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The problem with the federal government is that it has become so huge and dominating, that it seeks to control spheres of human activity it previously did not control, many times for the benefit of special interests, like, for example, the banking sector or xtian fundies. When focused, Washington can be useful for purposes of securing freedom and liberty from those who would take it from us. In this particular case, Washington is seeking to curb domestic liberties, which really is anti-American as most of us understand it, but runs in tangent with how the government has been operating over the course of the last few years.