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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:00 AM

Our benevolent surveillance state

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  • Wednesday, April 18, 2007 09:28 AM

    And all these years...

    ... I thought my tinfoil hat was protecting me from the government tracking…

    As Glenn mentions, anyone in support of such big-brother laws is probably too far gone to even try to engage with on a rational level, and I am glad you mentioned the right’s abandonment of its (former) core states-rights issue. Anyone who could set up or attend something called “Resolved: Better More Surveillance Than Another 9/11” must have suppressed their irony meter long ago (not to mention their gag reflex and ability to write coherent English). They want a tsk tsk-ing Nanny State run by amoral, power-hungry ninnies … luckily history shows these crumble under their dubious foundations, but not before the damage is done.

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