<story><title>Dutch police collecting demonstrators&apos; personal data on a large scale</title><url>https://nltimes.nl/2023/03/10/police-collecting-demonstrators-personal-data-large-scale</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hahamaster</author><text>They never collect profiles of anyone who&amp;#x27;s a law abiding, non-protesting citizen who always does what they&amp;#x27;re told. Docile, compliant, obedient Dutch people are almost never profiled. Be docile, compliant and obedient and you will not have a problem with the police - it&amp;#x27;s super simple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>Same can be said about the politicians... do what the people want, if you&amp;#x27;re unsure, hold a referendum, and people won&amp;#x27;t protest in the streets and you won&amp;#x27;t need bodyguards to go outside.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, on a venn diagram of what creates violence and (anti government) terrorism, they&amp;#x27;re causing more and more overlap of ever larger circles.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dutch police collecting demonstrators&apos; personal data on a large scale</title><url>https://nltimes.nl/2023/03/10/police-collecting-demonstrators-personal-data-large-scale</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hahamaster</author><text>They never collect profiles of anyone who&amp;#x27;s a law abiding, non-protesting citizen who always does what they&amp;#x27;re told. Docile, compliant, obedient Dutch people are almost never profiled. Be docile, compliant and obedient and you will not have a problem with the police - it&amp;#x27;s super simple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>This is a strange characterization. &amp;quot;Docile&amp;quot; can also just mean &amp;quot;follow rule of law&amp;quot;. The latter suddenly doesn&amp;#x27;t sound so odd.&lt;p&gt;If the police is violating the law then there&amp;#x27;s no discussion and they need to be corrected. Otherwise, aren&amp;#x27;t we supposed to follow the law? If we disagree with the law and want it changed, now &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; is a different process. But there&amp;#x27;s no need to be disobedient for disobedience&amp;#x27;s sake, or just for the sake of not appearing &amp;quot;docile&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;We Dutch are also good complainers so I don&amp;#x27;t think we can be described as &amp;quot;docile&amp;quot;, even if &amp;quot;just be normal and you&amp;#x27;re already crazy enough&amp;quot; is a local saying.</text></comment>