Comments on: Bob Barr goes for the privacy vote http://themoderatevoice.com/21121/bob-barr-goes-for-the-privacy-vote/ An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:20:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: runasim http://themoderatevoice.com/21121/bob-barr-goes-for-the-privacy-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-139269 runasim Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:33:01 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/bob-barr/21121/bob-barr-goes-for-the-privacy-vote/#comment-139269 Making a fetish out of privacy, or any other single right or liberty is as silly and dangerous, as ignoring the importance.<br>I don't buy the Pope's absolutism, and I'm not swayed by the obsessions of Libertarans like Barr. <br>Give me a pagmatist every time. Making a fetish out of privacy, or any other single right or liberty is as silly and dangerous, as ignoring the importance.
I don't buy the Pope's absolutism, and I'm not swayed by the obsessions of Libertarans like Barr.
Give me a pagmatist every time.

]]> By: dkmeller http://themoderatevoice.com/21121/bob-barr-goes-for-the-privacy-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-139268 dkmeller Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:35:37 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/bob-barr/21121/bob-barr-goes-for-the-privacy-vote/#comment-139268 to Cnet:<br><br>Privacy, due Process, and overzealous surveillance are issues which involve all of us, NOT only the "geek vote" to Cnet:

Privacy, due Process, and overzealous surveillance are issues which involve all of us, NOT only the “geek vote”

]]> By: dkmeller http://themoderatevoice.com/21121/bob-barr-goes-for-the-privacy-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-139267 dkmeller Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:33:02 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/bob-barr/21121/bob-barr-goes-for-the-privacy-vote/#comment-139267 Thank you for an intelligent and well-written account of the Libertarian positions regarding Privacy and overzealous surveillance. Obama and most of the Democrats are far too weak, vaccillating and inconsistant on these issues to be of any use to the American voter, and McCain and most Republicans are flatly HOSTILE to civil liberties, privacy, and Due Process!<br><br>It is time that we Americans started evaluating new and better candidates for the Presidency and other offices. Both McCain and Obama may be good men in their private lives, but they are utterly inadaquate for the Presidency even in normal times, much less the crises which seem to be looming both in the economy and Foreign policy!<br><br>PEACE AND FREEDOM!!<br>David K. Meller Thank you for an intelligent and well-written account of the Libertarian positions regarding Privacy and overzealous surveillance. Obama and most of the Democrats are far too weak, vaccillating and inconsistant on these issues to be of any use to the American voter, and McCain and most Republicans are flatly HOSTILE to civil liberties, privacy, and Due Process!

It is time that we Americans started evaluating new and better candidates for the Presidency and other offices. Both McCain and Obama may be good men in their private lives, but they are utterly inadaquate for the Presidency even in normal times, much less the crises which seem to be looming both in the economy and Foreign policy!

PEACE AND FREEDOM!!
David K. Meller

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/21121/bob-barr-goes-for-the-privacy-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-139266 DLS Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:56:22 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/bob-barr/21121/bob-barr-goes-for-the-privacy-vote/#comment-139266 It's more like the Childish Vote. The word "privacy" is ridiculously abused. This actually has next to nothing to do with the misbehavior of the Bush administration. It's more like the Childish Vote. The word “privacy” is ridiculously abused. This actually has next to nothing to do with the misbehavior of the Bush administration.

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