When the State Makes Pedophiles Deserve Defense

"H.L. Mencken once said that the problem with the government is that in order to defend ourselves against it, we frequently must defend those within society who are the least popular. They are those who it is easiest for the government to go after, such as drug dealers, drunks, gamblers, gays, perverts, pornographers, prostitutes, johns, and the like. But even rats deserve defending. And the government, in its malice and idiocy, can make the reprehensible defendable."