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June 04, 2006
Gives us liberty, security, and peace of mind! But not at a profit..
"Everyone agrees", says this statist UK politican, "with more money for the police and security services to combat terrorism, but the danger is that EU policy is increasingly skewed towards a particular brand of 'security', based on military, police and corporate interests."
Amazing how agitated the sheepherders become about being "spied upon". The odd part of it though is that, according to this goof quoted in the newstory, safety and security are only a good idea if the atate provides it and no one makes any money off it. The article's main complaint is that some private entity might actually you know, ah..make a profit supplying the spyplanes.
Whatever. As any decent economist will tell you, and empircal evidence shows conclusively, when there is a demand for a good or service someone will act to meet the demand. Spy planes included.
Posted by Ali Massoud at June 4, 2006 10:12 AM
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