It boggles my mind to hear McCain and his ilk aghast at the insinuation that fedguv would be so ungentlemanly as to drop a bomb on Jane Fonda. I tend to agree the prospect is unlikely, though much more likely for Jane Doe, the killing of whom fewer would notice. They act as if Waco and thousands of incidents like it never happened.
Makes me wonder, if they’re so blase about the potential for gubmint abuse of its massive capacity for violence, why bother being skeptical of any other of its powers? Running the national economy, for instance? Why doubt the president’s trueheartedness and probity in that arena? Then I look at McCain’s voting history, and realize, oh yeah, he’s fine with that, too.
The “benchmark” leftists that I talk to are far more concerned with abuses by private business owners than they are from the government.
But, as far as I know, nothing has changed in the fact that the government can legally use deadly force to impose its will on you and a private business cannot.
Of course, that argument doesn’t ring a bell with them at all because they START from the assumption of benevolence on the part of the government.