[verum ago]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would 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 own conscience.
-C.S. Lewis

Toss in Islam as the source of what's 'good' for its victims, and you have yourselves the new wave of theocratic autocracies, the fruits of the Arab Spring.

Mubarak was the robber Lewis' robber baron, and, more importantly, one who was friendly to American interests. And yet Obama supported his ouster in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood and its religious self-righteousness and hunger for absolute control and loss of freedom and rights.

I feel immensely sorry for the Copts. I guess at this point they should probably all just GTFO of Egypt while before they're slaughtered at Morsy's command.

[Jack Hammer]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would 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 own conscience.
-C.S. Lewis

Clearly, this genius was somehow able to look into his crystal ball and see America in the Twenty-first century.

We could use a few such seers now to inform the non-reading hordes of our incipient national demise; however, they seem to have belonged to a bygone era.