"The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. It is no answer to say, with a distant optimism, that the scheme is only in the air. A blow from a hatchet can only be parried while it is in the air." — G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils
Men often move too late.
Sure, men can move too soon too, but that isn't a reason to call the opposite vice a virtue. Making waste through haste is not ideal, but neither is being hamstrung by being harangued by fussbudgets.
The time to cry out is at the first crime scene. Whatever is being done there out in the open is only going to accelerate once behind closed doors. A scheme once seen must be cut off before it comes to fruition. You do not have to wait for the hatchet to fall before being justified in taking evasive maneuvers. Some will only sign off on your skepticism once it's a proven fact. But you cannot protest your murder after the fact. At that point it becomes irrefutable as a fact, it is impossible for you to refute due to the fact of our demise. You must protest your murder while it is still being attempted presently if it is going to have any impact on your living into the future.
Tyrannies require lethargy. They need time to grow large enough to fend off an active attack. So, they take two steps forward and one step back until they are far enough along to advance without push back. The time to push back is at inch one, not mile forty.
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