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"The best way to exercise our freedom is to monkeywrench [sic, spell check is our friend] a government goon. Make their lives miserable. Break their morale. Government is NOT our friend."

You are advocating anarchy not conservatism.

Let me tell you what the Bible says about government:

"Let everyone be subject to the higher powers. For there is NO POWER BUT OF GOD: THE POWERS THAT BE ARE ORDAINED OF GOD. Therefore, whoever resists the power, resists the ordinance of God: and they who resist shall receive to themselves damnation."

"For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the power? Do what is good, and you will have praise of the same."

"For he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he does not carry the sword in vain: for he is the servant of God, a revenger to execute wrath on him who does evil." (Romans 13:1-4)

Rebellion does not weaken government, it makes it more forceful. It must use more force to do the job God intended it to do. If we neglect or abuse our freedoms, we will lose them.

Do not confuse government with the office holder. Office holders can change and need to be from time to time. Further, there are limits to governmental jurisdiction. One of those involves the right to worship God according to conscience. Office holders who abuse their authority will have to answer to an angry God as well. He does not take lightly the tarnishing of His reputation by those who abuse their governmental offices.

I respect your opinion, but Rome had fewer bureaucrats in Jerusalem than our Leviathan puts on our shoulders.

We live in an age where government operates on its own initiative, for its own purposes. In many ways that is worse than a monarch, and less likely to respond positively to good works.

The agents of our government are occupiers. They, and their families, should be treated as such.

BTW, "monkeywrench" as a compound word is widely used, and clearer, one could argue, than a two-word verb.