Reply #3: It's about control

[dusmcj]

The patterns repeat themselves endlessly with this administration:

- FEMA concludes that it needs to "establish a chain of command" as its first action in Louisiana.

- Doober asserts with an almost haughty irritation that "the Constitution gives me (! - not the office of the Presidency, or the executive branch) the authority to..."

- the various initiatives for information collection all provide information for prior restraint - of all Americans, not just terrorists

- the modality of law enforcement here and abroad is coercion. There is an explicit rejection of the notion of understanding why unacceptable behavior occurs, replaced by a pious assertion that there are rules to be followed, that the good follow them and those who don't are evil. And of course we're among the good.

This administration is unAmerican - it believes in the opposite of the American principle of the freeman deliberately choosing to partake in a society.