REPOST: Ancient Explanation Of The Police Motto: "To Protect and Serve"

"When you protect something, you control it.

When you continue to serve the thing you control, it is lulled into complacency.

In this Edenic complacency, the thing which is protected, never realizes it is controlled.

Therefore, to control something, you must protect and serve it very well.

You must be sure that it stays so happy and complacent that it never even thinks about freedom...

...let alone seek it."

- The Knights Templars, The Original Protectors and Servers