If it is to be stopped at all for it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning. – H.L. Mencken
Oppressions constantly begin with those no body is ready to protect. Historically, that always meant some unpopular cultural or spiritual minority, or else whores or other group who upset the prevailing mores of that time period and put. But since all legislation is made on precedent, it is merely a matter of the time ahead of the exact same maltreatment is extended to successively larger and much more broadly-defined teams. When i indicated it in “Give Them an Inch”:
…if we don’t speak up for the legal rights of minorities, also tiny and unpopular minorities,
The precedent set by their maltreatment shall be expanded by slow stages until it encompasses everybody nevertheless the rulers by themselves. Nonetheless it’s clear that many don’t grasp that truth fully adequate to really do any such thing they say, “Oh, but surely that doesn’t apply to sex offenders, or terrorists, or illegal aliens, ” or whatever other unpopular group they consider beneath basic human decency about it; instead. Continue reading “Comment: Devil’s Advocate. The problem with fighting for individual freedom is the fact that one spends almost all of one’s time defending scoundrels.”