9/14/1998, Independent Florida Alligator

It didn't have to come to this. Americans didn't have to turn over their right to privacy and rational due process.

We didn't have to make up crimes and punish people for lying during an unjust, irrational and ultimately dismissed suit about certain recurring sexual habits.

We wanted it, we enjoyed it and now the country is just beginning to realize how the unconstitutional and despotic Office of the Independent Council has mutilated our political culture.