The Wrongdoings of Government

Recent history has not provided an assortment of wealth of confidence in government to pick from, and to place such assortments on a golden pedestal, as the achievements of a government with the acceptance of its lowest and highest consenters. Instead, to the dismay of fellow philosophers of the social order of things, government has provided nothing more than a mule in place of a steed. It is not far-fetched, however, to say that the government has the confidence of the great majority of people. It is, of course, also not so far-fetched to say that those people would gladly accept a mule, for the lack of knowledge that it is the furthest thing from the steed promised to them. The immorality lays in the fact that the government doesn't tell these people that what they are being given is a substandard compensation prize, defending themselves with the proposition that people are too ignorant to care.

What I concern myself with are the actions which the oligarchy, that controls the government at this time, have successfully covered up with the victories of war against the western dissenters. Such things as the incompetency to prevent religious zealots like Darius Marcello III and his Inquisition, or Aelmar and his Hand of Dawn, from rising to power in a more diverse community, in which the southern refugees, proclaimed atheists, are now a part of. Or, the equally criminal actions taken against Marcello after the declaration of more liberal acceptance of people – though, the same cannot be said for other religious ideologies – and the fully reasonable request of independence, which was suggested by the government in the first place; actions consisting of the murder of every Inquisition associate, the exiling of the immediate Marcello family, the arrest of Marcello himself, under false accusations by Eian Smarth that he assassinated the Emperor, all without granting the fundamental right of trial or merely the defense of themselves. If it is not clear by now, the person who had the most to gain from the assassination of Xaverious Rahl-Xanthica was Eian Smarth, himself, who now rests comfortably in his position among the other Consuls of the Triumvirate, serving the prospects of the Lords, of which he is also among the company of.

Or, perhaps, to take in to account the full history of this incarnation of government, the inability to solve its conflicts through diplomacy, or to control its own soldiers therein. The war before last was caused by nothing more than unruly militants, sneaking in to foreign territory by night and throwing stones at a prison. True, that the government did originally seek a diplomatic end. But, this diplomacy was not the actions of the King, or the extended monarchy, but of the High Inquisitor, who offered all, including his gun, to prevent a costly war. Needless to say, war happened regardless, due to those same unruly militants. A season of battles on primarily our soil marred our country to the brink of downfall, which was only prevented by the natural disaster occurrence, which heavily destroyed the enemy's cities. Countless lives, military and innocent, and the rise of the Inquisition and the Templar Knights, as well as the Hand of Dawn, are all attributable to the incompetency of the government to act in a diplomatic manner, instead favoring the sword above all else.

What is to be learned and realized from those events is the dangerous tendency of the government to consist of a single, sovereign body, whom answers to none and demands the subordination of all. Such absolute power is a violation of the rights and liberties of man, to which all rulers are answerable to. Furthermore, such autocracy of government prevents us, the people, the consenters, from taking back our consent, confidence, and support, and demolishing the tyranny of government to replace it with one more fair and just. What does the government consist of, but a few self-appointed elite who, in turn, appoint the Counts and the Lords that rule as their lieutenants, except for a single person, this so-called Consul Ludwig Overon? The consideration of a mere tailor as a political crusader for the protection of the People is ludicrous, and I would not be too surprised if such a thing was the intent of the government in the first place. In all, the government is an appointed government, wherein the self-appointed rule and decide who rules in their stead. The lie that the people have chosen a representative is only further proven by the actions Consul Overon has taken in regards to the expansion of nobility, an action that will only further the divide between poverty and wealth. It was, and remains to be, a lie perpetrated by the oligarchy, in an attempt to quell any imminent dangers of rebellion, under the assumption that people are too ignorant to realize it. What these men did not account for is the disregard philosophers like myself have for authority. After all, I would just as soon steal a taste of what's in the boiling pot, as I would foster a rebellion, and in this I am not alone.

The disregard of the rule of law, that is, the assertion that the government is above the law, coupled with the incompetency of government, serves to the case of the dissolution of failure; that is, the dissolution of government is called for, because the government itself is unable to function as a institution working for, and protecting, the common welfare of the people that give it authority in the first place.