[91469] in Cypherpunks
Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Fri Dec 5 19:38:14 1997
In-Reply-To: <348d673c.36720307@mail.qed.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 18:50:16 -0500
To: berezina@qed.net (Paul Spirito)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Cc: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>, Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>,
fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
At 22:18 +0000 12/5/97, Paul Spirito wrote:
>But once again, articles like Declan's "hey, Singapore may be 'Disneyland
>with the death penalty' but the trains sure run on time" piss me off.
You should read the complete article (I provided the URL, after all) before
complaining that I'm somehow not critical enough of Singapore.
-Declan
PS: I value economic freedom quite highly. Besides, it's part of other
freedoms. Can I publish a political newspaper as easily if my business is
heavily regulated by EEOC and other bureaucrats, and I'm taxed heavily by
still others? What about the economic regulations (like those on banks)
that are used to intrude on our civil liberties? Final point: democracy
isn't all that wonderful by itself. Singapore is a democracy, no? Forget
fetishizing "democracy," already, and give me freedom!
