The other Meaning of Red Tape.
Red tape generally includes the filling out of seemingly unnecessary paperwork, obtaining of unnecessary licenses, having multiple people or committees approve a decision and various low-level rules that make conducting one's affairs slower and/or more difficult.
Read all about it here.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tape
Right now. I still can't think of how I could snugly fit this concept to the movie.
Maybe someone else can..
My reasons for taking things in this direction was talk of the use of Red tape to keep the demonic entities from another thread.
Perhaps these things hated Buerocracies.
Alot of people do.
I know I do.
I guess the true application of this concept would be through symbolism.