If you were wondering what a tyrant like Stalin or Mao would do in the age of technology, take a look down under. The Australian parliament passed unprecedented legislation that gives federal police near-unrestricted powers to spy on any Australian citizen – by gaining access to their social media and email accounts without their knowledge…
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Being a politician on national level is wonderful. Then you can make laws, that makes it legal to do illegal things. We’ve seen this in Sweden since mid 70’s …
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Bought off like NZ wise I expect? That’s about when our rot set in courtesy of helpful world bank loans with conditions.
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What happend in 1975 in Sweden? – The government with Olof Palme as Prime, removed all responsibility from officials, including politicians. As a result, they can’t be held responsable for their actions or decisions. For some few years now, politicians have been talking about reinstating the law of consern, but something is holding them down …
(Olof Palme was an interesting character. He was as a Prime Mininister part of signing weapon deals with other countries. USA was/is one of those countries. At the same time, he criticized in public USA for using these weapons …)
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Thanks SasjaL. Interesting info on Sweden. And weapons are such a great money spinner aren’t they? The UK Royals deal in those as well. Hypocrisy all around.
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