The End of Government

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. ~John Locke

I have thought long & hard on this simple statement from Locke. I have felt for years that the primary duty of any collective organization of human beings (aka, govt) was Justice. But the more i think about Locke's quote, i can see how they interconnect.

Justice is the action of a collective entity to enforce Law. This 'collective entity' (govt) is merely a hired surrogate to protect the citizens from criminals, foreign or domestic. We codify our morality into Law, then pay justice providers to enforce it. This enforcement acts both as a deterrence, & keeps society safe, by removing any threat. It brings stability, Law, & order into the culture.

At the core of justice is the protection of property. Most criminals try to take stuff that isn't theirs. They steal what they did not work for by violence or stealth. Our justice provider, government, is an entity we have created & hired for the express purpose of protecting our property from these thugs.

In the American Experiment, this is the mission statement of Govt:
..Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.. ~Declaration of Independence

In the DOI, govt is charged with securing the basic rights of the people: Life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness. Unspoken yet implied, is the 'preservation of property' that Locke spoke of. And since Locke's writings were influential & foundational for the American Founders, one can see that 'property' is an important part of individual freedom.

The core of Natural Law is summed up, imo, in these 3 things:

1. Right to Life. Your person is a sovereign entity, & is deserving of protection by the collective organization.
2. Right to Liberty. You have the right to make & enjoy the consequences of your choices in life.
3. Right to Property. The things in life you have worked for & created are yours, & the collective organization is specifically charged with protecting your stuff, not letting thugs or foreign invaders take it.

Most of our codified Law is detailed explanations & conditions of the protection of property. Legal descriptions, rights, ownership, possession, etc are all fundamental issues of property. If the govt of a society is not protecting the citizens from looters who take property that they did not work for, then it is derelict in its most basic duty. Worse, yet, if this govt becomes complicit with the looters, using the force of Law to steal from the citizens, it is not just derelict, but has become the very thing govt was organized to protect us from.  Govt has become the enemy of the working man.

Remedy
In the American Experiment, we have a Remedy for any violations of our basic rights. We have attempted an experiment of self rule, crafting a system of checks & balances to minimize corruption & the hijacking of the Law by looters. But if the system becomes completely corrupted by looters, & all of the justice providers are complicit with those taking the lives, liberties, & property of the working citizens, THEN we have no other option but to exercise the last option:

Alter or abolish it, & institute new govt.

..That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.. ~Declaration of Independence

If the hired stewards of govt cannot or will not do the job we have hired them to do, but have made themselves into Lords or bullies of the citizens, they leave us no other option but to remove them & replace them with those who will do the job that we have hired them to do. This has been our failure, as the voting citizens of the nation. WE have elected these people, & been dupes to their lies & deception. WE allow them to continue in corruption, plundering the treasury, plunging us into outrageous debt, & exploiting us with our own money. They have now constructed a juggernaut of govt, with a good old boy network of govt enablers, lobbyists, media propaganda megaphones, & citizen paid indoctrination. They are so firmly entrenched in their looting that voting has become a useless exercise.. a rigged system that they control for their own agenda, not the interests of the people, & with no consideration for their lives, liberties, & property.

If we cannot retake this system of self rule, America is finished. We cannot sustain hordes of looters plundering the producing workers of society. If we cannot get a majority of Americans to wake up to this destruction, & elect capable, responsible servants of the public trust, it will fall upon dedicated activists to retake the nation by force. Those are the only options.

Preservation of Property. This is the end of govt. If they are preserving the worker's property, they are achieving their ends. If they are not, it needs to end. Either way, preservation of property is the end of govt.