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		<title>Editorial on Net Neutrality and Government Intervention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read an interesting editorial on the current argument over net neutrality over on CNN.  The writers are certainly biased in favor of the corporate interests, but their point about the First Amendment and government censorship is very valid.  They don&#8217;t really address the issue I have with giving up on net neutrality, or allowing corporations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.packingheat.com/2010/08/06/editorial-on-net-neutrality-and-government-intervention/</link>
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		<title>More Body Scanner News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is always entertaining (in the &#8220;so funny I want to punch someone&#8221; vein) to watch a bad idea be continually proven to be a bad idea, but yet everyone keeps plodding forward with said bad idea.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.packingheat.com/2010/08/06/more-body-scanner-news/</link>
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		<title>Just a Thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The lesson here is an old one: The law is a poor way to regulate private human behavior.&#8221; - Tom Keane from his article in the Boston Globe Magazine]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.packingheat.com/2010/08/04/just-a-thought/</link>
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		<title>Surveillance Society and Political Spying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wired.com has posted an article discussing the ACLU&#8217;s recent study that illustrates how many states are detaining people for doing nothing more than exercising their First Amendment rights.  Studies like this remind me of that classic quote from Benjamin Franklin: &#8220;They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.packingheat.com/2010/07/20/surveillance-society-and-political-spying/</link>
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		<title>Massachusetts Bans The Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In yet another example of my current state&#8217;s incessant nannying, Governor Patrick passed a law in April, just a little slip of a thing really, that, according to the ACLU, &#8220;imposes severe restrictions on the distribution of constitutionally protected speech on the Internet.&#8221;  Effectively, this is a perfect example of the well-intentioned mindset that leads [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.packingheat.com/2010/07/20/massachusetts-bans-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>MassCare&#8217;s Woes Bode Ill For National Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even The Atlantic has picked up on the problems with MassCare and the way in which people are gaming the system, costing the state, or more appropriately its citizens, millions. Problem is, MassCare is the model on which national Health Care Reform is based. Imagine the costs there when the nation starts gaming the system. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.packingheat.com/2010/07/02/masscares-woes-bode-ill-for-national-reform/</link>
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		<title>SCOTUS Justices &#8211; Political Appointees that Lie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After celebrating the landmark win the McDonald case, two years after the landmark win in the Heller case, I started reading some sober commentary regarding the dissenting opinion. The Wall Street Journal posted an opinion piece taking a look at the decision and some of the logic. What&#8217;s scary is that the dissenting opinion attacks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.packingheat.com/2010/06/30/scotus-justices-political-appointees-that-lie/</link>
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		<title>Second Amendment Applies to States</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In their recent ruling (what I assume will be called the McDonald decision, but who knows), the previous being the Heller decision, the Supreme Court has made it clear that the right to keep and bear arms is a civil right that is protected by the 14th Amendment to the Bill of Rights, thereby insuring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.packingheat.com/2010/06/28/second-amendment-applies-to-states/</link>
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		<title>Boston Probation Department Just Sick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve already posted about the MA Probation Department and how it&#8217;s yet another haven for patronage-appointees to sponge off the taxpayer. I&#8217;ve already mentioned how insane it is that our legislators are undermining the integrity of our justice system so they can have another place to generate jobs for their campaign sign-holders. And now the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.packingheat.com/2010/06/24/boston-probation-department-just-sick/</link>
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		<title>Surveillance Boston &#8211; Thanks DHS!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh good. Despite the fact that surveillance systems haven&#8217;t proven to prevent or even help solve crime, we&#8217;re still desperate to try and make sure no one is unwatched at any time. The latest? Turns out the DHS has a HD surveillance system that is, effectively, a chandelier of HD cameras pointing in as many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.packingheat.com/2010/06/08/surveillance-boston-thanks-dhs/</link>
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