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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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