Devil's Trade

I watched with glee

While your kings and queens

Fought for decades

For the gods they made
--Rolling Stones

Can't count how many times over the past few months of heard people say, "Government's job is to keep people safe."

Our founding ancestors knew otherwise.

The king had the army. And the four walls. Come inside the four walls and work for the king, and the king's army will keep you safe.

The safety trade turned generations into peasants who lived in squalor. And in fear of their personal safety from the same people that were supposed to keep them safe.

They were neither safe nor free.

Understanding this, the framers designed a government meant to preserve people's freedom. Not to take that freedom away in the name of security.

That is government's proper role. To preserve people's freedom. 

When people want government to do otherwise, they are trading with the devil.