Lately I have been getting a foreboding feeling of unreasonable governmental intrusion at all levels. What accelerated it was the Supreme Court's recent and, I believe, horrific Kelo decision regarding eminent domain. The Supreme Court, in its continuing need to legislate, sanctioned the seizure of private homes by municipal governments for private economic development. As a result, a fierce firestorm of backlash has broken out among the people and in dozens of state legislatures and in Congress. You will be hearing a lot more about this one. Alas, New Hampshire's David Souter voted in the majority. So much for that state's motto of Live Free Or Die.

Politically correct groups of people, many of whom live in other communities and towns, continually try to tell us on a local basis what is best for us. Incredibly, we now have the specter of people from other towns attending our selectmen meetings to argue for issues that increase our taxes but not theirs! Far, far worse, however, is that if you own a pit bull within the city limits of Denver, the authorities will soon be coming to your residence to take it away and put it down. What next? A Doberman? Rot? Lab? Min Pin? Reasonable? Hardly, and where will it end? But these are simply representative of the many ways intrusion is making its mark. The intrusive don't want anyone to smoke, drink, eat meat, wear leather, fish, own guns, hunt or shoot. We are told what books to read, what religions to follow, what parts of history to rewrite, what movies to see, what words to use, what television shows to watch, and what safety equipment to wear. Heck, maybe we should just sit in a corner like a plant, devoid of free will and the ability to think or discuss controversial issues or express intellectual curiosity unless, of course, we are attending appropriate community meetings, thinking politically correct thoughts, or listening to holier-than-thou politicians spew their duplicity.

New Jersey is playing with legislation that would ban smoking in cars. What is a cigar smoker named Tony to do? Across the Hudson, you now can be randomly searched in subways which, of course, will lead to costly racial profiling lawsuits. Roadblocks are randomly set up within 100 miles of our borders with Mexico and Canada. I recently was stopped at a roadblock in New York and given a ticket for not wearing my seatbelt. My fault; but it used to be my choice. It still is in New Hampshire, but for how long? The A.C.L.U. wants to have all crosses removed from Federal property but does this include the cemetery in Arlington? I don't hunt, but "I have more guns than I need and not as many as I want," and being a strong advocate of the Second Amendment, I love to target shoot. I am beginning to wonder for how long. With spam and virus spreaders proliferating, an entire industry has developed around the technical ramifications of intrusive detection vis-