‘Where the Power Is’

Francis Porretto, on the biggest threat to liberty we face:
‘..Whose decisions about you and yours are essentially unchallengeable? That is: what category of persons can override your preferences about your life, liberty, and property, and be practically certain of having the last word and not facing any cost nor penalty for having done so?
Sorry! No credit for any answer but “government bureaucrats.” All other arrogant and overbearing life forms are subject to some form of correction, discipline, or reprisal. The bureaucrat — the faceless source of innumerable rules and decisions, most of which are made in secret and without either Constitutional or statutory foundation — is so well insulated from our wrath that he can almost never be identified and can never be fired, no matter how extreme his abuses.
…Look upon the naked, if anonymous, face of your true master, and be afraid…’  (bold mine kg)