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Monday, March 10, 2008 12:00 AM

The religion of balance and centrism

The political and media establishment insist on a two-sided, restrained critique without regard to accuracy or reality.

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  • Monday, March 10, 2008 10:27 AM

    "Nothing To Hide" - The Biggest Privacy Misconception

    I'm not doing anything wrong so I have nothing to worry about.

    Again, why should I care?

    And I guess you missed the part where I pointed out that to get or keep a decent cup I have to submit to a (what is to me at least) a humiliating procedure.

    Nothing to worry about? Nothing to hide?

    The NSA and the Executive Branch will decide that, citizen.

    I'm serious. The thing about this is that it can be abused in so many ways, what you might consider innocuous, the government might try and connect into something insidious and find some way to justify further watch on you or even go so far as to go after you, just because you might have bought a certain book, or went to a certain kind of rally, or talked to someone who talked to someone who talked to someone who MIGHT have funded someone who funded someone that COULD be a terrorist.

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