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Yours have not been restricted. Freedom isn't always about YOU. Assuming you are white, for a moment, would you have disregarded the struggle for civil rights in the '50s and '60s because Jim Crow laws didn't restrict YOUR freedoms? Would you feel good about that decision today if you had?

There have been hundreds of cases discussed on this web site in which the the limitless security state has had a substantive impact on the lives of innocent people. Going beyond that, it is pretty clear that people change their behavior when they are being watched, and not for the better (https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=privacy%20nothin...).

Your liberties HAVE been reduced, you just haven't bumped into one of the new walls yet, or you didn't notice if you have.



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