Gatekeepers:

I would like to point out a problem with deception (semantics) concerning the meaning of the word government.

People govern, all of us some of the time, or a few of us most of the time, and some of us have bought into the lie that a THING (gun, government, church, etc.) thinks and acts, is responsible and accountable.

If people buy into the deception, then they are governed by that lie, and some are governed by that lie most of the time. While governed by that lie judgment of blame and judgment of credit is directed at a thing (government) which is no different that someone blaming another thing (a gun) for thoughts and actions accountable to the thing. Meanwhile, when that deception works in human brains, the actual people worthy of blame or credit have none.

With that in mind it is easier to see why someone may dream up and propagate such a lie, someone whose goal is to get away with crimes perpetrated with malice aforethought upon innocent victims. The power to discover the culprit, to account for the thoughts and actions of the culprit, doing so in the lawful, peaceful way if possible, is gone. The power of law is gone while people are misdirected toward the thing which cannot be responsible or accountable instead of the individual who is responsible and accountable.

Therefore it is useful to avoid the often repeated claim that this or that government is criminal in nature, as it is useful to expose people who propagate the lie that this or that weapon is criminal in nature; all the while the guilty people, the criminals perpetrating crimes upon innocent people, get away with it, are paid well for it, are emboldened by getting away with it, and are lured into it for money, profits, or a sadistic form of happiness.

If however the subject matter does turn from accountability accurately accounted for lawfully upon specific named criminals for specific crimes in specific times and specific places for specific reasons (the law) and the subject matter turns to specific forms of governments, then it may be useful to see how and why people create and then buy into forms of government based upon deception, threat of terrifying violence, and aggressive violence routinely demonstrated massively. Forms of government created by specific people in that specific way, at specific times, in specific places, are understandable as criminal forms of government in nature, a product of minds warp by an internal, natural, or warped by nurture Psychotic Narrative, which is the qualifications necessary to gain membership in The Cult of Might Makes Right. People can dream up the Psychotic Narrative on their own in cases of physical deformity at birth, people born without specific parts of the brain having to do with human conscience, and people can be beat into, or lured into, adopting the Psychotic Narrative and thereby become members of The Cult of Might Makes Right.

There is a fork in the road here at the juncture, as the intended narrative offered in this Group titled Voluntary Mutual Defense, as the narrative moves from freedom from slavery of the mind, once an individual escapes and runs from that slavery to freedom, and as the narrative moves from the slave running to physical freedom in Liberty. As the slave runs to fellow members of the group who have escaped slavery of the mind, the fork in the road is often blocked, like a closed gate with an armed guard. The Gatekeeper a that fork in the road blocks access to rule of law. And that is only on the path followed by those who have found the hidden step.