Texas polygamists

David Friedman has some thoughtful posts on the debacle in Texas around the raid on the polygamist compound.

I think the taxpayers of Texas are going to be out quite a big stack of money when all the lawsuits that result from this are over. I hope they think it was worth it for the pleasure of imposing large costs on people who are different.

And yes, the polygamists are nutbars (probably even within the set of all polygamists), but, as noted in an earlier post, defending freedom starts with defending the nutbars.