The Chinese government, which has been displaying unusual belligerence lately, has committed another provocation against the U.S. Government by disabling an American spy plane over international waters, then detaining the crew incommunicado when they were forced to land on a Chinese island. More precisely, your government ain't your family. In fact, your government is your natural enemy. More and more, the government demands that we trust it, especially in secrecy-laden military affairs.
Governments begin with crime and conquest.
They may be somewhat humanized over time, with bills of rights and other measures to protect subjects from rulers, but they generally revert to crime and conquest eventually. The U.S. Government is an enormous parasite on the productive sector of the American people, as the imminence of April 15 should remind us. The interests of the government are at odds with those of its subjects. This fundamental fact is disguised by democratic rhetoric, which may lull us into thinking that whatever is good for the rulers is also good for the ruled. War with China is not in the interest of me and my family.