From Article:

"Yet we long ago transitioned from making just laws to just making laws, which is why I look forward with a sense of foreboding. Every year our nation enacts more and more laws but hardly ever rescinds any, which means every year we become progressively less free. I call this “creeping totalitarianism.”

"Currently it’s fashionable to bemoan the Patriot Act and wax apoplectic about how the sky is falling, as if it’s 1789 and we’re confronted with our very first extra-constitutional measure. Oh, I’m not saying good people shouldn’t debate these matters; no one stresses strict adherence to the Constitution more than I do. But the danger is that when we stare intently at and stand too close to one piece of the puzzle, it appears bigger and seems like the whole world. And if we fail to take a step back and gain perspective, we won’t see that there is a big picture, one formed by countless prohibitionary pieces."

The truth is that unconstitutional and excessive la

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.
.....Tacitus

Good article willhelm.

Making laws seems to be much easier than getting rid of them..Perhaps people prefer a false sense of security to freedom??

Powers of police surveillance increase not to protect people and property but rather to keep them in line.