The Arms You Own, Own You.

Chapter 1, Article 3 of the Constitution of Cuba states the following:

"When no other recourse is possible, all citizens have the right to struggle through all means, including armed struggle, against anyone who tries to overthrow the political, social and economic order established in this Constitution."

The way you enslave people is by appearing to grant them freedom.

All violence represents a failure of imagination; if you succeed in binding up the concept of Liberty to the concept of the ultimate threat of force and violence, you have essentially tricked your population into sealing it's own fate and closed the door on any and all alternative approaches.

They are no longer thinking, no longer dreaming, no longer hoping or wondering if there may not be a brighter dawn.

They are under total control.