Creating laws that give police and magistrates the power to declare anything anyone does illegal, storing massive DNA databases, allowing for secret courts and warrantless surveillance, creating unaccountable systems of censorship, and letting spies run wild are all examples of systems designed on the presumption that the establishment is both uncorrupted and perpetually uncorrectable.
No, those laws are a direct result of that corruption. A state that corrupt is going to be none too secure in its “mandate of heaven”. Exposure and the dissent that results from it are the biggest threats to such a state, hence laws that hide information and control the population.
