The apparent tension between liberty and security is a longstanding one. For non-democratic regimes that tension seems easy to resolve–and it is typically resolved in favor of security. In the context of a non-democratic regime, security often means regime security, although the more politically correct term that such regimes often invoke is “national security.”

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