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...I live next door, in the Netherlands, where the perspective is a little different. For one we have a constitution but no Constitutional Court. Under the dutch system, it is simply assumed that parliament would never introduce laws that would violate the constitution. So our constitution serves as a ‘voluntary guideline for legislators’ if you will. And just in case the constitution might still get in the way, every prohibition ends with ‘unless warranted by law’. I don’t want to be only negative, I guess our constitution does protect us from municipal governments going rogue, as they cannot make laws.

What this means in practice is that in the Netherlands you need a Parliamentary majority to stop anything bad from happening. So in the Netherlands fear-mongering can be more effectively used by the government to pass oppressive laws. And it has been. Against a backdrop of increasing xenophobia the Dutch are databasing everything that involves moving people, money or bits, to be used against us in various ways. We are at the point now where – without any specific suspicion – a dutch homeowner can get a letter announcing a search of their home in order to “make the city safer”. And whatever bits of surveillance state are missing are being built at breakneck speeds... READ ALL HERE