Personal Freedom

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' explained his plan for socialized medicine this week. Included in the government subsidized womb to tomb health care would be required doctors visits and procedures.

Edwards, who's wife has had a well publicized battle with cancer, explained how women for example would be required to get mammograms.

Update: Comments on Aaron's passing from Barry Hess Here. 

Word is just getting out that Aaron Russo has passed away.

Police in North Carolina apparently were not sympathetic to this couples chosen form of political speech.

The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!

If this is true, it is a serious fact, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.