The individual person is the only real
entity of any human consideration. All other considerations
are logical, or rationalized, realities, and in themselves have
only a reality relative to the mind of man.
Any consideration of any existent institution
cannot significantly dislodge itself from the "ens realis"
of the human person.
No institution, then, is supreme in its
nature, but at the service of the human person. No institution
is superior in nature to each and every individual human being.
More specifically, every institution
is at the service of the weak amongst men and women. It serves
them by defending them against the abuse of the strong. This
is the specific reason why institutions were began, and their
sufficient reason to exist.
Each and every institution, in other
words, was brought about by man to defend the interests of the
weak from the oppression and exploitation of the strong. The
family, laws, the mother and father figures, Churches, States,
religions, governments, courts, taxes, schools, the police,
lawyers, parliament, money, oaths, contracts, judges, magistrates,
prime ministers, presidents, bishops, popes, banks, and any
other institution, whether private or public, was formed and
fashioned for the protection of the weak.
When, as frequently happens, institutions
go beyond their function, or exceed their powers, in such a
way that they cease being a defense for the weak, and become
solely a defense of themselves, they empower the strong to abuse
their strength over the weak. When this happens, human individuals
suffer. In such cases, indeed, institutions become tools of
torment and oppression in the hands of the strong against the
interests of the weak.
Thus, from the misuse of institutions
by the strong, crime is bred in the weak. Crime is most frequently
an attempt by the weak and the oppressed — counter-productive
in its nature — to fight back the abuses that the strong
inflict through the institutions they control and manipulate.
Our institution defends the weak against
the institutionalized oppression, past and present, of the strong.