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Free Republic Reacts to Ron Paul's White Supremacist Links

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Nyet2/02/2012 11:31:14 pm PST

re: #158 Slumbering Behemoth

Though I agree, this is a subjective opinion. Both activities were illegal.

Nobody says they were legal. And of course it’s subjective. “Good” and “bad” are entirely subjective. So when I say “I’ll take the good parts”, I’m being subjective. There’s no pretense of being otherwise.

Actually, that is what law enforcement is about.

And journalism. Just by definition.

I’ll grant that was a poor analogy, but not as poor as yours.

It wasn’t, strictly speaking, an analogy. Actually, I mistook your #134 as justifying the illegal acts the states sometimes do by the fact that the states are vested with the power to punish. You cleared this up for me in #145. This mistake of mine led to further elaboration on how states can break the law and get away with it, of which torture is just one example.
Although this comparison by itself is not wrong, if a bit out of the blue when my mistaken reading of your comment is removed from the context. After all, if one hates the Anon for merely doing illegal acts (even when they may be arguably morally justified), then so much more one should hate the governments that committed illegal acts and have escaped any punishment.

If you could, give me better analogy of criminal vigilante action that compares to the criminal vigilantism of Anon.

An analogy to illustrate what?