The legal treatment accorded to actual criminals is much superior to that
accorded to businessmen. The criminal’s rights are protected by objective laws,
objective procedures, objective rules of evidence. A criminal is presumed to be
innocent until he is proved guilty. Only businessmen—the producers, the
providers, the supporters, the Atlases who carry our whole economy on their
shoulders—are regarded as guilty by nature and are required to prove their
innocence, without any definable criteria of innocence or proof, and are left
at the mercy of the whim, the favor, or the malice of any publicity-seeking
politician, any scheming statist, any envious mediocrity who might chance to
work his way into a bureaucratic job and who feels a yen to do some
trust-busting.