As columnist Paul Craig Roberts has put it, "Law, once a shield of the innocent, is now a weapon in the hands of government." Roberts is referring to a long and dangerous trend to expand the concept of crime to actions and non-actions in which no individual is harmed or threatened with harm. In our time one can be convicted of a felony and put in jail for killing a turtle, chopping down a tree, draining a swamp, polluting a body of water, and generally not doing everything that some bureaucrat says you have to do. When we study socialist...