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Re:When It Comes to Security, We’re Back to Feudalism by danielweber on Monday November 26, 2012 @11:20AM (#4832567)
If I have something that I'm interested in (say, clear air), and I want the government to do something about it, when do I move from an interest to a special interest?
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Re:When It Comes to Security, We’re Back to Feudalism by justin66 on Monday November 26, 2012 @12:11PM (#4832816)
"Special interest," just like "big government," is nothing but a TV buzzword.

It's not as if these are political science terms of art. Imagine experts in a field choosing to use a term normally used for measurement of bulk to describe the function of a system, or wasting their time categorizing interests into "special" and "not special" based on a fixed set of criteria. Political science is deeply boring, but it's not THAT boring.

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Re:When It Comes to Security, We’re Back to Feudalism by digitalengineer on Monday November 26, 2012 @11:37AM (#4832641)
Good question! If you start hyring former and current politicians, sponsor elections, pressure your employees, try sneek in legislation, I'd say you're special interest.
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