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Land of criminals
Innocent until proven guilty. How long have we that? Today it was announced that the Dutch government is going to bring people who might defraud. Chart Personal data of citizens are linked through a new program: Systemic Risk Indicator (Syria). It lets you quickly track down people who cheat on taxes and benefits. But not only that. Through risk citizens can also be classified as suspicious. Citizens who might go once fraud and should be. So now closely monitored all the holes
It is the next brick in the Big Brother state. Guilty until proven otherwise: that is increasingly the basis of government. The need for prevention makes the state more powerful. Earlier doctorate in public administration Rik Peeters on this subject at Tilburg University. In his dissertation The Preventive Gaze describes how Peeters prevention idea has taken. Enormously over the last thirty years in our country Prevention is better than cure, is the idea. Not in itself absurd premise. But prevention has a price: privacy. Prevention idea leads to a growing government, which increasingly enters the private property of the citizen.
This creates a wry reversal. The government knows more about the citizens, but citizens know less and less about the government. An adverse development for democracy, in which citizens just government should monitor and not the other. At the same time citizens criminalized by this development. In the case of Syria, you are a potential tax fraud until it is proven that you are not a tax fraudster. But how do you prove that? You can be a life-long commit fraud and still suspicious. The end is looking for …
The criminalization of the citizen also has implications for the role of the state. That is in addition to stewards and police. A police officer may intervene before the crime was committed.
When we talk about ‘threatening statements “, we look at this time to IS or Russia. It is time to return. Gaze more inward The tide can still be turned. A good start would be to stop Syria. We do not start there with it, then we run the risk of being in a country where everyone is guilty in advance. Wake up in the future
Posted by: Bart Smout
Published : 01-10-2014
Updated: 01-10-2014
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