There is nothing in his background to suggest he would turn into a scourge of overweening state power.
Representative Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and something of a scourge of the nuclear power industry, has recently identified a number of shortcomings in the safeguards, including, apparently, lax standards for clearing workers hired at power plants.
It wasn't easy to do this while maintaining his public image as a scourge of the governing powers, but the Great Contrarian had long experience of such duplicity.
IT is a well-known, well-publicized fact that President Bush has been reading up on Theodore Roosevelt, the Republican president who portrayed himself a scourge of corporate wealth and power.
If that weren't enough, the United States is also plagued by an even less visible scourge of cops abusing their power to coerce sex from vulnerable citizens, according to a year-long Associated Press investigation released this week.
In 2010, as he released hundreds of thousands of classified United States military and diplomatic documents, Mr. Assange claimed, with some justification, to be the scourge of secrecy in the halls of power.
Her confrontational approach has made her the scourge of many of the powers that be in her country.
Lousy economy aside, power is the scourge of the IT industry.
When we finally place the values that are pontificated ad nauseam on Fox and Sam Harris's books (he is a brilliant man and a lot of what he says is indeed thought provoking) ahead of oil interests and regional "stability," the scourge of fundamentalism will succumb to the power of reasoned principles.
