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Though I agree with the sentiments, I can tell Mr. Farah why there will be no massive cry of "NO!" any time soon: People are comfortable. The US is so rich, and so secure, and so far above the rest of the world, that we tend to draw back from suggestions of dramatic change. We tend to make bad comparisons of ourselves against irrelevant standards, rather than asking what is right or what is best.

It puts me in mind of the Boston Globe column a few days ago, that insinuated that Ted Kennedy could be forgiven for abandoning Mary Jo Kopechne to her death because of all the "good" he's done politically since then. We forgive our government and those who control it for far too much, on the grounds that there are no better ones, and that we largely have what we want out of life. It's a self-betrayal -- the worst kind of all.

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Net censorship? - Tax activist's streaming broadcast knocked off air
"Schulz said the next day computer logs indicate that two computers at the White House were used to watch the entire hour-and-23-minute event and eight computers at the IRS were used to view and download the file.

By Sunday evening, 10,031 people had viewed the broadcast and another 5,300 people downloaded the file to their computers, according to WTP.

But thousands began experiencing "sluggishness" in downloading the file, with the process taking up to 15 hours instead of 15 minutes.

"Something or somebody had so severely throttled our provider's 'big-pipe' transmission bandwidth that downloading was slowed to a 'crawl,'" WTP reports. "Urgent calls by our provider to his provider, Time Warner, for an explanation of the reason for the loss in transmission capability resulted, finally, in Time Warner's suggestion: 'Turn them off' ... referring to WTP."

..."I hope that this incident will wake people up to the fact that, even in America, there are 'gatekeepers' and censors who decide what you need to know and what you do not need to know," wrote former IRS Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent Joseph Banister."