Never give the good guys any more power than you want the bad guys to have. Ever. For any reason.
THAT is the idea behind a limited government.
Conservatives are often perfectly fine with powerful government agencies as long as a conservative is running things, and then squeal like stuck pigs with a Barrack Obama gets ahold of the PATRIOT act (which was powerfully supported on here at first, “if you aren’t doing anything wrong...”
Even if you had the best president/prime minister/king they should have not one more iota of power than you would want the most evil wannabe tyrant to have. And they scan F*cking spare me the claptrap from Adams of “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....”
I want a government that has no more ability to control ANY aspect of my life, influence any decision or promulgate any morality with even the best of men in charge than I would want it if Muslims and communists held every elected and appointed office.
A-Yup.
The answer is never “more government”.
My dad was a government attorney, and his position on it was: So you want the people who caused the problem to solve it? Good luck.
Good lord, I have been saying this for so long I gave up. Law and order conservatives will be hung on their own gallows. Fools!