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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If there's evidence of crimes, we should pick him up. If there isn't, we shouldn't. You can go away for a long time for conspiracy to murder. But you like these hypotheticals that assume that the executive is omniscient about threats to the country and yet powerless to do anything useful in a court of law. Both are belied by reality, yet you persist.
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the problem is that there are now people willing to do war-like acts of mass murder that do not tie into any particular country, and until the act of mass murder takes place there may often be little evidence. we got lucky with the LAX bomber because he decided to make the bomb in Canada and import it. for years the French were telling Canada to arrest him or kick him out*, BUT he hadn't done anything, other than be involved in training for a global jihad and all. Same with Atta.
Your point seems to be, to protect our freedom we have to let the next Atta roam free and even get on the plane. I suppose you could check his bags carefully or something.
See our laws aren't geared to deal with people like this- unless maybe if membership in al queda is made proof of insanity or something.
*gwnc disclaimer- I didn't mean that as Canada bashing. he simply had not done anything illegal. try to catch the PBS docu on the guy.
