>The state does what it wants and in the end it doesn;t even need an excuse.

It doesn't need an excuse because people let it not need an excuse.

Every idiot, even on HN, heck, particularly on HN and other places where demographic factors result most never having been the target of government or think that they would be, is perfectly fine with it when the government behaves this way in pursuit of things they agree with. And so the only people complaining about any one government abuse are the small minority that care all the time plus whatever group care about the specific issue.

If people would stop being two faced snakes and have some principals and stand by them the problem would decrease on its own. But that's like saying "just go as fast as light", it's not a tractable problem.

The state has more power and therefore does what it wants.

Anything other than that is just wishful thinking.