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• the Homeland Security Act
• the War on Drugs
• the Copyright Cabal

Why are these so important? Because they affect every American without regard to race, gender, religion, or status. Each is an attempt to criminalize, a priori, huge segments of the population. Each is a legislative fiat aimed squarely at individual freedom. Each has been accepted by large portions of the population as right and good despite the abuses that are already occurring. And each is a wholesale transferring rights from legal citizens to a handful of unelected bureaucrats.

Recently a US District Judge attacked one of these issues. For once I agree with the judiciary.

Denver U.S. District Judge John Kane Jr., who has been speaking and writing against the nation's drug policy for about five years, won a standing ovation from a packed City Club luncheon at the Brown Palace Hotel.

"I don't favor drugs at all," Kane said. [...]

"Our national drug policy is inconsistent with the nature of justice, abusive of the nature of authority, and wholly ignorant of the compelling force of forgiveness," he said. "I suggest that federal drug laws be severely cut back." [...]