Kafkabrigades share a common purpose. That bureaucracy should be shaped to serve the most uncontested and fundamental values of liberal democracy – integrity, transparency, accountability, justice, rationality, proportionality and the protection of human rights, civil rights, civil liberties and political freedoms for each individual. But also that bureaucracy should be effective in creating the public value for which the institution is established. That it should be efficient and effective for each single individual. Because the law is equal for all.

Our purpose is to find those instances where bureaucracy does not create the public intended value, where institutional arrangements are improvident, where effectiveness is not monitored, or where indifference is produced unchecked. When a bureaucracy's demands serve no purpose for the citizen or the public at large, it becomes a form of oppression. When red tape does not yield result, only serves the organisation itself, or can be imposed unconstrained, rule of law can easily turn into arbitrariness. When rules and procedures become incomprehensible, complex beyond the individuals abilities or time-consuming beyond reason, freedom is lost.