Maybe, if we,re really lucky and our legislators are fearful enough of our wrath-as they should be-we can forestall the very worst that they and their corporate panderers can do.

But face it we're losers. Freedom's a loser. At least for the time being. Nobody but usual handful of nuts wants it, and even some of freedom's erstwhile pals have backpedaled, compromised, and started sounding like the people they hated three months ago.

Still we can't give up the fight. Those of us who value freedom-truly value it-must go on making noise,demanding serious reductions in goverment reach and power, reminding politicians and everyone else that an America without freedom isn't really America. And above all, we'll go on living like people who expect and deservre freedom.