Why is it that I haven't seen people pointing out that every major dictatorship of the past Century or so has has their power cemented by extensive, unsupervised, secret spying on their own people? The Soviet Union. East Germany. Every other communist party you can name. Saddam. Pinochet. Hitler.
Why is it that I haven't seen people pointing out how bad it was when J. Edgar Hoover was spying on Americans, and how it gave him incredible power to blackmail and otherwise destroy leaders and members of legitimate organizations for his own political purposes?
Where are the conservatives, who you'd think would want to preserve freedoms? Where are the liberals, who'd also want to preserve freedoms, but also would be the first ones victimized by radicals with such power?
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Mind if I vehemently agree with you for a change? :-)
What does this have to do with criticism of libertarianism.
Sorry, Glen, I have to reflexively disagree with you. :-)
This doesn't have much to do with libertarianism. Occasionally I need to vent, and this is the only blog I'm going to try to run right now. I trust you don't mind. Be grateful I don't post a lot of technical arcana about the insects I study....
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