The lobbyist
Alan Bennett's play The History Boys (which you must see) is about many things, including, on its surface, teaching a group of boys how to write clever exam answers that will win them scholarships to Oxford or Cambridge.
The teacher that encourages them to write sideways, to “flee the crowd, follow Orwell, be perverse,” is named Irwin. Irwin ends up as a lobbyist/consultant for Members of Parliament. Here's how Irwin counsels his clients to present a bill that will “abolish trial by jury” and “abolish the presumption of innocence” in many cases:
[I]nsist that the bill does not diminish the liberty of the subject but amplifies it; that the true liberty of the subject consists in the freedom to walk the streets unmolested etc., etc., secure in the knowledge that if a crime is committed it will be promptly and sufficiently punished and that far from circumscribing the liberty of the subject this will enlarge it.
When I heard this speech in the theater it seemed acute and painfully appropriate. We get this all the time from public life, these bemusedly tolerant speeches twisting paradoxes. The (metaphorical) room fills with mist and everyone nods. Irwin again:
'The loss of liberty is the price we pay for freedom' type thing.