[Smile-n-Win]

And if good people aren't in-charge, anything can happen.

Correct.

And, I might add, it can also happen when a combination of bad people and good but "compassionate" people are in charge. I think President Bush is fundamentally a very good man, but he is tragically mistaken about the morality of "compassion." See my tagline.

[Valin]

What with an election season coming up we are provided with a golden opportunity to hold our rep./senators feet to the fire.
The candidates are going to be coming around to hold "townhall meetings" to speak to us and (more important) listen to what we have to say. What we need to do is demand they repeal this law, or at a minimum amend it(if possible, which I doubt). Also I'd recommend letters, not e-mails but actual hand written letters. For what I understand every letter is considered to be worth 10,000 votes. It really doesn't matter if you (like me) have a leftist as your rep. many groups on the left don't like this law either.