>The US government is so powerful [...] can invent legal grounds to do pretty much anything to anyone Sounds like what a totalitarian king would do. "In vain

>The US government is so powerful [...] can invent legal grounds to do pretty much anything to anyone Sounds like what a totalitarian king would do. "In vain they change from a single person to a few. These few have the passions of the one; and they unite to strengthen themselves, and to secure the gratification of their lawless passions at the expense of the general good. In vain do we fly to the many. The case is worse; their passions are less under the government of reason, they are augmented by the contagion, and defended against all attacks by their multitude." - Edmund Burke, 1756.