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Re: Los Angeles Times article on Helsingius and anon.penet.fi
> Examining in detail Dyson's interests it appears she maintains a
> sizeable and long-standing interest in Eastern European technology
> companies. She is also clearly very far to the right of the political
> spectrum (rampant capitalist would be putting it mildly). She also speaks
> Russian.
And all these would certainly be excellent reasons to denounce her as an
enemy of liberty, now wouldn't they.
[CIA snip]
> "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims
> may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons
> than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may
> sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who
> torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with
> the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_
So what's wrong with her being an Evil Capitalist(tm) again?
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