I wouldn't say passionate, I'd say angry. I'm passionate about flying, beer and hot women..and..maybe a little about Jeeps....but when it comes to government BS...I'm just flat out pissed off..And I feel helpless because there is nothing I can do about it. We now live in the United States of Corporate America. Hell, it's now so blatant we have that big eared fool squatting in the White House signing overtly socialist laws into effect that tell us "Pay! Or else...you're gonna pay more!!" Of course there were back alley deals! There always are with things like this..most of them probably skirt the boundaries of what is legal with a very thin line, many of them are outright criminal. You know how only a small percentage of drugs smuggled into this country are actually found...well...you as an intelligent thinking adult should be able to surmise that only a small percentage of corruption and manipulation of government by corporate interests ever comes into the public light. When in all likelihood, the government is just like the drug smugglers..they are so good at hiding their BS, they can do it right under the noses of the press, of the voters etc..that it has become the norm, not the exception. Do you really believe that the days of the "$100 hammer" have come and gone?