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[Deus Ex Machina]

Craig Sanders [cas at taz.net.au] wrote:

> > the government pretty much can ignore privacy when it sees fit.
> 
> we don't live in a really free society, and what freedoms we have are
> vanishing in the name of "national security" and the "war on terror".

its about as free as it gets. the US is probably a little bit freer. the war on
terror, is a marketing concpet imo its really a cultural war. modern secular
principles vs archaic religious ones. there is no way we are not going
to win, the issue is really what is the cost of doing so going to be.

Vic