On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:32:17AM -0500, Sunder wrote:
| It's interesting to see how much stuff that was in the interest of
| national security being declassified and available after 50 years. Lots
| of cool stuff on the history channel lately. I wonder what evil will
| surface fifty years from now on the history channel about the
| present? (Assuming that we don't actually turn into a dictatorship of
| course... grand assumption that.)
You mean remain? There are multiple American citizens being held on
nothing more than the order of the President. There are restrictions
on free speech, free assembly, etc, etc.
| > "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
| > -Hume
|
| Except in the case of national security and terrorist acts? Hmmm, we used
| to have the four horsemen of the apocalypse. I guess the horseman of
| terror has become the meta-horseman.
I stand by Hume. Such losses are indeed seldom. Little insidious
losses are far more common.
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
