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And it is true that in the last 40 years or so we have seen more real freedom for Americans than ever before, and despite the swinging back of the pendulum we have seen recently, I doubt we will ever go back to the previous level again. Of course, a couple of years ago I wouldn't have imagined that we would ever have another attrocity like the Japanese internment camps of Word War II, but of course that was before Guantanomo.

I agree. From last vestiges of 'Jim Crow laws' to 'political correctness' in, what, two decades, that was quite an accomplishment. (Not that I think PC is great a accomplishment in itself, just a kind other extreme of the pendulum path, often used to disguise real problems still there.)
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