04 Jun Leaders agree: punishment first, trial later (cont.)

Former CBC Radio host Ian McNeil elaborates:

I am not normally moved to take such a stand in public, but the recent eviction of the man in Sydney Mines leaves me feeling shaken and concerned. Another friend wrote me yesterday, in support of the question I posed, and quoted CS Lewis:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.

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