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		<title>Ludovic Kennedy: a great loss</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2009/10/19/ludovic-kennedy-a-great-loss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2009/10/19/ludovic-kennedy-a-great-loss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ludovic Kennedy was a great free thinker who championed civil liberties and campaigned against the harmful influence of religion]]></description>
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		<title>A common delusion</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2009/01/19/common-delusion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2009/01/19/common-delusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC series 'Around the World in 80 Faiths' is an entertaining guide to the world of spiritual wackiness - but it's evading one critical question.]]></description>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s police state</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/09/12/police-oppression/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/09/12/police-oppression/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Union of Journalists has released an important new film about police harrassment of photojournalists. It's required viewing for anyone who cares about freedom of the press or civil liberties in general.]]></description>
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		<title>First they came for the perverts</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/04/04/first_they_came/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/04/04/first_they_came/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[civil liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet & Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The process of destroying freedom often starts with steps that seem reasonable. If you want to strip everyone of their civil liberties, start with a group everyone despises. Few groups fit this bill better than paedophiles. There is a famous and oft-quoted text that reads: In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The many threats to freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/03/24/many_threats_to_freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/03/24/many_threats_to_freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Geert Wilders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A website promoting a short film by Geert Wilders, the Dutch anti-immigration politician, has been taken offline by the Internet services company hosting it. This was not a judgment on the quality, morality or intellectual worth of the film: it was an act of fear. I don&#8217;t care much for Wilders. His anti-Islam crusade is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch out for the dodgy bobby</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/03/20/dodgy_bobby/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/03/20/dodgy_bobby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A UK professional photographers&#8217; group has hit back at the Metropolitan Police&#8217;s fear-mongering campaign against photographers. But at least the &#8216;togs have a sense of humour. In classic Orwellian fashion, the Met&#8217;s ad campaign (which I wrote about in Pump up the paranoia) incites the general public to watch itself. It promotes suspicion and fear. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey blocks YouTube &#8211; again</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/03/13/turkey_youtube_ban/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/03/13/turkey_youtube_ban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/03/13/turkey-blocks-youtube-again/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that Turkey doesn&#8217;t quite grasp the concept of free speech. It has again blocked access to YouTube for content it deems insulting to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the country&#8217;s founder. According to a CNN report, there was no news about how long the ban would last. When a similar ban was imposed, almost exactly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pump up the paranoia</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/02/27/paranoia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2008/02/27/paranoia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An anti-terrorism campaign by London&#8217;s police forces is exploiting the public&#8217;s paranoia in the hope of catching would-be terrorists in the act. It will also have the effect of making life even harder for press photographers. But maybe the erosion of press freedom might be seen as a bonus by the Metropolitan Police. [photopress:police_poster.png,full,alignright]The 2008 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bhutto: a warning to us all</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/12/27/bhutto-a-warning-to-us-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/12/27/bhutto-a-warning-to-us-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/?p=44</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Humanity, law and democracy are poor protection against religiously inspired murder. But they are the only means available to us that offer some measure of safety while allowing us to call ourselves civilised. The assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the mass-killing of her supporters is the latest in a depressingly long list of faith-fuelled murders. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nurturing the tree of knowledge</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/12/19/nurturing-the-tree-of-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/12/19/nurturing-the-tree-of-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freeinfidel.com/?p=33</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[photopress:tree_.jpg,full,alignright]Atheists in Philadelphia have erected a &#8216;tree of knowledge&#8217; in the free speech area outside a courthouse, alongside a Christian nativity scene and a Jewish menorah. Sadly, and predictably, only the atheist celebration has attracted controversy and hate. And ironically, the tree has also highlighted the astonishing ignorance of those who seem threatened by it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When database errors kill</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/12/17/when-database-errors-kill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/12/17/when-database-errors-kill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. How often do we hear this from those who would promote surveillance, increased police powers and other forms of social control? But there is a basic flaw at the heart of this thinking: who decides what constitutes &#8216;hiding&#8217;? How do you decide what is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Met Police adopts &#8216;Fort Apache&#8217; mentality</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/12/10/met-police-adopts-fort-apache-mentality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/12/10/met-police-adopts-fort-apache-mentality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London&#8217;s Metropolitan Police may soon be operating from large, fortress-style bases to which the public will have no access. While community support officers may be based in local shop-type premises, where the rest of us will be allowed to enter, the bulk for the Met&#8217;s forces will be housed in centralised &#8216;warehouses&#8217;, firmly closed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taint the Data: how to quit Facebook the evil way</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/12/08/taint-the-data-how-to-quit-facebook-the-evil-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/12/08/taint-the-data-how-to-quit-facebook-the-evil-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know Facebook won&#8217;t let you quit: you can deactivate an account, but not erase it. Many of us, who value our privacy, think this is disgraceful and arrogant. Facebook seems to think it owns us. But why worry? Just make sure all the information they have about you is false. When I first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sudan threatened by teddy bear</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/11/29/sudan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/11/29/sudan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news that a British teacher in Sudan has been charged with insulting islam is disappointing and distasteful, but not entirely surprising. Welcome to the world of Islam, where a sense of humour, and commonsense, are not required. The allegation of blasphemy derives from a lesson in which Gillian Gibbons asked the children to give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of America</title>
		<link>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/11/20/the-end-of-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freeinfidel.com/2007/11/20/the-end-of-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naomi Wolf&#8217;s prescient warning&#8230;]]></description>
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