&quot;I do not fear the State...&quot;<p>That&#x27;s a nice sentiment and while I hope you&#x27;re correct it&#x27;s not really good enough in any country. This state is Germany and it has two of the poster children for state terror in the last 100 years. The Stasi and well, there are times when Godwin&#x27;s really doesn&#x27;t apply. National Socialists happened and we can&#x27;t pretend they didn&#x27;t.<p>Neither of these two examples did the state start out the way it became.