The FDA and Coercion

Lew Rockwell reports:

Government is the institution that builds and manages the roads on which tens of thousands of people die every year. Government is the institution that starts the wars that have killed tens of millions of people. They not only send people to be killed in foreign lands, but actively recruit the youth into this "job," bribing them with free education that they can enjoy if they happen to emerge alive and not brain-damaged at the end of their indentured servitude. Government is the institution prepared to beat you and shock you with electricity, and put you in a dirty cage, if you do not comply with its arbitrary demands.

Can we really believe that the FDA bureaucrats are worried about our health and well-being? That these lifetime looters of the taxpayer are fretting about our intake of caffeine and liquor and are seeking to do what is best for us, like overbearing parents or pastors of the local fundamentalist congregation? I seriously doubt it.