The Liberty Lamp: Libertarian News & Editorials

Today the US House of Representatives stupidly passed a motion to renew the insideous "Patriot Act". Next, it will go to the Senate, where they will doubtlessly approve and make it law. One positive aspect of all this, though, is that the opposing group was quite large, probably around 40% of the total 535 members (assuming they were all present, which probably wasn't the case- It rarely is!).

In other news, some morons tried (fortunately unsuccessfully) to bomb the London transit system again. As you might expect, this turn of events was used as "evicence" (or an excuse?) to pass the aforementioned cowpie load of legislation. Coincidence? I have a hunch, but unfortunately, to draw a certain conclusion, this kind of crap will have to happen a few more times (by then we'll all be old).

Write to your Senators, people... I can almost guarantee you that they won't listen (but I'd love to be proven wrong!), but at least then no one will be able to say you didn't "try to work with the system" when the camel-breaking straw is placed :(.