Time columnist Joe Klein reckons being suspicious of the government is anti-American. It’s a not-so-distant echo of the sentiment President Obama voiced when spiking the gun control football in Colorado and it couldn’t be further from the truth. Our founding fathers wrote the Constitution to limit the federal government, sharing as they did the sentiment that government poses the greatest threat to personal liberty. No matter how “noble” its goals. “Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent,” Justice Louis Brandeis wrote. “The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”