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Re:Obama DOJ’s New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed by superuser2 on Sunday February 16, 2014 @04:55PM (#7249514)
Have you ever dealt with a large private health insurance, telecom, airline, banking, or other company?

They don't care about you either unless you're large enough that losing your business would actually matter. They don't care about you at all if it's impossible to lose your business (i.e. employer-provided health insurance, cable companies).

This is a ridiculous claim.

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Re:Obama DOJ’s New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed by vishaldpatel on Sunday February 16, 2014 @05:27PM (#7249643)
The US gov't is much bigger than all these corps combined. And they have multiple police forces. Oh, whats that? You don't like our service? Too bad, because there's no other game in town. And no, you're not allowed to disrupt the government.
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Re:Obama DOJ’s New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed by AlexMax on Sunday February 16, 2014 @06:31PM (#7249830)
> And no, you're not allowed to disrupt the government.

What do you call voting?

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Re:Obama DOJ’s New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed by vishaldpatel on Sunday February 16, 2014 @07:33PM (#7250001)
Like owning a single share in a very large monopoly. Except you're both the shareholder and the customer. The share loses value everyday and the service could be better.
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Re:Obama DOJ’s New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed by pdeuchler on Sunday February 16, 2014 @05:31PM (#7249650)
This sounds like a knee-jerk reaction to someone talking down on "big government".

The choice between "big government" and "big business" is a false dichotomy, if that's what you're getting at.

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Re:Obama DOJ’s New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed by AlexMax on Sunday February 16, 2014 @06:38PM (#7249857)
> The choice between "big government" and "big business" is a false dichotomy, if that's what you're getting at.

What is the third choice? Anarchy? What if I prefer not to be dragged out of my house and beaten to death by a mob?

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Re:Obama DOJ’s New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed by garfelnagel on Sunday February 16, 2014 @07:26PM (#7249978)
Not ridiculous at all: a company can't send an armed drone after you. Or a soldier. Or an FBI agent. Get the drift?
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