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Then they should have voted for a different government.

Sorry, but “there are people in a country with a democratic government that don’t deserve what their government brought upon them” is not a particularly good reason – and even then, I don’t think it’d hurt to allow immigration into Europe for a while, so there’s even a perspective for those that “really don’t deserve” the results of their (in)action.



The people vote for law makers. The law makers produced a law which was abused by law enforcers. Law enforcers can't be voted for.


The people voted for law makers that made a) easily abused laws (such as this one) and b) laws that inherently invade the privacy of their fellow European citizens. They furthermore voted for law makers that (apparently) did not include any precautions to punish those that abuse the previously-made laws.




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