Both "states" and "governments" are non-existent fictions. They are nothing more than convenient labels that denote a class of human being, specifically as pertains to the roles they play as trustees of the Public Faith and Credit with respect to those roles. Such people are in no way special and in no way do they hold even the least shred of authority or right beyond or above that of non-trustees. Indeed, their powers are less than those of "ordinary" citizens because they swear an oath to the Constitution to uphold its guarantees and protections; to defend its edicts, specifications, protections, and assurances against all enemies, foreign and domestic. When a trustee breaks Faith with that oath, and in so doing with the Public whom they swore to protect against violation, they have committed a most egregious crime.
It is that oath that circumscribes the prerogatives of Public Trustees in their capacities as such, binding them to honor, good faith, and competent service. Breach of that Trust must be met with serious consequences, not only for the agencies responsible for the behavior of their trustees, but the individuals who breach. They must make full restitution with treble damages, admit their errors publicly in writing and by public announcement, lose their positions of trust for life in most cases, becoming forever ineligible to again become a trustee, and possibly go to prison or even forfeit their lives in cases where restitution is not properly possible, or the crime committed of so grave a nature as to demand it.
You presidents, congressmen, governors, legislators, mayors, sheriffs, police, administrators, bureaucrats, and all other sworn agents of the Public Trust down to the village street sweeper must be held on very short, tight leashes. You must be punished significantly when you stray from promises of your oaths. Whether through malice, ignorance, or bumbling, most especially when you are unwilling or unable to make full restitution to those whom you have damaged, the consequences must be severe not only as a point of justice for those you've injured, but as a clear and unequivocal message to all that such violations are not to be tolerated in any measure.
To clarify, here the "Public Trust" is a symbolic term of art representing not trust as that which friends share in the common fashion, though it is an element of it. The term signifies a requirement, specification, subsequent demand, and the consequent expectation of honorable and competent service discharged by trustees in all good faith to those expectations.
The human world stands currently in a most deplorable condition, thanks mostly to the fact that people tolerate that which is intolerable. We stand at a nexus, the decision we will make being that of whether we rise tall as Freemen, or crawl on our knees before the false authority of tyrants as meek, fear-ridden, compliant and blindly obedient Weakmen for whom self-respect is unknown.
The choice is ours.
It always was.
Be good. Be kind. Be intelligent.
And as always, until next time, please accept my best wishes.
