Your recent criticism of my reluctance to trust
the government touches on a topic of much interest to me.
I try to understand it as an issue that should be approached,
if possible, without preconceptions, and that deserves
dispassionate description and analysis.
Let's start with you. Do you trust the government? If so,
then, would you trust the government if you were an American-Arab,
or an American-Muslim, or an American-African? An if not, how
can you justify the difference? If, as our pious Declaration
states "all men are created equal", how can you trust the 
government, if the American-Indian can't?
Do you really believe that the US Government is fundamentally
different from the government of England, France, Germany, Poland,
Rumania, Hungary, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel,
Palestine, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, India, China, Thailand? 
Do you really believe that today's US Government is different from
what it was eight or eighty years ago, or for that matter a hundred
eighty years ago when it countenanced the enslavement of Africans
and the genocide of American Indians?
How many Guantanomo's, how many Abu Graib's, how many instances
of Buchenwald, Dachau, Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Theresienstadt,
does it take for you to begin to distrust the government, or do
you really believe that "we" are holier than "they"?

I begin with Aristotle's dictum that only a god or an animal
is capable of solitary existence. I think about that statement
and conclude that it is incorrect. Most animals also live
in societies of sorts, and certainly the Olympians were anything
but solitary creatures. I don't think Aristotle could have had
Jehovah in mind. Even so, I would argue that he dwelled in
the company of angels, and even if, hypothetically, Jehovah
was capable of being solitary, he chose otherwise.  He created
Adam and Eve to keep him company.

It's useful I believe to approach issues of human society and its
organization empirically, by observing how human beings in fact live.
How they assist and protect, and how they harrass and destroy each other.
Every society reflects a spectrum between anarchy and tyranny,
between the absence of government and totalitarianism. There are
few situations where in one perspective the spectre of anarchy,
and in another perspective, the spectre of totalitarianism does
not intrude. The golden mean, if it exists at all, is ephemeral
and evansecent.

It's quite possible to support the government and yet not to trust it.
Indeed that would seem to me an optimal position. To trust government
is to permit oneself to be deceived and disappointed. To distrust
government is to place ones own interests in the scales against
the government, against community and communal action. It is neither
necessary nor desirable that the individual be wholly integrated
into the community. Survival as an individual depends on ones
willingness and ones ability to accept the insoluble conflict
between ones own interests and those of the community.