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1. Speedmaster says:

   June 19, 2008 at 12:57 pm

   That’s certainly a bad bit of news for liberty and smaller govt. fans. ;-(

   But I don’t think it’s necessarily anti-democracy, is it? Isn’t democracy just majority-rule, or perhaps mob-rule? If the majority of people support this, I think would still be considered democratic.
2. Alex Harris says:

   June 20, 2008 at 11:02 am

   Speedmaster is right. It’s not really anti-democracy, just anti-privacy - and probably enables anti-liberty policies. Unfortunately, in the U.S. today, “democracy” has become a synonym for “good” - anything good is democratic and anything democratic is good.

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