This has got to be the most assinine statement I have read in some time. If this guy is really a conservative, we are in a world of trouble. I've read through many of the supreme court decisions and dissents made over the past decade, and have generally found Scalia's to be at least coherent, but If this guy really believes what he said above, I'll have to say that we are absolutely doomed to live in a totalitarian nightmare. I expect that from 'liberals', but not from 'conservatives'.
Ditto. One of the things I'm convinced will contribute to the downfall of the American Republic is the belief that too many people have that America is somehow magically exempt from the laws and trends that have influenced all other nations and governments in history--they think "we're different, it can't happen here." Government is government, power is power, and human nature is human nature--and power always corrupts and government inevitably grows. It's hard to get the genie back into the bottle, so never give the government an inch (to mix metaphors).