The Libertarian Blogosphere is buzzing with the treatment of a Facebook organized libertarian gathering at the Jefferson Memorial.

Radley Balko, Julian Sanchez, Megan McArdle.

True, if you live in, say, Peoria, IL and want to celebrate Jefferson's birthday in the city by organizing an impromptu dancing, you are likely not to be bothered. But not in our nations capital, where our federal laws are being written and where resides the ultimate arbiter of our judiciary branch. Media stories of homeland security bureaucrats arriving at restaurants under armed security escorts are laughable. Libertarians, how in the world do you think that political reform is possible in zone where the Bill of Rights simply no longer exist? Sooner or later, you will become radicalized...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.