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qwph on Sept 18, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: The NSA Teams Up with the Chinese Government to Li...

Human history has always been a struggle between those who want to limit the freedom of the individual and those who want to preserve it.

I don't think either side has ever got the upper hand, and I doubt either side ever will.

raganwald on Sept 18, 2008 [–]

There are two questions: Where is the pendulum now? And which way is it swinging?

We may not be living in a Stalinist dictatorship, but I don't like the way things are going on both sides of the 49th parallel.

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