Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Who will guard the guards themselves? — This is a question that must be asked. It is also a question that is almost never asked. We are instead asked to trust the good intentions of the policy advocates. The problem with this is that man is a flawed creature and as Lord Acton said, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Thus whenever we create oversight, i.e. put guards in place, we are conferring power which all too often simply leads to a new form of control and corruption. The guards must be held to account. Whether it is the government, the regulators, the Federal Reserve System, or what ...
As an interesting aside, Robert Heinlein, one of my childhood favorite science fiction authors, used this as the motto of the Space Patrol in his juvenile novel, Space Cadet.
After finishing to this point I ran into THIS which seems to illustrate the point of runaway government, even at the local level taking away the legitimate rights of parents. Who will protect us from such corrupt guardians of the public trust. Why is this even slightly reasonable? We are living in decadent times and it is likely downhill from here if good people don't start standing up and demanding virtue in the public square.