In the mid-19th century, the Russian government shut down a magazine. The editor complained to Count Benckendorff, head of the Tsar's secret police, that the offending article had been cleared by the official censor. Benckendorff replied, "Laws are written for the subjects, and not for the authorities, and you don't have the right to refer to them or use them to excuse yourself in your explanations with me." In modern times, Benckendorff's principle has been restated as Wilhoit's Law: "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." As calls to defund the FBI demonstrate, it turns out that law and order means using the law only to keep the wrong people in order.