“Government’s sole job is to protect individual rights by upholding the law.”
That’s good theory, but in practice Government’s job is to perpetuate itself by creating a demand for itself. It is succeeding at that when people say we need more government.
That’s like saying “law enforcement’s job is to reduce crime”. Reducing crime is a simple matter: Hang the murderers and rapists, and flog all the others, and imprison the insane. But reducing crime would decrease the need for people who work in law enforcement, ie. judges, lawyers, jailers, police, parole officers, clerks,etc. So, the system is designed to create a demand for them and their services, by ‘managing the crime rate’ as opposed to reducing it permanently.
The same ill logic applies to the the government’s relationship with the occupy crowd. As long as they prey on innocent banks and churches, and the innocent private sector in general, all is cool. But let them turn on the government and that’s tantamount to cop killing, that’s secular heresy, and the government will crush them, jail them, and villify their memory.
