The system is failed as our rights have been eliminated.We're going in circles. Are there or are there not effective mechanisms to protect your rights? Your described example says yes. Your words say no. We can agree to disagree.
The challenge never ends. That was my point. We've asserted and re-asserted and defended these rights repeatedly over the decades, yet with each new set of bureaucrats and politicians comes some jackass looking to make a name for himself by achieving his "gotcha" moment.So? Nothing is cast in stone. Things will change. Most human beings and entities are driven to compete. Up to you whether you turn the other cheek or defend your rights.
Lesson the power and size of the State. Lesson the tax burden from which they draw their power. Shrink the bureaucracy by eliminating social programs with the precision of a swinging axe. Return the money to the citizenry so that individuals can decide how to spend the fruits of their labor. Simply put, restore our Constitutionally established freedom from the tyranny of State power.And let the bankers take over, since they are the richest and have demonstrated their ability to make things really peachy without government assistance.
You do realize that without government there would be a dam upstream from you and that if the gold course decided they wanted your farm, there would be little you could do about it?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1