Modern governments have become organized plunderers rather than protectors, revealing the corruption inherent in the material world.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...to eat yourself, sufficiently, and if there is excess, then question of trade, vāṇījyam. Otherwise, if there is no excess, where is the question of vāṇījya? You are starving. [break] Then we shall.
There is no excess. [break] ...will spoil everything everywhere. [break] "The government men will take up the policy of plunderers and rogues," that is stated. Dasyu-dharma.
Dasyu means plunderer. He catches: "What you have got, give me." This will be government. "What you have got, give me." Bās. You cannot say anything.
"Law." Plundering is law. Then where is your government? If killing is law, plundering is law, then what is this government? Government means to give security to the property and life.
So when the government will make law, "I can take your life whenever I like, and I can plunder your property as I like," then where is the law? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: The government's duty, then, is to protect. Prabhupāda: Yes, that is government. That is kṣatriya. Kṣat trāyate iti kṣatriya. Kṣat means injury, and one who gives protection from injury, he is kṣatriya.
Just like Parīkṣit Mahārāja. As soon as he saw a cow is attempted..., immediately he said, "Who are you, rascal? You are trying to kill this cow in my kingdom?" That is kṣatriya. And nowadays, even if I kill you, the police will see from there; he'll not come.
This is government. And when the finished killing, then he will say, "Who is this man?" He'll note down, "What is this? A man is killed." And then inquiry, and then finished. Who is the man killed and what is happened—nothing of the sort.