Not to duplicate what Shirley has already covered at the Curmudgeon , but RG at Big Bend Bikers for Freedom has a kick-ass column on the futility of celebrating our independence as a people when we routinely acquiesce to our own chains . Here's the merest snippet: So this Independence day, those that will bother, will sing songs and give speeches glorifying our Freedom, our Independence. We will wave flags and pay hollow honors to those who have died to protect what others have died to give us. We will puff our chests with pride and glory. Then come Monday we will meekly return to subservience declaring our distaste for politics, i.e. excuse for not taking action, allowing all that Jesus and other liberators stood for, all that this country stood for, all that generation after generation of American Soldiers have died for, to go straight to fucking hell! And then get indignant should someone suggest, that maybe we ain't so patriotic after all....... The only problem, RG, is ...

So please, if you value liberty, visit Big Bend Bikers for Freedom and take two minutes to read his words.

There are a lot of places you could go to read this story, but nobody will tell it better than RC at Big Bend Bikers for Freedom : Federal Court Rules Driving with Air Fresheners is Suspicious. Federal appeals court rules that motorists can be stopped for 30 minutes and searched if they are nervous and use an air freshener. Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson IIIA federal appellate court ruled last week that police can delay a routine traffic stop as long as necessary to conduct a search for drugs. In its decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the validity of a thirty-minute traffic stop in Maryland because the arresting officer claimed the nervous driver had an air freshener hanging from his rear-view mirror and had previously been spotted driving in a run-down neighborhood. O.K. so if you want to read the rest of this gig you can go here. But do you really need to? Cause like here's the gig, when the courts decide that nervousness+air freshener=sufficient cause f...