The FedGov in DC spends literally billions of dollars each year building, maintaining, rebuilding, replacing, naming (and renaming), renting, and more to FedGov office buildings to house the millions of bureaucrats and jackbooted thugs (2.87 million at last count) that infest or occupy this beautiful land and pester our people and most of the rest of the world.
When once the only presence of the FedGov in most towns was a post office – and that often in the corner of a store – that is ancient history today. Today we not only have the generally practical offices for the Natural Resource Conservation Service and local military recruiting offices, we have grandiose federal courthouses, ubiquitous Social Security offices, and dozens more places for the parasites of the alphabet agencies to rest their weary heads after stealing and intimidating and pursuing citizens.
Consider the BATFE Washington DC headquarters building, shown below.
Even lovers of government such as the Washingtonian.com have berated the building for its “bunker-like” appearance. Gee, that might be fitting, huh?
Named for a hispanic ATF agent (Rios, as I recall) killed when a drug buy/sting operation went bad in Miami decades ago, this grandiose and cookie-cutter style bunker resembles dozens or even hundreds of other massive buildings. And houses an amazing number of bureaucrats and computer systems designed to regulate (or prevent) Americans from exercising rights which the Constitution states “shall not be infringed.” Or objects that are not even addressed (or were briefly addressed and then removed) from that document. (Beverage alcohol.)
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The Price of Liberty 
Succession of power
That is “succession” and not secession. TPOL wants to make it clear that we strongly support the right of secession, of declaring independence from a “sovereign power” – a state or government – when that entity no longer meets the needs of the people who want to leave it.
But this commentary is about “succession of power” – about who is next in line to enjoy the privileges and benefits of political, economic, or social power and control.
Readers of TPOL understand that we are opposed to mandatory human government – that is, virtually all human government. And therefore we would definitely not support any succession.
That is there should be no transfer of political power (which belongs to individuals, and not to a “government” or gang or mob or anyone else who uses force to carry out their will (other than in self-defense).
But human history is filled with a very sad fact of life: political and economic power often – even usually – is transferred from one wielder of power to another.
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