It may be an isolated incident, but that doesn’t make it any less frightening. Conservatives, of all people, should be outraged. Just ask Mickey Edwards.
For my part, one of the key reasons I was initially drawn to the conservative movement was my disdain for concentrated power, my fear of Orwell’s 1984 some day becoming reality. If the story linked above doesn’t remind you of that novel, I suspect nothing will.
[H/t Andrew Sullivan.]