A day for the history books. Most of Baghdad falls, and Iraqi's cheer their freedom as Saddam's regime crumbles. But from the land where a falling statue is liberty to the one with the Statue of Liberty, today perversely shows that the fight for freedom is never over.

Just today, it was reported members of the GOP are maneuvering to make the Patriot Act permanent (link), a judged tossed out a case challenging the DMCA wherein it was ruled that reverse engineering web filtering software to determine what sites it blocked is not within fair use rights (link), and that phone companies moved to block regulations enabling our right to retain the same phone number regardless of which phone company we switch to (link).

The devil, it seems, is in the details. Perhaps today the Iraqi's start down the long path to reach these "last mile" issues. Of course these things can only be called last mile within the context here, but having been struck seeing the commercial for the pet medicine delivery service in between the scenes of overjoyed Iraqis on CNN, one can only marvel at the incongruities of life on earth.

By Gary at 11:49 PM in Rights | Comments (0)