Article note: Our legal system is hilariously broken. Where our failure at police accountability and our regulatory-captured IP law collide, we get this.
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
— [apparently not actually]Louis Veuillot, but attributed to him a century before Frank Herbert did so