Government Malpractice? No.
Government Malice.
And not merely malice, but malice with aforethought. This is not a “getting even” for old real or perceived slights, it is taken to the level of inflicting great and even excessive retribution upon those once thought of as “oppressors”.
Only those who were the oppressors in the past, have now sort of switched sides, and now proceed to persecute those whom they had largely left alone before, to win the love and approval of the formerly oppressed.
I refer you to the saga of “The Star-Bellied Sneetches”, where a middleman was making huge proceeds out of either applying or removing the star on the bellies of the Sneetches.
Bingo! It is malice.