Effective and manifested power cannot be reined in. A power that is reined in is only as powerful as its reined in form. Most likely, there wasn't any power to start with and it's just a stupid conspiracy theory...

You can imagine yourself or your tribe or your political party to have absolute power. You can imagine Big Brother, or the Illuminati, or the Teletubbies to have power... It's not True! Today, nobody has absolute power! Let's hope we can either keep it that way or share power amongst ourselves.