Government Interference

According to the BBC, the Minister of Culture and Sport, Maria Miller, has called  a 'Whitehall summit following allegations of fixing in football.'
The government bureaucrat is calling together 'leaders' from football, cricket, horse racing, rugby league and rugby union.
Why is she doing this?
Apparently she is 'deeply concerned'. But so what?
If there have been criminal actions committed, that is a matter for the police. And if there needs to be rule changes that is a matter for the respective sporting bodies, not for government. FIFA, the world footballing organisation demands that each football association is free from interference from national government.
Not so long ago, governments in this country kept out of private life, but now every sphere of human life is the government's business.
If they would simply content themselves with passing the occasional law, balancing the budget, and dealing with foreign powers, nobody would mind the government too much. People could then live in relative autonomy and peace.
But the imperative of power and the imperative of democracy lead to ever increasing government interference. When a people elects its government, instead of electing representatives to restrain its government, a collectivist mentality kicks in and liberty dies.
Maria Miller has no intention of introducing a new law to deal with gambling related fraud in sport. There are already sufficient laws in place. So why stick her oar in? Why politicise common crime? Indeed why politicise anything?
Yet many will tell you, police, civil servants, journalists, ordinary workers  how their lives lives are impacted by the government's need to impose their Narrative. Such is the collectivist, totalitarian consequence of democracy.
Before long they'll be telling us exactly what we can and cannot say, what we can and cannot think.
What did you say? They already do that?