Re: OT: But security sorta related...

["Don Blumenthal" <dmblumenthal () gmail com>]

On 5/5/07, Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:

A little OT even for this group, IMHO

One of the nice things about tossing labels around (liberals,
Clintonistas) is that it
avoid the need to think.

> taking policy decisions based upon three
> fallacies:
>
> a. Woeful ignorance  of the subject at hand,
>
> b. Extrapolation of their own cowardice onto  their opponents, i.e.
> expecting their opponents to react the way they do,  and
>
> c. Willful refusal to grasp that the Law of Unintended Consequences
> applies both to their world view and to the schemes that they use to
> enforce  that world view upon the rest of us.

Couldn't apply any of these labels to the current administration's
policies, now could we?

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Don M. Blumenthal
Technology, Law, and Policy
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