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Old 09-01-2009, 06:57 AM   #63 (permalink)
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dk---nice try.


i do think that is what the action is about.
but if that's the case, then a cynical person might wonder if that means the action is racist.
it's certainly a paranoid action.
there are assumptions behind it as well, most of which are particular to far-right paranoiac exercises concerning who votes for democrats. you see these delightful arguments in this thread. just read it, if you haven't. a bunch of them are here.


but i also said that libertarians might well latch onto it for their own reasons.
but the "constitutional" arguments seem to me so weak that i can't see those reasons appealing to anyone not already a libertarian.
so while it's obviously that case that, say, dunedan has a principled reason to latch onto this action, you can see in other posters more a bleed of register, sliding into the paranoid arguments and back out again.
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