Fully cognizant of the fact that I have a terrible habit of “refusing to let go” in arguments, I’ll be making this my last statement on the NSA issue, and holding myself to a two-reply rule from this point on, for my own sanity’s sake. All I want to do is address a few...
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NSA – One Last Time, I Swear
Re: Of Rudy, Government Intervention, Gay Marriage, and NSA Wiretapping
While I will credit Bill’s consistency in his libertarian principles, it seems clear that he missed the point I was making. I was addressing Eric’s concerns, who had claimed that defending traditional marriage was the government overstepping it’s bounds, by appealing to his support of NSA wiretapping plans and the PATRIOT act. I did...
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NSA Wiretapping, Part 2
“Michael” gave the following comment to my previous post, raising issues with the “libertarian slippery slope” argument (as if Conservatives have never used slippery slope arguments before): “Are you really posing this question seriously?” Sigh. No, not in the sense that you assume. I don’t actually think that the government is going to attempt...
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Of Rudy, Government Intervention, Gay Marriage, and NSA Wiretapping
Pat Ford sez: Many of those who would in one breath decry the abuse of government powerin halting gay marriages in the next breath would equally decry the abuse ofgovernment power in authorizing the NSA wiretapping policy… or would decryThe Patriot Act as pseudo-fascistic abuse of power. But in all of thesecases the blanket...
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