[Harmless Teddy Bear]

And once again you obviously flunked civics.

One of the primary duties of government is to prevent the theft of the property of it's citizens.

In this and many other cases recently the government not only failed in it's respociblilty but actually sided with the criminal and forced the law abiding to take expensive and time consuming action to fix what the government broke.

If you think that preventing and prosecuting theft is somehow "totalitarian" you should be posting from an insane asylum.

Or perhaps like all communists you think "private property is theft".

[Pilsner]

Ok, you want a totalitarian state where the possession of property is 100% controlled by the government, to “protect “ the people, who aren’t allowed to exchange property until some faceless bureaucrat examines every aspect of the transaction, and approves it.

Fair enough. You can’t distinguish between punishing criminal fraud, and totalitarian control over the exchange of property. Hopefully the government will send someone round to your home three times a day to put masking tape over your ears and nostrils before each meal, to keep you from shoving your spork in the wrong orifice.