CCTV Cameras in Britain
Kent Crispin
kent at songbird.com
Tue Jul 15 18:44:26 PDT 1997
On Tue, Jul 15, 1997 at 05:43:59PM -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
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>
> I wouldn't. Its the state's duty to protect my liberties and if they can't
> or won't the obligation falls on me.
>
> The product of liberty and security is a constant.
This is obviously false. Zero liberty and zero security is a quite
possible situation (laying strapped to the table, waiting for your
lethal injection, for example), as is some liberty and some security (the
normal situation).
Of course, in this context "liberty" is a religious word, with little
semantic content.
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