Bureaucrats are poorly paid public employees. Are you seriously saying that the clerks in the local department of motor vehicles own you?
Wow, can you be more disingenuous? The clerks at the DMV are to the line cooks at McDonald's as politicians are to CEOs.
Yes, the politicians own you, and with the cooperation or ignorance of a small number of people, can cast a magic spell (law) and turn you into a criminal, lock you in jail, or execute you.
So if I become a politician, that means I own people. Seems a valubale reward for little effort!
Do you have any statistics on how many people I own as a parish councillor? What about a member of parliament - do they get to choose which people they own or is it random? Is there a "no way I don't want that fat stinky guy" option as part of this ownership scheme?
Is Sarah Palin a politician and does she own people? I know she used to be but now she sells books. Or did she lose the people she owned when Obama won in 2008? Were they given to Joe Biden perhaps?