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by jivatmanx 13y ago
I totally agree with this. Similarly, Socialists can point to most European countries that get superior service for much less cost, while Capitalists (I lean this way) point to amazing efficiency innovations that happen in countries with le
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Is chess a sport? If so, this decision is logical.
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Since the Glorious Revolution of 1688, English Bill of Rights 1689, the Monarchy never since had absolute power, there was always a powerful parliament. The English Civil War, a few decades earlier, was fought between pro-parliament (Oliver
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"Americans have a short attention span, care more about Kim Kardashian's baby than their liberty" Isn't going to be an effective argument with patriotic Americans.
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Only two countries directly: Germany, which clearly has a superior human rights record than the U.S, and Brazil, which can certainly be argued to have a better record. Edit: Perhaps "Ranking", or current policy is a better phrase
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Puts this recent statement in context: "Carney is asked about the involvement of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International in defending Snowden. Carney praises the work of those organizations. However "Mr Snowden is not a human
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This isn't the first time the U.S. has faced a non-state organized group with worldwide ambitions killing innocents as a political tactic, the late 19th century anarchists were identical in all of these respects.
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Yes, looks like it's commonly but wrong attributed to him. It's more interesting in the context of Lincoln's suspension of Habeus corpus in the Civil War than as an unpopular dissenting opinion in a free speech case, though.
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"The Constitution is not a suicide pact" is a quote from Abraham Lincoln, as the civil war really was an existential threat to the union itself. Similarly, the cold war was clearly an existential threat to the union itself, the mo
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"ACLU technology expert Chris Soghoian said the revelations would surprise many Skype users. "In the past, Skype made affirmative promises to users about their inability to perform wiretaps," he said. "It's hard to
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I'm sure they're protecting their turf, but they didn't start the drug war, and they're not at the forefront of promoting it. Nixon declared the "War on Drugs". He also pioneered the "Southern Strategy&quo
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Indeed, the Roman Republic turned into an Empire as it gained more territory, and having a representative system with most people being non-citizens became an untenable contradiction.
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More or less total surveillance and indefinite storage exists today. It takes very little creativity to imagine this being abused. Choose a few keywords, and you can easily identify everyone in the U.S. with any significant civil libertaria
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The Ninth amendment states that the Bill of Rights is not intended to be exhaustive enumeration of liberty. There is no danger in erring on the side of too much liberty. Parent errs on side of denying of liberty already clearly enumerated.
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The rule existed in traditional English Common law from long before the U.S. declared Independence. Being that the Fourth Amendment itself was a reaction against General Warrants and Writs of Assistance, it's hard to imagine the founde
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Who could forget the calm, thorough, logical debate about liberty vs. security that took place in the media and congress, when these programs were passed?
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Interesting, the negative connotation might have been a legacy of prohibition. It's unfortunate that people don't feel the same about the war on drugs, simply because it mostly effects minorities.
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Not sure this quote is quite as relevant as it used to be, due to the extreme ubiquity of information storage.
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NATO at the moment is basically just "U.S. + anyone else who wants to help" With the info that NATO has been used to spy on the E.U. I definitely see incentive for a separate European military arrangement.
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Bin Laden is definitely the Gavrilo Princip, but I disagree with the opinion that our leaders were just innocently and emotionally reacting to 9/11, as most of Bush's cabinet consisted of hardcore, , Team B[1], neoconservative ide
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>2. This is pretty much a solved problem as far as they're concerned. Congress tends to tack "solutions" on top of "solutions". They rarely refactor. Lack of simplicity in law is a serious problem, but not the ma
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I agree. Not sure why I worded it that way.
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"If humans were angels there would be no need for government to begin with, and if elected leaders were angels there would be less need for protection of our privacy -- but humans are not angels and we have experience with elected lead
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"But the US founding fathers saw this situation: Someone with 'standing' brings a legal case, and eventually the case makes it to the Supreme Court of the US" Thomas Jefferson opposed the creation of the supreme court in
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Yes, but for both good and ill. The reformation's idea was that no authority or intercessor was needed to interpret or use the bible. I'll skip the details, but this idea was an essential precursor for the idea of self-government,
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I don't believe that corporations are libertarian, largely because "limited liability" completely divorces them from the responsibility of the individual, which forms the basis of everything in the libertarian system. I don&#
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The American revolutionaries were indeed conservatives in the sense that they just wanted what they felt were their rights as English citizens. Across the Atlantic, Edmund Burke was the founder of modern conservatism. He did not want the co
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Also interesting is that Milton Friedman considered his role in ending the draft his proudest achievement. Friedman had no qualms about describing himself as a libertarian and not a conservative, and his influence in the Reagan administrati
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I love Lessig, and completely it's stupid to attack him over this, or believe he's part of some conspiracy. He was primarily trying to bring up the incredibly fascinating, and important issue of: "Can, in the long run, purel
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Benjamin Franklin's vision of "A Republic, if you can keep it" requires questioning in a desire to preserve what can, in fact, be lost. What Keith is going for here, is , "My Country, right or wrong", blind followin

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