"No matter how impregnable your officials may be, their jobs are
difficult. There are always a few who sooner or later are tempted
by economic necessity or desire for social betterment to advance
themselves at the expense of their principles. The men resisting must
have the integrity of flint. It is unfortunate that the weak ones by
their action break down the good done by the strong. In your three
branches of government we find that the officials of the upper strata,
except for a few isolated instances, have kept their records clean.
"Your world history shows that dictatorship, unjust political, or
government ruling power nearly always caused political violence
and the early death of most of your leaders through revolutions,
assassinations, overwork, and extreme tension.
"Even your religions are not immune from its contamination. Your money
greed Octopus through his enticement has unlawfully violated and
corrupted your most sacred religious commandments and sacraments.
"Disrupting and weakening your safety protection is another function of
your Octopus.
"Property caused you to surround with guards all your government
departments and bureaus, and all your business establishments and
industry, from the largest to the smallest. Your office, your home, in
fact, every building at immense costs is provided with all safeguards,
contrivances, and precautions.
"Your legislative departments everywhere have passed innumerable
stringent laws and created law enforcement departments of all kinds.
You have built your so-called impregnable safes, safe deposit vaults,
and burglar alarms. You have developed intricate and costly systems of
business protective methods; and services and guards of all kinds to
check and counter check every deal, item, and number of articles, down
to the last penny or article of the lowest value.
"You have insurance of all kinds against loss and fraud; real estate
title insurance, indemnity bonds, postal insurances. With all these
precautions, you are still vulnerable to loss through your most trusted
partners or employees, through your competitor, through unforeseen
circumstances, through dishonest and crafty speculative plots against
you by individuals, gangsters, or through a rapacious dictator, through
plundering governments, or through predatory national wars.
"The double latches on your windows or the double locks on your doors
do not always protect you. Day or night, awake or asleep, through all
the regions on your Earth, you are prey to the most atrocious crimes.
Alive or dead, your body is in jeopardy. Alive, you are in danger of
being blackmailed, kidnapped, or waylaid openly or from ambush. Some
will kill you for a few pennies or for your clothes; in a rooming house
in England, persons were murdered in order that their bodies might be
sold to dissecting rooms; and ghouls may desecrate your grave to sell
your body.
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