"Inside a secretive government laboratory, behind a tall fence and armed guards, a team of engineers.......". The NYT actually wrote that! Sounds like a Sci Fi plot. "Armed Guards"!
Did they consult We The People as to what we want. Didn't consult; hell didn't even inform - secretive, armed guards!
We didn't say you can't do this, we just make it impossible for you to do so.
Gov't Bureaucrat = sheep herder.
Remember when these creeps were in college protesting "in loco parentis"?
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