The Amish, if you have noticed, are under a sustained attack to destroy their fiercely independent, self-sustaining, low-tech agrarian lifestyle. Late night comedians make jokes about them, and Amish farmers like Allgyer, strong pacifists, are raided by heavily armed swat teams just for selling raw milk. Other old-fashioned Amish products from their farms and cottage industries are often ridiculed, like fruitcakes, and their horse-drawn conveyances aren't spared either. The object is destroying a culture that has escaped the metered slavery most of us take as par for the course. The Amish proudly insist on self-reliance, Christian community, and wholesome old-fashioned ways and means, traditional values that keep them strong and healthy. The elitists cannot stand to see these people defy their efforts to enslave everyone in ungodly degrading servitude. Hence, the attacks on thje Amish, who government reports show earn more profit per acre with manual labor than the large-scale mechanized farmers. Gotta stop that! 

How is it that this corporate fascist regime that has thugs with guns and badges running around plundering the people called the U.S. is referred to as a government?