How government official maintain their extortion racket

Government officials maintain their extortion scheme via a varity of mechanisms:

• Brainwash the citizenry (especially children) to support the authoritarian state.

• Expand the scope and power of the state to create more opportunities for rentseeking.

• Increase taxes

• Persecute individuals believed to be a threat to state power

• Seize control over the money supply.

• Suppress speech that does not agree with official dogma

Even in relatively free countries, people are kidnapped, caged, and murdered by government thugs for ridiculous "crimes":

• Second UK gambling executive arrested in New York

• Poundland to stop selling kitchen blades in every Midland store amid knife crime rise

• When Having Condoms Gets You Arrested

• Man guilty of hate crime for filming pug's 'Nazi salutes'

• NYC Bans Willful And Malicious Misuse Of Gender Pronouns, Fines Up To $250,000

• Body Camera Once Again Catches An NYPD Officer Planting Drugs In Someone's Car

• As Biden Admin Bans Menthols, Remember Cops Killed Eric Garner Over Cigarette Laws

• Rhode Island police shut down kids' lemonade stand, citing city ordinance concerning commercial vendors

• 33 U.S. Cities Have Restricted Feeding The Homeless In Past Year Alone: Report

• Federal Court Allows USDA to Suppress Testing for Mad Cow Disease