How can you justify all the State evils happening with, well, my neighbor can't run an SRO out of his apartment. You didn't mention your other neighbor who was a casualty of the drug war. The same people bringing you these supposed protections are also hurting quite a few other innocent people, but I guess that's OK as long as you feel safe.

> we have bigger problems, not the least of which is the question of why those big, successful companies get so much influence over the laws in the first place.

If those big, successful companies can have so much influence, how exactly are you safe? This doesn't exactly support the gist of your first paragraph.