Actually, it does.
It separates them (government) from you; instead of letting the deal with it
associate with an implicit noun (I, we, us, you).
No. As I did not cite the need, but the effect & conclusion, which could only be brought about by government, just as they are effecting it in England.
You misread the comment as a whole and cast judgment. I view it as inevitable: We’ve crossed the Rubicon.
And the rest of us infighting idiots that can’t get our crap together against the tyranny will be swept up in it as ‘collateral damage’... (or, as I interpret their motivations, “targeted”).