. At least he says directly, that it wont necessarily stop at that point.

Where does this leave us? I for one, use my computer as some kind of extended memory, i’m really bad at remembering things after all. So you could say my computer and the data stored on it is a very important part of my private freedom and to an extend would even show what i am thinking. Also i am some times visiting a certain site by a white supremacist in America, not because i share his views, but rather because i want to know what my personnel enemy is doing right now. Just because this, i might fall into a certain grid of potential suspects if the police would ever do a dragnet investigation of the Internet usage of the people in Germany. And if things like a ~25$ internet fraud justifies a house search, i would be sure as hell on the list where a house or online search is on the line.

And this is were i will later go on to the second part of “The long way for private security”