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30. They're also doing their best to criminalize any opposition to corporations

Saying, "it isn't the banks, it's the governments" may be a difference without a difference, because the power of the state is increasingly turning into corporate power. Just count the ways:

- Turning copyright violations into felonies rather than matters of civil lawsuits.

- Criminalizing getting video evidence of factory farms.

- Use of eminent domain for private interests as long as there's some tenuous argument that it's in the public interest.

- Allowing corporations to pocket their employees' payroll tax deductions as an "incentive."

- TPP provisions that would compel governments to enforce the profit-seeking of corporations.

Am I leaving anything major out? Even if I am, it's becoming pretty clear that the agenda is to reduce government to (1) collecting taxes to be turned over to private interests and privatized providers of what used to be government functions and (2) using the power of the law to enforce corporate profits.

That is what the "anti-government" agenda really amounts to. So saying "it isn't the banks" becomes meaningless.