Ron said, in his comments section,

to this post, "Evil men will always figure out how to coopt the system."

That's exactly the premise of Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom." Here's the cartoon version.
(Way slow-loading on a 56k modem.)
Jeepers, a full five minutes do download this thing. It takes about 5 minutes to read. Here's an abridged html? version.