Ruling class member, whose entire imperial order is predicated on coercion, assault, theft, and subjugation under penalty of death: Please do not resort to violence

As the empire continues dying, while its global hegemony wanes and its population becomes more recalcitrant, it will turn its awe-full machinery of violence inward. Subjects of the realm, not overseas bogeymen, become a primary threat to the security of a weakened State.

"Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul."

"Shall the soldier of Christ be crowned in the midst of idols? Shall we carry the [flag], which is a rival of the Cross? For the Lord has given us the [flag] of the Cross, and we have no other [flag] to carry. The camp of Christ is the church, and we have no other camp to attend. The commander of our army is Christ, and we have no other commander to obey. And so, when the laurel wreath is offered to us as a prize, we must reject it, for it is not a symbol of our triumph, but rather of the triumph of the devil." —Tertullian, De Corona Militis #BurnAllFlags

Incredible

"The crowd is untruth"

"The King alone cannot rule; he must have a sizable group of followers who enjoy the prerequisites of rule, for example, the members of the State apparatus, such as the full-time bureaucracy or the established nobility. "...For [the rulers'] essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. "Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the 'intellectuals.' For the masses of men do not create their own ideas, or indeed think through these ideas independently; they follow passively the ideas adopted and disseminated by the body of intellectuals. "The intellectuals are, therefore, the 'opinion-molders' in society. And since it is precisely a molding of opinion that the State most desperately needs, the basis for age-old alliance between the State and the intellectuals becomes clear." https://mises.org/online-book/anatomy-state/how-state-preserves-itself

(Customary + common) law > Statutory law

"To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality." • Pierre Joseph-Proudhon, 1848