[robertpaulsen]

"Both are agents of the state, selected by the state, using state equipment, carrying out state orders."

Your choice of words is inflammatory and you know it. You phrased it that way to get a reaction and you know it.

That makes you a troll. And I told you I'm not going to play your game.

[tacticalogic]

Your choice of words is inflammatory

Apparently being an "agent of the state" is not a good thing.

[ctdonath2]

Your choice of words is inflammatory and you know it.

Hardly - it is perfectly descriptive, and I challenge you to explain otherwise.

If someone is selected by the state, equipped by the state, and carrying out state orders per the powers of the state, and their only redress in a grievance against the feds' hinderance is by the state bringing suit, then are they not an "agent of the state"?
Where is the "right" when every factor is state-controlled and needs state approval?
Where are the "people" when only a select few may, at state discretion, act under the alleged "right"?

Your arguments lead to nonsense, justifying only abject statism.