Lobbyists for whom? Corporate security enterprises? "Cherish and protect your freedoms [from government meddling]! Trust us!" --> ya that went really well :P

Reminds me of Schneier wrote the other day: "The government uses corporations to get around its limits, and corporations use the government to get around their limits."

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/the_publicpriva_1.html

This time it was anti-socialism lobbyism from electric companies, against public electricity :-)