"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
That's what lawyers are here for.
ReplyDeleteThey're like garbage and sewer men: there to defend the freedom and rights of scoundrels against arbitrary. It's a stinking job, but somebody has to do it.