We also provide entertainment for them: nothing spices life up for them better than a nice audit from the IRS or a raid for any-damn-thing from the ATF.
And if they are really trying to show how helpless we are in the face of their limitless power, they'll raid and arrest our president after they cheat him out of office using technology to put the other guy in.
We dummies thought the Constitution would protect us.
I think that prose was originall about the “phone company” as spoken by Ernestine (Lily Tomlin).