I could imagine making that distinction and also cui bono?

But given the power of Government (any government, that is), and how near the fine-line one wants to pitch the pennies - I'd think we had best err on the side of paranoia, permanently.

Ameliorated, as always.
What do you do when the guy you have in custody is (almost provably?) in possession of the time/place of an impending atrocity, about which you have no doubt - IS a plan in motion:

I think you will do the expedient thing, since - all but the terminally formatory realize from birth - all 'rules' have exceptions. (Even Fundamentalists 'except' the nicer passages about love and stuff - or they'd look like the idiots they are, seeming less-Certain and all..)

My 3 kopeks



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