Governments want compliant and passive citizens!

"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are."

-- H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/H..L..Mencken.Quote.B646

COMMENT: they suppress dissent, hence the large numbers of Soviet dissidents and political prisoners in the GULAG; the disappeared in Argentina; enemies of the fatherland in NaI Germany; enemies of the people in China, Cambodia, North Korea, Yugoslavia, Albania, Cuba, etc...