tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post9070703059623105952..comments2023-10-30T07:45:43.656-04:00Comments on Thoughts and Ideas: Weekly Column - 11/27/2010A Wiser Man Than Ihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02405864709965908573noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post-68561180541065106772010-11-28T11:28:26.422-05:002010-11-28T11:28:26.422-05:00I appreciate your concern for liberty but of all t...<i>I appreciate your concern for liberty but of all the abuses is this really front and center? Or do you see it as symbolic?</i><br /><br />It's a good illustration of how a free people becomes a nation of slaves, but it's also an area in which we have a chance, however slim, of enacting reform.<br /><br />You and I share different, but probably equally radical, visions for how the world ought to be run. In the few cases when we can enact a sensible reform without demanding that everyone buy into our radicalism, I think it's important that we try do so.A Wiser Man Than Ihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02405864709965908573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10835776.post-28931246108923799442010-11-27T20:32:37.206-05:002010-11-27T20:32:37.206-05:00I appreciate your concern for liberty but of all t...I appreciate your concern for liberty but of all the abuses is this really front and center? Or do you see it as symbolic?<br /><br />Certainly there is a prurient, very American aspect to this. I see much ado about nothing. Spectacle rules!<br /><br />You want to be worried about freedom? Try looking at the World Wealth Report just put out by Merrill-Lynch.troutskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16020298501632120830noreply@blogger.com