Defending scoundrels

in liberty •  6 years ago 

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Years ago I encountered a wise quote:

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." ~ H. L. Mencken

The more experienced I become, the more important-- and wiser-- that quote seems to be. To me, personally.

Over and over I have to step up and defend the natural human rights of people I don't like. I understand it's just as wrong to violate my enemy as it is to violate my friend. Or me.

Defending these people causes other people to sometimes get angry at me. They claim I'm taking the bad guys' side. I get chided and scolded and even lied about.

Yet it's worth it. If you can keep the counterfeit "laws" off the scoundrels, there will be fewer counterfeit "laws" used against the rest of us.

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Easy targets are easy. Once the legislation is written; mission creep starts and eventually we're all at risk.
Ironically the easy targets for legislation make for difficult or dangerous collars.
Once its on the books its much easier and more lucrative to target the edge cases.

Yeah...

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The road to hell is paved with good intention is it not?