For an absolutely mind-blowing side-by-side comparison of Nazi attacks on Jews and the Christian Right's attacks on the Gay community go to hatecrime.org at http://www.hatecrime.org/subpages/hitler/hitler.html

Special thanks to Jay Macke at The Ohio State University Law School and the Ohio Academy of Criminal Defense Lawyers for pointing us to http://fourthamendment.com.  This is a great way to track the death of the fourth amendment around the country. 

For anyone interested in helping restore that quaint notion that the government should leave us the hell alone please do the following:

1. Sucker punch any person who says "it's ok if they search me, I've done nothing wrong."

2. Say no to searches and encourage your kids to do the same.

3. Embrace the fact that you have secrets that you would not want the Department of the Interior to know.  (We all do).

4. Vote out Senators Voinovich and Dewine who voted to do away with the protections of habeas corpus and give money to anyone who believes in the 4th amendment, ending the drug war and/or send money to Kinky Friedman for Governor of Texas.  You could also buy a Willie Nelson CD.

5. Read Sarah Vowell.

6. Stop buying bottled water.  If you want to feel superior go buy a really cool water jug/bong/mini-aquarium from Peir One and make a big deal of filling it up with tap water in front anyone slurping water filtered through a sacred aquifer in Fiji.  We can trust the water and, for the most part, we can trust each other.

7. Everytime that homophobic, semi-racist, fundamentalist Christian in your office opens his mouth yell: "The Terrorists are Winning."  This works really well when he's describing his glee that his gun club is boycotting Will & Grace.

8. Watch the Brithish House of Commons' Prime Minister Question time on C-Span and ponder what our nation would be like if our President had to answer questions from his opponents without speech writers, swift boat ads and polling info.

9. Visit Canada (not the strip clubs near Windsor, but Toronto, Nova Scocia or Vancouver).