Hanson: "Without the law, there is nothing."

Each time the federal government rules by fiat instead of following the law—for reasons of humanitarianism abroad, ecological responsibility, worker fairness, gay rights, or empathy for the alien—it becomes a little bolder the next time.....

Where does this end, this effort by Ivy League lawyers and civil libertarians to substitute supposedly enlightened progressivism for purported reactionary law? We easily and rightly condemn the crime when the Right tries to overthrow legality in the cases of a Franco, Hitler, Greek Colonels or Pinochet, who are easily identified as autocrats and dictators openly subverting constitutional government. But the assault from the Left is more insidious, given that the miscreants do it in self-declared high-minded fashion for "us." I think here of the frightening trial of Socrates in ancient Athens, the ascendency of the Jacobins during the French Revolution, or Hugo Chaveza's thuggery in Venezuela -- not coups as much as overdue punishment of "them."-- Works and Days » Land of the Lawless

Posted by Vanderleun at May 31, 2011 7:22 AM