Legal Loopholes and (Un?)Intended Consequences

Shocking! Outrageous!

There's a whole week's worth of shock and outrage in How the Protection of Law was Lost by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. The USA PATRIOT Act is just the most recent tip of a very large iceberg of laws being used in "creative" ways to erode the protections guaranteed in the Constitution.

I've exchanged a couple e-mails with him about globalization, so I know we have some disagreements, but this article is mostly legal/political, not economic.