(cough cough SOPA cough cough DHS cough)
Yes sir, freedom of speech, freedom from unreasonable search, and "innocent until proven guilty", that's how we do it in the Land of the Free.
e.g. championing free and fair elections and decrying other people's failures while passing a seemingly endless stream of poll-tax-esque disenfranchisement legislation here at home, in the name of combating voter fraud problems we've never actually seen manifest.
or decrying the "crony capitalism" of Taiwan and then China, while regulatory capture leaves us looking just as bad.
or decrying the income inequality in banana republics as evidence of corruption and social injustice, while deregulating and tax-cutting our way to the top of that list.
Wall Street is quick to decry regulations that bar it from doing what it wants. But it's just as quick to protect those regulations that keep competitors out. The regulatory problem really is just one of capture.
"Business-crippling regulations" are up there with Reagan's Welfare Queen, Ohio's voter fraud and Tax Cuts' job-creating stimulus credentials. That is: long accepted as political fact despite a complete lack of evidence of their existence and a continually growing pile of evidence against.
1. Fight any regulation. 2. Fight good regulations.
It's sad, but members of an industry are usually the most qualified people to be in a regulatory agency for that industry. Their expertise makes them good for the job, but the conflict of interest is easy to see. The solution is not.
* Torture -> Guantanamo and other similar (worse) bases all over the world
* executing people with out trial -> police officers firing at will or over-using tazers to drunk people until they die (not to mention that carrying a gun is legal for civilians too).
* executing minors and the mentally retarded -> no health care for poor people who can't afford it, maybe they should be executed
* using the military against the populace -> firing chemicals, flash grenades and plastic bullets at OWS protesters
* holding political prisoners -> or just capturing them on behalf of their government and then just handing them over
I'm not necessarily against "health care for all", but those two things are not at all the same
If society does not decide to levy taxes in order to provide health care for some people, it is not at all the same as deliberately killing those people. Not at all. Please don't use such extreme rhetoric.