Today, railway facilities are monitored by video. Tomorrow it will be intensified. Oh, you can also practically search for suspicious persons? Of course, terrorists have to be found, no one can object to that. Oh, doing that manually is too time-consuming? No problem, next week we'll just add automatic biometric systems that compare against a database of terrorists. Oh, the database also contains political opponents or civil rights activists? Never mind, some waste is always expected. Ouch, a bomb package in a public park? No problem, we'll just expand the video system. Oh, also include intersections and shopping zones while we're at it, for safety's sake, naturally. The secret services want access to it because they're also responsible for security? Sure, no problem. And we'll also avoid bothersome court orders right away, that has to be more efficient. Complete surveillance profiles of citizens without any possibility for them to defend themselves? Ridiculous, what these left-wing cranks keep babbling about, they're probably just terrorist sympathizers anyway, put them in the database too, Otto.
On the road to the surveillance state. All of course only in the name of security. No one can be against security.
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.