No offense, but you need to look at the possibility that you are way out there with this stuff. Your mindset no longer allows you to see things as they really are.
There seem to be some very angry posters here. There's a useful phrase that they should learn: "the best is the enemy of the good". All this time they spend talking about how the US gov't is so frickin' evil, and how bad it looks in the eyes of the rest of the world for its actions ... how about a little like-for-like comparison? How about looking at what *other* gov'ts look like elsewhere? There are plenty of places around the world that could teach the US a thing or two about oppressing its citizenry. That's not to say that the abuse of eminent domain isn't a horrible denial of human rights that should be attacked. But people, there are plenty of governments in the world that beat their own dissenters with barbed wire and broken glass; that pillage their own economies on an unimaginably large scale; that forbid women the right to own property.
Why people put so much *disproportionate* effort into moaning about what the US gov't does, either at home or abroad, is quite beyond me. I would have less of a problem with it if they'd moan about all those other countries as well in proportionate degree. (Unlikely here on FreeRepublic for obvious reasons -- but it doesn't happen *anywhere*.)