Government gone mad.

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By the way, try and find this story in the mainstream news via a google news search for example.

Well, a news search does not turn up anything but a google search turns up "legitimate" sources of news like Wisconsin Public Radio. If you have realplayer you can listen to his speech:

http://www.wpr.org/cardin/index.cfm?strDirection=Prev&dteShowDate=2006-05-02%2006%3A00%3A00

He also appears on that bastion of truth, Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Reynolds