Steyn: The Paramilitarized Bureaucracies

in the developed world, the paramilitarized bureaucracy is uniquely American. This is the only G7 government whose education minister has his own SWAT team — for policing student-loan compliance. The other day, the Gibson guitar company settled with the feds over an arcane infraction of a law on rare-wood importation — after their factories were twice raided by "agents" bearing automatic weapons. Like the man said, don't bring a knife to a guitar fight.