I hate my own government. Particularly, I hated Jacqui Smith's creeping encroachment on civil liberties and Jack Straw's continual attempts to sneak through a bill which would make inquiries able to happen completely behind closed doors.
This does not mean that I think that I, myself, am a draconian dictatorial suspicious bastard.
I do know, however, that these accusations make it very, very hard to have any sort of mature debate on the subject.
It is absolutely possible to criticise a government without criticising the entirety of its population, and it's also, for that matter, possible to criticise both sides of a conflict.