Posted on 04/11/2024 8:55:26 AM PDT by MosesKnows
“What are we to do if those chasing devils decide to chase after us.” Sir Thomas More
The Tyranny of Good Intentions, Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton renew their valiant campaign to reclaim that which is rightly ours–liberty protected by the rule of law. They show how crusading legislators and unfair prosecutors are remaking American law into a weapon wielded by the government and how the erosion of the legal principles we hold dear–such as habeas corpus and the prohibition against self-incrimination–is destroying the presumption of innocence. A new introduction and new chapters cover recent marquee cases and make this provocative book essential reading for anyone who cringes at the thought of unbridled state power and sees our civil liberties slowly slipping away in the name of the War on Drugs, the War on Crime, and the War on Terror.
The Tyranny of Good Intentions actually has gotten worse, imho, during and since the Clinton administration. The Law of Unintended Consequences has been in full play the entire time.
There is no good intentions with the current group of dems. It’s all about gaining and keeping power, and then using it on their political enemies.
Worse.
ROPER: So now you'd give the Devil the benefit of law!
MORE: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
ROPER: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
MORE: (Roused and excited) Oh? (Advances on ROPER) And when the last law was down, and the Devil turns round on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? (He leaves him) This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down--and you're just the man to do it--d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? (Quietly) Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
the one thing missing in the minds of many is the law of what goes around comes around. “All roads go two ways...even the one ways” L.Star
even the one ways.
A Most excellent comment
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