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To: SirRealist who wrote (13360)	12/9/2001 10:15:58 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

A free country By Charles Moore (Filed: 16/07/2001) 'IT'S a free country" is an old expression, but is it true? You won't find a democratic politician who says straight out that he is against freedom, but it is almost equally hard to find one who actually stands up for it in practice. Whichever party is in power itches to make new laws that curtail our liberties. The Left will be keener to control, say, guns, the Right to control, say, drugs, but all parties share the desire to control. It is time to take a stand against this desire. The Daily Telegraph does not support the doctrinaire libertarian argument which states that freedom is the only good. Clearly, all states have a need for order, and the price of one person's freedom can be too high for somebody else. But we do believe that there should always be a presumption in favour of freedom. <<endsnip>> news.telegraph.co.uk