[weland]

> If the citizens demand access to those services, or find it offensive that their privacy and security is being violated and circumvented, they will take action.

Hah, right. They'll just file a complaint to their ombudsman and the Congress will take care of it.

No, this is Kazakhstan, not California. If citizens band up and demand something that the government is against, the police will crack down on their homes, arrest 15,000 people at random out of which only 10,000 or so will return to their homes (not necessarily alive), and the remaining 5,000 will rot in jail for high treason. And if they keep getting wise ideas, they'll send in the army.