No, an agent of the government has access to one kind of power: the government that he is an agent of.
Now maybe his government is righteous. And maybe for him to enforce are righteous. And maybe he is righteous and enforces his orders in a righteous way.
But maybe one of those things isn’t true. And once one of them isn’t true. None of them are true. And revering the police is giving up your reason. It is forgetting that this force MUST be watched, and is dangerous and should NEVER be blindly trusted.
“No, an agent of the government has access to one kind of power: the government that he is an agent of.”
If a policeman stops a violent criminal from harming an innocent victim, he appears to be accessing righteousness. This is the righteousness revered by the common man.
But it that policeman is not necessarily driven by internal righteousness.
Where he is able to demonstrate internal righteousness would be to disobey unrighteous orders from his employer.
The takeaway point seems to be that government power in and of itself has no righteousness, but that it has access to a transcendent power which is righteous.