I just love the reasoning of Operation Chokepoint: Because SOME businesses in certain industries are crooked, the only solution is to run ALL of them out of business, the consequences on the law-abiding be damned.
EXACTLY the same reasoning as: Because some people with a penis commit rape, the only solution is to cut off all penises, the consequences on the law-abiding be damned.
Seems to me that the truly appropriate counter to Operation Chokepoint is to simply put every bureaucrat involved up against a wall and shoot them - after all, SOME of them did something wrong.
I wonder what liberals would say if we cut off all financial institutions that process credit transactions for marijuana or do business with Planned Parenthood?
These rules can be used by our side just as effectively to shut down liberal businesses.
We just don’t think that way.