Equality Versus Liberty?

I love it when tortured prose gives isself with upside down logic.
Your article about liberty being trumpeted by equality in the Sacramento Bee barely communicated.

After reading it several times I think I get it.

Your argument hinges on government "grumps" who decide that they should selectively enforce laws based on their inner feelings about equality ; I guess.

How on earth you get there is beyond me.

In Nazi Germany EVERY murder was backed by law.  At Nuremburg, the Chief Justice of Germany's Supreme Court, defended the total breakdown of civilization of genocide, by basically saying the law was supreme; even though it was discriminatory.  We were just following the law was the excuse.  Nazis had the liberty to make laws that killed people for no reason.

Read the "Ox Bow Incident" and the dilemma of liberty versus equality comes up there as well.  The mob uses it liberty to enforce the law without due process, with disastrous effects.

In Nazi Germany, same thing.  EVERY official, every one, said they were following the law, and should not be punished; even though millions were brutally murdered at the hands of the state.

Men can make bad law sir.  My great-great grandfather was hung as a horse thief in Texas by Confederate soldiers.  He was a blacksmith, but was also a Cherokee Indian married to a white woman.

The soldiers were following the law, an Indian caught with a shod horse was immediately convicted on the spot of horse theft, and could be hung.  No due process.  Certainly no equality.  If a white man was caught he could be hung also, but after a trial.

And my grandfather was a blacksmith, his vocation was shodding horses.  With due process he would have been exonerated.  But racsim, and discrimination gave license or liberty to kill him.

Liberty has been used as a mask of repression for a long time.  Liberty has to be tempered by law all the time.

To turn that argument on its head, and somehow claim that there is danger to a democracy or equality is wrong headed.