If we are not one great big prison yet, it is not for lack of structure. The thing is built. There are enough laws to make America a maximum security prison. There are security features: cards, surveillance, databases, Social Security numbers, licenses, swat teams, TSA, Homeland Security, dependency programs including welfare and public education, and much more.
It is all there. Enough law to trap, imprison, tyrannize, oppress, crush all of us. All it lacks is the person or persons willing to take control openly.
And that is inevitable. Why? Because it's there and because every one of us has contributed to it. We participate in the programs, support them with our tax dollars. It is almost impossible to find a single adult in America who is neither paying taxes nor partaking of taxpayer-funded programs. Everyone is in the game and everyone is getting a little loot out of it. Some of us allow government teachers to mold our children's minds. Some allow TSA agents to grope them. Most of us contribute to the salaries of those government agents. And why do we do that? Because we don't want to be locked up individually.
For lack of courage to resist, we are already in the prison built around us. The current gang in power sees no need to spring the trap shut today.
Another gang will come. It always does.
As I’ve said elsewhere with a different topic: laws are walls.