One reason federal regulatory agents are sometimes called “jack-booted thugs” is that they can behave thuggishly. Equally abusively, federal prosecutors on twisted power trips too often support such thuggishness.
The results can be devastating for individual lives, including those of entirely innocent people. Regulatory thuggery doesn’t help the economy, either. In far more restrained language, that’s the basic message from a report released this month by the Washington Legal Foundation, a nonpartisan legal advocate for free enterprise.
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