Along with Madeleine Albright and Donna Shalala, Attorney General Janet Reno is one of the weird sisters of the Clinton administration. If Macbeth had met these three stirring their cauldron on the Scottish heath, he might have run for the highlands. But of the three, Miss Reno is the one who really gives people the creeps. She looks and sounds like one of nature's inscrutable freaks, and the results of her solicitude for the kiddies bear out this impression. They see the state not as a neutral umpire, allowing people to pursue their own purposes freely, but as a great architect, imposing its own ends on all of society.
Communist rulers write their own constitutions, endowing themselves with limitless power.
The end result of the teleocratic style can be seen in Castro's shabby utopia, where nobody has toilet paper but everyone fears his neighbor. Like Castro, they regard the law as the instrument of the state, to be bent as needed to effect the siege, the pre-dawn raid, the arbitrary arrest, the property seizure.