So, how about answering your own mental exercise?
Good idea. I will.
The government.
As other FReepers have said; only the government has the power to tax you, jail you, restrict you, unConstitutionally take away your rights and freedoms, even KILL you and get away with it.
Of all the misery and of all the evils in this country, in every country, and through out all time - an evil corrupt government has been the back-bone of it all.
The media only wishes it had 1/10 of the absolute power the gubmint has.