The secret service reform approved by the Merz government on Wednesday will go to the Bundestag in September and, if approved, will be in force on January 1, 2027. The reform, according to Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, must be seen as preparing tools to repress the coming social unrest due to the economic collapse in Germany. It gives police powers to the domestic (BfV) and military (BND) intelligence agencies.
The parliamentary opposition (AfD, Linke and Greens) is against the measure, but they do not have enough votes to stop it—unless they get help from snipers inside the SPD. After the cabinet vote, a few voices are now being raised against the drifts towards a police state.
“Is the secret service reform a battering ram against democracy?,” asked Markus Klöckner in the Nachdenkseiten, a portal founded by SPD member Albrecht Müller, but currently close to the party of Sarah Wagenknecht, the BSW. “Once the intelligence agencies are freed from their legal and political constraints, there is a risk that this trend will continue. Under certain circumstances, will politicians use the intelligence agencies as a battering ram against unwelcome groups, movements, and citizens?
Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt’s plans for a parallel police force run counter to the rule of law, Ronen Steinke wrotein the Südddeutsche Zeitung the day before the approval.
