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Re:The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence com... by smitty1e on Sunday December 25, 2022 @02:08PM (#34130092)

We pay fat piles of taxes for the government to secure liberty.

The idea that that government is "managing" that liberty is Constitutionally murky. The "private property" fig leaf is scant comfort.

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Re:The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence com... by hellfish on Sunday December 25, 2022 @04:55PM (#34131817)

> Thinking that you can be a free-from-all libertarian is like being a house cat that does not comprehend the system that keeps him alive.

So because the government does something (THANK GOD), we all need to advocate for more government?

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Re:The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence com... by smitty1e on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:01PM (#34134439)

I'd like to differentiate between the Col. Jessup "You want me on that wall; you NEED me on that wall" class, and

...the specific Col. Jessup instance that breaks down and calls away a Code Red.

Our Civil Servants are neither civil nor (apparently) serving any but themselves.

How to avoid becoming a cure worse than the disease?

One thing would be to rotate these staffers more frequently, so they are less prone to what looks like GroupThink.

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