"If I may address the skeptics on the right directly, it is penny wise and pound foolish to worry about creeping tyranny via government-run health care or gun control when we’re another terrorist attack away from popular support for an archipelago of secret prisons where anyone can be whisked away and tortured without any evidence against them. Look to Europe if you doubt whether government-run health care or black sites run by secret police are a more immediate threat to the liberty of innocents."
January 22, 2010
Healthcare and tyranny?
A rebuttal from Friedersdorf: Murders at Gitmo? - The Daily Beast, and a direct challenge to the right wing idiocy that healthcare is tyranny.
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