Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution as an Instrument for Character Assassination
“In Germany, democracy is used as an ideology to impose conformity,” reported the Human Rights Centre of England's Essex University in 1997. And while the OPC may have no police powers under law, it is acquiring the power to “police” opinions and beliefs.
To put it another way, the OPC is being asked to resolve religious and philosophical issues it was never designed to deal with. These matters can never be solved by the OPC; only through dialogue between the parties affected.
The harmful consequences of preferring the OPC over dialogue in religious matters became evident in April 1998, when a German OPC agent brought severe embarrassment to Germany internationally.