Having her 80 million citizens spied upon by the NSA was no reason to issue a statement. Or to do her job and protect the German people from harm, as it is stated clearly in our constitution as the job of our leaders.
On the contrary. Before anything was really on the table, they declared the topic closed.
So the moment she herself is being spied upon is the moment she (at last) wakes up? Well, really? That does seem quite a little bit egoistic to me, doesn't it.
Isn't every citizen of this country worth the same? Has the same rights to be protected from arbitrary spying?
Well the Germans reelected her with great majority. And the NSA spying is really no big deal for most of my fellow citizens. They just don't care. So the answer to my question above is probably "No".
They just have this "I have nothing to hide, so who cares" mentality, that is so dangerous, so dumb and sheep-like.
What can we do? We are being abused, yet we are powerless to stop it.
At some point though, some head of state will calculate that the only way to win is to not play the game, and make policy that defends against all surveillance, because the value of their own surveillance is low enough to do without.
