Priests Of State Power

I've got a new YDN piece today about some of Congress's latest efforts at destroying individual freedom. As I say here, it's a bipartisan campaign---which is important, I think, to keep in mind, even as the ship of state sinks under the weight of the Schindler family:

The private records of anyone who worked for Major League Baseball in any capacity since 1990 are thus at the whim of Congress to use as it sees fit, including, potentially, to incriminate the person to whom they belong. And if Congress has such a right in the case of MLB employees, it has that right over everyone: in effect, the right to dissolve a citizen's sphere of privacy and private life just in case some barely related investigation takes a cursory look at those with whom the citizen has freely associated. Sens. Stevens and McCain, Congressmen Davis and Waxman -- and all the rest of the priesthood of state power within the government -- make no secret of their belief in the precedence of state before citizen. We can prove them wrong by un-electing the lot of them.