Left wing and right wing groups I might add. The police and/or intelligence agencies spy on everything and everyone considered to be a threat to the State. Incl

Left wing and right wing groups I might add. The police and/or intelligence agencies spy on everything and everyone considered to be a threat to the State. Including possibly you, right now, reading this comment using those mass surveillance laws used to combat "terrorism". And why they don't take any action against these groups you might ask? That's because some of these are _very_ useful in regard to controlling the populus (e.g. threat of violence leading to self-censorship) and enabling the removal of more and more liberties. You might think that people managed to learn how ruthless, vile cretins like Hitler and Stalin actually got to their positions of power, and how they expanded them. But nope. We are just waiting for, and in some cases actively enabling, all that shit to happen all over again. It is almost like human civilization keeps going round and round in a perpetuation of hate, abuse, vileness and misery. And it's so sad given the fact that we actually _have_ EVERYTHING we need to destroy this cycle once and for all.