You mention automobiles. The historical example you could have mentioned was fully automatic shoulder arms like the "Tommy gun," which was banned after it was d

You mention automobiles. The historical example you could have mentioned was fully automatic shoulder arms like the "Tommy gun," which was banned after it was discovered that almost all users were criminals. I have no opinion about the allegations against Liberty Reserve. That needs proper judicial resolution, which takes time. I will note, in light of some of the other comments here, that the United States has international treaty agreements with most other countries in the world mutually to regulate money exchange from one country to another. Once in my work as a Chinese-English interpreter (this was back in about 1997), I had occasion to accompany a Chinese official to the offices of FinCEN http://www.fincen.gov/ http://www.fincen.gov/ so that he could discuss with United States officials how his country (NOT an "ally" of the United States) and ours could cooperate in fulfilling their mutual treaty obligations. I'm largely with you, Daniel, in desiring government to have narrower rather than broader powers to regulate individual behavior around the world, but I'm not so sure governmental power is too broad or being abused in this case.