We read in Matthew 26:52: "Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." We read in Leviticus 19:11: "Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another." So too, there are many more passages dealing with the general comportment that we should have person to person and thereby the way that we should properly conduct our life. The thing is, no matter how complicated the world may seem, no matter how modern this day and age may be, the most basic morals and ethics that mankind has been bestowed with, are timeless as well as always being relevant.
That is to say, it is the height of hypocrisy to believe that the courteous rules of conduct, and of treating our neighbor as our self, somehow only apply to individual human interactions, and are not applicable to the government and its actions. Ultimately, any government is made up of individuals, and this very government, on the most fundamental and meaningful level, if it is to be legitimate, is thereby a government meant to be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, so that, therefore, when the very government that we pledge our allegiance to, the very government that we pay our taxes to, the very government that professes to offer the golden door to the huddled masses that are yearning to breathe free, is, in fact, by its very actions, working not for the people, but against the masses, so as to support its own agenda of favoring the elite and powerful while deceiving and cheating the many, than this government has lost its aura of legitimacy.
We are taught, or at least it appears that on paper we are taught, that honesty, courage, selflessness, mercy, and teamwork are all part and parcel of what makes for good Americans; but is this exemplar lived by the very government that leads us? It is pretense to believe the lie, that in order to bring peace and harmony, you must bomb, shoot, and kill those that don't believe these things or are inconveniently in our way. You cannot create peace by killing, you cannot have harmony by dropping bombs indiscriminately on other countries, and you cannot have justice when you are unjust to others. If you take from another without due process, whether that is liberty, land, or their life, you must recognize that by doing so, any validity that you may have had has effectively been compromised. If most everything that you do of real import, involves deceit, lying, misdirection, and outright cheating, as well as many more things that you do are obfuscated because they are hidden behind layers and layers of classified bureaucratic walls, along with convoluted, distorted, and unequally applied laws, than you will never be able to be an honest man, because dishonesty has never birthed honesty and never will.
You cannot successfully preach peace, love, and harmony while wielding the sword of war in one hand, and in the other taking away the fruits of one's labor by the tyranny of your injustice. The war to end all wars will not be another war, so too the end of injustice will not be from stealing another man's liberty; these things can only be conquered when governments that represent the people, recognize and live the Word as stated in Matthew 16:20: "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."