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It's not a surprise, and thanks for the compliment.
Robert — (archived)

Have you forgotten the amount of crap I've taken for expressing misgivings about the Patriot Act? Or the spread of the "Surveillance Society"? Or the corporate power structure's growing control over and intrusion into all our lives? I've been screaming about encroachments on civil liberties for years.

I know I'm swimming upstream against the mighty Missisip to try and make this argument, but liberalism is about threading that needle. We've always seen that tackling the big problems like, today, dwindling resources and overpopulation, requires some degree of collective action, and that we can't just throw a tantrum about "big government" and run away from problems.

But don't forget that liberals are also the people who always have been and always will be most sensitive to encroachment on civil liberties. After all, we're always taking heat for it from the right, told we're "soft on crime" or somehow in league with al Qaeda if we worry too much about due process. Remember that evil liberal instituation the ACLU? You'll thank us for it someday.

But I'm tilting at windmills. Let the feces-flinging begin.

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