Barlow's Taste of the System

John Perry Barlow, the Grateful Dead/EFF guy, writes today about his battle in defense of his (and all of our) civil liberties. I'm glad there are people like him (and John Gilmore) around with the time and money to fight these fights.

This was no joint in the ashtray casually spotted by the officer while writing a speeding ticket. A closer analogy would be the joint discovered on the floorboards of your car after the officer removed its carpeting while writing a speeding ticket.